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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California fast food workers will be paid at least $20 per hour next year under a new law…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Teddy Swims, the eclectic soulful singer who gained popularity with his YouTube covers,…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese police say that a food delivery driver who opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in…

By KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government shutdown appeared all but inevitable as House Speaker Kevin…

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines is making changes for passengers with wheelchairs after a government investigation into a complaint by a…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — There was no mention of the conflict in Ukraine during the elaborate opening…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With calls for his resignation increasing, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez is expected on…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — The NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race is returning to North Wilkesboro Speedway in North…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has closed the door on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s hopes to be free during his…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia jury has begun deliberations in the trial of a DoorDash driver charged with…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh want the federal government to take over…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The exodus of ethnic Armenians this week from the region known as Nagorno-Karabakh has been…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Designer Gabriela Hearst marked her farewell from Chloé with a jubilant dance alongside Rio’s…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A court in northern Switzerland has acquitted a former Belarusian security operative over the…

By TOM KRISHER DETROIT (AP) — Nearly 3.4 million Hyundai and Kia  vehiclesin the U.S. are under recall due to the risk of engine compartment…

By COLLEEN LONG, ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are repeatedly using the word “brand” at…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois says an invasive insect called the spotted lanternfly has been confirmed in the state for the first time. The…

By FADI TAWIL and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press EIN AAR, Lebanon (AP) — Hundreds of Lebanese Armenians have scuffled with riot police outside…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Olympic doping case involving teenage Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will resume for two more days in…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed former Ukrainian soccer great Andriy Shevchenko…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union governments are struggling to overcome obstacles to put a new asylum system in place…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI and other government agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing…

BY STEPHEN McGRATH and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital on Thursday has eased…

MIAMI (AP) — The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Rina has formed in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters said Thursday the storm had…

CAIRO (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on a former Sudanese government minister and two companies tied to the paramilitary force…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A fire has broken out at a car battery factory owned by Iran’s Defense Ministry for the second time in less than a week.…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump ally Kari Lake, who’s refused to acknowledge her loss in…

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A former director of an Ohio memory-loss clinic accused by dozens of patients of falsely diagnosing them with Alzheimer’s…

LONDON (AP) — A famous tree that had stood for nearly 200 years next to Hadrian’s Wall, a Roman landmark in northern England, was…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The cost of a new Alabama super-size prison that is now under construction has risen to more than $1 billion, complicating…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is proposing granting limited autonomy for Corsica in a modest step toward nationalist sentiment on…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Two of Southeast Asia’s newest national leaders have exchanged congratulations on…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police say a man wearing military clothing and carrying a handgun has shot and injured a person in a classroom at a…

By ZANA CIMILI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s interior minister has accused Serbia of direct involvement in weekend clashes…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Israel have signed an agreement for Berlin to buy the sophisticated Arrow 3 missile defense system, designed to intercept…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — There are rock stars, and then there is Ringo Starr. To call him prolific would almost…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer The curtain is finally coming down on Netflix’s once-iconic DVD-by-mail service, a quarter century…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese singer and actress Najah Sallam, who surged to fame in the mid-20th century for her songs promoting pan-Arabism, has died.…

By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.1% annual pace from April through June,…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer U.S. applications for unemployment benefits inched up modestly this week after reaching their lowest level in eight…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced federal disaster assistance for Louisiana, which is…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press COLCHANE, Chile (AP) — In northern Chile, Teófila Challapa learned to weave surrounded by the hills…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Dave Matthews, H.E.R., Chris Stapleton, St. Vincent and New…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers at the Supreme Court have some occasionally eccentric rituals. The Biden…

LONDON (AP) — Veteran actor Michael Gambon, who was known to many for his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight…

By ANDREW WILKS ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish government says it has withdrawn its support for the country’s oldest film festival after organizers…

LONDON (AP) — The BBC reports that six female migrants trapped inside a refrigerated food truck were rescued by French police after one of the…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The award-winning U.S. guitarist Al Di Meola has suffered a heart attack in Romania’s capital and is now receiving…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand say they made one of the country’s biggest ever seizures of illicit…

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese defense ministry has given its first public statement on the disappearance of the minister from public view about a…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say a man wanted in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur has been arrested. Police…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister has visited injured patients and the families of…

BERLIN (AP) — A company that manages official buildings in Berlin says the Brandenburg Gate will have to be cleaned at greater effort and expense…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A rights watchdog is accusing the World Bank of enabling the Tanzanian government’s…

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera’s career will end with the Detroit Tigers on Sunday against Cleveland at…

Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese state media says a climate activist has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of tax…

An explosion in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, has killed a teenage boy and injured at least 162 people. Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Health said a fire…

VOLOS, Greece (AP) — A second powerful storm in less than a month has hammered parts of central Greece, sweeping away roads, smashing bridges and…

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, a renowned agricultural scientist who revolutionized India’s farming and was a…

The American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago arrived back in the U.S.…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have raided offices of the Spanish soccer federation as part of a judicial investigation into the alleged payment of…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — The three letters Brooks Koepka represents in the Ryder Cup are USA. Not LIV. The…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Deadly violence is continuing in Sweden, with three people killed overnight in separate incidents near Stockholm and in a city…

By ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has reopened a main crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing thousands of…

CAIRO (AP) — Security officials say that at least five Yemeni fighters from a secessionist group were killed in clashes with suspected al-Qaida…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday in subdued trading on looming worries about China property…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — China’s ambassador to Australia has criticized Australian politicians who visit…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has acquitted four national park employees, including a senior…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A shooting incident in the Slovak capital has left one person dead and four others injured. The rescue service in…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer HANGZHOU, China (AP) — The centuries-old card game of bridge is being played at the Asian Games. Esports, chess,…

By TIA GOLDENBERG and MOSHE EDRI Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a law that makes it harder to…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — has been…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine…