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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after leaders of major central banks said they need to…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Jurors who will decide the fate of actor Kevin Spacey were sworn in Wednesday in a London court as…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has acquitted a student activist and four other people of impeding the…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused and imprisoned for the rape of a…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has announced a new campaign proposal on United States…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a controversial legal theory that could have changed the way…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to…

By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Armed men have abducted 14 state police officers in southern Mexico. The kidnapping on…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has discussed his country’s interest in boosting economic ties with China during a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Two sisters have told an Australian court that being sexually abused by their Jewish…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Vietjet plane carrying 214 people has made an unscheduled but safe landing in the northern Philippines after…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine House has voted again to allow later abortions in some circumstances, putting the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump’s legal team sought to overturn 2020…

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The NFL RedZone channel will be available to DirecTV customers for the first time as part of a multiyear renewal of its…

MILAN (AP) — A still-life fresco recently discovered in the Pompeii archaeological site features a flatbread with colorful toppings that looks like…

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, who also played for New England, Houston and Baltimore during five seasons in the…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A California man is going to prison for running a cow dung-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Is there really a new way to look at The Beatles, one of the most filmed and photographed bands in…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led an armed rebellion against the Russian military…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A labor group has requested an ethics investigation of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press Louisiana’s Supreme Court has sidestepped a ruling on the constitutionality of legislation that gave adult…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The hush money case against former President Donald Trump appears headed…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday agreed to delay Joran Van der Sloot’s extortion trial until the fall to give him more time to prepare…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii have arrested a man and woman they say supplied the fentanyl in a…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana woman who watched the man who coerced her into a sex act when she was 16 walk free…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Bernardo Arévalo, the surprise of the first round of voting in…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico says it has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Energy…

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Satellite-radio provider SiriusXM said it will shut down its Stitcher podcast app at the end of August in…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer James Gunn has found his new Superman and Lois Lane in David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan. The DC Studios co-chair,…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says the surging violence in Sudan is likely to drive over 1 million refugees out…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Former U.S. Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy says he will seek the 2024 Republican nomination to…

By SALAR SALIM and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — More than 50 members of the local parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region in…

By MELINA WALLING, MELISSA WINDER and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is…

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says in a $1 million lawsuit that a cleaner who switched off power to a lab freezer containing…

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — Police in Muskogee, Oklahoma, confirmed Tuesday they are investigating the shooting deaths of three relatives of seven-time…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Julian Sands, who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis is loaning eight prosecutors to the St. Louis Circuit…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Biden administration has dropped investigations into whether Louisiana officials put Black residents living…

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian officials say rainfall likely won’t be enough to extinguish the wildfires ravaging northern Quebec, but the wet weather…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The family of two Pakistani men who died in the implosion of a submersible as it descended to the…

PARIS (AP) — A 17-year-old delivery driver was shot and killed by a police officer Tuesday in a Paris suburb, according to his family’s lawyers.…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco could become the first city in the country to require every pharmacy…

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office says French emergency workers found a body in the rubble of a building that collapsed in an…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ peace envoy has arrived in Moscow. The Vatican says the visit aims to help find a…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature has swept six vetoed bills into law.…

By ARTHUR BRICE and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press TERRA CEIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Department of Health has issued a statewide…

DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Officials says a Florida man who shot a rifle at his pool cleaner after mistaking the man for an intruder will not face…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer U.S. health officials say the death toll from outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to surgical procedures in a…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled to make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent…

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA, CHINEDU ASADU and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press BIRAO, Central African Republic (AP) — The Russian mercenary group that…

By RICHARD LARDNER and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An unrelenting heat wave in Texas is testing the state’s power grid as demand soars…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The category? “Proper Name.” The answer? Ryan Seacrest, who will become the new “Wheel of Fortune” host after Pat…

By KEMO CHAM Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s election commission says President Julius Maada Bio has won a…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is criticizing former President Donald Trump for…

By MATTHEW BROWN, TERRY CHEA, CALEB DIEHL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer For the thousands of workers who’d never experienced upheaval in the tech sector, the recent mass layoffs…

By MATTHEW BROWN, TERRY CHEA, CALEB DIEHL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago mother who was accused of telling her teen son to shoot a man at a fast food restaurant is suing the city and arresting…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The TKTS booth in Times Square, which has become part of the city’s visual and financial…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is escalating his attack on President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle policy.…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Scientists have created embryo models to help study the mysteries of early human development, the medical problems…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are investigating a video showing a man in neo-Nazi clothing handing balloons to kindergartners a day after the…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have reached an agreement on how…