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By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Major wildfires in Europe are starting earlier in the year, becoming more frequent, doing…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — America’s top television networks on Thursday turned prime time over to a gripping account of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet on Friday formally decided to hold a state funeral on Sept. 27 for…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The spread of monkeypox in the U.S. could represent the dawn of a new sexually transmitted…

SYDNEY (AP) — New U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy said Friday the United States needs to engage more with the Pacific region at a…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A raid of Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of favelas that left at…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say two police officers have been shot in the city of Rochester in western New York. Both were hospitalized…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia is defending its veto of a U.N. resolution that would have extended humanitarian…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS, RAFIQ MAQBOOL and RISHI LEKHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan forces have violently cleared the main…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist have held…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was assaulted by a man…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee closed out its set of summer hearings with its most detailed…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps has halted water operations for its new amphibious combat vehicles while it investigates why two of the…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a large tree crashed into a home in Birmingham, Alabama, killing two young children and injuring at least…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States has filed its fifth labor complaint about alleged violations of union organizing rights in Mexico.  The…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest has begun in Key West on the 123rd anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s July 21 birth.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Coinbase employee and his brother, along with a Houston man, have been charged in…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery officials on Thursday raised the Mega Millions grand prize to $660 million, giving players a shot at what would be…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gripped by gun violence that’s affecting cities across the nation, the…

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors say a South Florida police sergeant who was recorded grabbing a colleague by the neck when she tried to deescalate…

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A new arrest warrant has been issued for Colorado’s election-denying clerk Tina Peters. The Grand Junction Daily…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The National Association of Immigration Judges has asked the federal government to restore its…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A judge says a man who has been serving a 25-year prison sentence based mostly on testimony from…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The owner of a 4,000-acre industrial site says it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee jury has found a prominent prison reform advocate guilty of vandalism after he disguised himself as a…

Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel have launched airstrikes targeting several military positions around Damascus, killing three Syrian…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — With hotter and drier weather plaguing New Mexico, water managers are warning that…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Limiting the size of new swimming pools in and around Las Vegas might save a drop in the proverbial…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taurean Blacque, an Emmy-nominated actor who was known for his role as a detective on the 1980s NBC drama series “Hill Street…

CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney says police bodycam video of an officer shooting a 13-year-old boy appears to show the boy raising his hands in the air…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The federal judge who sentenced Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison on a civil rights…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita, Kansas, officials say they have suspended three police officers who were among several law enforcement officers who…