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By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have approved a series of proposals aimed at ending the long standoff over…

GANGES, France (AP) — Hundreds of protesters opposed to the law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 have gathered in a small town in southern…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle cannabis into the…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court initially gave itself a deadline of Wednesday to decide…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Goaltenders search for any activity to help them unwind and not constantly dwell on the game. Some…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Daniela Fernandez has no trouble attracting volunteers to her group Sustainable Ocean Alliance.…

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s military has ruled out negotiations with a rival paramilitary…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo of the year on Thursday…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark and the Netherlands plan to provide Ukraine with at least 14 refurbished Leopard 2 battle tanks to be supplied…

HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported lower than expected profits as it warned that the current uncertain…

By LORNE COOK and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has defiantly declared that Ukraine’s…

BERLIN (AP) — A report shows Europeans, particularly in the south of the continent, are being subjected to more heat stress during the summer…

MACEDONIA, Ohio (AP) — Someone in Ohio went to bed $252.6 million richer, before taxes, after hitting the Powerball jackpot. The winning ticket for…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Moon Bin, a singer from South Korean boyband Astro, was found dead at his home in…

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court has dismissed opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea to stay his conviction in a criminal…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian climber who fell into a 980-foot crevasse on Mount Annapurna on Monday has been rescued. An expedition organizer…

By SAM MEDNICK and BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Ayouba Ag Nadroun was at the market in central Mali in March when Islamic…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were weaker in Asia on Friday, tracking a decline on Wall Street following mixed earnings reports from…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian army chief Hun Manet, who is widely expected to replace his father as the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai says Washington is not seeking to decouple the American…

By ALFIAN KARTONO and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian security forces have recovered the bodies of four…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Not long ago, some were predicting more and more films would be diverted from theaters and sent…

BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop says he hopes the dioceses of Hong Kong and Beijing will have more exchanges and cooperation.…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test screened their Nike drama “Air,” the film executives at…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next labor secretary, Julie Su, won praise at her…

By JILL COLVIN and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has emerged largely unscathed politically from…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles cleared the Washington state Legislature on…

By KEN MILLER and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Crews scrambled Thursday to restore power to thousands of residents after tornadoes…

By EDNA TARIGAN and MADDIE BURAKOFF Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Under a cloudless sky, 20,000 eclipse chasers crowded a tiny outpost…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal watchdog is investigating whether the U.S. Drug Enforcement…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Crews pulled a body from the rubble of a New York City parking garage Wednesday, as building…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is drawing stark contrasts between his state and Republican-led…

ELGIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a man shot and wounded two cheerleaders in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one of them said she…

WARROAD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have rescued nine men who entered the United States illegally from Canada and were found in a sub-freezing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says Mexico’s navy has suspended a search for three Americans who went missing along with their sailboat…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Two former New Mexico State basketball players filed a lawsuit alleging they were sexually assaulted by teammates…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A group of conservative Republican lawmakers in Montana deliberately misgendered a…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. businessman and a Belarus national have been arrested in Florida and charged with violating U.S. sanctions in a scheme…

By JAVIER CORDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s president is promising to put more police in the streets and he…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — The father whose 20-year-old daughter was fatally shot after she and her friends got lost…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists in Mexico say they have found 13 buried sets of human remains, eight of which appear to be young men who were…

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A crowd apparently panicked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at…

By The Associated Press In the span of six days, four young people across the U.S. have been shot — one fatally — for making one of the most…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Donald Trump says a judge should tell jurors at a rape trial next week that his…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas teenager has pleaded guilty as an adult to felony charges that a prosecutor says could get him decades in prison for…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Chicago’s mayor-elect is attempting to dispel the often-contentious…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Bolshoi Theater has removed a ballet dedicated to dancer Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire, citing a new Russian law that…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion votes after participating in gun protests will…

By TERRY CHEA and JANIE HAR Associated Press ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A California city voted Tuesday to audit its troubled police department after…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has denied a motion to move the trial of a woman accused of killing and dismembering a man in Green Bay.…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota state senators are sending to Republican Gov. Doug Burgum a veto-proof bill that…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The owner of a Philadelphia building that caught fire and collapsed last summer, killing a city firefighter and injuring five…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Filming on the Western movie “Rust” could resume this week in Montana, the production…

By JOSH BOAK, SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press ACCOKEEK, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden lambasted Republicans’ emerging…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A contingent of Statehouse Republicans in Ohio has pressed forward with plans to make it…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s high court is holding a Republican-majority county in contempt over…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A transgender woman says in a federal lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted, frequently ridiculed…

by LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled a sweeping package Wednesday that would…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ron DeSantis has yet to enter the 2024 presidential race, but former President Donald Trump…

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man linked to an anti-government group and arrested just before the fall election has pleaded guilty to gun-related…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A proposed change to next year’s Montana U.S. Senate primary that was aimed at…

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — The driver of a car that hit a group of Southern California high school students, killing one and injuring three, has…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of aggravated menacing. The count stems…

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched his longshot bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court has confirmed that the General Assembly has asked…

ATLANTA (AP) — A former executive for a longtime city of Atlanta vendor has pleaded guilty to paying bribes in exchange for millions of dollars in…