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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian court on Friday extended by 30 days the house arrest of Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality and…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s electoral watchdog says about 14,000 people were prevented from voting in last month’s local elections because of a new…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The Olympic flame for the 2024 Paris Games will pass through 64 departments and 400 towns over 68…

DETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling nearly 1.2 million vehicles in the U.S. because the rear view camera image may not appear on the dashboard…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An American aircraft carrier is due to make a port call in Vietnam on Sunday. The rare visit by one…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Pro-government Cambodian lawmakers have unanimously approved changes to the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved plans to attract more skilled workers to Europe’s biggest economy and help address labor…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s top prosecuting authority says it has approved the extradition of a Danish national accused of involvement…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The percentage of Black players in Major League Baseball has been on the decline for decades, but…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities in South Africa say at least 31 people are believed to have died in a gas…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Dr. Kylie Cooper chokes up thinking about the patients she left behind in Idaho. One who often comes to mind is…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The governor of Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa has called for more diplomatic efforts…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese city government says an explosion at a steel mill has killed four people and left five hospitalized with injuries. The…

By The Associated Press For months, the outspoken millionaire head of the Wagner private mercenary force bombarded Russia’s military leaders with…

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament has approved the construction of a memorial in Berlin to the Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted under the Nazis.…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Cindy has formed behind Tropical Storm Bret. Forecasters say…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Another drop for stocks helped drag Wall Street to its first losing week in the last six. The…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Four Thai nationals have been charged with human trafficking in a Malaysian court over the 2015 discovery of mass…

BERLIN (AP) — Storms and heavy rain across a large swath of Germany have flooded roads and forced the closure of some major railway routes, but…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — When Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal first talked about his dream of building Germany’s biggest…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeks heading to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with…

By HAVEN DALEY Associated Press LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — At Tyler Malek’s ice cream parlors, one cook’s trash is another chef’s…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says it will take legal action against Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, for…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia is hosting its biggest Hajj pilgrimage in three years, starting Monday. But for many…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Interstate 95 reopened Friday less than two weeks after a…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Twitter needs to do more work to fall in line with the European Union’s tough new digital rulebook, a top EU…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as…

By WILL WEISSERT and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence used a Friday gathering of some of the…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists, ranchers and others have fought for years against lithium mining ventures in…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The fatal implosion of the Titan submersible has drawn attention to the murkily regulated waters…

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is warning that Republicans seeking a nationwide ban on…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A gang rampaged through the Cite Soleil slum, killing and raping and setting fire to…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A suspected Russian diplomat is apparently squatting on the site of Moscow’s…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims streamed into the holy city of Mecca on Friday ahead of the start of…

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the straw purchase of a gun used to fatally shoot one central…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed a bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who allege that the…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers have launched into an emotional debate over expanding abortion access, delivering impassioned appeals. The…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three top reproductive rights groups are endorsing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Chemical manufacturer 3M Co. will pay at least $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer A person with knowledge of the sale tells The Associated Press the Qatar Investment Authority is buying a roughly…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Wembanyama was the presumed No. 1 pick for months, the rare certainty in an NBA draft…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Somalia’s “dire hunger emergency” is spiraling upward with one-third of the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva offered Thursday to help try to gain the release of a Roman Catholic bishop…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s public pension fund says the personal data of more…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Police say two people were found dead following a shooting outside a McDonald’s restaurant in the Florida Panhandle.…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A jury has acquitted the longtime spokesman for a northern Virginia school system of…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer The weapons supervisor charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a cinematographer on…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s traffic safety agency says it will require that heavy trucks and buses…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators have rolled out adjustments to the state’s new…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a Florida prosecutor who was removed by Gov. Ron DeSantis after making…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office has asked the FBI to investigate an…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman imprisoned for more than four decades for a murder she says she didn’t commit will get a court…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The two leading GOP presidential contenders had very different interview experiences with Fox News…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the state has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the U.S.…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nearly three months after a shooter killed six people at her daughter’s school…

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Buffalo Bills trainers say they stuck to their pre-planned treatment when Damar Hamlin…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — History, fashion, and star power came together at Givenchy’s latest menswear show at Les…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court has overturned yet another set of electoral law changes favored by President Andrés Manuel López…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A renowned Titanic expert, a world record-holding adventurer, two members of one of Pakistan’s…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Congressional report published Thursday offered a blistering critique of popular Chinese…