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BERLIN (AP) — A local council in Germany has approved a plan by electric carmaker Tesla to expand the grounds of its first plant in Europe, a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament has passed a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has pardoned seven former top military officers who were sentenced to life terms in prison over the…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The governments of eight European Union member states say the situation in Syria…

By PETR DAVID JOSEK Associated Press BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A man charged with attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed the shooting-down of an American drone,…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Opposition groups in Serbia are planning protests against a real estate development…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say suspected militants have bombed a girl’s school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Police say a man has stormed a police station in Malaysia and killed two officers in what’s being investigated…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were mixed on Friday, with Chinese stocks reversing earlier losses following the announcement of…

PARIS (AP) — French police shot and killed an armed suspect who appeared to be planning to set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military said that North Korea has fired a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast. South…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities say a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea has left the city of Sevastopol without power and set a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly…

BANGKOK (AP) — Brazil will host the 2027 Women’s World Cup after a vote of FIFA’s 211 members chose the South American bid over a joint…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer China is expected to announce fresh measures to reinvigorate its ailing property industry after the latest…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) — A federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in…

BY BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The National Rifle Association is kicking off its annual meeting in downtown Dallas, gathering for…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s election will determine how weary the country has become of the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Amy Kremer is a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021 rally that led to a mob…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. Now, all…

BANGKOK (AP) — FIFA will seek independent legal advice before holding an extraordinary council meeting by July 25 to make a decision on a…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — After 73 years and a long fight with the Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who…

By HUIZHONG WU and EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is focusing on trade and cultural exchanges…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — On many nights, hundreds of migrants squeeze through poles in a border wall or…

By JEFF MARTIN and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — A funeral will be held Friday for a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman who…

By TOM KRISHER and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) — Cartel violence haunted the central Mexican town of Huitzilac days after a mass…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel will respond to charges of genocide at the United Nations’ top court after…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s break from his hush money trial in New York includes a…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge is considering Alec Baldwin’s request to dismiss a grand jury…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan is reducing its reliance on the Chinese mainland as it seeks to insulate itself from…

By SHARON LURYE Associated Press On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court laid out a new precedent: Separate but equal has no place in American schools.…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump’s…

HOUSTON (AP) — Power has been knocked out to nearly 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area as southeastern Texas gets pummeled by severe…

SYDNEY (AP) — Football Australia says three A-League players have been arrested for alleged betting corruption after police claimed they…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has again denied that her…

KENT, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have pushed this Congress into…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration says it will cost more than $20 billion…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN and SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Thursday voted to keep…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys have discussed in court whether classified documents might play…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence, two kids named…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is reporting improved economic prospects since its January forecast…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A measure to repeal a now-defunct Nebraska law that would use public money to fund private…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Justice Department documents show a federal prosecutor in Arkansas stepped down from…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday proposed an end to new coal leasing from federal…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against a Mississippi school district over a dress code policy based…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who met two 15-year-old girls on Snapchat, sexually abused them while traveling through three states and…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Google is asking that a federal judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by…

By The Associated Press Every WNBA team will start using charter flights to travel to games by May 21. The league is following through on plans to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge is rejecting a lawsuit by a former Democratic congressman running for Georgia state…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency watchdog said the agency distributed about $3 billion to…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man has been convicted of killing four people at his ex-girlfriend’s home in suburban Denver…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon officials are cautiously optimistic that an overall decline in reported sexual…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld four voting restrictions passed by Republican…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer A key Boeing supplier that makes the fuselages for its popular 737 Max airplanes is laying off about 450 workers.…

UNION CITY, Ga. (AP) — An Atlanta police officer who authorities say shot and killed a Lyft driver who was driving him home was arrested and…

By LEKAN OYEKANMI and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says early estimates show a barge collision in…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Six men face charges in connection with the theft of more than 400 vehicles worth about $8 million in Michigan. The state…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Five Americans are facing prison sentences of up to 12 years in the Turks and Caicos Islands on charges they…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian lawmakers have begun yet another effort to remove President Dina Boluarte from office as authorities continue various…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prosecutors say former South African President Jacob Zuma will go on trial for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The sports streaming platform planned by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery finally has a name. The joint venture will be…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press A former top official in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget office has pleaded not guilty to extortion, bribery,…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced three arrests in a complex stolen identity scheme that…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is creating a new process aimed at cutting the…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbot issued a full pardon Thursday to a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia lodged a complaint over statements by the U.S. ambassador after he said the…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A major North Carolina political donor and his associate have been convicted a second time of attempting to bribe the…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bad Bunny’s sports representation firm sued the baseball players’ association Thursday,…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer SPRING, Texas (AP) — Gymnastics star Simone Biles says she is better equipped to handle the challenges that await…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday premiered his self-financed opus “Megalopolis” at the…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit man who dropped a teenager’s body into a dumpster has been convicted of second-degree…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus have announced raids and the seizure of property of 104…

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — A wildfire that has forced thousands of people out of their homes in Canada’s oil sands hub city of Fort McMurray,…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups have signed a “commitment…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022…