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By PETER SMITH Associated Press As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has toured flooded regions in the southwest, where rivers have swelled and caused flash floods and…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force on Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to…

By JAN GEBERT Associated Press PEZINOK, Slovakia (AP) — The man accused of attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico made his…

BERLIN (AP) — German officials and local media reported say authorities closed down Munich airport temporarily after six climate activists broke…

By SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Parts of northwest India are sweltering under scorching temperatures with the capital New Delhi…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press French security forces have reported another death in armed clashes in the French Pacific territory of New…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Flash floods from heavy seasonal rains in the province of Ghor in western Afghanistan have killed at least 50 people, a Taliban…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Young Brazilian female footballers are hopeful that their country…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Dave Williams has deployed former President Donald Trump’s…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says the young man who attacked a police station and killed two officers was a recluse…

By MOUSTAPHA DIALLO Associated Press DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Mali’s historic city of Djenné was once a center of Islamic learning, known for its…

By KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — Competition is fierce at the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, where…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press Since first grade, Julian Morris, 16, has changed schools six times, swinging between…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — States have for decades been using foster children’s federal Social Security…

By LEKAN OYEKANMI and DAVID J. PHILLIP Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to thousands after…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is expected to address thousands of members of the National…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — To make the first debate stage, Robert F. Kennedy has to secure a ballot place in at least a…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In recent months, the specter of noncitizens voting in the U.S. has erupted into a leading rallying…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — A decades-old landslide that’s rapidly accelerating has forced the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Japan has stressed the importance of increased deterrence and his…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Sexual diversity activists have protested in Peru’s capital in front of the health…

By GENE JOHNSON and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who has been under investigation in the deaths of four women whose…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police in Japan who were busy tracking thousands of yakuza members just a few years ago have set…

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu’s former top prosecutor has been found not guilty in a bribery case that alleged employees of an engineering and…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Even before kicking off a three-day visit to Madrid, Argentina’s libertarian…

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a man shot his 6-month-old baby multiple times at a home northwest of Phoenix. The child was seriously…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has ruled that a longshot gubernatorial candidate with ties to…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler’s arrest and prompt release from a Kentucky jail is…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press Texas officials say power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say South Sudan is close to securing a $13 billion loan from a company in…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The trial of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend is finishing its…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans are bundling up for their coldest autumn in more than 70 years mere days after sunning in T-shirts. It has been a…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest teachers union is turning up the pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom.…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republican lawmakers have failed to pass a proposal to make it harder to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has renewed a global security warning for Americans overseas and added to it that LGBTQ people and events in…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When an upside-down U.S. flag flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Victoria Nuland, a former top State Department official in the Biden…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Meteorologists say exceptional windstorms that may leave some Houston residents without power for weeks…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s attorney general told supporters he skirted the state’s campaign…

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A group of volunteers working to save people from the floods in southern Brazil have…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of a former Army sergeant convicted of murder…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Someone’s plans to harvest dozens of apparent marijuana plants grown on the Wisconsin…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mothers of two children with disabilities are suing an Indiana agency in federal court…

By ED WHITE Associated Press HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A fall trial has been set for a pharmacist charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of 11…

NEW YORK (AP) — A person wanted in connection with the random assault on actor Steve Buscemi on a New York City street earlier this month has been…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Perspective was even harder to come by than birdies through all the raindrops, bourbon and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani isn’t just getting his own day in Los Angeles this year. The Japanese two-way superstar will be able to call…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A media personality who co-founded a conservative political action committee has been appointed to…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A legislator in South Carolina has had his law license suspended after a former client accused him of forging his signature…

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s new prime minister has criticized the French military presence in the West…

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — A Lakota student’s traditional feather plume was cut off her cap during her high school commencement this week in the…

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian lawmakers have voted into office a new government that marks a tilt to the right…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police announced Friday they have linked the deaths of four young women nearly 50 years ago…

CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of “doctor of litter-ature” on a cat named Max who has become a…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Police say a former Boeing manager who raised safety questions about the aircraft maker took his own life. Police in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Seven Russian servicemen were injured when a World War II-era shell exploded in the basement of a military academy in St. Petersburg…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pennsylvania man whose father is a prominent conservative activist has been sentenced to…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization. “If I’m…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Would Lisa Simpson set up a tent at New York University to protest the war in Gaza? How would…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Security video appears to show Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating singer Cassie in a Los…

Associated Press A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said on Friday that product safety has “taken a backseat to…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — When a gunman shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico this week, shock rippled across the…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic groups are asking Michigan officials to investigate the nominating petitions…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The world’s top-ranked golfer played in the second round of the PGA Championship…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing symptoms. Powell…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of sentencing on her recent perjury…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says that several gunmen opened fire in central Afghanistan, killing at least four people, including three…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Tribune is being sued by some of its staffers, who say they and other women and Black journalists are being paid less…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden has spoken to Black leaders at the National Museum of African American…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The 35 American and other international doctors came to Gaza in volunteer teams to help one of the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man accused of setting a house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family in 2020 in a…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine commuters in Buenos Aires are being hit by an abrupt 360% increase in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III plans to travel to France next month for British ceremonies marking the 80th…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Scottie Scheffler’s arrest hours before his second-round tee time at the PGA Championship in Louisville will go down…