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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…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press KOSICE, Slovakia (AP) — Pope Francis has traveled to the far east of Slovakia to meet with…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s political opposition leaders say the country’s…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have compensated nearly 250 people who were prosecuted or investigated under a Nazi-era law criminalizing…

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There were enough tennis stars inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Monday’s Met Gala,…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India’s leaders are anxiously watching the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, fearing that…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s competition watchdog says it plans to fine Google at least 207.4…

By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Your palm could soon be your ticket into a concert. Amazon says it is bringing its…

LONDON (AP) — Painter Charlotte Johnson Wahl, the mother of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has died aged 79. Wahl died “suddenly and…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — In the months before Sunday’s parliamentary election in Russia, authorities unleashed an…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his embattled allies won’t be…

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer A decade ago, Scotty McCreery won “American Idol.” At age 17. So the country music star and huge NFL fan…

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Carl Nassib’s strip-sack of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson came at a critical time…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas (AP) — Tropical Storm Nicholas has weakened to a tropical depression as it slowed to a…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Derek Carr threw a 31-yard TD pass to Zay Jones after the Raiders squandered their first…

BEIJING (AP) — Transport links have been largely restored in the Chinese commercial hub of Shanghai as Typhoon Chanthu remained offshore. Chanthu…

By BASSEM MROUE and FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press QLEIAT, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon is grappling with severe shortages in medical supplies amid a…

By ALBERT AJI and DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has slammed the presence of foreign…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is expected to travel to Washington next week to…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has emphatically…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street down after U.S. inflation was lower than expected…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden tried to advance his domestic spending plans by…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Democrat Michelle Wu has emerged the top vote-getter in a runoff election for the next mayor of…

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Kabul’s main prison was once crowded with thousands of Taliban captured or arrested by the…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Connecticut and a handful of other states have recently decided to mandate students be taught about Native American…

NEW YORK (AP) — Three companies linked to a Chinese businessman who is a prominent critic of his country’s ruling Communist Party have agreed to…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The closely watched recall election that could remove California Democratic Gov. Gavin…

By LISA MASCARO and MARCY GORDON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have unveiled a sweeping proposal for tax hikes on big…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California recall is the first major election since Joe Biden became president, and its results may hint at the…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Few voting issues were reported on the final day of voting in California’s recall…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Rev. Cho Yong-gi, whose founding of South Korea’s biggest church once…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and HARUKA NUGA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Senior diplomats from Japan, the United States and South Korea urged North Korea on…