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GENEVA (AP) — United Nations human rights experts are criticizing Venezuela’s government for stepping up efforts to curtail democratic freedoms.…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Doris Kearns Goodwin’s next book is a work of history that’s also close to home. The…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s state-owned health service is operating on holiday-level staffing in England as doctors in…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Canada-India relations have sunk to their lowest point in years as the two…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Wednesday advised its citizens to be careful when traveling to Canada as a rift between…

By JACKIE VELING of NerdWallet After a more than three-year pause, payments on federal student loans resume in October, but some student loan…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine’s international allies are making legal arguments in support of Kyiv’s…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish appeals court has upheld a 4 1/2-year prison sentence for a Turkish man who was found guilty of attempted extortion,…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Book bans and attempted bans continue to hit record highs, according to the American Library…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has signed a deal with South Africa’s…

By DAVID BILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden will meet his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday is set to come…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Billie Jean King’s victory in the “Battle of the Sexes” was a milestone moment as women…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to water down some of Britain’s climate commitments,…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Explosions rocked parts of Nagorno-Karabakh early Wednesday, a day after Azerbaijani…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A rescue operation is underway for dozens of migrants on board a yacht reported to be in difficulty off the southwestern…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Most of Spain’s World Cup-winning players have ended their boycott of the women’s national team…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says it has documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Leading Chinese planners have voiced confidence in the outlook for the world’s second-largest economy,…

LONDON (AP) — Inflation in Britain fell unexpectedly in August to its lowest level since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which led to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, TRISHA THOMAS and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Ten years after Pope Francis made a landmark visit to the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares declined Wednesday as markets awaited a decision on interest rates by the Federal…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — King Charles III of the United Kingdom starts a three-day state visit to France meant to highlight…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Trial is expected to open soon against two police officers charged in the 2019 death of…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Palestinian health officials say the death toll over a day of fighting between Israel…

BEIJING (AP) — A tornado has killed five people and seriously injured four others in eastern China. State broadcaster CCTV said the tornado hit…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — Five puppies learning to be assistance dogs had a howling good time Tuesday during a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Marc Tyler Nobleman was supposed to talk to kids about the secret co-creator of Batman, with the aim of…

By MORGAN LEE and TERRY TANG Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Governors from the Southwestern United States are pursuing stronger business…

By SAMY MAGDY and YOUSEF MURAD Associated Press DERNA, Libya (AP) — Thousands of Libyans have lost family members, friends and neighbors in the…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says that his country will never give up its right…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for three Georgia Republicans, who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won the state and…

By SARAH RANKIN and SARA BURNETT Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One of the biggest fights over abortion rights this year is in Virginia,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Crown Prince Akishino, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, is on his way to Vietnam…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to have his long-coveted meeting with…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — After she learned what happened, Helmut Kramer’s mother cut the priest out of…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As more than 100,000 migrants arrived in New York City over the past year after crossing…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Soon after she learned what happened, Helmut Kramer’s mother grabbed a pair…

By TARA COPP Associated Press KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. will spend more than $750 billion over the next decade to…

By TARA COPP Associated Press KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. (AP) — In an ultra-sterile room at a secure factory in Kansas City, U.S.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported that its exports fell 0.8% in August from a year earlier, with steep declines…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A growing number of Americans are finding it difficult to afford insurance on their homes, a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is set to leave its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday as it…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Clinton Global Initiative added gender equity as a pillar of the nonprofit’s work to sound…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed to lead the effort to put the struggling global nuclear disarmament back on…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court says it responded urgently to “anomalous activity affecting its information…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia has praised the “positive results” of talks with Yemen’s…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and philanthropist Michael J. Fox won this year’s Elevate Prize Catalyst Award, which…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 200 people rallied outside San Francisco’s City Hall to urge supervisors to act…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has trumpeted the success of his gang crackdown during his speech at the United Nations…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s Day 2 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — More Virginia Democrats are beginning to cast the controversy surrounding a legislative…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Britain’s Prince William and wealthy entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Michael…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top insurance regulator is ordering health insurance companies to expand timely access to behavioral…

By KEN RITTER and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police on Tuesday announced a second teenager has been arrested in a series…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in Manhattan seems unreceptive to arguments that FTX founder Sam…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An egg farmer seeking the Republican nomination for Indiana’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2024 has filed a lawsuit challenging…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers and union leaders are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bijou Phillips has filed for divorce from Danny Masterson, days after the former…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Republican effort to shift control of the North Carolina State…

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a man following an incident in the stands at a New England Patriots home game. Police…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro has delivered an ominous prophecy with grandiose language.…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s main opposition candidates in this year’s presidential election appealed a…

LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Hunter Biden will plead not guilty to federal firearms charges filed after the collapse of a plea deal in a…

By MANUEL RUEDA BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government and one of the nation’s last remaining rebel groups have announced that they…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police body camera video shows an Alabama high school band director being shocked with a stun gun and arrested by officers…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican railway operator has announced it is suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many…

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani had elbow surgery Tuesday, and his doctor said…

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — Attorneys for a University of North Carolina graduate student say he is not competent to stand trial in the killing of…

By JAMES POLLARD and TARA COPP North Charleston, S.C. (AP) — The pilot of a $100 million stealth fighter jet parachuted safely into the backyard of…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Deion Sanders stood up for Henry Blackburn on Tuesday after the Colorado State safety received…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Democrats have taken their legal fight to the state’s highest court in…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Adnan Syed is talking about his protracted legal case, a year after he was released from…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is asking the Biden administration for permission to test questions about sexual…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Organizations representing minority journalists say they’re worried that a recently-announced…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press West Point has been sued in federal court for using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group…