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CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have announced the release of a prominent human rights lawyer. The lawyer was pardoned by Egypt’s presidential…

HARTLAND, Wis. (AP) — Authorities have identified the six people who died in an apartment fire in southern Wisconsin as two adults and four…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Prosecutors are urging a jury to convict three men for assisting the leaders of a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor.…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer Oscar Tschiebwe was the consensus men’s college basketball player of the year last season, an…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A passenger boat carrying 240 people has caught fire off southern Indonesia, killing 14. Rescue officials say the KM…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The next prime minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, has embraced his Indian and Hindu…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — An armed former student broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on President Daniel Ortega’s…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Manuel and Marcy Silva combed through the charred rubble that used to be their…

By ASHRAF KHALIL and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The trial of a far-right extremist group leader and four associates…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Another long and painful trial over the killing of George Floyd was averted on Monday after one…

By The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dirty bombs have long been feared as a potential weapon of terrorists because their main objective is…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Prairie fires pushed by winds topping 60 mph led to evacuations in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa and destroyed homes and…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — In Mississippi, where health officials expect 5,000 more births…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — On March 26, El Salvador’s street gangs had killed 62 people across the…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents come and go, but White House grounds superintendent Dale Haney has been a…

By RAQUEL REDONDO and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish man trekking from Madrid to Doha for the 2022 FIFA World Cup has not…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh are evacuating hundreds of thousands of people across its vast coastal region as a tropical…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — On March 26, El Salvador’s street gangs had killed 62 people across the…

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager has pleaded guilty to terrorism, first-degree murder and…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The decline of an endangered species of whale slowed last year, as it lost about 2% of…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — On a recent Sunday morning, in the sanctuary of Saddleback Church, Lead Pastor Andy…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian army says Israel has carried out an airstrike on the suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus wounding a soldier…

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil is days from a presidential election featuring two political titans and bitter…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities tried to dampen public fears over Russia’s use of Iranian…

BERLIN (AP) — Two former German soldiers have been convicted of trying to form a mercenary group to intervene in Yemen’s civil war. They were…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists use old fashioned detective work to figure out that humans are responsible for climate change. They…

Por GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ataques aéreos del Ejército de Myanmar matan a más de 60 personas que asistían a una…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ethnic Kachin rebels say air strikes by Myanmar’s military have killed as many as 80 people,…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — People in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, are on high alert after the United States and…

PRAGUE (AP) — Libor Pešek, a Czech classical music conductor known for leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a decade has died. Pešek died…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have held both chambers of Congress and the presidency for the last two years,…

Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s defense minister Vasile Dincu has resigned, citing difficulties working with the country’s…

By MEGHAN COYLE of NerdWallet In NerdWallet’s annual analysis of airline mile valuations, holiday flights often don’t provide the highest…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s ruling military has sacked a commander in the southern Blue Nile province after two days of…