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Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans is taking another look at its own order requiring a Texas county to keep…

AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a historically bad first half of the year, the box office is suddenly booming. “Despicable Me 4,” the…

LEVITTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man was charged with arson after giving an 11-year-old child fireworks that set a shed and two homes on fire on…

Associated Press A dozen people were inside a movie set church the day Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded…

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden urged his supporters to stay unified during a series of stops in critical Pennsylvania…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Britain’s new Foreign Secretary David Lammy has held talks with his Polish counterpart as part of his first international…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say a naval destroyer has sunk while it was being repaired in a port near the Strait of Hormuz. The…

Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his willingness to restore ties with Syria and extended an…

Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Given the choice between a far-right convention to bash his enemies and a presidential summit to…

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — President Joe Biden and his Western counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he would seek to improve the trade deal with the European Union as he…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO allies are gathering in Washington for a summit this week, and the prospect that Donald Trump, the military…

AP Sports Writer BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — As a boy in Milwaukee, Ziyad Saleem would walk through the house pretending to swim backstroke — arm…

Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Two months ago, before Israeli troops invaded Rafah, the city sheltered most of Gaza’s more than 2…

Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Marking nine months since the war in Gaza started, Israeli protesters blocked highways across the country…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A village in a border region of western Russia was evacuated Sunday following a series of explosions after…

Associated Press MACHAKOS, Kenya (AP) — With dismay, Martha Waema and her husband surveyed their farm that was submerged by weeks of relentless…

Associated Press JOANETES, Spain (AP) — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish…

Associated Press MATAGORDA, Texas (AP) — Beryl began lashing coastal Texas with rain and intensifying winds Sunday as residents boarded up windows,…

Associated Press The scammers are winning. Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, a…

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A coalition of the French left won the most seats in high-stakes legislative elections Sunday, beating back a…

Associated Press Hawaii Gov. Josh Green says President Joe Biden could decide within days whether to remain a candidate for reelection. And Green…

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As President Joe Biden tries to revive his embattled reelection bid, Vice President Kamala Harris led a parade…

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Urban League has honored and recognized the accomplishments of four Black women who have made…

Associated Press BARINAS, Venezuela (AP) — The chant is concise, but it could not be more meaningful for millions of Venezuelans in 2024:…

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans group Tank and the Bangas got a big boost when they won a 2017 National Public Radio contest for…

TABERNACLE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a fast-moving forest fire that has burned thousands of acres in southern New Jersey is now 65 percent…

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — Crews are searching Lake Michigan for two suburban Chicago men who went missing while a large group of people were boating…

AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on three of the…

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) — An off-duty New York Police Department officer who was among four killed when a drunk driver plowed into a nail salon on…

Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Military junta leaders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have ruled out returning their nations to the West…

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — NASCAR has unveiled its first electric racecar in Chicago. It doesn’t thunder when the race grand marshal says…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has its first change in government in 14 years after the Labour Party won a resounding victory in a general…

Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Japan’s foreign minister has announced a joint project with Cambodia to share knowledge and…

MANAWA, Wis. (AP) — A police chief says people living downriver of a Wisconsin dam that was breached by floodwaters have been allowed back into…

AP Entertainment Writer A judge’s ruling Friday abruptly ended the involuntary manslaughter case against actor Alec Baldwin. Judge Mary Marlowe…

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy shot to death by police in upstate New York after he pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at officers has…

Associated Press With its unprecedented tear through the ultrawarm waters of the southeast Caribbean, Beryl turned meteorologists’ worst fears of a…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is…

Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Hamas has given its initial approval of a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased cease-fire deal in Gaza,…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese media reports that five people were confirmed dead after tornadoes struck a city in the eastern Chinese province of…

PARIS (AP) — Voters in France’s overseas territories and living abroad have started casting ballots in parliamentary runoff elections that could…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes overnight left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to a…

NEW DELHI (AP) — In March, Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani threw a three-day prenuptial bash for his son that included a 1,200-person guest…

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron could awake — if he has slept at all — with clipped wings on Monday morning. The…

Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — For the first time since 2020, three female suicide bombers attacked the Nigerian border town of Gwoza,…

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas officials urged coastal residents to brace for a looming hit by Beryl, which was a tropical storm on Saturday…

The message to NATO from President Vladimir Putin was simple and stark: Don’t go too far in providing military support for Ukraine, or…

In a story published Jul. 6, 2024, about pongamia trees, The Associated Press misspelled the name of Ponova culinary oil, which is made from pongamia…

Associated Press YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) — When the Little Art Theatre set out to land a $100,000 grant to fund a stylish new marquee, with a nod…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer doesn’t get to take a breather. After a draining six-week election…

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Forced labor, same-sex marriage and shoplifting are among the 10 statewide ballot measures California…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are off to a quicker, more united start this year when it comes to funding the federal…

Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Native American tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The stances of Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian reflect the dualities of being a…