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COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains swamped a southern Philippine province, killing at least 42…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s largest city of Shanghai is ordering mass testing on all 1.3 million residents of its downtown Yangpu district and…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Technology stocks led a broad rally on Wall Street Friday, capping another strong…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida voters are deciding whether to get rid of a commission that meets every 20…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press Researchers say they solved a decades-old riddle this week by finding remnants of the stockade and therefore the…

NEW DELHI (AP) — An official from India’s ruling party says he will sue an independent local news website after it reported in a now-retracted…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press GROVEPORT, Ohio (AP) — Ruth and Boyd Boone are longtime Ohio Republican voters, eager to reelect their GOP…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has returned to the campaign trail in Georgia, framing the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports the first group of Australian women and…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and SHARON LURYE AP Education Writers The COVID-19 pandemic devastated poor children’s well-being, not just by closing…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared awestruck Thursday to be standing…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — After Superstorm Sandy struck the northeast U.S. in 2012, an unprecedented effort began to…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its Western allies have dismissed Russia’s claims that banned…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet has approved a hefty economic package including 29 trillion yen ($200 billion) in…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Friday in its…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says new sanctions imposed on his government by the…

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Eight people were found dead in a burning Tulsa-area house in what was being investigated as multiple homicides, police…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dancer in a film produced by Harvey Weinstein testified Thursday that she was…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s attorney general has agreed not to enforce a near total ban on abortions at least…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents of a town in north-central Mexico were stunned to see a dog running down the street…

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have made an arrest in connection with a burglary at the campaign headquarters for Katie Hobbs, the Democratic…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief says a new nuclear test explosion by North Korea “would be yet another confirmation of a program…

The Georgia prosecutor investigating possible illegal election interference in the 2020 election has urged the Supreme Court not to stand in the way…

MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A sheriff’s department submitted on Thursday its investigative findings to prosecutors in…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Biden administration’s approval of oil leases in a corner of New Mexico that…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For a second time this year, jurors get a chance to decide if a Colorado businessman helped…

By GABE STERN, KEN RITTER and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — An unprecedented hand-count of mail-in ballots in a rural Nevada…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has ordered the families of U.S. embassy staffers in the Nigerian…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — University of Florida faculty members have expressed their displeasure with Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse being named as…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Dusty Baker grew up watching Black stars shine in the World Series, paving his path to a life…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off a multi-state tour in Oregon on…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The sentencing of a former United Nations communications specialist was punctuated by the…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man convicted of child abuse and other charges stemming from the 2016 death and dismemberment of an Albuquerque girl was…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — In what has become an annual ritual, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community Thursday honored the…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has reported that it returned to profitability after two consecutive quarters of…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a man of neglect charges after he was accused with his ex-wife of abandoning an adopted daughter. The…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota attorney general says some poll workers who created confusion and frustration…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The parents of a 23-year-old Georgia man who died after using kratom have filed a wrongful death…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief says he is sending inspectors to two locations in Ukraine where…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials are warning residents of the Big Island that the world’s largest active…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s taken just three days to seat a jury of 12 people in the tax fraud trial of Donald…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Divers have found more human remains at drought-stricken Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said Thursday. A National Park…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania woman who was killed alongside her daughter in…

VANCOUVER, Canada (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. and Canada will work together to “cut the insecurity  knot” that has…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons for custody of a state death row inmate who the…