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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s import and export growth accelerated in August despite disruptions due to the spread of…

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A huge California wildfire near the Lake Tahoe resort region is about half contained. The head of the state’s…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has gone back to her whiteboard. After months of teaching writing and English…

By MATTHEW DALY and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties say haunting images of surging rivers, flooded roads…

By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Surveying storm damage, President Joe Biden has declared climate change…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand has penned a memoir out Tuesday that offers a view from…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have broken through police roadblocks that sought to prevent access to the…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Court testimony shows that the Minnesota State Patrol purged emails and text messages immediately after protests over the death…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A nationalist Buddhist monk in Myanmar notorious for his anti-Muslim remarks has been freed from…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ANDREW DALTON NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Michael K. Williams, who played the beloved character Omar Little on “The Wire,”…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two critical jobless benefit programs have expired, leaving only a handful of economic options for…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean health authorities have approved the use of Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus for 6-year-old children and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say stand-up comedian Fuquan Johnson was among three people who died of a suspected overdose at a Los Angeles party.…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is about to be…

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Greg Wilfert remembers his first visit to Scarborough Beach State Park as a teenager like it was yesterday. Decades…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has marked Labor Day by delivering deli sandwiches to union…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it is postponing the start of post-Brexit border checks on goods going to Northern…

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar extended for two weeks the pre-trial detention of Danny Fenster, an American journalist in the military-led…

By CHRISTINA PACIOLLA Associated Press The morning after one of the most intense tornadoes recorded in New Jersey history all but demolished the…

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a 6-year-old girl died at an amusement park in the western Colorado town of…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The October illegal campaign contribution trial of an associate of Rudy Giuliani and a guilty…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer from a prominent South Carolina legal family who found his wife and son shot to…

By KEVIN MCGILL and JEFF MARTIN NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials in New Orleans say they will thoroughly inspect senior living apartments in the…

By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s police force is struggling to meet staffing targets to fully comply with a…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MORRISTOWN, Vt. (AP) — Rural communities across the country are wrestling with the economic perks and environmental…

LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. (AP) — President Joe Biden has approved major disaster declarations greenlighting federal aid for people six New Jersey counties…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Christopher Columbus is getting kicked off Mexico City’s most iconic boulevard. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum says the Columbus…

By TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former Marine sharpshooter accused of invading the home of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it will not tolerate violence against anyone who is trying to obtain an abortion in Texas as federal…

By PETER DEJONG and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The U.N.’s top climate official is urging governments to stop…

MADRID (AP) — Madrid’s panda family has grown with the birth of twin cubs. The Madrid Zoo announced the births on Monday. The twins were born to…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second time in two weeks, an inmate has been killed at one of the most secure federal…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Thousands of wildfires burn in the U.S. each year, and each one requires…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press The resurgence of COVID-19 this summer and the national debate over vaccine requirements have created a fraught…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is urging China to join international efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons amid…

By BEN FINLEY and TOM KRISHER Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — When negotiations failed to produce a new contract at a Volvo plant in Virginia…

By The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Former France and Paris Saint-Germain defender Jean-Pierre Adams has died after spending 39 years in a coma.…

By THOMAS ADAMSON and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,”…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency says it has started an expedited evaluation on whether to recommend use of a booster dose of the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Jordanian soldier killed in the 1967 Middle East war has been laid to rest in a military funeral in east Jerusalem. The…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The U.N. AIDS agency has acknowledged in an internal email last week that the behavior of a former…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An International Atomic Energy Agency mission has arrived in Japan to help prepare for a…

By PAUL WISEMAN and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Joe Sobol, owner of Big Easy Construction in New Orleans, has bad news for homeowners who’ve…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Parliament has approved a state of emergency declared by the president,…

By GISELA SALOMON, MARCOS ALEMAN and CLAUDIA TORRENS The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Several countries have dabbled in cryptocurrencies, but none…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament has upheld the state of emergency along the border with Belarus that…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi has welcomed the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth…

WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) — The body of a Virginia hiker has been found in Montana’s Glacier National Park. Thirty-four-year-old Jennifer Lee…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German Foreign Ministry says Berlin has protested to Russia over attempts to steal data from…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After a summer of unrelenting crises, President Joe Biden is hoping to turn the page and refocus…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered at Athens Cathedral, where Greek composer and politician…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Public opinion polls show Japan’s outspoken Cabinet minister in charge of vaccinations, Taro…

By MATTHEW DALY and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties say haunting images of surging rivers, flooded roads…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Ask anyone old enough to remember travel before Sept. 11, 2001, and you’re likely to get a…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says it supports plans for a North Sea spaceport that would be used to launch small satellites into space from…

By IDYLI TSAKIRI Associated Press ARCHANES, Greece (AP) — Greece has begun administering vaccinations for COVID-19 outside churches. It’s a…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Middle East now has its first completely automated cashier-less store.…

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — Relatives of the 298 passengers and crew killed on July 17, 2014, when a Buk missile blew a Malaysia Airlines Boeing…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A major maritime industry association has backed plans for a global surcharge on carbon emissions…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced two leading opposition activists to lengthy prison terms,…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government has created a new ministry to address the impact of…