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By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A senior Japanese politician is advocating for increasing his country’s deterrence ability…

By BECKY BOHRER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The gray, two-story home with white trim toppled and slid, crashing into…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly fell Wednesday after worries about the U.S. banking system set off a decline…

By JOHN HANNA and SAM METZ Associated Press OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — State courts have become hot spots in the national abortion debate, with…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Colombian man once seen as one of the world’s most dangerous drug lords has been sentenced…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann has defeated state Sen. Chris…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s exports plunged by 14.5% in July compared with a year earlier, adding to pressure…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge sentenced rapper Tory Lanez to 10 years in prison Tuesday for shooting and…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press Even in Antarctica — one of the most remote and desolate places on Earth — scientists say they are finding…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and TERRY TANG Associated Press GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Declaring it good “not only for Arizona but for the…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — Republicans are energizing GOP voters with ongoing U.S. House probes on Hunter…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia could join other states requiring children to have their parents’ explicit permission to…

By MARK LONG, JULIE WALKER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A single ticket sold in Florida is good for a $1.58…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In a scathing ruling last month, a judge said the FBI had used a ”villain” of an informant…

By BELA SZANDELSZKY Associated Press TISZAROFF, Hungary (AP) — Thousands of muddy plastic bottles, chunks of Styrofoam and other waterlogged pieces…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Police have charged 19 men in Australia with child sex abuse offenses and rescued 13 children from further harm…

By DAVID BILLER and FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The diminutive woman with a white feather headdress stood on the stage…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Carrying huge backpacks and water bottles, tens of thousands of Scouts began arriving…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles indicated that broadcaster Kevin Brown would be back on the air soon after reports that his recent absence…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. independent investigator on human rights says Eritrean refugees and…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government says it will partner with U.S. investment giant BlackRock…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce a new national monument to preserve land around Grand Canyon…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Following his debut solo tour earlier this year, Suga, the K-pop superstar…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has detected unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen at underground launch control…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Nearly all of the teenagers aboard an Idaho YMCA camp bus that rolled on a winding highway late last week have been released to…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge has dismissed a murder charge against a babysitter who served 15 years in prison over the death of a toddler who…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has put on hold a rule from President Joe Biden’s administration that…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro took office laying out ambitious goals for the…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A dermatologist who was ambassador to Iceland during Donald Trump’s administration is running for U.S. Senate in Nevada. Dr.…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Donald Trump’s legal team told a judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against him on Monday that…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City doctor was indicted Monday on charges that he sexually abused several women who…

By JENNA FRYER AP National Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — History will be made Tuesday in at least one of the Women’s World Cup knockout…

By ASHRAF KHALIL and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At least two people died, thousands of U.S. flights were canceled or…

NEW YORK (AP) — Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines have lined up on a bitterly cold winter morning as part of an annual…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys seeking reparations for three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A man in southwest Florida has been charged with flooding a hospital’s emergency rooms after attacking a nurse and stripping…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit woman who was arrested in connection with a suspected robbery and carjacking…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus has begun military exercises near its border with Poland and Lithuania. The drills Monday come with tensions…

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Liberty University says a freshman football player has died. The school identified the player as Tajh Boyd, a 19-year-old…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Raging waters that ate away at riverbanks, destroyed at least two buildings and damaged…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges have thrown out a decision by a United Nations court to set up a…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There is no mystery why the Mega Millions jackpot has grown to $1.55 billion, making…

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A boater who had been missing for more than a day and a half was rescued off the Florida coast in a half-submerged boat,…

GLEN COE, Scotland (AP) — Police say the bodies of three missing hikers have been recovered from a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. A search for…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A lawyer for Pakistan’s Imran Khan has met with him at a prison where the former prime minister…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Several thousand people — their faces covered to conceal their identities —…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Friedkin, the Oscar winning director of two gripping film classics, “The French…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois will soon outlaw advertising for firearms that officials determine…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — The European Union and NATO began sending urgent aid to Slovenia after severe flooding over the weekend affecting…

By CARA ANNA and CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nearly two weeks have passed since the coup in Niger, and the two men making…

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — A worker was injured early Monday when an explosion set a paint manufacturing plant in the Dallas suburbs ablaze and shot a…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press TUSAYAN, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden set out Monday on a Western swing aimed at showcasing his work on…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Supporters of a former historical marker dedicated to a feminist and labor activist from…

UNION, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, nearly four decades after a woman was strangled with her body dumped in…

By The Associated Press A Russian court has handed a writer an eight year prison sentence, finding him guilty of deliberately spreading false…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CBS’ latest game show, “Superfan,” premiering Wednesday, gathers one musical act…