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OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after making a tandem jump Sunday…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization has authorized a second malaria vaccine in a decision that could offer…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The highest mortgage rates in more than two decades are keeping many prospective homebuyers out…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Government officials say a new inspection has been ordered at the stadium that hosted…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president has asked the leader of the winning party in the country’s parliamentary election to try to…

MADRID (AP) — Two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas and two of her teammates on Spain’s women’s national team have appeared before a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An estimated $1.04 billion Powerball jackpot will be up for grabs Monday night, tempting players to spend a couple dollars…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety investigators have expanded a probe into Ford Motor Co. engine failures to include nearly 709,000 vehicles. The…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A documentary chronicling Beyoncé‘s just-concluded 39-city Renaissance World Tour will premiere in…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s top military officials say the army has reduced its troop presence near the…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and…

PORTLAND Police say a car crashed through a fence at Maine’s busiest airport and caused a disruption while officials did a security sweep. No…

BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria (AP) — Work has started on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station. The…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A new museum exhibition in Paris focuses on the last months of Dutch master Vincent van Gogh before…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says there is sufficient rice in the market despite recent panic-buying of locally produced…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For a while, Sam Bankman-Fried tried to convince politicians and the public that he was the next…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The new head of the U.N.’s migration agency says the private sector is “desperate” for their…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Assisted living. Nursing home. Skilled nursing. There are lots of names for facilities that provide care to those who can…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Koinu, traveling westward from the Pacific, is strengthening as it moves toward Taiwan. Meteorologists on the island…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A political group linked to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is launching an ad campaign backing the…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Christian religious leaders in Iraq are calling for an international…

By ALFIAN KARTONO Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Police and rebels say that five Papuan independence fighters were killed in a clash…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year Monday in an effort to inoculate 44 million children…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press The last bus carrying ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh has left the region, completing a weeklong grueling…

MADRID (AP) — King Felipe VI has begun a new round of talks with Spanish political party leaders with a view to choosing the person in the best…

By MUHAMMAD HATTA and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press PALEMBANG, Indonesia (AP) — More than 300 forest and peatland fires on Indonesia’s Sumatra…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish government official says five people who were missing and feared dead in a nightclub fire in the city of Murcia have been…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese entertainment company that has acknowledged its founder sexually assaulted hundreds of…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption group says Cyprus needs to hold those at the highest echelons of executive power…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Some of Europe’s top diplomats gathered Monday in Kyiv in a display of support for…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief is announcing a hike in the national minimum wage. Jeremy…

By DAVID KEYTON and MIKE CORDER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Six days of Nobel Prize announcements are beginning with the unveiling of the…

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasts say Tropical Storm Philippe is threatening to unleash heavy rains and flash floods in the Leeward Islands. The U.S. National…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Emirati president-designate of the upcoming United Nations COP28…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Five conservative cardinals are challenging Pope Francis to affirm Catholic teaching on…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Early voting has begun in New Zealand for the nation’s Oct. 14 general election,…

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has inaugurated Southeast Asia’s…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Late-night talk shows are returning after a five-month absence brought on by the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher in thin trading Monday with many markets closed for…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say a huge fire has broken out in a police headquarters in northeastern Egypt,…

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press SAN MIGUEL DE LOS JAGÜEYEZ, Mexico (AP) — In the middle of a military base outside Mexico City, an army…

By COLLIN BINKLEY, JOCELYN GECKER and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New polling finds that America’s college campuses are seen…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A few years ago, Pope Francis told the head of the main Vatican-backed…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s name isn’t on the ballot in 2023.…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The justices are taking the bench at the Supreme Court for the first time since late June. Their…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — Former elite fencer Kirsten Hawkes feels let down by the U.S. Center for SafeSport after filing a…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s harshest critics plans to make good on his threat…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — Former elite fencer Kirsten Hawkes feels let down by the U.S. Center for SafeSport after filing a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will name Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With control over some of his most prized real estate holdings in jeopardy, former President…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Business sentiment among big Japanese manufacturers improved in July-September for the second…

By VICTORIA MILKO and DITA ALANGKARA Associated Press SOROWAKO, Indonesia (AP) — Demand for critical minerals like nickel and cobalt is surging as…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland says in an interview that he would resign if asked by President…

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Taylor Swift couldn’t just shake off another chance to watch Travis…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — David Beckham delves back into the hateful treatment he received following his infamous 1998 World…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a venture capital firm’s grant program for…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico say the roof of a church has collapsed in northern Mexico during a Mass, and rescue teams are searching…

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the hospital two days after undergoing successful…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Philippe will begin threatening to unleash heavy rains and flash flooding in the Leeward Islands in the coming hours.…

PHOENIX (AP) — After a summer of extreme heat, Arizona’s most populous city is in the record books again. This time Phoenix has notched a record…

HONOLULU (AP) — A woman who escaped a wildfire that destroyed Hawaii community by running through a burning field has died after more than seven…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after…

MOREAU, N.Y. (AP) — Police were searching for a missing 9-year-old girl who had been camping with her family in upstate New York. Charlotte Sena…

GLENNVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia prison guard is dead after he was attacked by an inmate. The Georgia Department of Corrections…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Chiapas (AP) — At least 10 migrants have died and about 15 other people have been injured when a…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A sheriff’s office in northeast Florida says it is investigating a traffic stop captured on video by a bystander…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press New regulations in Nebraska require trans youth seeking gender-affirming care to wait seven days to start puberty…

NEW YORK (AP) — Buck Showalter says he will not return for a third season as New York Mets manager after a disappointing season in which…

BUFORD, Ga. (AP) — Police say a man using Airbnb to rent a room robbed a Georgia homeowner at gunpoint. The homeowner in the Atlanta suburb of…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Georgia’s hold on No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll loosened as the Bulldogs…

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas sheriff says two people were killed and two more hospitalized with gunshot wounds in a shooting that…

After several quiet weeks in movie theaters, four films entered wide release over the weekend. “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” came out the top…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album by Drake and another by Reba McEntire playing acoustic covers, the…