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By DAVID KLEPPER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Public forums before local school boards and city councils are…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian emergency officials say over 830 people have been evacuated from a summer camp in the southern Urals because of a forest fire…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has recently developed a dubious reputation: as a regional destination…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police a bus traveling on a highway in Hungary crashed through a guardrail and tipped over early Sunday. At least eight…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany is forecast to record its biggest rise in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 this year as…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — More than two dozen Rohingya refugees are feared drowned after their boat capsized off the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Emergency officials say rescuers have recovered one more body following a helicopter crash in Russia’s far eastern region of…

GALESBURG, Mich. (AP) — A deputy in Michigan has died after being wounded during a chase with a gunman. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office…

BEIJING (AP) — A team of 200 Chinese police, emergency workers and experts is trying to rescue 19 trapped coal miners in the northwestern province…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press HOBOKEN, Belgium (AP) — Days after the alarming warning of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that there was a…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — After a brutal wave of infections driven by the delta variant, many Ugandans seeking a…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say the death toll from a grenade attack on a truck carrying women and children in Karachi has risen…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has marked the 76th anniversary of its surrender in World War II. At the somber ceremony,…

By TERRY SPENCER and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The National Hurricane Center said Fred has regained tropical…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin appears set to resign this week after…

HONG KONG (AP) — A pro-democracy group that organized some of the biggest protests during months of political upheaval in Hong Kong in 2019 says it…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s prime minister says his government will soon launch a $1.35 trillion national infrastructure plan that will boost the…

By EVENS SANON and MARK STEVENSON Associated Press LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — The death toll from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that battered Haiti is…

By EUGENE GARCIA and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of Northern California homes remain threatened by the…

By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored has exploded in northern Lebanon,…

TOKYO (AP) — Torrential rain has triggered a mudslide and more floods across Japan, leaving three people presumed dead and forcing the evacuation…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Tyler Gilbert became the first pitcher in 68 years to throw a no-hitter in his first big league…

By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban swept into Afghanistan’s…

By SAM METZ Associated Press / Report for America GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton told a crowd of about 4,000 Nevada Republicans…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to the governor general’s residence and is expected to…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Police Department and local media say a man was stabbed and a reporter was attacked Saturday at…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Those entrusted with securing the nation’s voting systems must remain…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say a tour bus bound for Niagara Falls ran off the New York State Thruway and rolled…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden has called school district superintendents in Florida and…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press A storm system that stalled for days over West Texas led to what a National Weather Service meteorologist calls an…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Temperatures are expected to reach up to 94 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as an excessive heat warning…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi smiled and looked transfixed as Paris Saint-Germain fans chanted his name before the…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Several thousand LGBT supporters took to the streets in the Romanian capital of…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa voting rights advocate Deidre DeJear has announced she is running for governor.…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Foreign Ministry says it could renew a visa for a BBC journalist to let her…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has ruled that part of a ballot question that will soon be before Minneapolis voters on the future of the city’s…

By BOUBCAR BENZABAT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Thousands of people, from families to far-right sympathizers, marched in cities across France for…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A top medical center in Lebanon is warning that long power cuts and severe shortage in fuel will…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent internet fact-checker has admitted to plagiarizing from dozens of news stories over several…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged authorities to strengtnen their efforts to fight…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese police have detained two men on suspicion of sexual assault in a high-profile case…

By The Associated Press The Latest developments on Afghanistan, where a weeklong Taliban offensive is now approaching the outskirts of the capital,…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, KELLI KENNEDY and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — As coronavirus infections rise among young Americans, so too…

By VANESSA GERA and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Israel is condemning Poland’s approval of a law that restricts the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press As the United States ends the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan and as the Taliban recapture much of the…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press HENNING, Tenn. (AP) — The life and legacy of late author and former Tennessee resident Alex Haley is being honored…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Ned Lamont calls Connecticut’s shoreline the Napa Valley of Oysters. A quarter…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former accounts manager for a nonprofit affiliated with the University of South Florida’s medical school has pleaded guilty…

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban offensive is encircling the Afghan capital and there’s…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America’s longest war.…

By EVENS SANON and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s civil protection agency says at least 304 people have been…

PERRYVILLE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S Geological Survey says a 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Despite the size of the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press As the United States ends the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan and as the Taliban recapture much of the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two amateur Chinese computer coders are set to be released next week after more than a year…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hundreds of people have attended a gay pride march in Bosnia’s capital of Sarajevo. Organizers said that…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain has set a new provisional heat record of 47.2 degrees Celsius (116.96 Fahrenheit)…

ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — The Russian Defense Ministry says 8 Russian and Turkish crew members were killed…

MADRID (AP) — Human rights groups have denounced Spain’s expulsion of unaccompanied children to Morocco, calling the deportations illegal and…

MOSCOW (AP) — Heavy rains have flooded broad areas in southern Russia, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,,500 people. Authorities in the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three out of eight people who went missing when a helicopter carrying tourists plunged into a…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media says authorities will impose a six-day-long “general lockdown” in cities across the country, after…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Supporters of Zambian opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema have begun celebrating as…

By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Low-income countries were supposed to get COVID-19 vaccines through a shared…

BERLIN (AP) — Luxembourg has rejected an application by Russian state broadcaster RT for a license to distribute its German-language service via…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s police watchdog says it has launched an investigation into why a 22-year-old man who…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian officials say a recent influx of thousands of migrants from…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say attackers targeted a truck in the port city of Karachi, killing at least nine people and wounding…