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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…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A former Catholic priest with a lengthy career at parishes across New Mexico has been arrested on criminal charges of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor, two symbols of World War II animosity between Japan and the United…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a man arrested earlier this month in California has been returned to Florida to face charges in the 1984 killing…

ROME (AP) — Italian police on Thursday said they believe the man filmed while engraving his name and that of his apparent girlfriend last week on…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man armed with explosive materials and weapons, and wanted for crimes related to the Jan. 6,…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It was a report two years in the making — one that details how…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas high school student has been sentenced to 16-plus years in Nevada state prison for attacking a female teacher…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that requires people…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The leader of an armed civilian movement that once drove a drug cartel…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press The Canadian wildfires that have shrouded much of the nation in smoky haze are making it much harder for American…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Body cameras have proliferated in law enforcement agencies in the U.S. over the past…

By JUAN LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas grand jury declined to indict rap superstar Travis Scott in a criminal investigation of a…

By RIO YAMAT The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Scorching heat across the U.S. already has caused more than a dozen deaths in Texas alone and…

BY DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff has been indicted on federal public corruption charges for…

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police have identified a young girl whose remains were found in a construction-site dumpster in Toronto more than a year…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge has ordered the Missouri attorney general’s office to pay $242,000 in legal fees for violations of the…

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts delivered Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s claims that absolute presidential immunity and free speech…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators have approved a gene therapy for the most common form of hemophilia.…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors say a man accused in a deadly movie theater shooting in New Mexico’s largest city is a danger to the…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked again, increasing by 9% since last…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Thousands of people have gathered outside the cathedral in North…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — While three Muslim council members were away to observe the Eid al-Adha holiday, the Minneapolis City Council narrowly voted to…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the 12-year conflict in Syria has pushed 90%…

By The Associated Press Federal health officials have notified Congress of a data breach that could involve the information of more than 100,000…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer The Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Murphy vs. NCAA ushered in a new era of legalized sports betting in the U.S.,…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Real Madrid’s Luka Modric and former Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren have been charged in Croatia with allegedly giving…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Google says it will remove links to Canadian news on its platforms across Canada after a new law that forces digital giants…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press The fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old outside Paris this week has set off widespread disorder in French…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — From a block party in New York City to a movie screening outside of Denver, groups across the U.S.…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor says the state will keep allowing residents to change official…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for…

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO members have reached a tentative agreement to ask Secretary-General Jens…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Thursday with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and prominent European…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Mossad spy service says its agents inside Iran have seized the head of an Iranian hit squad who planned to kill…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are requesting voluntary testimony from nearly a dozen Justice Department…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has made a surprise visit to Ukraine, meeting with Ukrainian…

ATLANTA (AP) — Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. Her niece, the Rev. Bernice King,…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Frustrated by an “appalling counterproposal” earlier this week, the head of the union representing 340,000 UPS…

MILAN (AP) — Traffickers in a migrant smuggling cell that authorities busted in a cross-national investigation administered sleeping pills to…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MATÍAS DELACROIX Associated Press CHUAO, Venezuela (AP) — Dozens of people hop onto boats every day along Venezuela’s…

By ADRIAN SAINZ, MICHAEL GOLDBERG and JIM SALTER Associated Press As dangerous heat and humidity smothered parts of the South and Midwest on…

By The Associated Press Taika Waititi’s soccer comedy “Next Goal Wins” will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival…

By The Associated Press The president of Turkmenistan inaugurated a vast, multibillion-dollar development hailed as the isolated country’s first…

By MIKE STOBBE and CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writers Americans 60 and older can get a new RSV vaccine but should discuss it with their doctor…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A white Mississippi district attorney whose practice of excluding Black people from…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned a Quran-burning protest in Sweden and signaled that it will be an obstacle to…

NEW YORK (AP) — A fire has broken out in the basement of the flagship Tiffany & Co. store on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Videos posted on the…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are dropping charges against two parents whose convictions in the…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that he “strongly, strongly” disagrees with the Supreme…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has solidified protections for workers who asks for religious…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech brewer Budvar, which has been embroiled in a long legal dispute with U.S. beer giant Anheuser-Busch over the use of the…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A team of Italian researchers reached the edge of space Thursday morning, flying aboard a rocket-powered plane piloted by…

By TARA COPP and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of the Russian group of forces…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog will address a joint meeting of Congress on July 19 to…

BERLIN (AP) — A German rail workers’ union says it’s prepared to take a long-running pay dispute with the main national railway operator to…