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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One of the defendants in the Vatican’s big financial trial has formally complained to the…

By EVENS SANON and CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A new report from the U.N. migration agency says that surging…

By FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — South Darfur has seen a slight increase in critical aid since the UN’s World Food Program delivered…

MIAMI (AP) — Recreational boaters found $1 million worth of cocaine floating in the ocean off the Florida Keys. Samuel Briggs II, the acting chief…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press More than 3,000 nurses at six Oregon hospitals have spent a second day on the picket lines as they continued to…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists studying a Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s have…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed…

By JOSEPH FEDERMAN and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army’s chief spokesman is apparently questioning the stated…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police officials say residents of a New York City community enabled the arrest of a 25-year-old Ecuadorian man in the rape of a…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Edmonton Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch got his up-close look at how crazed the city is…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The Detroit Pistons have fired coach Monty Williams after just one season that ended with an NBA-worst 14-68…

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa man accused of killing four people with a metal pipe earlier this month has filed a written plea of not guilty…

By DEBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It’s sad but true, Copa America could mark Lionel Messi’s final chapter…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, says an economic ‘border war’ between his state and…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Relatives and friends of seven motorcyclists who died in a 2019 crash urged New Hampshire officials not to allow…

LONDON (AP) — One of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s police bodyguards has been arrested over alleged bets on the date of Britain’s national…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says it has new weapons and…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and New Zealand have agreed in principle on an intelligence sharing pact as their leaders…

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an attempted robbery at a highway rest area in eastern Nebraska left a 72-year-old man dead and a…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — State officials say a firewall aimed at thwarting hackers is to blame for a 911 outage in…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York moms returning to work after giving birth will now get paid break time when they need to pump breast milk at their…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police say they have arrested a man who wounded a motorcyclist in the neck with a knife in Prague. Two other people were…

PRAGUE (AP) — The U.S. chipmaker onsemi is planning a multi-year investment of up $2 billion in its production facility in the Czech Republic. The…

By The Associated Press Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un say the strategic partnership they have signed is a…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has resigned from her posts of education secretary…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Alberto has formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, the first named storm of what is forecast to be a busy hurricane…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A new report says there is mounting evidence that jihadi fighters who had long operated in…

MILAN (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard is searching by sea and from the air for dozens of people missing when a boat capsized and partially sank in…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Supporters of Myanmar’s imprisoned ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi have carried out peaceful…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito says he is delighted to finally be able to visit Britain after the trip…

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say two adolescent boys have been given preliminary charges of raping a 12-year-old girl and religion-motivated…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a new twist on the guestbook at a wedding or other event. With audio…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Swizz Beatz and Timbaland are bringing the “Verzuz” series back with a new…

By ALBERT STUMM Associated Press It’s been years since scientists established that the Mediterranean diet really is good for you. But nutrition…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker has been hailed as one of the preeminent voices of…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two climate protesters have been arrested for spraying orange paint on the ancient Stonehenge…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Long after “The Catch” and his 660 home runs, and the daring sprints around the bases with…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer LISLE, Illinois (AP) — With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer A breast cancer diagnosis, surgery and months of follow-up treatment didn’t shake Raquel Kochhann’s desire to return…

By DARREN SANDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the middle of the night in the summer of 2021 when I finally found the missing piece of…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and ELISE MORTON Associated Press VILLEPINTE, France (AP) — The far-right leader angling to become France’s prime minister…

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — Summer kicks off in the Northern Hemisphere with the summer solstice on Thursday. The Earth…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of people have died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Abortion rights have found an unlikely champion in swing state Pennsylvania. Sen. Bob Casey…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior prosecutor in Ukraine says authorities have created a national registry to…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have urged residents to evacuate an area on the fringes of Athens where a large wildfire is fanned by…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s government says it has tightened controls over adoptions from abroad but will allow the practice to…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military chief has demanded that China return several rifles and equipment…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn in for a second term as South Africa’s president in a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IN THE RED SEA (AP) — The combat markings emblazoned on…

PARIS (AP) — French police say an officer in the northern suburbs of Paris has opened fire and killed an attacker who assaulted a cleaning worker…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been sentenced to…

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Rickwood Field will host an MLB game between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is criticizing France for running up excessive debt, a stinging rebuke at the height of the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The father of a Malaysian man who attacked a police station and killed two police officers last month has been…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Most politicians try to avoid slips, stumbles and undignified photos. Not Ed Davey. The leader of…

PARIS (AP) — Police in the restive French Pacific territory of New Caledonia have rounded up eight people, including an independence leader. They…

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Don’t believe the name: The Demilitarized Zone between the two rival…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — In the run-up to the Paris Olympics, Louis Vuitton celebrated the beauty of humans and their skin…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday after U.S. benchmarks ticked to more records following the…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. has returned to the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% for the first time in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, has died. She was 93.…

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — An explosion and fire at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital has caused fatalities and injuries. The…

By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation met with the Dalai Lama at his residence in…

By MORGAN LEE and ANDRÉS LEIGHTON Associated Press ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Cooler weather — and the chance of rain — could bring some relief this…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe…