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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Homicides are declining in a cross-section of American cities, though their numbers remain…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Waves of pink-clad moviegoers passed under carboard palm trees on the frenzied first day of…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors want the rapper Quando Rondo sent back to jail after he crashed a car while free on bond pending trial on gang and…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company and his former longtime lawyer and fixer Michael…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A 13-year-old girl kidnapped in Texas and sexually assaulted was rescued in Southern California when passersby saw her…

Movie theater operator AMC has ditched plans to charge more seats with better sightlines after competitors did not follow along. It also found that…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Molly Gordon is having a good summer, professionally speaking. Her directorial debut “Theater Camp,” which she…

DALLAS (AP) — Prosecutors say the brother of retired NFL cornerback Aqib Talib has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2022 shooting death of a coach…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A report critical of British police says officers should not have used counter-terrorism laws to…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says armed men have attacked its 18-member team working at a key hospital in…

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than 345,000 children’s cups are being recalled due to lead levels that exceed the federal content…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University on Friday announced the resignation of its president in the fallout…

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A water main break in Miami Beach caused pressure to drop and forced officials to issue a precautionary boil water alert…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Some people paid hundreds of dollars to be able to say they were in the stadium for…

By The Associated Press The news of Tony Bennett’s death at age 96 has created an outpouring of love and condolences from the worlds of music,…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald…

PARIS (AP) — French police are investigating a violent armed robbery that targeted Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma at his home.…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Environmental activists have briefly interrupted play at the British Open by throwing an…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police have detained nine people suspected of smuggling migrants into the European Union country from neighboring…

By KARENA PHAN Associated Press The release of “Barbie” is upon us, and the color pink is nearly inescapable. It’s a color that has…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Deadly ethnic clashes in India’s northeast have rocked the country’s Parliament for a second…

MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent hard-line nationalist who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of weakness and indecision in Ukraine was arrested…

RAIGAD, India (AP) — Rescuers found five more bodies Friday in India’s western Maharashtra state, raising the death toll from a landslide…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer For eight years, Donald Trump has managed to secure the support of many evangelical and conservative Christians…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nina Simone fans have a reason for feeling good: A previously unreleased recording of the…

By PETER DEJONG Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam wants to move a cruise liner terminal out of the heart of the historic capital city.…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court has found a British man who killed his ailing wife in their home…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Sri Lanka and India have signed a slew of energy, development and…

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss authorities have temporarily shut the airspace over a small part of southwestern Switzerland because recreational gliders in…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer The biggest professional sports leagues in the United States have dealt with hazing issues over the past decade.…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro says the major multination military training…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Defense Ministry says a U.S. military drone crashed in the woods in the southwest of the country after contact…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — American freestyler Katie Ledecky has almost never gone home with anything other than a gold…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A knife-wielding man has stabbed at least four pedestrians on a street in the South Korean capital, Seoul. One person has…

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected a collector’s complaint against the inclusion of a painting he bought at auction in a database…

By KEVIN FREKING and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give the Federal…

By JENNA FRYER AP National Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Megan Rapinoe’s final run on the global stage begins Saturday when the United…

By MATT O’BRIEN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that new commitments by Amazon, Google,…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court will hand down a closely-watched decision over whether to ban the broadcast and…

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian cruise missiles have destroyed farm storage buildings in the Odesa region. Ukrainian…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A protest march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is growing as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities have determined that there is “no acute danger” to people in an area on the edge of Berlin where a potentially…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police say the two men gunned down at a New Zealand construction site had worked…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries to express their…

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, met with former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Hun Sen has been Cambodia’s autocratic prime minister for nearly four decades,…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press DIMONA, Israel (AP) — The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem made their way to Israel from the United States…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has executed a man for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumes lethal…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Lottery dreamers are setting their sights on the growing Mega Millions jackpot drawing on Friday after a…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out another winning week with a quiet Friday, as stocks found some stability…

By JILL LAWLESS and PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Voters weary of economic pain and political turmoil handed Britain’s governing…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — What will North Korea do about the first U.S. soldier in decades to flee into its…

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Friday refused to create a second majority-Black congressional…

By JACK DURA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The heavily armed man who ambushed Fargo police officers investigating a…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press Well before it was warm enough to plant seedlings in the ground, farmer Micah Barritt began nursing crops like…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ron DeSantis boasted Friday about his lengthy list of endorsements and…

By KRYSTA FAURIA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The combined strike by Hollywood actors and screenwriters entered its second…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is staking his reelection bid on the political and financial muscle of the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former principal of an Australian Jewish school will be sentenced on Aug. 24 after…

By JIM POLLOCK Associated Press “Barbie The Album” by Various Artists (Atlantic/Warner/Mattel) The Barbie industrial complex has detonated,…

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press TOMOHON, Indonesia (AP) — Authorities on Friday announced the end of the “brutally cruel” dog and cat meat…