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By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Years ago, skateboarding was branded as a hobby for rebels or stoners in city streets, schoolyards…

JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — More than 1,500 people have been evacuated as a major forest fire rages in Spain’s…

By SYLVIE CORBET and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Ongoing unrest across France and calls for a new round of demonstrations against…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s customs authorities say they have discovered nine migrants hiding among aluminum rolls in a truck headed to…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Four passenger buses and a truck collided near a Hong Kong road tunnel Friday and 87 people were…

DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Skimming the treetops, three Soviet-era attack helicopters bank and swoop down on a field after an early-morning…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A late-afternoon turnaround on Wall Street left stocks higher Friday as the market shook off a weak…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China is threatening “serious consequences” after the U.S. Navy sailed a destroyer around the…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Kirkland Warren was out on bail pending a long-delayed murder trial in Arkansas. But when he was…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press NAHRAN OMAR, Iraq (AP) — The oil is pumped 24 hours a day several meters from Raghed Jasim’s home in Iraq’s…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Irma Reyes changed clothes in the back seat of the pickup: skirt, tights, turtleneck, leather…

By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow insisted Friday on the witness stand that a 2016 ski collision at an upscale…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s scandal-plagued football association has been rocked by new corruption probes into its chiefs of discipline and…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine official says Filipino diplomats have confronted Chinese officials in…

MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant…

ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) — The Federal Railroad Administration says a safety device meant to keep trains from tipping into Puget Sound knocked a train…

By LOU KESTEN, BASSEM MROUE AND JON GAMBRELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S.…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico will build its first wildlife overpasses across highways to provide safe passage to…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia is in talks with Syria to reopen its embassy in the war-torn nation for the first time…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A three-day strike by workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District ended Thursday,…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Seven incarcerated firefighters from Nevada are suing state forestry and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Scandal-embattled Japanese electronics and technology manufacturer Toshiba has accepted a $15…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Brazil have exchanged fire with gunmen during a raid on one of Rio de Janeiro’s slums to arrest alleged drug…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea claimed Friday to have tested a nuclear-capable underwater drone designed…

By KEVIN FREKING and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two women who experienced life in Chinese “reeducation” camps for…

HONOLULU (AP) — Four Honolulu police officers are pleading not guilty to charges related to their roles in a cover-up of a high-speed chase that…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ling Ma’s sharp and surreal “Bliss Montage” and Beverly Gage’s sweeping biography of…

By SAM METZ and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Children and teens in Utah would lose access to social media apps such as…

AYER, Mass. (AP) — Officials say five freight train cars have derailed in Massachusetts. But no hazardous materials were being hauled, and there…

By KEVIN MCGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The White House is defending President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers in states including Colorado, California, Texas and New York are taking…

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — Attorneys have taken their fight over whether to unseal more documents in the 2019 child pornography investigation of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A cleric arrested in his native Jamaica and extradited to New York to face state terrorism charges on accusations of recruiting…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The company responsible for maintaining a Texas interstate where 130 vehicles crashed in icy…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan grand jury investigating Donald Trump over hush money payments…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota is moving to strengthen the state’s protections for children and their…

By ARIJETA LAJKA and PHILIP MARCELO NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump getting gang-tackled by riot-gear-clad New York City police…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Unions for service workers at Walt Disney World have reached a tentative deal with the…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Our capacity to care about others may have very, very ancient origins, a new study…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration and groups representing the forest products industry…

LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles police chief and the department’s constitutional policing director are under investigation after the names and…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer for a one-time Trump supporter caught up in a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory is demanding that…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is getting some unwanted help in its drive to slow the U.S. economy and…

WINCHESTER, Ohio (AP) — Seven law enforcement officers have sued rap artist Afroman, accusing him of improperly using footage from a police raid on…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A Missouri grade school that was shut down last year amid concerns of possible radioactive contamination will not…

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press TikTok’s CEO was relatively unknown to the U.S. public before Thursday, when he testified before a…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and MARIAM FAM Associated Press Muslims around the world are welcoming the start of Ramadan, a month of fasting, increased…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A lack of drinking water and healthy sanitation infrastructure around the world is…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Officials were working Thursday to capture an endangered hooded vulture that escaped from a zoo aviary in the San Francisco…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As revelations that a defense witness was also an FBI informant…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hip-hop became a cultural phenomenon against the backdrop of American history,…

BOARDMAN, Ore. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is urging Oregon to clean up water contamination from nitrates in the eastern part of the…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister has urged North Macedonia’s leaders to…

By MEAD GRUVER and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman accused of setting fire last year to a Wyoming abortion clinic…

By JOSH BOAK and ROB GILLIES Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — President Joe Biden arrived in Canada on Thursday with a focus on big global…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The wife of a former Connecticut state lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to six months in federal prison in connection with…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Track and field banned transgender athletes from international competition Thursday, while adopting new regulations…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia police officer has been fired after fatally shooting a shoplifting…

NEW YORK (AP) — Five mischievous boys had to be rescued after they crawled through a storm drain tunnel in New York City and got lost. It happened…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Paraguay’s attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into U.S.…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Unrest in France is tarnishing the sheen of King Charles III’s first overseas trip as U.K.…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon leaders have told Congress that the U.S. military must be ready for…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s office said Thursday that he is expected to return…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the Senate’s banking committee are telling former chief executive officers at the…