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By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press DUNDEE, South Africa (AP) — Thousands of children in South Africa’s poorest and most remote rural…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and China are the two global economic heavyweights. Combined, they produce…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Activists protesting environmental abuses, poor working conditions and the Israel-Hamas war are…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a new reality for the normally…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Megan Rapinoe of the OL Reign suffered a non-contact injury to her right leg early in the NWSL championship match and needed…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Latvia’s president says Russia is planning for a long war in Ukraine and he warns that…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Israel coach Alon Hazan wants his team to beat Kosovo in their…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have arrested a Los Angeles man in connection with the discovery of the torso of a dismembered female body and the…

By KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled his proposal to avoid a partial…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. European Command says a U.S. military aircraft has gone down over the eastern…

HOUSTON (AP) — Police say six people including former NFL player D.J. Hayden have died in a two-vehicle crash in downtown Houston. A Chrysler 300…

NICHOLS, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the deaths of more than two dozen racehorses in a barn fire at an upstate New York track that…

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — Funerals for the 18 victims of the mass shooting in Maine last month are nearing a conclusion with a service for a husband and…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer With Jim Harbaugh banned by the Big Ten Conference, J.J. McCarthy, Blake Corum and No. 2 Michigan played…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hospitals have been caught in the crossfire during the Israel-Hamas war — both literally and in…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency and Sudanese doctors say fighters from a paramilitary force and their allied…

BY LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Joe Manchin’s impending departure from the Senate marks the end of an…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say firefighters have mostly extinguished a large blaze that burned trailers, cars and other things in storage lots…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Former Ghana striker Raphael Dwamena has died after collapsing Saturday during an Albanian…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s state House will soon have its first Black speaker in its more than 400-year…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said America’s veterans are “the steel spine of this nation” as he marked Veterans Day during a…

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer KENNER, La. (AP) — Police say New Orleans Saints receiver Michael Thomas is facing simple battery and criminal…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s ruling party has named its candidates for eight governorships and the mayorship of Mexico City. But after ruling…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say one of the military government’s jet fighters has crashed in a combat…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Volunteers are taking part in an effort to extend the habitat of the most emblematic and…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says his fighters have introduced new weapons…

KEN MILLER One Texas police officer was killed and a second officer was wounded in a shooting at a home in Austin that also left the suspected gunman…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW. Poland (AP) — Thousands of people have marched through Warsaw in an event organized by nationalist groups…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The question of whether Georgia’s electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws that…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Danica Roem is accustomed to opponents using her transgender identity as a cudgel in Virginia…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press ABOARD THE USS CARL VINSON (AP) — Japan is leading an annual multinational naval exercise that includes the…

DETROIT (AP) — Police have released a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue leader. The suspect’s lawyer, Allison Kriger,…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Donald Trump is pushing for his federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised, joining…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A South Dakota law professor who typically teaches torts and natural resources is…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Officials in Indian-controlled Kashmir say a massive fire has destroyed several wooden houseboats anchored on Dal Lake, an…

By JIM GOMEZ AND JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press ABOARD THE BRP CABRA (AP) — As a U.S. Navy surveillance plane flew in circles, dozens of Chinese…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A new large study finds that the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy reduced the risk of serious heart problems by 20%…

LONDON (AP) — Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland have left their homes after increasing concern about a potential volcanic…

By ADIL JAWAD Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani activists say police are arresting Afghan women and children in southern Sindh…

By RAF CASERT and MARTA FIORIN Associated Press YPRES, Belgium (AP) — People around the globe are remembering the slaughter and losses from four…

By MELINA WALLING, AMANDA LOMAN and BROOKE HERBERT Associated Press MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. (AP) — In the face of human-caused climate change impacting…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has forcibly removed from office the bishop of Tyler, Texas. Bishop Joseph Strickland is a conservative who is active on…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials said Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as part of an overnight bombardment felt across…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The husband of a Russian-American journalist working for a U.S. government-funded media company who…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London police are stepping up efforts to ensure a pro-Palestinian march remains peaceful following a…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — One year since Ukraine retook the city of Kherson from occupying Russian forces, residents…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s defense minister has been seriously injured in a car crash in which another person died. Officials say that the…

BANGKOK (AP) — A military court in Myanmar has sentenced a general who until recently was a senior member of the country’s ruling council to five…

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s prime minister pushed back Saturday…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — No. 2 Michigan plays its biggest game of the season so far at No. 9 Penn…

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s chances of forming a new…

By SAM METZ Associated Press MOULAY BRAHIM, Morocco (AP) — After many natural disasters, people debate how to rebuild without changing their…

BY BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A political novice and one of the world’s wealthiest millennials, Vivek Ramaswamy has waged a…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN, ALAN SUDERMAN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. (AP) — When a healthcare startup dreamed of building a…

By WILL WEISSERT and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday, there will…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Lady Bird Johnson’s own voice is helping offer new looks at the former first lady in several…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Government agencies and nonprofits around the country have long been working to reduce the numbers of…

by DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials have imposed severe, months-long cuts to Mexico City’s water supply just…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Almost seven months of war between Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary group…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former film academy president John Bailey has died at 81. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said the…

TOKYO (AP) — Government ministers in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu are asking the preident to dissolve parliament, adding to political disarray…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Shoppers in China have been tightening their purse strings, raising questions over how faltering…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Legislature has until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map after a lower…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama say multiple people have been shot on Interstate 59 southbound in Birmingham. Birmingham Police say…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan; Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md.; Reps. Mike Lawler,…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Board members from Hollywood’s actors union have voted to approve the deal with studios that ended their…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Nope” star Keke Palmer alleges in civil court documents that she suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has lowered its outlook on the…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press An additional 1.2 million chickens will be slaughtered after bird flu was confirmed on an Iowa egg farm in the second…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Four homeless people have died in the last week on the streets of Anchorage as a major…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — One New England university banned a pro-Palestinian student group. Another suspended some students…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The body of a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man who has been missing 30 years was identified in Colorado, where deputies have…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma trooper’s decision to issue a ticket to an Otoe-Missouria Tribe citizen for…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Four Ohio Republican state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Daytime Emmys are back on after being postponed by the Hollywood writers’ strike. The 50th annual ceremony honoring…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Puerto Rico say a surgical dentist shot and killed a patient who entered his office and allegedly…

NEW YORK (AP) — FBI agents seized phones and an iPad from New York City Mayor Eric Adams this week as part of an investigation into his campaign…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh was banned from coaching at Michigan’s three remaining…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says she and her Chinese…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican congressman who leads the House GOP’s investigation of the origins of COVID-19 says he won’t seek…

By BEN FINLEY NORFOLK, Va. A European company has cancelled plans to build blades for offshore wind turbines in coastal Virginia. It’s the…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City is hiring two overdose investigators as part of an effort to reduce fentanyl deaths in the Missouri city. The…