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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defense secretary says it will continue to build security alliances and…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s military says the helicopter carrying late President Ebrahim Raisi caught fire soon after it crashed into a…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s army says the bodies of three more hostages killed on Oct 7. were recovered overnight from Gaza. The bodies…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court is set to rule on an urgent plea by South Africa for…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares retreated Friday after strong reports on the U.S. economy raised the possibility of interest…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a resolution that…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it will pay $2.58 million in compensation to the families of five Chinese engineers who were killed in March when a…

By SEBABATSO MOSAMO, FARAI MUTSAKA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press LILANDA, Zambia (AP) — Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Residents of the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, are working to…

THANE, India (AP) — Officials say at least nine people have been killed and 64 are injured in an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept into office nearly six years ago with a…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press It began last month with the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister. Then the head of the ministry’s…

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating a mass shooting in Maine plans to hear more testimony from law enforcement sources…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports more than 100 people are estimated to have been killed in a landslide in remote…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass. Yet for weeks, the famously combative…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election-year…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden are due in court days before the…

By HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — State media say a fire in a small apartment building in Hanoi, Vietnam, has killed at least 14…

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. (AP) — Six people killed when a pickup crashed into a passenger van in Idaho on Saturday were agricultural workers from Mexico,…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan tracked dozens of Chinese warplanes and navy vessels off its coast Friday on the second day of a large exercise…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BEED, India (AP) — India’s 120 million farmers share fast-shrinking water resources as groundwater is pumped out…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press ANTIBES, France (AP) — Some of the biggest stars in the French Rivera for the Cannes Film Festival made…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors won’t be penalized for a last-minute document dump that caused former…

By The Associated Press The nearly $2.8 billion settlement that has been approved by the NCAA and the nation’s five largest conferences is a…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has rejected a recommendation to cut a proposal for what would be the state’s largest wind farm…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The NCAA and the nation’s five biggest conferences have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a six–day-old U.S. pier project in Gaza is starting to get more aid…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Defense officials from Chile have convened a meeting at the bottom of the planet, a bid to bolster their territorial claims…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has designated Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers. He also…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Youth services and civil rights groups are suing to block a new Washington state parental rights…

By YURAS KARMANAU and DASHA LITVINOVA Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening arrived in Belarus for a two-day visit. The Russian…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of four of the five Marines killed when their Osprey crashed in California in June of 2022…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — American comedian Dave Chappelle has said a “genocide” is striking the…

MADRID (AP) — Four people have died and several more have been seriously injured when a building collapsed on the island of Mallorca. Spanish…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A SWAT team has raided rapper Sean Kingston’s rented South Florida mansion and…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Holocaust museum in New York City will offer free educational field trips to eighth grade public school students in a program…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s attorney general says his office is looking into a company’s attempt to sell…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year mortgage dipped this week to just below 7% for the first time…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that he is calling a special session of the General Assembly next week to…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Louis Vuitton has unveiled its latest fashion designs at Barcelona’s Park Güell in an…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An attorney says the one remaining wrongful death lawsuit filed after 10 people were killed…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer New research suggests the HPV vaccine is preventing cancers in men, as well as in women. The vaccine is…

BERLIN (AP) — German police have cleared about 150 pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a Berlin university faculty, ending one of a wave of…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The incumbent mayor of Alaska’s largest city has lost his re-election bid. Dave…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer Will the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation give concertgoers, sports fan and…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade has launched Translatable, a nonprofit online community…

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Birmingham-Southern’s baseball team is playing on, even as the college prepares to close its doors. The Division III…

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A northern Arizona man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other crimes in the 2020 starvation death of his…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The judge who oversaw a landmark trial over abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court has thrown out a defamation lawsuit against…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Oakland Athletics are on a tight schedule to get agreements in place and demonstrate that…

By TERRY CHEA Associated Press SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — Researchers climbed the world’s largest tree to inspect for bark beetles…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are signaling to major Republican donors…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Scientists with a Boston aquarium are encouraging beachgoers to report sightings of…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Searchers announced Thursday they’ve discovered what they believe is the wreckage of…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma has criticized the country’s highest…

By ALI SULTAN Associated Press ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — Police say an electric short at a sugar factory in Tanzania set off an explosion that…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Flooding in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state ravaged nearly everything needed for economic activity,…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When it was time to start making “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” production designer Colin Gibson went…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s parliament has approved a bill on leasing some of its…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore will cut the number of parishes in the city and nearby suburbs by about two-thirds.…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer OpenAI will start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal between the two companies.…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Congressman Dwight Evans of Philadelphia says he’s in a rehabilitation facility recovering from a minor stroke, and…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani government says that the United Arab Emirates has committed to investing up to $10 billion in Pakistan during a…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The independent bookstore boom continues. Even as industry sales were slow in 2023, membership…

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Ballet, one of the world’s premier dance troupes, has been celebrating its…

LYONS, N.Y. (AP) — The owner of seven unlicensed cannabis shops in New York whose promotions included an Easter egg hunt has been fined more than…

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed water rights settlement that carries a price tag larger than any…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have approved a first-of-its-kind bill that would classify two…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expecting up to 500 guests for the largest state dinner of his…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press Recently unsealed court documents say the bodies of two Kansas women who disappeared in Oklahoma were found in a…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut court on Thursday overturned a six-month suspension given to a lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for…

MILAN (AP) — A previously unknown terracotta bust of the famed early Renaissance architect who designed the Florence Cathedral dome has been…

PARIS (AP) — Play in the year’s second Grand Slam tennis tournament is set to begin at the French Open on Sunday. The defending champions are…