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By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Climate scientists say that storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the…

By MANUEL VALDES and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Demonstrators in Seattle have demanded the resignation of two police officers…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Six Democratic governors are warning the Biden administration that offshore wind…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s CEO pledged to continue working to improve safety after the consultant…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors in the case charging Donald Trump with scheming to overturn the 2020…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man was charged with murder and taken to trial after sheriff’s deputies fatally…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president is wooing American tech companies, promising a business-friendly…

Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The U.N. secretary-general is calling for nations to build a world that is more fair for developing countries, as he…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Jeezy has filed for divorce from TV personality Jeannie Mai after two years of in…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday narrowed an order that broadly suspended the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Jackman have decided to end their marriage after 27 years and two children, the pair told People…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs receives the key to New York City. Mayor Eric Adams presented a giant key to the entertainer on Friday in…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentinian candidate Javier Milei has railed against socialism and praised Donald…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council has voted unanimously to end, a year from now, a U.N. probe into…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s Central Command has decided to interview roughly two dozen service members…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville metro councilmember Freddie O’Connell has resoundingly won the race to…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press A Connecticut city alderman facing criminal charges that he entered the U.S. Capitol with a mob of rioters on Jan. 6,…

LONDON (AP) — A British neonatal nurse who was found guilty of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has launched a bid to…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana officials say they have moved juvenile detainees from a former death row building at…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s dispatching two of his top aides to Detroit to help resolve the…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say the plane flown by the husband of Alaska U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola was carrying a load of moose meat from a…

By WILL WEISSERT and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump is dominating the early stages of the Republican…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The Sioux Falls mayor announced a “strategic pause” in the city’s plans to ditch an…

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal jury in a civil trial has found a Tennessee police officer not at fault or liable for fatally shooting a man in…

JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska authorities don’t expect any lingering problems related to Thursday’s explosion…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tapped to investigate impeaching a current…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic has shut all land, air and…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has warned that Lebanon is still facing enormous economic challenges…

MOSCOW (AP) — One American and two Russian space crew members blasted off Friday aboard a Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Like so many tennis fans around the world, Nathan Willett was captivated by Carlos Alcaraz’s…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Labor officials in New Jersey have lifted a stop-work order that had temporarily shut…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University has given final approval to wide-ranging cuts…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced new U.S. sanctions on “some of Iran’s more egregious…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, MICHELLE L. PRICE and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — Students were dancing in the aisles and their seats…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A jury has acquitted three men in the last trial connected to a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The U.S. Agency for International Development has given Kosovo another grant to help the country’s integration into the…

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A judge has found an Iowa man guilty in the murder of a 10-year-old girl who was missing for eight months before her remains…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press NAZLET EL-SHARIF, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian village is mourning dozens of its men killed in the horrific floodwaters…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Renowned Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose depictions of people and objects in plump, exaggerated forms…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has heard evidence of alleged torture during the rule of late dictator Francisco Franco. Human rights groups say the…

By MEAD GRUVER and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Mitt Romney’s announcement this week that he will not seek another term in the U.S.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Archaeologists have exhumed the remains of one person and plan to exhume a second in the search…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The new coach of Spain’s women’s team has had to delay the announcement of her first…

By BARAA ANWER Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The U.N.’s World Heritage Committee has placed two major historical sites in Ukraine…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Members of the volunteer arm of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard have…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Hispanic history and culture take center stage across the U.S. for National Hispanic Heritage Month.…

DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — Five adults and a 15-year-old self-described as “Soldiers of Christ” religious group members were in custody on murder…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A red sweater adorned with a flock of sheep worn by the young Princess Diana has sold at auction for…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — U.S.-based pharmaceuticals company Johnson & Johnson is being investigated in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described American XL Bully dogs as a “danger to our…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European regulators slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine on Friday for failing to protect…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland is joining its three Baltic neighbors in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a meeting Friday with his Belarusian ally, who suggested that Minsk could could join…

LONDON (AP) — Around 3,000 workers at Britain’s biggest steelworks face the prospect of losing their jobs as part of a government-backed package…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is marking the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s central bank has raised its key lending rate by one percentage point to 13%, a month after imposing an even larger…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is challenging efforts by ex-President Donald Trump to disqualify the…

By ALEX ROSENBERG of NerdWallet GoodRx’s prescription savings program offers significant discounts on prescription drugs, but not without some…

PRAGUE (AP) — Prague’s High Court has cancelled a lower court ruling that acquitted former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of fraud charges in a $2…

PARIS (AP) — Apple has agreed to install updates for iPhone 12 smartphones in France after French regulators ordered the company to stop selling…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the third time in less than eight months, a special election will decide control of the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain plans to return…

ROME (AP) — A bus reportedly transporting recently arrived migrants has slammed into a truck north of Rome, killing the two drivers. The crash…

LONDON (AP) — The European Union is facing a Friday deadline to decide whether to extend a ban on Ukrainian food imports in five nearby countries.…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is struggling with a record outbreak of dengue fever, with experts saying a lack of a coordinated response is…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — About 13,000 auto workers have walked off the job at three targeted factories after their union…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China is sending Vice President Han Zheng to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual high-level…

By ALICIA LEÓN and JOSEPH WILSON MADRID (AP) — The former president of Spain’s soccer federation has arrived at a court in Madrid to give…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Foundation has decided to raise the award amount for this year’s Nobel Prizes by 1 million kronor ($90,000) to 11…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The head of the Move Forward party, which finished first in Thailand’s general election…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A human rights lawyer who was arrested in Laos has been deported back to China despite pleas from…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Blinded by a Russian mortar shell, Ukrainian veteran Ivan Soroka couldn’t see his bride…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Barry Steenkamp, the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman who was fatally shot by…

LONDON (AP) — The father, stepmother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl found dead in her U.K. home are due in court on murder charges Friday after…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities blocked civilians from entering the flood-stricken eastern city of Derna on Friday…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces have recaptured a village in the country’s east after intense battles with…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday after China reported that its slowing economy showed signs…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan say a key border crossing linking the two countries is open again. The crossing in…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrates his golden jubilee on Friday, marking 50 years since he…