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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has reopened a crossing with the occupied West Bank for the first time since six prisoners tunneled out of a nearby…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of immigrants are running in Germany’s national election on Sunday, raising the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mostly higher after the Federal Reserve signaled it may begin easing its extraordinary…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Coronavirus cases are surging to the worst levels of the pandemic in a rebel stronghold in Syria.…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese real estate developer that is struggling to avoid defaulting on billions of dollars of…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has ordered the last person seen with Kristin Smart before she vanished from…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Racism, climate change and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say an 87-year-old woman found dead inside a freezer in the garage of her Southern California home was a retired…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, MARIA VERZA, JUAN A. LOZANO and SARAH BLAKE MORGAN Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — U.S. officials say many of the…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, COLLEEN LONG and BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents tied to images showing aggressive tactics…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Willie Garson, who played Stanford Blatch on TV’s “Sex and the City” and its movie…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling fellow Democrats to the White House, President Joe Biden is pushing in…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press President Joe Biden says the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world.…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A sports association official says seven female taekwondo athletes who fled Taliban-controlled Afghanistan have…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer The Asian Development Bank has lowered its outlook for economic growth in developing Asia to reflect renewed…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government says its health minister has tested positive for the coronavirus in New York after Brazilian President Jair…

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A top Southern Baptist Convention committee agreed Tuesday to fund a third-party…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The popular mayor of the Philippine capital says he will run for president in next year’s elections, the latest…

By ANDREW DALTON AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER LOS ANGELES (AP) — The projectors are rolling. The ruby slippers are on. The shark is hanging and waiting.…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has caused slight damage in suburban Melbourne in an unusually powerful temblor for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two suspects in an attack on Jewish men outside a Los Angeles restaurant last spring have been charged with a hate crime. Police…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Health care workers are exhausted and angry. Some of Idaho’s coronavirus vaccines are…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An Arizona man who allegedly told his father he “snapped and shot a couple of people”…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is seeing lower coronavirus transmission than other U.S. states as virus cases and…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ruling emir of Qatar has urged world leaders gathered at the United Nations…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials are facing pressure to increase COVID-19 testing for travelers. The islands are…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have bonded over their shared…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge in suburban Detroit threw out the murder conviction of a man who was blamed for a fire that…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One of two teens charged as adults in the fatal stabbing of a college student in a New York…

NEW YORK (AP) — A second woman has accused billionaire Leon Black of rape in claims lawyers are seeking to add to a defamation lawsuit filed…

LONDON (AP) — A British couple who sought justice for their 19-year-old son after he died in a vehicle crash say they have settled a civil lawsuit…

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the world needs to find a way to contend with its…

DENVER (AP) — Court officials say charges have been dropped in connection with the death of a spiritual leader whose mummified body was found in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says the Taliban, Afghanistan’s new rulers since last month, have…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writers Both China and the United States are starting new financial attacks on climate change.…

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff’s department says it has identified the remains of a woman found nearly 44 years ago.…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Jury selection continues Wednesday in a case against a U.S. Air Force airman accused of…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — San Jose State University has agreed to pay $1.6 million to female student athletes whose complaints about being sexually…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The electric company subsidiary that provides electricity to New Orleans is responding to calls…

By SALLY HO Associated Press South Korean President Moon Jae-in again pushed for peace and reconciliation with North Korea, amid recent missile…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Four members of Congress from New York demanded the release of inmates and the closure of New…

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dozens of migrants upset about being deported to Haiti from the U.S. have…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Increasingly under fire from its clients, the Nielsen company says it will soon incorporate homes…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top national security officials say the possibility of a 9/11-type attack has diminished over the…

BOSTON (AP) — A group of high school students in Massachusetts had to ride on a party bus complete with a stripper pole and neon lights during a…

LAKE WORTH, Texas (AP) — One of the two pilots injured when their military training jet crashed into a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, over…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have climbed to an average of more than 1,900 a day for the first time since…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A philanthropic organization led by rapper Jay-Z is seeking police files and other records related to officer misconduct…

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia say they’ve charged a 15-year-old boy in a shooting that wounded two fellow students at their…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping reiterated his nation’s longtime policy of multilateralism on…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer AEW founder Tony Khan has put professional wrestling on notice that he has the hottest company in the business. The…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The top US diplomat in El Salvador says she sees “a decline in democracy” the country, where President Nayib…

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — The ancient massive trees of Sequoia National Park’s famed Giant Forest are unscathed even though a wildfire has been…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats say they will vote on legislation this fall to curb the power of the…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is requiring all workers at San Francisco International Airport to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has lifted stays in two cases it overturned based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that…

BERLIN (AP) — A section of highway in southern Germany was closed because of an incident involving an apparently armed passenger on board a bus.…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America Following reports of a positive COVID-19 case in the Oregon Capitol, legislators have been sent…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has sought to boost struggling would-be successor Armin Laschet in…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts mayor who was once a rising Democratic star after being elected at…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s new president slammed U.S. sanctions imposed on his nation as a…

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for R. Kelly has told a judge that the R&B singer is unlikely to take the witness stand at his sex-trafficking trial.…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare says families and patients have a new online tool to compare COVID-19…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Smoke and flames shot up the side of the Superdome’s roof after a pressure washer being…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus has forced Hollywood to adapt in countless ways to keep productions running through…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — NATO’s leader is suggesting that members need to focus on “the big picture” and…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press While there has been a decline in births in the U.S. during the pandemic, a new report suggests the drop may have…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s defense minister has apologized and his ministry has suspended an official after a “significant” data breach…

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Two Rutgers players have been suspended from the football team after they were charged in an incident in which three people…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Filmmaker James DeMonaco remembers the day “Rocky III” hit theaters as if it were yesterday. On Staten Island in…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges against police who shot and killed an antifascist…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Election authorities announced Russia’s ruling party will get 324 of the 450 seats in the next…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is a no-go for launching billionaires into space. Guterres called out…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The disappearance and almost-certain death of Gabby Petito and the…