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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating a Vermont judge who played a critical role in paving the way…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Apple unveiled its next iPhone line-up, including a model that offer twice the…

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University has announced that its student crew club must stay off the water at least for now after an inquiry faulted…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri cave containing Native American artwork from more than 1,000 years ago has…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A new study finds pension systems for state government workers are in their best shape since the Great Recession.…

LONDON (AP) — China’s ambassador to Britain has been barred from Parliament and told he could not enter the building for a talk he was scheduled…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey has been sentenced to 43 months for using drones to smuggle contraband into…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press NECOCLI, Colombia (AP) — Every day, at least 500 migrants from around the world sail out of the Colombian town…

By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fearful of Donald Trump’s actions in his final weeks as president, the United States’ top…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has become the latest state to sue some of the country’s top fossil fuel companies…

By ANDRÉS VILLARREAL Associated Press CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — The house that former drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán fled in 2014 when…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, CATHY BUSSEWITZ and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press COVID-19 deaths and cases in the U.S. have climbed to levels not seen…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dozens of American Indian tribes are demanding the Biden administration enact emergency…

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked New York state from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of health…

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Sequoia National Park has been shut down and its namesake gigantic trees could be in danger as forest fires…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Officials in Virginia and Wisconsin say that six people who recently traveled to the U.S. from…

CAIRO (AP) — Lawyers say the trial of an Egyptian activist and researcher who has been imprisoned for over a year and a half has begun. His case…

By MARIO LOBÃO Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A project to give children in poor neighborhoods a shot at going to the movies has resumed…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a public fallout over release strategy with Warner Bros., Christopher Nolan’s next film, about…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization and its partners hope to provide Africa with about 30% of the COVID-19 vaccines the continent needs by…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A new chief prosecutor has been sworn in hours after his predecessor…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The general who leads U.S. efforts to thwart foreign-based cyberattacks says he’s mounting…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has declared a mistrial at the trial of the founders of the lucrative classified site…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are paring back their signature elections bill in hopes of kickstarting their…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is curtailing federal agents’ use of “no-knock” warrants –…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Novels that explore historical injustices, the nature of consciousness and the dizzying impact of…

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A woman who struggled with a robber inside an Illinois Subway shop says the owner suspended her from work after surveillance…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a statewide civil rights investigation into Georgia…

Apple has released a critical software patch to fix a security vulnerability that could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-one tons of sand are transforming the Brooklyn Academy of Music into a day at a beach for…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kristin Chenoweth, Julie Taymor and Lin-Manuel Miranda welcomed back boisterous audiences…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that a small far-right party can continue to put up election posters with the slogan “Hang the Greens”…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A flight safety organization is warning that a Turkish drone base in ethnically divided Cyprus could increase safety risks…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has endured a second day of harsh bipartisan criticism of…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Massive government relief passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic moved millions…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In her last trip in the western Balkans as a German chancellor, Angela Merkel visited…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw’s Jewish community has buried an unidentified Holocaust victim whose remains were…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A judge has suspended Minnesota’s new stricter standards on when police can use deadly force, halting a change in state…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Officials at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant have acknowledged they neglected to…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Patricia Smith has won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement, a $100,000 honor handed out by…

LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) — A 22-year-old U.S. Marine from Indiana has been remembered as a hero during a funeral in his hometown. Corporal Humberto…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The foreign minister in Afghanistan’s new Taliban-run Cabinet says the government…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A task force of outside experts has found no evidence of political interference in the 2020 census numbers used…

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say four people found slain in an abandoned SUV in a western Wisconsin cornfield had been shot and were all from…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — UK. Health Secretary Sajid Javid says that the government canceled an agreement with French vaccine…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has told his German counterpart in a telephone call that Turkey does not have the capacity to deal…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has announced measures to make the police more transparent…

By The Associated Press Jeff Bridges says his cancer is in remission and his COVID-19 case is “in the rear view mirror.” The actor posted an…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The first standing ovation Dionne Warwick ever received was as a 6-year-old, when her reverend grandfather brought her…

By MOHAMED WAGDY Associated Press SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) — Egypt is showcasing an ancient tomb structure belonging to the cemetery complex of King…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices rose a lower-than-expected 0.3% last month, the smallest monthly…

MADRID (AP) — The leader of Catalonia in northeastern Spain has announced that it’s excluding a separatist party in his ruling regional coalition…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Milos Zeman has been hospitalized while predecessor Vaclav Klaus is undergoing tests at the same hospital. The…

PARIS (AP) — Bordeaux, the French city that was a transit station in the slave trade, feared racism was behind the disfiguring of an African slave…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — More than $104 million in Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went uncollected last year as the…

BERLIN (AP) — German police are investigating the source of a balloon that caused a massive blackout in and around the eastern city of Dresden.…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has elevated its top marketing officer to CEO as it…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The slaughter of 1,428 white-sided dolphins as part of a four-century-old traditional drive of sea mammals into shallow…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. government figures show that the number of people on payroll in Britain has soared back to levels…

By SEAN PYLES of NerdWallet. How did you spend your “hot vax summer”? If you indulged in revenge shopping, dining and travel, your summer fun may…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says social distancing will end in the Netherlands on Sept. 25.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it is delaying the start of post-Brexit border checks on food imports from the European…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s climate czar says the 27-nation bloc should ensure that the most…

By JONATHAN LADNRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Springsteen’s most memorable artifacts including his favorite Fender…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Lawyers say a court in Myanmar has agreed to change the venue for the trial of an Australian…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is in self-isolation after people in his inner…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria is seeing one of its worst cholera outbreaks in years, with more than 2,300 people…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece have opened an investigation into the crash of…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian scientists say the fossil of a four-legged prehistoric whale found in 2008 is that of a…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government is slashing energy taxes and imposing a temporary windfall tax on the gains of energy…

By HUIZHONG WU and SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court has ruled against a Chinese woman in a #MeToo case that wound through…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is forecast to reap record revenue from farming this year despite pandemic…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The leader of Norway’s Labor Party will start talks in an attempt to build a…