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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says it has downed an unarmed Hezbollah drone that crossed the border from Lebanon. The army said in a statement on…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting state…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has once again rejected one of 11 sexual assault counts in an…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press The COVID-19 surge that is sending hospitalizations to all-time highs in parts of the…

By AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kit Harington has turned in his bulky black fur coat and brooding “Game of Thrones”…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Seton Hall University has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former basketball player Myles Powell over a knee…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian opposition activist and her husband have been handed prison sentences on drug charges they have rejected as a sham. A court…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press EL CEIBO, Guatemala (AP) — Karla Leiva finds herself at a migrant shelter near the Guatemala-Mexico border with…

By The Associated Press Tony Bennett has canceled his fall and winter 2021 tour dates. The legendary crooner is pulling out of concerts in New York,…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — When a World Health Organization-led team traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco will require proof of full vaccination against COVID-19…

By ROBERT BURNS, MATTHEW LEE and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just weeks before the U.S. military is scheduled to complete…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A top prosecutor for the International Criminal Court says Sudan has signed an agreement with the…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top criminal investigation agency is looking into an oil spill off the country’s…

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has jailed a specialist in hypersonic technologies pending trial on charges of high treason. It’s the latest…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press School systems across the U.S. are setting up their own virtual academies in growing numbers to accommodate…

The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — AEG Presents, a major tour and festival promoter, announced that COVID-19 vaccines would be required for…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s storied La Prensa newspaper says it will suspend its print edition after the government once again…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Wendy’s plans to open 700 delivery-only kitchens by 2025 to meet the growing demand from people who want their…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. became more diverse and more urban over the past decade, and the non-Hispanic white population dropped…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina authorities have dropped criminal charges related to a 2019 boat crash against a member of a prominent legal…

LONDON (AP) — French authorities say an undocumented migrant has been airlifted to hospital from the English Channel after a boat carrying about 40…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul waited more than a year to disclose that his wife bought stock in a…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The former longtime military ruler of Myanmar, Than Shwe, has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and is…

BERLIN (AP) — Victims of communism in East Germany have criticized the decision to grant electric automaker Tesla a subsidy of almost $10 million…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says an accidental explosion at the country’s key weapons-producing factory has killed at least…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The fourth hurricane of the eastern Pacific season has formed far off the coast of Mexico, but it’s not expected to…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese mayor has apologized for biting the Olympic gold medal of a softball player who had paid…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The governor of Tunisia’s Tozeur region says that six migrants, including four children, have died of thirst in Tunisia’s…

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer Sexual harassment allegations cost New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job. Now, many want to see him answer for a…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Tropical depression Fred is heading for a drenching of Cuba and the Bahamas on a forecast track…

SANDSUKY, Ohio (AP) — A NASA research facility in Ohio has been renamed after astronaut Neil Armstrong. The state’s U.S. senators led the efforts…

NEW YORK (AP) — Rachel Maddow is contributing a foreword to “Pegasus,” a book by two Paris-based investigative reporters on the phone malware…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than a year ago, country pop duo Dan + Shay were just beginning their first…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Department of Health and Human Services is requiring employees who…

NEW ROADS, La. (AP) — A Louisiana sheriff says he’s investigating after three children riding on tubes on a waterway were struck and injured…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal narcotics agent known as the “white devil” has been…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing parties made an unusual show of solidarity with their main challengers Thursday by denouncing an advertising…

NEWLAND, N.C. (AP) — Court documents say a woman whose body was found buried in concrete in the basement of her western North Carolina home had…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press A new report has found the frequency of anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to assaults — reported in the U.S. so…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s political crisis has taken a new twist after an anti-establishment party that narrowly won last month’s…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Thousands are expected to attend the opening Thursday of the 10-day multi-national LGBT+ festival that will include a…

MIAMI (AP) — A private bidder is willing to offering up to $120 million to purchase the Miami-area oceanfront property where the collapsed…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul says she plans to run for governor in her own right after serving out the…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level jumped a higher-than-expected 1% in July, disappointing…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell for a third straight time…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stevie Wonder and Common will perform together for the seventh Stand Up To Cancer telethon. Matthew…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Stifling heat is gripping much of Southern Europe, and forecasters say worse is expected to…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar says society must be alert to the power of algorithms deciding what humans are permitted to see. He…