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By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a new album from Willie Nelson, Benedict Cumberbatch playing a…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were mostly higher on Monday after U.S. stocks bounced back from Wall Street’s worst day since…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia prepared on Monday to send aircraft and other equipment to help at the site…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Libertarian Party has nominated party activist Chase Oliver for president. The third party rejected former President Donald…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s government is cracking down on illegal mining, making dozens of arrests of…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A cyclone has flooded villages and left hundreds of thousands of people without power after making landfall overnight…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A Colorado sheriff’s office says a lightning strike has killed a Colorado…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed when he interrupted thieves stealing the catalytic…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan are set to meet in Seoul for their first…

SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 61-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of shooting and wounding five people at a Los Angeles area…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to lift the state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia.…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A strong earthquake has struck the South Pacific Island nation of Tonga but there are no tsunami warnings or immediate…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan says North Korea has informed it of a plan to launch a satellite by June 3. Japan’s coast guard said Monday it…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Emergency services in the Netherlands say part of a parking garage at a hospital in the central Dutch city of…

By DÁNICA COTO and JIM SALTER Associated Press A spokesperson for the families of a young missionary couple from the U.S. says their bodies are…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Stan Wawrinka repeatedly used his trademark one-handed backhand to get the better of Andy Murray…

OCEAN GROVE, N.J. (AP) — Beachgoers were out on the sand of one New Jersey shore community on a Sunday morning before Memorial day for the first…

By SEAN MURPHY and JULIO CORTEZ Associated Press VALLEY VIEW, Texas (AP) — The dazed residents of a north Texas county sifted through their mangled…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Protesters have briefly disrupted an outdoor commencement address given by Brown University’s president. Shortly after…

BUTLER, Mo. (AP) — Six skydivers and a pilot are safe after parachuting out of a small plane before it crashed near a county airport in western…

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The president and prime minister of Georgia have lashed out at each other at a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the capital of Uzbekistan where he is to hold talks with President Shavkay…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s main opposition party Democratic Alliance has made its…

PARIS (AP) — The French capital’s most famous street has been transformed into a massive picnic blanket. Around 4,000 people sat in the sun on…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators have held a protest in the center of the capital of Armenia, calling for the resignation…

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Two correctional officers at a Minnesota prison were left with minor injuries after being assaulted by two inmates. The…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The box office is cruising for a two-decade low. “Furiosa,” the Mad Max prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia has announced the appointment of its first ambassador to Syria since severing ties…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The start of the Indianapolis 500 was expected to be delayed as a strong storm pushed into the area, forcing Indianapolis Motor…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say a man set a cup of liquid on fire on the subway and threw it at a fellow rider who suffered burn injuries.…

BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts say a man was taken into custody after six people, including four girls at a movie theater, were…

By RODRIGO ABD and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press BELÉN, Peru (AP) — In the heart of Peru’s Amazon region, a poor Indigenous community put…

LA OROYA, Peru (AP) — Police in Peru say four people are dead and more than 30 are injured after a passenger bus and a cargo train collided. The…

By ACACIA CORONADO, SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Powerful storms have left at least seven people dead in…

LONDON (AP) — Twelve people have been injured when a Qatar Airways plane flying from Doha to Dublin hit turbulence. Dublin Airport said in a…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — The French tennis federation has decided to put off holding a ceremony to celebrate Rafael Nadal…

BERLIN (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Germany for the first state visit by a French head of state in 24 years. The three-day trip…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical school in Pasadena, California, is deliberating…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Testimony is over at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Norway has handed over papers to the Palestinian prime minister in the latest step toward recognizing a Palestinian state. Ireland…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press SILER CITY, N.C. (AP) — Just 81,000 people live in rural Chatham County in North Carolina, where there are more than…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Russia is preparing to intensify its offensive…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An international aid group says more than two weeks of fighting between Sudan’s military and a…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says the Houthi rebels in Yemen have released more than…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — All 18-year-olds in Britain will have to perform a year of mandatory military or civilian national…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan officials say renewed heavy rains have triggered more flash floods in Afghanistan, killing…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Aid trucks entered Gaza from southern Israel on Sunday through a…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanians are returning to the polls for the second round of the Baltic country’s presidential election as incumbent…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali official says it isn’t possible to search for a British climber and…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Kolkata airport will suspend flight operations from midnight Sunday for 21 hours after a storm over the north Bay of…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and OMAR ALBAM Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Syria’s devastating civil war, now in its 14th year, remains…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe introduced the world’s newest currency in April with public rallies and…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press When Balu Natarajan became the first Indian American champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 1985, a…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A 60-year-old woman saw her dreams of becoming the oldest Miss Universe contestant…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Emergency responders are moving survivors of a massive landslide feared to have buried…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is once again under the…

By ERIN HOOLEY Associated Press LISLE, Ill. (AP) — It was late morning when The Morton Arboretum’s Senior Horticulturist Kate Myroup arrived…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Chinese and Japanese leaders were set to arrive in Seoul and meet with South Korea’s…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire erupted in a baby care center in India’s capital and killed six infants. Fire officer Suresh Kumar says six newborns…

By PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean judge has ordered a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor Mark Robinson delivered a speech focused on the economy…

By YESICA FISCH Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Scuffles between Israeli police and protesters have erupted in Tel Aviv after thousands gathered…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A strong earthquake has struck the South Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu but there are no tsunami warnings or…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top assassin for the Sinaloa drug cartel who was arrested by Mexican authorities last fall has been extradited to the U.S. to…

By The Associated Press Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has no regrets about expressing his beliefs in a recent commencement speech and he…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped…

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The military junta ruling Burkina Faso has announced a five-year extension to its…

NEW YORK (AP) — Three peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in a nest built at the top of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City. The…

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A jury has awarded more than $1.1 million to an Idaho drag performer who accused a far-right blogger of defaming…

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — The leader of a pro-independence party in New Caledonia has called on supporters to “remain…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Hundreds of clowns have gathered in the streets of Peru’s capital to mark Clown Day, a holiday for which they have sought for…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Rapper Nicki Minaj said Saturday that police in the Netherlands discovered marijuana in her bags as she was preparing to leave the…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Two-time PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray has died at the age of 30. The PGA Tour and his management company GSE…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities say police officers in Baltimore have fatally shot a man who pulled a gun while they questioned him in a different…

SAN BERNADINO COUNTY, Calif. (AP) — Southern California authorities say a teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted carjacking and…

MIAMI (AP) — Progressive civic groups have challenged how four congressional districts and seven state House districts in South Florida were drawn…