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By ZEINA KARAM and LUJAIN JO Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s elections brought into parliament 13 new independent lawmakers who hail…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A gas cylinder explosion in Abu Dhabi earlier this week that injured 120 people killed an Indian and a Pakistani…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s military says Japanese and U.S. forces have conducted a joint fighter jet flight over the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters didn’t get much of a break from election talk on the day after the Tuesday primary…

By DAVE COLLINS and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Nearly six years after Nathan Carman told authorities his mother drowned…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — When Republican Ryan Zinke first ran for Congress, the former Navy SEAL faced false…

By JOSH BOAK and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to improve accountability in…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and ANITA SNOW Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — After guests checked out of a corner room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Ko Im always thought she would live in New York forever. She knew every corner of Manhattan and had worked hard to…

By RACHEL LA CORTE and ANDREW DEMILLO Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gun control measures are likely going nowhere in Congress, and they…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India’s northern Varanasi…

By DAVID KLEPPER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — By now it’s as predictable as the calls for thoughts and prayers: A…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the government to announce the…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press Two of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination for Michigan governor will ask the courts to intervene after…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after notes from the Federal Reserve’s latest…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as…

By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission is quitting the…

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The intersection where George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis…

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press Wednesday marked the second anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked a global…

By JILL COLVIN and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump opened May by lifting a trailing Senate candidate in Ohio to the…

By ACACIA CORONADO and SARA BURNETT Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Surrounded by fellow Republicans on a high school stage, Gov. Greg Abbott…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s crew taxi returned to Earth from the International Space Station on…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing restrictions that would block plans…

MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Firefighters have rescued an abandoned newborn elk calf from the ashes of the nation’s largest…

By JAKE BLEIBERG, JIM VERTUNO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — In the cold, choppy waters of Alaska’s Resurrection Bay, all eyes were on the gray water,…

By RICARDO MAZALAN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to strengthen his control of southern Ukraine…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States has called for a vote Thursday on a U.N. resolution that would impose…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal…

By MILEXSY DURAN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press VILLA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — A single vessel carrying 842 Haitians who apparently were trying to…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban,…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk on Wednesday revised the financing plan for his…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The families of four people – including three teens – who died in a February plane crash off of North Carolina’s…

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A trial has begun for a former Virginia Tech football player accused of fatally beating a Tinder match he originally…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say six migrants have died and 25 were injured after a bus they were riding in plunged through a…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Could technology companies have monitored ominous messages made by a gunman who Texas…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — One student was an avid runner, so fast she swept all the races at field…

By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — As the mother of a girl killed at Sandy Hook, Michele Gay was devastated by the massacre at…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been proclaimed the next president of the Philippines by a joint…