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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The often-heated debate over whether returning students should wear masks…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The need for crisis-driven leadership comes to all U.S. presidents. Now, on several fronts at…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Republican efforts questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential race have led to voting…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has replaced an Australian bishop who stepped down amid a Vatican investigation into what Australian media have…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British troops have left Kabul, ending the U.K.’s evacuation operation, and its 20-year military…

Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Survivors of last month’s extreme flooding in western Germany have joined first responders, religious leaders…

By SAYED ZIARMAL HASHEMI, RAHIM FAIEZ, JILL LAWLESS and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban forces have sealed off…

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of Hamas-backed activists have launched what they say is the first in a…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia is gearing up for an unusual presidential election. There’s only one candidate…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer NBC’s Olympics coverage has long been built on a foundation of human-interest stories and showcasing their road to…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris’ iconic Arc de Triomphe is set to be wrapped in silver and blue recyclable polypropylene…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Arab heads of state and senior officials from the region including…

By REBECCA SANTANA and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Residents of south Louisiana are bracing for the approach of what is…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press New Orleans finds itself in the path of Hurricane Ida 16 years to the day after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina caused…

By ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is warning that it’s “highly likely” an Islamic State affiliate…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to Singapore and Vietnam was overshadowed by global…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. rushes to evacuate Americans and allies from Afghanistan, a growing number of…

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Across the county, the offices of members of Congress have become makeshift…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s defense ministry has protested the passage of a U.S. Navy warship and Coast Guard cutter through the waters between China…

By The Associated Press From the Great Wall of China to the picturesque Himalayan mountains of India, Asia’s tourist destinations are looking to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Newly formed Hurricane Nora has swept past Mexico’s Puerto Vallarta area and is heading north for possible close…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Body camera video shows a Los Angeles police officer briefly pressing a knee to the neck of…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has ordered the closure of the country’s largest independent journalists’ organization. It’s the…

SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — Several Northern California high school students have been disciplined after officials learned they posted online photos and…

By WILL WEISSERT and DARRON CUMMINGS Associated Press WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Bernie Sanders has long argued that steep federal spending and…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two Texas police officers have been indicted muon murder charges in a line-of-duty fatal shooting of an Austin scientist. One…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The family of a 23-year-old Marine from Omaha says he was among the 13 U.S. service members killed in the attack at the Kabul…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state judge has struck a Seattle measure on homelessness from the November ballot even…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft says it’s fixed a flaw in its cloud computing platform that cybersecurity researchers warned could have enabled…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A panel of state trial judges has refused to halt its order restoring voting rights for…

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police say two men have been arrested in the fatal shooting of an off-duty New Orleans police officer during a holdup while…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is forecasting that this year’s budget deficit will be $555…

BATH, Maine (AP) — The last of a new class of stealth destroyers has left the Maine coast for sea trials. The ship, the future USS Lyndon B.…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Report for America/Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s correctional agency has terminated seven employees after…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of parents in Mexico have resorted to filing for court injunctions to get…

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman is becoming a social media sensation after she noticed a cow in the backseat of a car in a…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials are accusing DoorDash and Grubhub of harming the city’s restaurants and their…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court says that requiring voters to provide their own stamps for mail-in ballots…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities have arrested Congo’s former public health minister on allegations he…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A suburban Milwaukee school district is meeting to possibly reconsider opting out of a federally funded free meal program. The…

CHICAGO (AP) — Family members say the Rev. Jesse Jackson has been transferred to a hospital focused on physical rehabilitation after receiving…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are seeking approval to spend up to $680,000…

By AMY BETH HANSON, JANIE HAR and AMY FORLITI Associated Press A young husband with a child on the way. Another man who always wanted to be in the…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina couple split a nearly $1 million lottery jackpot thanks to two identical tickets. They say the sudden…

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Jurors have convicted two former Colorado sheriff’s deputies accused of causing the death of an intoxicated man by…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Tenant advocates and court officials were gearing up Friday for what some fear will be a wave of…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are still divided on the origins of the coronavirus, but believe…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A former state government official who says she is a sexual assault survivor says New Jersey…

By CALVIN WOODWARD, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and DAVID RISING Associated Press The terrorist attacks on the United States nearly 20 years ago brought…

DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — Officials in Bangladesh say at least 22 people died when a passenger boat sank with more than 100 aboard after a collision.…

By MARIAM FAM, DEEPTI HAJELA and LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Muslim Americans who grew up under the shadow of 9/11 have…

By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is giving radical Islamic groups from Syria and the Gaza…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and JAY REEVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials are offering new hope for the safety of U.S. schoolchildren…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota troopers on Friday arrested four people protesting Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 replacement pipeline project at the…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol has issued sweeping document…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a woman who has seen the play “Pass Over” multiple times in just a few days.…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that diplomacy was his…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will “shift heaven and earth” to bring more Afghans…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The first “Dreamer” to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship is finally poised to attend…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has declined to weigh in on the constitutionality of a new state law…

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Across the county, the offices of members of Congress have become makeshift…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday urged states that oppose a settlement plan with Purdue Pharma to try to work…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil, the country with the most freshwater resources in the world, has lost 15% of its…

By BEN FINLEY and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The latest surge in coronavirus cases is overwhelming many of the nation’s…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and OMAR AKOUR Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. State Department has raised concerns to Jordan about the possible…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize Board has announced a special citation for people in Afghanistan who risked their safety to help produce news…

By TERRY TANG and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona surpassed 1 million COVID-19 cases Friday. There are now more than a…

By TERRY SPENCER and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Florida school districts may impose mask…

By STEPHEN McGRATH AND AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s pro-Western president has been joined in the capital…