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By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court’s ruling last month about the admissions policy at an elite…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A California law approved by voters that promises to get breeding pigs out of narrow…

By ALI JABAR and NABIL AL-JURANI Associated Press BASRA, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of followers of the Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Ohio lobbyist Matt Borges has been sentenced to five years in prison and three years of…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has delivered a setback to Native American tribes in Maine…

By EDUARDO VERDUGO Associated Press LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — Family and acquaintances of anti-gang community defense activist Hipólito Mora are…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Melanie Hamrick recently had to wrest a copy of her steamy new novel out of the hands of the…

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Authorities in Moldova say a Tajikistan national who was denied entry into the country at its main international airport…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A panel of judges has voted to render far-right former Brazilian President…

By CORA LEWIS, ADRIANA MORGA and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 43 million borrowers who could have seen their…

By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that the state’s abortion ban…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Known as a rapper, super producer and music mogul, Jermaine Dupri is astonished that…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian journalist has been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of aiding extremist activities as…

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake has shaken parts of Indonesia’s main island of Java, causing panic as it killed at least one…

By TOM DAVIES and KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Smoky haze, hot weather and powerful storms brought dangerous and…

By BOB THOMAS AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alan Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Friday effectively killed President Joe Biden’s $400…

By SAM METZ Associated Press LOGAN, Utah (AP) — High up in the mountains, amid pinyon pine and quaking aspen trees, the remaining remnants of the…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of air travelers are facing potential flight cancellations and delays this weekend, the…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for parents of four transgender children in Georgia say they filed a lawsuit challenging a…

By The Associated Press The key players in last weekend’s armed rebellion by Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin: YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood actors may be days from joining screenwriters in what would be the first…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Democratic senators is asking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to take action…

BERLIN (AP) — Leaders of Germany’s main opposition bloc are calling for voters turned off by the government to back them in two major state…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been cleared of wrongdoing by a public…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation index that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve tumbled last month…

By COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — More than 150 executives are urging the European Union to rethink the world’s most…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal court has ruled that a speeding ticket issued by Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a Native…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The anti-discrimination “One Love” captain’s armband denied to teams at the men’s World Cup…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British environment minister who is close to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit and…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s long-serving, tough-talking leader, Hun Sen, says he is…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish police official says a 7-year-old child who fell overboard from a passenger ferry in the Baltic Sea and the…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey got a thrill preying on other men and escalated his behavior from…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams will begin her 24th appearance in the…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier and his son have been detained as part of an investigation into…

BERLIN (AP) — One of the world’s oldest newspapers, the Vienna-based Wiener Zeitung, is ending its daily print run after more than three…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and GHAITH AL-SAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — In her small apartment in opposition-held Idlib in northwest Syria, Umm…

Associated Press Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says she felt abandoned by Bud Light after facing “more bullying and transphobia than I…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States has flown nuclear-capable bombers to the Korean Peninsula in its…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s top court has ruled that the son of a Russian businessman close to President Vladimir Putin violated a law by…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in Europe slid again in June but fell too slowly to offer much relief to…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Colleges across the country will be forced to stop considering race in admissions under Thursday’s Supreme…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says companies that produce machines that make advanced…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Patients who take the autoimmune disease treatment Humira may see some price relief when several lower-cost,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Newly formed Hurricane Beatriz is sweeping along Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast, threatening heavy rain for several…

By ZARAR KHAN Associated PRess ISLAMABAD (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide $3 billion to Pakistan — a badly needed…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gabriel Trujillo’s family says he was killed in Mexico during a…

By RIAZAT BUTT and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Billboards line the Umm Al Qura highway leading to the Grand Mosque in…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers and Gov. Bill Lee have approved hundreds of…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press SHELBURNE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont museum has acquired a more than 200-piece collection of Native American art. It is…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through higher education with a landmark decision…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. children’s agency says close to half of Haiti’s people need…

By ALI SWENSON and JILL COLVIN Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The two leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination have…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Heat waves like the one that engulfed parts of parts of the South and Midwest and killed more than a…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (AP) — In the United States, many people view bigger as better. But some residents of a tiny…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (AP) — Lobster boat engines rumble to life in quiet coves. Lumberjacks trudge deep into the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Officials and residents of several New Jersey shore towns say the state’s law…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — In Japan, a nation reputed for loyalty to companies and lifetime employment, people who job-hop are…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international…

By SYLVIE CORBET, JOHN LEICESTER and LEWIS JOLY Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Young rioters clashed with police and looted stores…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials say a key dam in Puerto Rico that was severely damaged by Hurricane Maria will be rebuilt and improved. The…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s health authorities have belatedly released a report showing a significant spike in heat-related fatalities in the…