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MADRID (AP) — A second 4.5-magnitude earthquake in two days has rattled the Spanish island of La Palma. The two quakes were the strongest to hit…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say a man who had confessed to killing a dozen children and escaped from detention this week has been killed…

By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque packed with worshippers…

BEIJING (AP) — Shortly ahead of sending a new three-person crew to its space station, China has renewed its commitment to international cooperation…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Protests have erupted in Italy as a new anti-coronavirus regulation took effect requiring all…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change. It…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say five juveniles overpowered two guards at a detention center and escaped Thursday night. A spokesman…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister is urging former King Juan Carlos I to offer a public explanation of his suspected financial wrongdoings.…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong and mainland authorities have seized about $540,000 worth of smuggled Australian lobsters…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British health officials say an estimated 43,000 people may have been wrongly told they don’t have…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — In response to growing violence across Nigeria’s northwest and central states, governors…

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has appeared to criticize the global lack of action on climate change in comments caught on microphone. The…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it’s asked Interpol for help to arrest two foreigners including a…

By NICOLAE DUMITRACE and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press KONGSBERG, Norway (AP) — Residents of a Norwegian town are grappling with the horrible…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says it plans to reinstate a Trump-era border policy next month to make…

By JOCELYN NOVECK and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The #MeToo reckoning hits its four-year mark this week, and Charlotte…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Funerals have taken place across Lebanon for seven people killed in gunbattles in the streets of…

By The Associated Press Americans have watched a public reckoning unfold since 2017 as the #MeToo movement exposed the prevalence of sexual assault…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press SOLTVADKERT, Hungary (AP) — Zoltan Sztojka, by his own account Hungary’s last Roma fortuneteller, is working to…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nippon Steel Corp. is suing Toyota Motor Corp. over a patent for a technology used in electric…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India is reopening its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights starting Friday. Foreign…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO, DARIA LITVINOVA and JUAN PABLO ARRAEZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Millions from Latin America to the Middle…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks ended higher again on Wall Street Friday, giving the S&P 500 its best week since July. The…

By KARIN LAUB Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan has long presented itself as a reliable U.S. ally in a turbulent Middle East, as a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister has confirmed he will attend a climate summit in Glasgow…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have arrested four people for allegedly installing hidden cameras in the rooms of an entire motel and…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is grappling with the legacy of one of its…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The lawyers for accused Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz say he plans to plead…

By The Associated Press Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. says it plans to build a computer chip factory in Japan. TSMC’s CEO C.C. Wei…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cody Bellinger hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and prized midseason…

By ASTRID GALVAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The latest restrictions in Texas that essentially ban abortion past the…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press HENRICO, Va. (AP) — First lady Jill Biden has campaigned for Democrats in Virginia’s and New Jersey’s…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A commission tasked with studying potential changes to the Supreme Court is releasing a first…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and LOU KESTEN Associated Press ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton will remain hospitalized overnight as he recovers from a…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst, 78, was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court last month of first-degree murder…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most populous state New South Wales says it will end hotel quarantine for…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s uneasy relationship with the oil industry is being…

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By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Southern Baptist Convention official is resigning amid internal rifts over how to…

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A major Southern California highway was reopened as firefighters made progress against a wildfire in a coastal…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration says it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A senior diplomat says Southeast Asia’s foreign ministers have decided not to invite…

By CHRIS GRYGIEL Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The two candidates for Seattle mayor agreed that tackling an ongoing homelessness crisis was the…

By RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Soon after the pandemic began, India’s government, with funding from The Rockefeller…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese officials have set up an independent commission to investigate the conditions at…

By LOU KESTEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Bill Clinton says the former president is being treated in a Southern California…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A commission tasked with studying potential changes to the Supreme Court is releasing a first…

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska (AP) — About half the main road through Denali National Park and Preserve will be remain closed next year…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Colombia is calling for greater efforts to integrate former…

MIAMI (AP) — Miami city commissioners have unanimously voted to fire Police Chief Art Acevedo after a short and stormy tenure in which he clashed…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Four people are in critical condition after they were pulled from an airplane that went down Thursday afternoon near a…

By TERRY SPENCER and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A court hearing is set Friday in Florida for Nikolas Cruz, the man…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City prosecutors announced they will bring criminal charges against “several people and companies” for construction…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill raising the nation’s debt limit until early…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A nonprofit law firm announced a new project to help low-income families hold onto…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general says new evidence and fresh eyes have led to involuntary manslaughter…

By DON BABWIN and SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police leaders and the mayor say that officers will not be ordered to go…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cher has sued the widow of her former musical partner and ex-husband Sonny Bono over royalties for Sonny and Cher songs…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — A former Boeing test pilot has been indicted on fraud charges related to his work in evaluating…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California insurance pool is appealing a judge’s order that it offer homeowners…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Republican candidate for governor is calling it “weird and wrong” that…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says it will allow up to 800 more foreign butchers work in the U.K. on…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Scientists and other workers at one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A mask-wearing mandate will continue for at least another month in a Wyoming school district…

SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Jurors have heard opening arguments in the trial of three former Georgia sheriff’s deputies charged with murder in the…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court is once again allowing Texas to continue banning most abortions. The…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters occupied the lobby at the main Interior Department building in downtown Washington…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A shipwreck 260 miles east of Boston has been identified as that of the storied Coast Guard ship U.S.…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New York man characterized as a leader of the Pagans motorcycle gang was sentenced to 33 months, or more than two and a half…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The U.S. State Department says next month’s presidential elections in Nicaragua “have lost all credibility” because…

By The Associated Press Qatar says female soccer players have been evacuated from Afghanistan on a flight to Doha. Qatar’s assistant foreign…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has raised $2.1 million over the past…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Federal meteorologists say there’s another La Nina, which can be bad news for parts of the parched West.…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A white man serving a life sentence for fatally stabbing a Black college student at a bus stop at the University of Maryland…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man is facing up to life in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges that he commissioned a Venezuelan…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The main lawyer for Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi says he has been issued a gag order…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The title of the new CBS sitcom “Ghosts” seems to be a dead giveaway. But there’s more…

CHICAGO (AP) — A 24-year-old man has been charged in an August shooting that killed a 7-year-old Chicago girl and seriously wounded her younger…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States has won a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council that former president…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is warning of rising threats to a global recovery posed…

BANNING, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say police shot and killed a man who was armed with a rifle in Southern California. The man’s name was not…