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By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive health care strike over wages and staff shortages is heading into its final day…

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer Adam Wainwright’s playing days are over, but the former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher isn’t exactly taking it easy…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer HANGZHOU, China (AP) — Breakdancing is part of a minor sports revolution going on in Mongolia. The giant…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister on Friday expressed the European Union’s deep concerns…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly rose Friday in cautious trading ahead of an update on the U.S. jobs market.…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The German government says developed countries have pledged $9.3 billion to help poor…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N Human Rights Commission on South Sudan has accused the country’s National…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile strike has killed a 10-year-old boy and injured two dozen other people…

MOSCOW (AP) — The speaker of the Russian parliament says lawmakers will consider revoking the ratification of a global nuclear test ban.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose in cautious trading Friday after Wall Street drifted to a quiet close on…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A dozen state or county agencies have parted ways with tens of thousands of dollars in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Assocaited Press TOKYO (AP) — Three bears that snuck into a tatami mat factory and holed up inside for nearly a day have been…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has won an emphatic victory in a special election for a Scottish district that was watched…

OSLO (AP) — The winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize is being announced Friday, chosen by a panel of experts in Norway from a list of just…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press HOMS, Syria (AP) — Family members of some of the victims of a deadly drone attack on a crowded military graduation…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes have carried out airstrikes on sites believed to be used by U.S.-backed Kurdish militant groups in northern…

By SAM METZ Associated Press MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities will start providing money to families whose homes were destroyed in an…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — A quiet ceremony has been attended by about 200 people in a small town in…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Heavy rain has triggered floods and mudslides and downed trees in many parts of…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former High Court chief justice and dozens of legal academics are rebutting key…

By ASHOK SHARMA and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A flood that burst through a major hydroelectric dam in India’s Himalayan…

By JOEAL CALUPITAN and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press ABOARD BRP SINDANGAN (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship came within a meter (3 feet) of colliding…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A first-of-its-kind assessment says whales, dolphins and seals living in U.S. waters…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press PENROSE, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say they’re investigating the improper storage of human remains at a…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania’s support has raised Pennsylvania’s profile…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama (AP) — Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants…

By RAF CASERT and RENATA BRITO Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — European Union leaders have pledged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Michigan defendants accused of participating in a fake elector scheme are set to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Job growth in the United States has remained resilient for the past 2 1/2 years even…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire in a six-story residential building has left at least six dead and another 38 injured in Mumbai, India’s financial and…

BEIJING (AP) — A typhoon is heading toward southern China and Hong Kong after bringing record-breaking winds and leaving one dead in Taiwan.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo is constantly recreating itself. These days, multibillion-dollar redevelopment projects are…

By JILL COLVIN and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has dropped his $500 million lawsuit against…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico environmental regulators have finalized a 10-year permit extension at the nation’s only underground nuclear…

SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. investigators have confirmed that a mechanical issue caused the seaplane crash that killed 10 people off an island in…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes have reached a four-year deal with Scripps Sports and will become…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press Storms, floods, fires and other extreme weather events led to more than 43 million…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to help restore a sacred Native American…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A homeless man has been charged with murder and rape in the killing of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. says Lebanon faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with nearly…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is one of the busiest death penalty states in the nation, but some Republican…

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Dick Butkus, a fearsome middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears, has died, the team announced…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s right-hand man for more than five decades, has made…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The father of a toddler who authorities say died of fentanyl poisoning at a New York City day…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Assembly says he won’t pursue impeachment for the state’s top elections…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press PENROSE, Colo. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the improper storage of human remains at a southern Colorado…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Scientists charged with making sure the United States’ aging stockpile of nuclear weapons…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX’s co-founder has begun to tell a New York jury that he and Sam Bankman-Fried…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s main opposition says it will present new evidence to support its court…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says protesters in Iowa slammed a car…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of a Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission says it is seeking a court order that would compel Elon Musk to testify as part of an…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former Hartford police officer accused by his own department of lying to get an arrest warrant and inflating his traffic…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Most of the reaction to the death of a rail worker who mistakenly stepped in front of two CSX…

By DANIEL SHAILER The Associated Press PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) — The mayor of New York City is in Puebla, Mexico, thanking migrants for their…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is turning up the heat on…

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be soon be revealed and the annual guessing game…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden honored Dianne Feinstein in video remarks as a defender of American…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The three original members of the legendary R&B band Tony! Toni! Toné! have reunited…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Dartmouth College lawyers say the Ivy League school’s basketball players shouldn’t be…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Salt water inching up the Mississippi River is progressing more slowly than once projected —…

By The Associated Press Since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has repeatedly used missiles to blast civilian…