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BEIJING (AP) — China’s ceremonial legislation has endorsed the promotion of Pan Gongsheng to serve as central bank governor. The widely…

By ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet The total cost of being a Taylor Swift fan can be steep — there’s not just the ticket price, but also the cost of…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s house speaker says that a vote expected in Parliament later this week to select a new prime minister will be postponed,…

PARIS (AP) — The torch that will be used to carry the Olympic flame around France and on its final leg at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris…

By SAMY MAGDY The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says a salvage team has begun siphoning oil out…

MADRID (AP) — Chances to form a government have dwindled for Spain’s conservative Popular Party after its election win after two small regional…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russia and China are sending government delegations to North Korea this week for…

RHODES, Greece (AP) — A third successive heat wave in Greece pushed temperatures back above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban has announced that all beauty salons in Afghanistan must now close as a one-month…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden attended a flag-raising ceremony at UNESCO in Paris on Tuesday, marking…

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog says its monitors at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian media say a jury has found six people guilty of terrorist murder for extremist attacks in 2016 that killed 32 people,…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union will look at helping fund the costly transportation of grain out…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court has overturned the impeachment of the public…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Houston woman known online as the “Sassy Trucker” has been stuck in Dubai…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BURG, Germany (AP) — Two teachers in eastern Germany tried to counter the far-right activities of students…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets retreated Wednesday after Wall Street hit a 15-month high ahead of a Federal…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and LORI HINNANT Associated Press ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — Tetiana Khlapova’s hand trembled as she recorded the wreckage of…

By LUKE VARGAS Associated Press HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) — When New Zealand kicked off the Women’s World Cup opener against Norway last week,…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Voters in Maine will likely be the ones to decide whether to restore long removed…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Friends and family are remembering the three passengers and pilot killed when a…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe this month, a new…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine is poised to launch an offshore wind program that would meet clean energy goals and…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — For the mayor of Paris, the city’s journey to next year’s Olympic Games included an…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police said they arrested a woman and her parents in a beheading case in a popular night…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press For years, beavers have been treated as an annoyance for chewing down trees and shrubs and blocking up streams, leading…

By MIKE CATALINI and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press Pamela White stared at the silver tree with twinkling lights while she cleaned out her son’s…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful typhoon is blowing closer to the northern Philippines, forcing thousands of evacuations and a halt to sea…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In Tennessee, a request for police to release a school shooter’s private writings has…

BEIJING (AP) — Prosecutors in northeastern China are pursuing criminal charges against construction managers blamed for the collapse of the roof of…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service said Monday it is ending its decades-old policy of making…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The lawyer for a Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked police car that…

PARIS (AP) — The world’s biggest luxury group, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has announced a sponsorship deal with the 2024 Paris Olympics…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says its own prescribed burn started a 2022 wildfire that nearly…

By DANIEL POLITI and CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Argentine government and members of the Bolivian opposition…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy “The Devil’s…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The lead prosecutor in the case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter says he is willing…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former dean at the University of Southern California will spend 1 1/2 years in home confinement for bribing a Los Angeles…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Gunfire erupted in a maternity unit of an Oregon hospital over the weekend, fatally wounding…

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama said Monday that a woman has confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida couple is pleading guilty to participating in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Court records show…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan’s president has condemned antisemitic vandalism at two off-campus fraternity houses. President…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize-winning Santa Barbara News-Press, one of California’s oldest…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States says it has joined major donors in demanding that the United Nations…

EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama’s personal chef has drowned near the family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard.…

DENVER (AP) — The NFL indefinitely suspended Denver Broncos defensive end Eyioma Uwazurike on Monday for betting on league games during the 2022…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge says he plans to sentence a former gynecologist who sexually abused dozens of…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Biden administration is sending up to $400 million in…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A jury on Monday began deliberating the sentence for a 19-year-old who was found guilty of attempted capital murder in a…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a third man has been arrested on federal charges related to the firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the massive movie weekend of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” there were many winners. Greta…

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A 75-year-old Mississippi woman has been arrested and charged with murder in her husband’s 2018 death. Police were…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday ordered an independent investigation into the state police after an audit last month…

By PAUL J. WEBER and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Police say a minivan has crashed into a building in Wisconsin, reducing its brick facade to a pile of bricks and leaving…

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a Kentucky-based indoor farming company that was backed by Martha Stewart when it began shipping tomatoes in…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Hundreds of Guatemalans are protesting the interference by courts and prosecutors in August’s second-round presidential…