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BERLIN (AP) — The center-right Union bloc’s candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor sought the support Saturday of skeptical Bavarian…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Health experts say this fall’s crowded college and professional football stadiums could create ripe conditions for…

By CARA ANNA and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Plans for COVID-19 booster shots in some Western countries are…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press CHALMETTE, La. (AP) — Some of the hardest-hit victims left in deadly Hurricane Ida’s wake are Louisiana…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press CHALMETTE, La. (AP) — Some of the hardest-hit victims left in deadly Hurricane Ida’s wake are Louisiana…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish officials say an attack on Turkish troops in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province has left two soldiers dead and three…

By The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban official said that the group raised their flag over the Afghan presidential palace in a…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by offering her sympathies to…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she finds it unacceptable that refugees are being used…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda is accelerating its vaccination drive in order to administer 128,000 doses that…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is making his first foreign trip since undergoing intestinal…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Sekou Siby was a cook and dishwasher at the World Trade Center’s Windows on the…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they have arrested four of the six Palestinians who broke…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Libya is warning that failure to hold presidential and…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Firefighters battling massive California blazes say thunderstorms that dropped light rain gave them a little breathing room…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are blasting President Joe Biden, threatening lawsuits and going as far as to call…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Labor unions are divided over vaccine mandates. The split has become more significant after President Joe Biden…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese news agency says eight people were killed in an explosion and fire caused by a leak from a liquefied gas cylinder in an…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has canceled airline flights, ferries and train service as Typhoon Chanthu roars toward the island. Authorities warned…

By ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden has paid tribute at three hallowed places of grief and…

Afghanistan’s first 2001 post-Taliban president Hamid Karzai marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America with a meeting of…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The world solemnly marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with grief for…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico (AP) — Rescuers plan to resume the search for victims of a landslide that brought tons of…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The co-owner of a network of online charter schools who was accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars in California…

ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta zoo says several members of its troop of western lowland gorillas have tested positive for the virus that causes…

BOISE, Idaho. (AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a former Idaho lawmaker who resigned in disgrace after a 19-year-old intern reported…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Fifteen to 20 villagers including several teenagers have been reported killed in some of Myanmar’s…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s chief public prosecutor has invited Prime Minister Ariel…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Former Colombian soldiers arrested in Haiti in the assassination of President Jovenel…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for an American woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Prince Andrew say they have…

By MELINDA DESLATTE, JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The head of the Louisiana State Police says he wants to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A lawyer for an Oklahoma district attorney says a high-profile death row inmate likely will be…

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Love and romance are the dreamy common threads that bind together Michael Kors’ Spring/Summer…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is gearing up for another…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After endless disruption due to the pandemic and the super-charged growth of streaming services,…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer New U.S. studies show COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective against hospitalizations and death.…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the Sept. 11 attackers failed in their aim of making people in open societies live in…

ROME (AP) — A tornado on a small Italian island in the Mediterranean has  flipped over several cars, killing two men and injuring several persons.…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has voted to keep himself in office as the recall…

By JESSICA GRESKO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortion clinics in neighboring Oklahoma and nearby Kansas say…

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has rejected a bill to limit how teachers…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of federal judges has reversed course and block a Tennessee restriction that…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The state of Arizona has sold off $93 million in Unilever bonds and plans to sell the remaining $50…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico (AP) — A section of mountain on the outskirts of Mexico City has given way, plunging rocks…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are blasting President Joe Biden, threatening lawsuits and going as far as to call…

YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A man who accused Dennis Hastert of child sexual abuse then sued the former U.S. House speaker for refusing to pay $1.8m in…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press In the late afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, Associated Press correspondent Kathy Gannon, on assignment in Afghanistan,…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have approved what advocacy groups say are the nation’s strongest…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After weeks of smooching on yachts and holding hands on intimate walks, Jennifer Lopez and…

CAIRO, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia sheriff says jury selection in a death penalty trial has been delayed while an attorney gets tested for the…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press A federal judge has thrown out all charges against a University of Tennessee professor accused of hiding his…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Report for America/Associated Press FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration is giving the first public look inside a…

NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey will be reissued this fall after publisher W.W. Norton and Company dropped it amid…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — All but four of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi citizens and the Saudi…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned US Ambassador John Sullivan to complain about alleged interference by what it called…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ “Fauci” is the first big-screen documentary of the nation’s top…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media reports say two more of the six Palestinians who broke out of a…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s new parliament members have been formally sworn in and elected a new speaker, in the house’s first session…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer Advocacy groups want the Biden administration to help provide safe drinking water in Benton Harbor, Michigan.…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge expressed skepticism about a military contractor’s latest legal arguments…

By ARITZ PARRA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Wigs, a fake moustache and a new safehouse every three months are just some of the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The “Mad Max Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa” isn’t speeding into theaters anytime soon. The film’s release…

By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, Joe Biden will hold the rank of commander in chief as he marks the…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The on-again, off-again ban imposed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to prevent…

CLEVELAND (AP) — The former director of Cleveland’s troubled Cuyahoga County jail has been convicted of negligently mismanaging the facility…

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By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped for the second consecutive month in…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press The U.S. has halted U.S.-bound flights of Afghan evacuees after discovering a few cases of measles among Afghans…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty years after terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center, the memorial at ground zero is…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations is raising the alarm about a Taliban crackdown on peaceful protests,…