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AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry…
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ten years ago, in August 2014, when a white police officer shot and killed Black 18-year-old Michael Brown on the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press As the pregnant woman’s contractions rolled in every two minutes, staff at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in…
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is pushing for permission from its Western partners to use the long-range missiles they have provided to strike…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tua Tagovailoa is now dealing with the third diagnosed concussion of his NFL career, all of them coming…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has rejected plans for the U.K.’s first coal mine in three decades, delivering a victory for…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that competing measures that would expand or limit abortion rights can appear on the November…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Around 36,000 schools in the U.S. are in need of updated heating and cooling systems, according to the Government Accountability…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Texas Kadiri Moro is an unusual figure amid the LGBTQ+ rights activists in the coastal West African nation of…
Continue ReadingWAUPUN, Wis. (AP) — A former employee at a troubled Wisconsin prison has pleaded guilty to smuggling contraband into the maximum-security prison.…
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of tips have poured in from several states. But the man accused of raining bullets onto Interstate 75 in…
Continue ReadingBy Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has written a rare letter to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, according to the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Germany has sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait in its first transit of the disputed waters in more than…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — Justin Timberlake urged drivers not to get behind the wheel of a car after even a single alcoholic drink…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has decried newly imposed U.S. sanctions on one of its tycoons who has been implicated in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District will choose a successor on Wednesday to the late Democratic…
Continue ReadingAfter Michael Brown Jr. was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, several nationally prominent Black religious leaders arrived,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press As twilight descended on Ferguson, Missouri, for a third consecutive night after the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Denmark say a 29-year-old man faces a whopping 86 preliminary charges for reckless driving. Officers said…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Central European nations are bracing for severe flooding forecast to hit the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are traveling to Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama to highlight…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban say gunmen have killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan, in one of the deadliest attacks in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Dozens of members of Tunisia’s largest opposition party have been arrested this week ahead of the formal…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in southern Poland have charged a former European Parliament lawmaker and his wife with corruption and influence…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Gunmen have killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan, the Taliban said Friday, in one of the deadliest…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by a full percentage point to 19% to combat high inflation as government…
Continue ReadingBy Allie Torgan, CNN Sacaton, Arizona (CNN) — Often, the calls from case workers come with great urgency. A baby, a toddler – a child who is…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A police swoop on 20 child welfare homes in Malaysia where hundreds of children were allegedly…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Whether you are superstitious or not, you probably won’t be able to escape the chatter around today’s…
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Whether you are superstitious or not, you probably won’t be able to escape the chatter around today’s…
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Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Wolfgang Gerhardt, a politician who led Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats from 1995 to 2001, has died. He was 80. Gerhardt’s…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has granted its first authorization for use of a vaccine against mpox in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei — who died after being set on fire by her partner in…
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — A 56-year-old Canadian woman died after being caught in a sudden snowstorm in Italy’s Dolomite mountains and her companion is being…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A leading media group reports that dozens of Hong Kong journalists have faced harassment in recent months. On…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say an alleged Islamic extremist has been arrested in connection with plotting an attack on…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Two men have been charged with burglary over the theft of an artwork by street artist Banksy that was taken in a smash-and-grab raid…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In a significant show of defiance against the United States, North Korea on Friday provided the outside…
Continue ReadingTORSBY, Sweden (AP) — David Beckham and former England coach Roy Hodgson are among the soccer dignitaries attending the funeral of Sven-Goran…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese authorities have banned the accounting firm PwC for six months and fined it over $56 million for its…
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — For decades, Chinese workers have wrapped up their working lives at relatively young ages: 60 for men…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Blue-collar workers from Boeing walked picket lines in the Pacific Northwest instead of building airplanes on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino televangelist who calls himself the “anointed son of God” and once claimed to have…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court has allowed the release on bail of a prominent opposition leader and chief minister of New…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fake video that ricocheted across the internet claiming tensions between France and the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIJING (AP) — Starting next year, China will raise its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Russia has accused six British diplomats of spying and decided to expel them. The U.K. says the move, which it calls “completely…
