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By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a probe…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged in September from August as rising…

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The office of Virginia’s attorney general has handed off jurisdiction…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — When Abdul-Kaba Abdullah decided to sell his home two years ago, he listed the neatly-kept,…

CAIRO (AP) — At least 10 child leukemia patients in Yemen have died, and dozens more left seriously ill, after being administered expired doses of…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The lawyer for a Nigerian separatist leader facing terrorism charges and accused of…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton proudly accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at Gotham Hall Thursday night,…

By PETER SMITH and DAVID CRARY Associated Press A year after 17 North American missionaries were kidnapped in Haiti, beginning a two-month ordeal…

By ANDREW SELSKY and SARA BURNETT Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is typically known as a bastion of West Coast liberalism where…

WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — Two Ukrainians who documented the horrors of the Russian invasion and siege of Mariupol for The Associated Press are being…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — France’s foreign minister has urged Lebanon’s political leadership to swiftly elect a…

ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s border agency on Friday sought to put a damning report highlighting its involvement in…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton laughs at the idea that she is some sort of secret philanthropist. Sure, social…

By JOCELYN NOVECK and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press Once again, disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein sits in a courtroom, on trial in Los Angeles…

LONDON (AP) — Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND and MATTHEW AGIUS Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — A judge in Malta sentenced two brothers to 40 years in prison…

By ALEXANDER TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Continuing strikes at TotalEnergies group refineries in France are seriously disrupting fuel…

BERLIN (AP) — The Islamic call to prayer is set to sound for the first time from one of Germany’s biggest mosques in Cologne on Friday — but at…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — What keeps driving inflation so high? The answer, it seems, is nearly everything.…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — India’s renewables sector is booming, with the country projected to add 35 to 40 gigawatts…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three Swedish center-right parties say they have reached a deal to form a coalition government…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister is urging the country’s 16 states to consider stepping up measures against the coronavirus amid a rise…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey and Russia have instructed their…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press IRVINE, California (AP) — President Joe Biden is highlighting his administration’s efforts to lower prescription…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) — Designer Ralph Lauren went big for his first Los Angeles fashion show, staging a…

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss sacked her Treasury chief and reversed…

By SUNDAY ALAMBA and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press IGBO-ORA, Nigeria (AP) — Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria’s southwestern city…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — On the eve of the opening of a key Chinese Communist Party congress, party leader, head of state…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The chair of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming United Nations climate…

By HENG SINITH Associated Press KOH CHAMROEUN, Cambodia (AP) — Eleven students in southern Cambodia who were crossing a river have died after the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a carjacking victim was killed during a police pursuit of a homicide suspect in Los Angeles. The victim, whose…

By MAJDI MOHAMMED Associated Press JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israel’s military has carried out an arrest raid in a refugee camp in the…