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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities in Virginia identified two women missing Tuesday after a group of people in rafts and on paddleboards went over…

ANDREW WILKS ISTANBUL (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights says Turkey had unlawfully detained the head of the country’s Amnesty…

By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s groundbreaking decision to ban nearly all oil from…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the United Arab Emirates have signed a free trade agreement, the first Israel has concluded with an Arab country. The…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has highlighted the activities of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party as part of…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish citizens are voting in a referendum that will decide whether their country will…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — On a visit to Taiwan, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth is reiterating support for the island amid rising Chinese threats.…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When Ajay Chhabra was asked to design a pageant performance to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — In wheelchairs and on stretchers, in ambulances and on train station platforms, they…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s center-left Labor Party has secured enough seats to hold an outright majority in the House as vote…

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press SHANGHAI (AP) — Shanghai authorities say they will take major steps Wednesday toward…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer PLANO, Texas (AP) — Ronan Kotiya leans over his father, fingers wrapped around a plastic tube he’s about to slide…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Just one more step and the stroller would have been on the curb. The thought haunts Latanya…

By STEVE PEOPLES and AARON KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Diane Murray struggled with her decision all the way up to Election Day. But…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A large fire that raged through a Nebraska chemical plant was extinguished by Tuesday morning and nearby residents who were…

By JOSÉ MARÍA ÁLVAREZ Associated Press SAN ISIDRO DEL PALMAR, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say Hurricane Agatha caused flooding and…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a wobbly day on Wall Street closed out a month buffeted by…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has introduced legislation that would put a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Since the Columbine High School massacre more than 20 years ago, police have been trained to quickly confront…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed Ankara’s planned military operation in northern Syria and the war in Ukraine…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — It should have been the first day of a joyous week for Robb Elementary School students…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security officials say at least five missiles hit a sprawling Iraqi army base hosting…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will meet Tuesday with Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell as soaring inflation takes a bite out of…

DALLAS (AP) — Jeff Gladney, a defensive back for the Arizona Cardinals, has died in a car crash in Dallas. He was 25. Gladney’s death was…

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — For 60 years, Ted Sams regretted missing his high school graduation. Now 78 years old, Sams can finally call himself a…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An aging Japanese militant who spent more than a decade in an Israeli prison for his part in a…

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A boat has capsized on a Colorado lake, leaving one woman dead, 11 people hospitalized and one man missing. Authorities told…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s longtime investment banker has testified that he repeatedly voiced concerns…

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say gunfire erupted over the weekend at a house party, killing a young man and injuring five teenagers. Police said…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Police say six people wounded in weekend gunfire in a downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, business district were all…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies in Florida have arrested a 10-year-old fifth grade student accused of threatening to shoot up a…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press Authorities in northeastern Brazil’s Pernambuco state say that 91 deaths have been confirmed from weekend…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials say the leader of a pro-gun group that has staged armed protests has been convicted of pointing a rifle at law…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida house where Lynyrd Skynyrd rock legend Ronnie Van Zant and his brothers Donnie and Johnny grew up is on the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police say someone busted into the altar at a New York City church, stole a $2 million gold…

By MUNIR AHMED and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani-American woman who came under fire in the Islamic nation for…

PARIS (AP) — The French news broadcaster BFM TV says a 32-year-old French journalist was killed Monday in Ukraine. It says the journalist was…

ROME (AP) — The Ocean Viking rescue ship has brought 294 migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean to a port in Sicily. The arrivals of the…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court decided Monday to continue detaining two Albanian men who allegedly joined extremist groups in Syria. The…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say two people are dead and 20 others injured in a crash that sent two cars careening into a crowd of bystanders while…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer PARIS (AP) — French authorities defended police on Monday for indiscriminately firing tear gas and pepper…

By CHINEDU ASADU and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has recorded its first death from monkeypox in 2022 while…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s annual inflation rate accelerated to 7.9% in May, its highest level in nearly half a century, according to an official…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Still mourning a Texas mass shooting, Democrat Beto O’Rourke gave his long-shot campaign…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Javier Cazares raced to his daughter’s school when he heard there was a…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese officials have arrested two health workers from a neonatal unit where a fire…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s top monkeypox expert said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Workers who cleaned up the 2008 Kingston, Tennessee, coal ash spill spent years working…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says next month’s NATO summit in Madrid will be…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese judicial officials say a judge has questioned disgraced auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn in Beirut,…