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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has reported its profit fell 54% in the last quarter, mainly due to a one-time tax-related…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden has called for Sudan’s people to be allowed to protest peacefully as the…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has decided to keep its pandemic stimulus efforts unchanged…

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers have grilled Facebook and other tech giants over how they handle online safety. The questioning comes as European…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen has lowered its forecast for deliveries to customers and reported a decrease in operating profits for the…

SYDNEY (AP) — A 64-year-old fugitive who surrendered to Australian police because a Sydney lockdown left him jobless and homeless has been…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is suffering through a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths, along with other…

By KEVIN FREKING and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Democrats are getting low marks from the public as…

By DANICA KIRKA and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it will summon the French ambassador for a dressing-down, the latest…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top executives of ExxonMobil and other oil giants have denied spreading disinformation about…

By SUZAN FRASER and MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press KONYA, Turkey (AP) — For centuries, Lake Tuz in central Turkey has hosted huge colonies of…

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden promised to show the world that democracies can work to meet the…

By DAVID RISING and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesians are looking ahead warily toward the holiday travel season,…

By VICTORIA MILKO and KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Associated Press investigation has found that Myanmar’s…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has advised its nationals traveling overseas to exercise a high degree of…

By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — The World Series is shifting to Atlanta and some TV viewers may be offended to see Braves fans…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are slipping, despite recent signs of optimism about the global economy, including…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s defense minister says the island must defend itself and not depend entirely on…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The race for mayor of Buffalo has four-term incumbent Byron Brown relying on a write-in…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has test-fired a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of up to 3,125 miles amid rising border…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has awarded $17 million to the parents of a mentally ill man who was shot in a Costco store by an off-duty…

By VICTORIA MILKO and KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An investigation by The Associated Press has found that the…

By VICTORIA MILKO and KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An investigation by The Associated Press has found that the…

By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he has reached a “historic”…

By MORGAN LEE, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Accounts and images from court documents, interviews and…

By DAVID BILLER and DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended criminal indictments for…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was the face of the city through some of its darkest days —…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The National Park Service has partnered with a tourism association to ensure the contributions of Native Americans are…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Rookie Jose Siri sparked a team whose biggest stars took a while to shine, sending the Houston…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has ruled out promising to cut methane emissions by 30% by the end of the…

Associated Press LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A tornado in western Louisiana damaged more than a dozen homes in a part of the state still struggling to…

BELLE GLADE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say two toddlers were found dead in the backyard pool of a Florida home shortly after being reported missing.…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand will gradually loosen its border quarantine system, which has been among…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi auditor says retired NFL player Brett Favre has repaid the welfare…

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — A third person injured when a drag racer veered into a crowd and crashed during a racing event in Central Texas has died. A…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Twenty-one Republican state attorneys general have sent a letter to President Joe…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court has refused to consider Brad Pitt’s appeal of a court ruling that disqualified the judge in his…

By ADAM BEAM and DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has rolled up his sleeve and received a…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has…

HOUSTON (AP) — Atlanta’s 6-2 victory over Houston in World Series Game 1 drew an average of 10,811,000 viewers on Fox, up 17.5% from the record…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks is raising its U.S. employees’ pay and making other changes to improve working conditions in its…

MONROE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been convicted of trying to hire a hit man to kill his ex-wife while he was in jail awaiting trial on sex…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James plans to run…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A new study found a cheap antidepressant reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk adults with…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Syria says the Syrian government’s refusal to negotiate on…

REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is largely ending a mandate requiring residents and visitors wear masks indoors.…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury has been seated in a civil trial to determine whether white nationalists who planned the 2017 “Unite the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge on Wednesday refused to pause a vaccine mandate set to…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A state ethics panel has recommended a sham candidate for the Florida Legislature convicted of participating in a vote…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal jury has determined that The GEO Group must pay minimum wage — rather than $1 a day —…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has granted a stay of execution for two Oklahoma inmates who were…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press An early 18th-century painting depicting Yale University’s namesake with an enslaved Black child has been returned…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say three brothers who they allege were abandoned by their mother and her boyfriend…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is responding skeptically after Iran’s chief negotiator announced that Tehran…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York state trooper has been charged with murder in the death of an 11-year-old girl by…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A young Saudi man was released from prison after spending nearly a decade behind bars. His case had drawn international…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mark McCloskey, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, says he does not believe young victims of rape or…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida has withheld funding from two school districts over their…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Relatives say a man who was killed in an Idaho shooting at a Boise mall on Monday was shopping for gifts for his family when he…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is enforcing new warnings on breast implants. The federal…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The former player at the heart of the Chicago Blackhawks assault scandal has come forward publicly.…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois law has for more than four decades protected those who oppose…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A ransomware gang believed to operate out of Russia says it’s hacked the National…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman has received a life sentence for helping her husband plan the 2015 killings of his estranged pregnant…

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Demonstrators took to the streets in cities around Morocco to protest the country’s…

CHICAGO (AP) — A man who spent three months living in a secured terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport instead of flying home to…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he expects to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of a climate…

TYLER, Texas (AP) — A jury has sentenced a former nurse to death for killing four Texas patients by injecting air into their arteries after heart…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland is defending a memo aimed at combating threats against…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says China recently conducted a test of a hypersonic…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Philanthropy, Lucy Bernholz says, is like Chex Mix. It has a lot of different components, but they all contribute…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities will limit arrests at schools, hospitals and other so-called protected…

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo is urging voters to reject a…

PARIS (AP) — France says it will bar British fishing boats from some French ports starting next week if no deal is reached with the U.K. in a…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors allege eight people connected to an organization based in Kansas City, Kansas, forced children to work…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s federal environment minister says setting net zero targets isn’t a solution…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The mayor of the Florida county that’s home to the nation’s biggest theme park resorts is lifting a pandemic-related…

By HEATHER GREENE and EMILY McFARLAN MILLER Religion News Service In both the modern witchcraft and Jewish communities, people are bringing together…