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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…