Continue ReadingStory by Kathleen Magramo, photo curation by Noemi Cassanelli, CNN (CNN) — Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, has left…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters battling three major wildfires in the mountains east of Los Angeles are gaining ground against the…
Continue ReadingNEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A pro-Israel rally in the Boston suburb of Newton turned violent when a passerby was shot during a scuffle after confronting…
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Pravin Gordhan, who was a South African government minister for many years after beginning his political…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks closed out their best week of the year with more gains on Friday and climbed to the cusp of their…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The death toll in the aftermath of a typhoon in Vietnam has climbed to 233 as rescue workers recover more…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Despite a summer of heated anti-immigration debates across the European Union, unauthorized migration to…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Residents of the Carrollton neighborhood in New Orleans are among the thousands of utility customers in the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has pleaded not guilty to U.S. narcotics trafficking…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — Donald Trump refused on Friday to condemn recent racist and conspiratorial comments from…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has brushed off a threat from Russian leader Vladimir Putin about war against the West if…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as she promoted her efforts to boost clean energy, Vice President Kamala Harris said in Tuesday’s…
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Kostya Gak, CNN Sumy region, Ukraine (CNN) — Vasyl was several miles deep in Russian territory when he heard the whizz…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A San Jose-based biotechnology company that helps doctors detect genetic causes for cancer is among those that…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When her husband turns on the television to hear news about the upcoming presidential election, that’s often…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia and Vietnam signed multibillion-dollar energy transition deals in 2022 that were heralded as…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — An animal rights group trying to get real fur out of the bearskin caps worn by King’s Guards at Buckingham…
Continue ReadingBy Yoonjung Seo, Lucas Lilieholm and Mike Valerio, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — New pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un touring what…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Singapore on Friday by praising its tradition of interfaith harmony, closing…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s leader says the country has met all the conditions set by the International Monetary Fund to qualify for a new $7…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was diagnosed with a concussion for the third time in his NFL…
Continue ReadingA community meeting was in Comore Loma held in respose to a string of…
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea has for decades been known as the world’s largest “baby…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is calling the Violence Against Women Act his proudest legislative achievement. Biden wrote…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea offered a rare glimpse into a secretive facility to produce weapons-grade uranium as state…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say nearly $6 billion in funding for aid to Ukraine will expire at the end of the month unless…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas resounded Thursday in a Rio de Janeiro park, where…
Continue ReadingBy Avery Schmitz and Michael Conte, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned NATO alliance leaders that a move to lift…
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola has sued Variety, saying that a July story that said he ran an unprofessional set…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigators working to pinpoint the cause of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse discovered a loose…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A Colorado sheriff’s office said a town councilman shot a teenager in the face Tuesday and…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Chad McQueen, an actor known for his performances in the “Karate Kid” movies and the son of the late actor and race car driver…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials say two people were badly burned and two others are believed to be dead after an explosion and fire…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that a man serving a 20-year prison sentence can remain on the ranked…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States says it will support the addition of two new permanent seats on the powerful U.N. Security…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Republican Party has sued North Carolina’s elections board to block students and employees at the…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hauser and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli intelligence commander, who critics say played a pivotal role in failing to prevent…
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer Filmmaker Lana Wilson had never thought much about psychics. But the morning after Election Day in 2016, in Atlantic City, New Jersey,…
Continue ReadingNYE, Mont. (AP) — The owner of the only platinum and palladium mines in the U.S. plans to lay off hundreds of employees in Montana due to declining…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has refused to stop the execution of Freddie Owens. The 46-year-old inmate…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press An Ohio-based energy company at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme has been ordered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A county in western Arkansas and a health provider have agreed to a $6 million settlement with the family…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Two police officers in the nation’s capital have been sentenced to several years in prison for their role in a deadly chase of…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says California firefighters had to douse a flaming battery in a Tesla Semi with about…
Continue ReadingLocal News 8’s Ariel Jensen spoke with Detective Christian Teague at the Madison County Sheriff’s office about what is being done to stop sex crimes…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump plans to deliver remarks next Monday about cryptocurrency and the launch of the…
Continue ReadingOTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s largest airline and business leaders are urging the federal government to intervene in labor talks with its…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is preparing criminal charges in connection with an Iranian hack that targeted Donald…
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pilots of an Alaska Airlines jet aborted a takeoff in Nashville to avoid a possible collision with a Southwest Airlines…
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