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By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian Coast Guard officials say a fire that was burning in several containers…

By LISA MASCARO and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Rick has strengthened a bit while heading for Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, where it is expected to make landfall…

By BRYAN ANDERSON and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After lawsuits alleging racial gerrymandering,…

VIENNA (AP) — Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga has accepted a prestigious German prize in honor of her work in Frankfurt. In her…

By AAMER MADHANI, ERIC TUCKER, and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White House counsel Dana Remus made a lasting impression on her…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has called for an end to the practice of returning migrants rescued at…

By SYLVIE CORBET and ARNO PEDRAM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Thousands of French women have denounced in an online campaign the response of…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says an explosion at an eatery in the capital,…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Facebook in…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A West Bank settlement watchdog group says Israel is expected to move forward this week with thousands of new homes for…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Pro-military protesters have briefly blocked major roads and bridges in Sudan’s capital amid growing…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An earthquake has shaken Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, and caused falling rocks that injured a woman and damaged a car. No…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A senior U.S. diplomat has urged North Korea to refrain from additional missile tests…

By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A radical Islamist party has agreed to suspend for three days its march of thousands toward…

By JON GAMBRELL and LUJAIN JO Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Federal prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates say they’ve…

By AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA Associated Press TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Uzbeks have voted in a presidential election that the incumbent is…

By KELVIN CHAN and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The term metaverse seems to be everywhere. Facebook is hiring thousands of…

By LORI HINNANT, MARIA CHENG and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A team of young scientists in South Africa is…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Eddie Rosario capped a remarkable NL Championship Series with a three-run homer that sent the…

By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer HOUSTON (AP) — When Freddie Freeman and the Atlanta Braves meet Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros, it will be a…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods died Saturday. His wife Marlene Galan Woods announced…

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say driver lost control during a Texas drag racing event and slammed into a crowd of spectators, killing two…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant’s widow said she pleaded with the Los Angeles County sheriff to make sure no one takes…

By ASTRID SUAREZ and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities captured the country’s most wanted drug…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Facebook in…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Facebook in…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican Oklahoma state senator is drawing criticism for referring to Asian Americans as…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is issuing a warning over talks to resolve post-Brexit trade troubles with the European…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan police say one person has been killed and seven others injured in an explosion…

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — The California highway connecting visitors to the world’s two largest sequoia trees will stay closed so crews can…

BARDSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Striking workers at one of the world’s largest bourbon producers have voted to a ratify a new contract with Heaven Hill on…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Country musician Travis Tritt sang the national anthem before Game 6 of the NL Championship…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Over 2,000 migrants, mainly Central Americans, have begun walking out of a city in…

By AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA Associated Press TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Uzbekistan’s president is expected to win a new term by a…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. Associated Press The film industry and its unions provide guidelines on how to deal…

HELSINKI (AP) — Norway’s domestic intelligence agency says that such deadly attacks as the one in the small town of Kongsberg earlier this month…

By DAVID SHARP, MIKE CATALINI and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press BATH, Maine (AP) — Some American workers are deciding to quit their jobs in…

SANTA CRUZ DE LA PALMA, Canary Islands (AP) — Spain’s prime minister says that his government will speed up already promised aid to help the…

GUILFORD, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has erected a historical marker recognizing Lucy Terry Prince, who wrote what is thought to be the oldest known poem…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Wildlife centers in the U.S. West are caring for animals that weren’t able to flee…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The judge and attorneys trying to seat a jury in the trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s killing…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered 10 foreign ambassadors who called for the release of a jailed philanthropist to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Rick gathered force off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and is forecast to hit that coast by Monday as a…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia is set to launch partial COVID-19 passes while Croatia and Slovenia reported high…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Parade-loving New Orleans is getting its groove back. Thousands of people crowded the…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s decidedly liberal shift under first-term Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of supporters of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his…

By BOBBY ROSS Jr. Associated Press WESTLAKE, Texas (AP) — A remarkable get-together recently took place — in-person and also online — involving…

By BOBBY ROSS Jr. Associated Press WESTLAKE, Texas (AP) — A remarkable get-together recently took place — in-person and also online — involving…

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Police say Ecuadorian sprinter Alex Quiñónez was fatally shot in the port city of Guayaquil. He was 32. Quiñónez…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Activists have called on the international community to help reverse Israel’s…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Conjurers and cheats, hustlers and hoaxsters. Those were some of the things that…

MILAN (AP) — Police in Sicily say that American actor Harrison Ford was reunited with his lost credit card while on a beach holiday thanks to a…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Members of Maine’s farming community are divided over the possibility of a…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has offered a sharp rebuke of the Republican candidate for…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles says there is a “dangerously narrow” window to tackle global warning. The warning comes days…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The new governor of a northwestern Iranian province has been slapped in the…

By ADEL OMRAN Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s chief diplomat says the transitional government is working to hold long-awaited…

By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Officials say a roadside bombing targeting a Taliban vehicle in…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans in at least four states where Democrats control the governor’s office, the…

By DAVID CRARY and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press There’s an intriguing subplot to President Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis this coming…

By ANNIE MA Associated Press Complications wrought by the pandemic persist in schools and often fall hardest on those least able to weather them.…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain says prison employees will do…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — As Election Day approaches in Virginia, one thing is certain: The state will elect its…

PALERMO, Italy (AP) — U.S. actor Richard Gere is officially on the witness list to testify at the trial against Italy’s right-wing former…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is reporting a record high number of coronavirus infections and COVID-19 deaths as the country…

By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A party spokesman and witnesses say thousands of supporters of a banned radical Islamist…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Police say a fire in a town in northern Bosnia has killed six people and injured several others. The fire on…

VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s chancellor has warned that unvaccinated people could face new lockdown restrictions if coronavirus case numbers…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has announced plans to offer booster shots to front-line workers…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Around 575 inmates have been freed after a jailbreak in southwest Nigeria. It was the third…