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By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Doctors in Israel have held a two-hour strike to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s…

By ALI JABAR, ABBY SEWELL and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Protesters angered by an Iraqi man in Sweden who threatened to burn a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man has been convicted of blowing up his ex-girlfriend’s spa business with a package bomb in 2018,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is warning that the Russian military is preparing for possible attacks on civilian shipping vessels in the Black…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Gymnasts from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to take part in sanctioned competitions as “individual neutral…

DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man charged with killing two teenage girls will remain in prison after a judge concluded he’s being treated better…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The State Department says it’s imposing sanctions on two former Salvadoran presidents and dozens of other officials and…

By The Associated Press The intense heat hitting much of the globe this summer can be deadly for the elderly, putting a premium on volunteers who…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with top officials after the longshore union renewed a 72-hour strike…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix enjoyed its biggest springtime spurt in subscribers since the early days of…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Police are casting doubt on a 25-year-old Alabama woman’s claim that she was kidnapped from the side of an…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Country music star Jason Aldean ‘s latest music video for “Try That In A Small Town,” lasted just one…

By ANDREW SELSKY and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The announcement that authorities are holding a person of interest in the…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a shooting at a South Florida Walmart killed one person and wounded another.…

By SCOTT BAUER and MELISSA WINDER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Family members of the U.S. Army private who sprinted across the border into…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nearly a dozen wild horses have died in the first 10 days of a big mustang roundup in Nevada,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge this week appointed an outside expert to help Oregon end its practice of housing kids in foster care in…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press Authorities in North Dakota say a man armed with 1,800 rounds of ammunition and explosives…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — The ever-changing nature of links golf has come to Royal Liverpool for the British Open. A…

NEW YORK (AP) — Marijuana can legally be sold at festivals and other events in New York under a measure approved by state regulators. The…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has announced that it would be allowing all American citizens, including dual-nationality Palestinians from the West Bank…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The former weapons supervisor on the set of the movie “Rust” won’t have to take a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing an order to draw new congressional district lines, Alabama Republicans have…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The president of Stanford University said Wednesday he would resign, citing an independent…

By BEN FINLEY and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A tornado has heavily damaged a major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog sought to reassure Congress on Wednesday about the state of…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is announcing a new $1.3 billion package of long-term military aid to Ukraine…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s bid to move his hush-money…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hush-money payments. Classified records. And now, his efforts to…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin says they’ll ask the…

By KATHY McCORMACK and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu announced Wednesday that he will not…

IRMO, S.C. (AP) — Author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat silently through a school board meeting in South Carolina to support a high school teacher told to…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland official on a powerful state board says there’s “too much foot-dragging”…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Whether Missouri voters get a chance to weigh in on legalizing abortion is now up…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — American model Gigi Hadid and a friend went ahead with a vacation in the Cayman Islands after local authorities…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine will soon expand abortion access, joining a half dozen states that leave it to doctors…

LONDON (AP) — Computer chip and software maker Broadcom’s $69 billion plan to buy cloud technology company VMware has cleared another hurdle…

By SAMY MAGDY CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s state-run media are saying that President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has pardoned a group of prisoners,…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The head of Cyprus’ veterinarians’ association has dismissed as groundless claims that a lethal mutation of the COVID-19…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A 51-year-old Connecticut man who was exonerated after serving 28 years in prison for the fatal shooting of a baby in 1994…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and U.S.-led United Nations Command say they are working to resolve the…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by saying that a…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The In-N-Out burger chain will bar employees in five states from wearing masks unless…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — An independent candidate for a U.K. Parliament has turned to artificial intelligence to come up…

The deadline for Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard has been extended to as the companies seek to close…

MOSCOW (AP) — The upper house of Russia’s parliament has unanimously approved a bill outlawing gender-affirming procedures and sent the measure…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It was more than a coincidence that three of Kevin Spacey ‘s four accusers described similar…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Republican Daniel Cameron has selected state legislator Robby Mills as his…

Associated Press AGRA, India (AP) — Rising water from the Yamuna river has reached the outer boundary walls of the iconic Taj Mahal and submerged…

In a story published July 19, 2023, about a protest against beauty salon closures in Afghanistan, The Associated Press used the word “taser” to…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s vice president says his country is willing to work with Washington on reducing global warming as long as its political…

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis also has a busy career as a children’s author. Her next work is called “Just One More Sleep”…

By TAMMY WEBBER and NOAH BERGER Associated Press EAST PRAIRIE METIS SETTLEMENT, Alberta (AP) — Carrol Johnston counted her blessings as she stood…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sarah Leslie thought she was witnessing a stunt when she saw an American soldier…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Blue-roofed huts, a raised slab of concrete and some raked gravel are all that separate the rival…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Venezuela’s former spy chief, retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal, is being extradited from Spain to…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Soccer Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Football Ferns are aiming to win fans as well as matches at the…

By JACKIE VELING of NerdWallet Summer is the most expensive time of year to move. Though costs are down this year compared to previous summers,…