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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Airlines and tourist destinations are expecting monster crowds this summer as travel restrictions…

By HOLLY MEYER and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press In response to an explosive investigation, top Southern Baptists have released a previously secret…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it won’t pursue criminal charges against former FBI agents who…

By ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde,…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — China’s foreign minister on Friday arrived on the remote Pacific nation of…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers have passed a bill criminalizing any normalization of ties and any relations, including business ties, with Israel.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Nakagin Capsule Tower, a building tucked away in a corner of downtown Tokyo that is made up of boxes…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press ANTIBES, France (AP) — Robert De Niro was the honored guest at the 28th annual amfAR Gala Cannes, where one lucky…

SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. authorities say they stopped a small boat carrying a large shipment of methamphetamine after they saw it riding low in the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge in Mexico has agreed to consider a preliminary injunction against plans by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Boston civil rights group is challenging the U.S. government’s denial of humanitarian relief…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will require statewide recertification of condominiums over three stories…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell have won the International…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. general nominated to take over European Command tells senators that Sweden and…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing plans for offshore wind projects that would…

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A judge has thrown out statements that a 77-year-old Minnesota man charged in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old suburban…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A judge has ruled that South Dakota is violating federal laws by failing to make it easier to vote. U.S. District Judge…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, the unassuming, bespectacled, red-headed keyboardist who…

By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Just 910 votes separate the two leading candidates in Pennsylvania’s…

DALTON, Ga. (AP) — A Korean solar panel maker will expand its presence in Georgia by building a new $171 million plant next to an existing factory.…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A court document indicates a man being held on a charge of plotting to assassinate…

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — In a story published May 25, 2022, about a fire at a Wyoming abortion clinic under construction, The Associated Press…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China and Russia have vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States that would…

By SAM METZ and RICK BOWMER Associated Press CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — She walked up a red carpet and crossed a stage to accept her diploma wearing…

By BERNARD CONDON, JIM MUSTIAN and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — State police say the suspect in the Texas shooting had no…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who pleaded guilty to using bank fraud to live an opulent lifestyle that included a private jet and luxury…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A jury has convicted a New Hampshire man of first-degree murder for killing his wife’s…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Opponents of a proposed launchpad for commercial rockets on the Georgia coast want a federal…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter shareholders have filed a lawsuit against billionaire Elon Musk, accusing him of unlawfully sowing…

By JUAN LOZANO and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday,…

By CHRIS GRYGIEL Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Alan White, the longtime drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes who also played on projects…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Baz Luhrmann was first in Cannes exactly 30 years ago with his debut “Strictly Ballroom,”…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — About 400 workers at Planned Parenthood offices in five Midwestern states plan to unionize.…

By MILEXSY DURÁN and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press VILLA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — Some of the more than 840 Haitians who tried to reach the United…

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, a July Fourth holiday tradition in the city, is returning to its full glory after a three-year…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Blake Shelton will lend his voice to the Indianapolis 500 as the grand marshal for Sunday’s race. The country music star will…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Just days removed from finishing her latest film and hours after arriving in Cannes, Claire…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The International Organization for Migration says up to 600 people attempting to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has allowed the Biden administration to use a higher estimate than Republican-led states want for calculating…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers have approved the removal of a disciplinary body of the top court that the right-wing government has…

By CAROLE FELDMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says he’s ashamed the United States is…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted by a narrow margin to extend an arms embargo on…

OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of students at Oxford High School in Michigan walked out to show their support for students and families in Uvalde,…

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors in the murder trial of a former Virginia Tech football player have rested their case. On Thursday,…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister says that he will quickly prepare an economic reform…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — This summer is a crucial one for Atlantic City as it tries to recover lost business…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has told the head of the United Nations that Turkey is directly challenging its…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — As he listened to his father die, the boy lay still on the asphalt. His elbow hurt where a…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, ERIKA KINETZ and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — For a month now, Russian forces have repeatedly…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Harvard University gradates that the flood of disinformation spread and…

By COLLIN BINKLEY, ANNIE MA and JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press A day after the school massacre in Texas, Ohio teacher Renee Coley thought her sixth…

By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem “witch” who wasn’t has been…

BERLIN (AP) — Russia has received a frosty reception at the start of an international conference on managing and protecting Antarctica. The 10-day…

By ASHIFA KASSAM Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s parliament has voted to approve a bill that makes consent a key determinant in sexual…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek official says the crude oil cargo of an Iranian-flagged tanker that was stopped…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill requiring public school students to use only the bathroom of the sex listed on…

By ROB GILLIES and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Government officials say Western allies are considering whether to allow Russian…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has been intimately involved in some of the gun control movement’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for the second week in a row, though interest rates on the key 30-year home…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech capital has stripped a Soviet World War II commander of his honorary Prague citizenship. The Prague City Council ’s…

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — A coal-powered passenger steamship on Lake Michigan that’s the last of its kind in the U.S. will stop using coal to fuel…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A painting project is to blame for an odor that affected some cruise ship passengers in Virginia and prompted the U.S. Coast…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres brought her nearly two-decade daytime talk show to an end Thursday with a…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard told jurors Thursday that a harassment campaign waged against her by…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Stagflation. It was the dreaded “S word” of the 1970s. For Americans of a certain age, it…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists…