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By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — When a gunman shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico this week, shock rippled across the…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic groups are asking Michigan officials to investigate the nominating petitions…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The world’s top-ranked golfer played in the second round of the PGA Championship…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing symptoms. Powell…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of sentencing on her recent perjury…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says that several gunmen opened fire in central Afghanistan, killing at least four people, including three…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Tribune is being sued by some of its staffers, who say they and other women and Black journalists are being paid less…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden has spoken to Black leaders at the National Museum of African American…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The 35 American and other international doctors came to Gaza in volunteer teams to help one of the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man accused of setting a house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family in 2020 in a…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine commuters in Buenos Aires are being hit by an abrupt 360% increase in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III plans to travel to France next month for British ceremonies marking the 80th…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Scottie Scheffler’s arrest hours before his second-round tee time at the PGA Championship in Louisville will go down…

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is distancing itself from Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, saying “his views are not those of the NFL as an…

ATLANTA (AP) — The last U.S. zoo with pandas in its care expects to say goodbye to the four giant bears this fall. Zoo Atlanta is making…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a Tennessee man to 80 years in prison for raping a woman a year before…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer FORT COLLINS, Colorado (AP) — Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Officials say one of Indonesia’s most-wanted drug suspects has been arrested in the Philippines after an international…

By JACK DURA Associated Press A abortion rights ballot initiative is going before South Dakota voters this November. The secretary of state’s…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Attorney John Eastman has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for his…

By TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris Olympics organizers have inaugurated the Pride House on a barge in the Seine River. The boat is…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it found the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of…

By GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Members of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group in the country’s rebel-held northwest…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all…

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo has criticized the Council of Europe’s decision against…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s prime minister has joined tens of thousands of people on march through the country’s capital to mark…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer If you’re looking for a little bit of that “Top Gun: Maverick” spectacle and thrill at the movie theater this…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate who is weeks away from execution is in a hospital after suffering what a Missouri…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate and five other people have been killed in a shooting at campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s first-in-the-nation plan to levy a hefty toll on drivers entering Manhattan is the…

DETROIT (AP) — Tim Kuniskis, CEO of the Ram and Dodge brands and the unofficial voice of American muscle cars, is retiring from Stellantis after…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A scenic fishing village in southwest England was under instructions to boil its tap water for a…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has banned four more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the 27-nation bloc for what it calls the spread…

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament has approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names — clearing the way, among other things, for…

LONDON (AP) — A Moroccan asylum-seeker who stabbed a British retiree to death in revenge for Israel’s war against Hamas has been sentenced to at…

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — A man in Malawi has been convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting a TikTok video that shows an…

By DARREN SANDS Associated Press It was daunting when the Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley, at age 22, replaced a beloved pastor who had ministered to one…

PARIS (AP) — There’s been slight drop in reported violence across New Caledonia Friday, a day after France imposed a state of emergency in the…

By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon has multiple hotly contested primaries upcoming, as well as some that will set the…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was in police handcuffs going into the PGA Championship.…

By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All of Donald Trump’s top opponents for the Republican presidential nomination dropped out…

LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle. According to figures released Friday, the former member of the Fab Four is the first British…

By MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in California’s 20th Congressional District can be forgiven if they open their ballots…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Idaho voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide primaries for the U.S. House and the state…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer For the nation’s bicycle shops, the past few years have probably felt like the business version of the Tour de…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Authorities say an exhaustive rescue operation to find missing construction workers…

By SIMINA MISTREANU and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Russia and China are helped each other expand their territorial…

BERLIN (AP) — A local council in Germany has approved a plan by electric carmaker Tesla to expand the grounds of its first plant in Europe, a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament has passed a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has pardoned seven former top military officers who were sentenced to life terms in prison over the…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The governments of eight European Union member states say the situation in Syria…

By PETR DAVID JOSEK Associated Press BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A man charged with attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed the shooting-down of an American drone,…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Opposition groups in Serbia are planning protests against a real estate development…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say suspected militants have bombed a girl’s school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Police say a man has stormed a police station in Malaysia and killed two officers in what’s being investigated…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were mixed on Friday, with Chinese stocks reversing earlier losses following the announcement of…

PARIS (AP) — French police shot and killed an armed suspect who appeared to be planning to set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military said that North Korea has fired a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast. South…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities say a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea has left the city of Sevastopol without power and set a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly…

BANGKOK (AP) — Brazil will host the 2027 Women’s World Cup after a vote of FIFA’s 211 members chose the South American bid over a joint…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer China is expected to announce fresh measures to reinvigorate its ailing property industry after the latest…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) — A federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in…

BY BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The National Rifle Association is kicking off its annual meeting in downtown Dallas, gathering for…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s election will determine how weary the country has become of the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Amy Kremer is a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021 rally that led to a mob…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. Now, all…