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BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities say at least two people have been killed after an elevated road being built in Bangkok collapsed. Another 11 people…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature passed a bill banning most abortions after roughly…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A grand jury being seated Tuesday in Atlanta will likely consider whether criminal charges are…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press Few Republicans have high confidence that votes will be tallied accurately in next…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon Prime Day is here. And, once again, experts are warning consumers of scams.…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Energy Minister says the catastrophic collapse of a dam in southern Ukraine…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Celebrities, lawmakers, brands and everyday social media users are flocking to Meta’s freshly…

QUINCY, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in central Washington told some people to leave their homes immediately as a new, growing wildfire sparked west of…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, SEUNG MIN KIM and KARL RITTER Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO leaders said Tuesday that they would allow Ukraine…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press A New Zealand prosecutor says tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on the country’s…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Of course a Junior had to do something special in Seattle. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. won the All-Star…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of the Los Angeles Times has sold the San Diego Union-Tribune to MediaNews Group. The move was announced Monday and…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot escaped with only minor injuries after a single-engine plane crashed nose-first into the roof of…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a judge to postpone his criminal trial…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fred S. Hoffman, a longtime Associated Press reporter who covered the Defense…

By EMILIO LUGO Associated Press TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say masked gunmen set fire to a public market in the central city of…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Record ocean heat has invaded Florida with a vengeance. Water…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — With tensions surrounding Guatemala’s June 25 election heightening, President Alejandro…

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern fired coach Pat Fitzgerald on Monday amid a hazing scandal that called into question his leadership of the…

LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — A giraffe named Twiga who died over the weekend at an East Texas zoo at the age of 31 was among the oldest giraffes being…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A college student who authorities say admitted setting fire to a building slated to become…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Two Democratic representatives in Colorado are alleging that their colleagues…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.N. agency tasked with regulating the deep sea is debating whether to open the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Southwestern U.S. is bracing for another week of blistering temperatures.…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary coalition has given initial approval to a contentious bill to limit…

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix says it’s making progress in complying with a court order to close a large homeless encampment known as “The Zone,”…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press (AP) — A helicopter pilot faces up to $10,000 in fines and a year in jail for making an illegal lakeside landing in…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has picked a longtime aide to serve as the state’s second acting attorney…

By The Associated Press Tenor Joseph Calleja has withdrawn from the title role in “Parsifal” that opens the annual Richard Wagner Festival at…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Steven Soderbergh’s latest project is the series “Full Circle” for Max debuting Thursday. It’s…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet using NASA’s Webb…

By CLAUDIA LAUER PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A day before killing four people in a mass shooting in Philadelphia last week, authorities say the gunman went…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY, BRITTANY PETERSON and DREW COSTLEY Associated Press Schools in New Delhi were forced to close Monday after heavy monsoon…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court Monday to temporarily block a lower…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University says nearly half of its academic programs are under evaluation.…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Lowell P. Weicker Jr. is being remembered as a towering figure in Connecticut politics. Weicker, who died June 28,…

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chief prosecutor says a court in the east of the country has sentenced five people to life in prison after they were…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps is without a confirmed leader for the first time in a century as Gen.…

By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer Kentucky racing officials have approved the rollout of sports betting, which will take effect when the NFL season…