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BERLIN (AP) — Environmental campaigners are pressing for Germany’s next chancellor to take strong action against climate change, including by…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Chicago-based aerospace giant Boeing Co. will invest $200 million to…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press House Democrats said Friday they planned to take action next week to suspend the cap on the government’s borrowing…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prime ministers of Poland and Lithuania say tighter security at their borders with…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Clive Sinclair, the British inventor and entrepreneur who arguably did more than anyone else to inspire…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s incoming finance minister has signed a contract with a New York-based company to…

By DARIA LITVINOVA and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Facing pressure from the Kremlin, Apple and Google removed an opposition-created…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — One of the Faeroe Islands’ largest farmed salmon exporters is condemning a large catch of white-sided dolphins on the…

LONDON (AP) — Police have charged two men with the murder of Lyra McKee, a journalist shot dead as she covered rioting in Londonderry in 2019.…

By PHILIPP JENNE Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A civil trial has opened in Austria over the government’s handling of a coronavirus outbreak…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia is vaccinating 6-to-11-year-olds so students can safely return to schools…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Assembly, or parliament, has approved a Cabinet dominated by women, aiming to…

By PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press GOLSSEN, Germany (AP) — A crowded race to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel after she…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese regulators have set up a platform that allows the public to report on gaming companies they believe are violating…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Friday, marking a feeble ending to an up-and-down week of…

BEIJING (AP) — A trio of Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after a 90-day stay aboard their nation’s first space station in China’s…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Official election campaigning started Friday for the next head of Japan’s governing Liberal…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Official campaigning has begun for the new head of Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party,…

By SARAH RANKIN and STEVE HELBER Associated Press GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin clashed over abortion…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The architect of an upcoming Washington protest that aims to rewrite history about the violent…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s decision to form a strategic Indo-Pacific alliance with Australia and…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — With flames advancing toward the signature grove of ancient massive trees in Sequoia National…

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — California wildfires have burned into at least four groves of gigantic ancient sequoias in national parks and forests.…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Dustin Hopkins made a 43-yard field goal on an untimed down, and Washington defeated the New…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s recent sword-rattling after months of relative quiet…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Opposition from some leading moderate Democrats over a $3.5 trillion budget proposal championed…

BEIJING (AP) — China has applied to join an 11-nation Asia-Pacific free trade group in an effort to increase its influence over international…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 40-year-old woman has been charged with killing three young girls in a crime that…

By ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press ACANDI, Colombia (AP) — As borders open around the world after months of pandemic related lockdowns some illegal…

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge says prosecutors can’t argue a man who shot three people, killing two, during…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected Chinese criticism of Australia’s new…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera will present its second work by a Black composer, Anthony Davis’ “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,”…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin have met in southwest Virginia for the commonwealth’s first…

By JILL COLVIN and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press One of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The “Hard Knocks” franchise will have an in-season version for the first time when “Hard Knocks In Season: The…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Sitting on her mother’s lap, 2-year-old Lucía looked at the illustrations in her book while…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — With flames advancing toward the signature grove of ancient massive trees in Sequoia National…

PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is asking Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate after voter registration records…

By GRANT SCHULTE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press LINCOLN, Nebraska (AP) — Nebraska’s Republican-controlled legislature is considering…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. general’s calls to China are coming under new scrutiny in Congress. The…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The criticism by many Fox News personalities of efforts to push COVID vaccines on the public has…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is criticizing some in the judiciary for veering…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane Powell, who starred in Hollywood golden age musicals, has died. A longtime friend said…

By MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The big highlight of Mexico’s Independence Day has been the visit by Cuban President…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s governor says the state will ask the federal government to remove its…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Another Texas inmate has had his execution delayed over claims the state is violating his…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The miniature statutes given at the Emmy Awards on Sunday can be an outsized boon to egos,…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with a northern Illinois battery company to clean up a warehouse where…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has unveiled the hulking…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tommy Thompson, the longest-serving governor in Wisconsin history and current interim president of the University of Wisconsin…

By TERRY SPENCER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON MIAMI (AP) — Health officials say the state of Florida has surpassed 50,000 coronavirus deaths since the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. judge says Prince Andrew can request the unsealing of a 2009 settlement agreement that…

By WILSON RING Associated Press SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Some of the residents of a long-closed Vermont orphanage want the Catholic Church to…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Officials in Washington state are upset that the Biden administration is challenging…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent cybersecurity lawyer has been charged in the special counsel’s probe of the U.S.…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. government must stop using a Trump-era public health order to…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Lamon says the United States should not accept Afghan…

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Massachusetts is fining MassMutual $4 million after accusing the company of failing to supervise an employee…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has been troubled by years of neglect and now has…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Muslim civil rights group is calling for a boycott of Hilton hotels over what it says are plans to build a hotel on the site of…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford plans to spend $250 million and add 450 jobs at three Michigan plants to meet…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An attorney representing the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate says the long-delayed review of…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.N. official says tens of thousands of Haitians are still awaiting help more than…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Louis Menand’s Cold War cultural history “The Free World” and Hanif Abdurraqib’s…

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say one of two men suspected in the shooting deaths of four people found in an abandoned SUV in Wisconsin was…

ARANSAS PASS, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a South Texas teen who said he killed his family and posted graphic images of their bodies on social…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s decision to form a strategic Indo-Pacific alliance with Australia and…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch foreign minister has resigned after the lower house of parliament passed a…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new study ties the COVID-19 pandemic to an “alarming” increase in obesity in U.S. children…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Thursday against five men in Turkey suspected of providing financial and travel…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s reluctance to get a vaccine is a rarity in his…