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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Women make up just over half the workers in the U.S. casino industry. But the top…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A suburban St. Louis man alleges in a lawsuit that police officers beat him and illegally searched his…

By SAMY MAGDY and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, who led this week’s coup in Sudan, has vowed to usher…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer “Dune” isn’t done. Legendary Entertainment announced Tuesday that Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune,” which adapts…

PARIS (AP) — Two men went on trial in Paris on Tuesday accused of killing an 85-year-old French Holocaust survivor. Mireille Knoll was stabbed to…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay detainee says the Supreme Court should wait to decide a case…

MAGNOLIA, Texas (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Texas school district’s enforcement of a grooming policy that prohibits boys…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A man convicted of killing nine people in arson fires in his Ohio neighborhood has been sentenced to life in prison without…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden is framing the Virginia governor’s race as a repudiation of his…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has cancelled her planned engagement at the U.N. climate…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Emails show that the firing of Tennessee’s former vaccination…

SEATTLE (AP) — A candidate for Seattle mayor is pulling a television ad attacking her opponent following criticism that the spot highlighting…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Meatpacking giant Tyson Foods says more than 96% of its workers have been vaccinated ahead of…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s manatees are dying, in unprecedented numbers this year, with 959…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro face a…

By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America GREENSBURG, Ind. (AP) — A new incentive program to attract remote workers to Greensburg,…

By EDEN STIFFMAN of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy As the pandemic upended lives and livelihoods, people around the country…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has held talks with populist Hungarian Prime…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia plans to reopen in stages to fully vaccinated foreign tourists starting from the end of November. The Tourism…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former Major League Baseball manager and player Bobby Valentine is in a competitive race for…

By KRISTIN M. HALL and JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press America’s armed services will have to keep better track of their guns and explosives under…

PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer was shot to death by a man at a gas station in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis. Trooper…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A government statement says Pakistan’s prime minister has approved the appointment of the country’s new spy chief ending…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Mystery still swirls around Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of a Lady” nearly a…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Department of Health has switched off comments on its social media…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 69-year-old Las Vegas woman is accused of defrauding the Social Security Administration of over $120,000 after she allegedly…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Harvey Mason jr. knew there would be an uphill climb after taking over as…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has overhauled his Cabinet and named prominent women to the…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II of Jordan has traveled to Poland for talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda. The two…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — The German soccer league says more than 90% of players, coaches and staff from the 36 clubs in the…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy was interviewed by The…

By STEFANIE DAZIO, LINDSEY BAHR and ANTHONY MCCARTNEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Experts predict a tremendous legal fallout after Alec…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A new documentary on the late snowboarding pioneer Jake Burton is more than a glossy retrospective of his life.…

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Caetano Veloso had written so many songs that he truly believed he was done creating music…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s state news agency says the electricity ministry has signed a $115 million contract with an Iranian company to…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A clemency hearing for Oklahoma death row inmate Julius Jones has been delayed for a week while his legal challenge is pending…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health advisers have endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Europe have arrested 150 people and seized more…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Courts across the U.S. are still grappling with how to balance public health concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press Japanese gardens have long been popular in the U.S. But they’ve evolved. Landscapers who specialize in the…

By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal and Rwanda have signed an agreement with German company BioNTech for the…

LONDON (AP) — Climate activists in hard hats scaled a U.K. government building Tuesday, unfurling a banner demanding that countries attending the…

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about a North Dakota man accused in the death of a 14-year-old girl. The man…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden which has stood out among European nations for its comparatively hands-off response to the pandemic, has passed…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television shows that reflect the nation’s increasing racial and ethnic diversity are…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices jumped in August by a near-record amount from a year earlier, as…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is canceling two environmental rollbacks under…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s ruling party leader has presented plans for a homeland defense bill. Jaroslaw…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s parliamentary standards watchdog says a Conservative lawmaker should be suspended from the House of Commons for breaking…

Sheriff’s deputies found a grenade inside a pickup truck a routine traffic stop in north Florida. The 65-year-old driver was pulled over for…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir are investigating students and staff at two medical colleges under a harsh anti-terror…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has reported another record daily number of COVID-19 deaths as vaccinations in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced a $100 million initiative meant to beef up the U.S. relationship with Southeast Asian nations.…

By DAVID KLEPPER and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Last spring, as false claims about vaccine safety threatened to undermine the…

By AMRITA JAYAKUMAR of NerdWallet Caregiving for your parents and figuring out what happens to your finances when you die are things no one wants to…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s de facto chief Lee Jae-yong has been fined 70 million won, or about $60,000, for illegally using the…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Quinton de Kock has refused to play in a T20 World Cup game against the West Indies…

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — An Amsterdam appeals court has ruled that a trove of historical treasures…

LONDON (AP) — London’s police force has apologized to the family of two murdered sisters and said its initial response to the crime was “below…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Ordinary Americans and the nation’s airlines are combining to donate miles and cash to help Afghan refugees…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian state television says a cyberattack has targeted gas stations across…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The daily number of COVID-19 deaths in Russia has reached another high amid a surge in…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU ministers have held emergency talks focused on energy that didn’t produce immediate…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Moderna says it will make up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine available to African…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) —  Coronavirus infections and hospitalizations have shot up in Belgium, pushing the government to…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and China are urging the international community to send humanitarian help to Afghanistan, where people are facing…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say three girls and a woman have died after a dinghy transporting…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The office of Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok says he and his wife, who were detained after the…