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Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A divided North Carolina election board has blocked for now the official party recognition of political…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A pair of giant pandas are on their way from China to the U.S., where they will be cared for at the San Diego Zoo as part of an…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two candidates in Iran’s presidential election have withdrawn from the race. It’s an…

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it tested a multiwarhead missile in the first known launch of a developmental weapon…

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say one person died and three others were hurt in an attack that involved a stabbing and…

FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — Tesla must fix air quality problems at its electric vehicle manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area after…

Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Authorities say the man arrested in connection to a fatal shooting in southern Colorado is suspected of killing a…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia’s government palace as President Luis Arce said his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA has awarded SpaceX an $843 million contract to build the vehicle that will bring the International Space Station out of its…

Associated Press The National Transportation Safety Board’s daylong hearing on a 2023 Ohio train derailment near the Pennsylvania border is giving…

Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Nearly 80 criminal trespass arrests stemming from a pro-Palestinian protest in April at the University of Texas have…

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from Camila Cabello and Megan Thee Stallion, Amazon Prime has a documentary about…

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — The Canadian government has ended the Newfoundland and Labrador cod moratorium, which gutted the Atlantic…

Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yet another lawsuit is accusing a Missouri Christian boarding school of forcing a former student to do…

Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court denied a request to consider whether to reverse Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of a man…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The chairman of a federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances has announced he is stepping down as…

Associated Press Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen says he’ll call lawmakers back for a special session next month to address property tax relief. But…

Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota dam is still intact after floodwaters overcame parts of the structure and prompted officials to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has joined the exclusive $2 trillion club after Wall Street investors pushed the value of the e-commerce giant’s stock…

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A California radiologist accused of trying to kill his wife and two children when he drove his Tesla off a cliff along…

Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican went on trial in a London court Wednesday, as a British financier sought to recover from the harm he said…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears ready to rule that hospitals in Idaho may provide medically necessary abortions to…

AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The days of “plausibly live” Olympics coverage on NBC are coming to an end. The network says Mike Tirico will…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has paid tribute to his country’s soccer team as they ended…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court called for an investigation Wednesday after the leak of a…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is…

Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police say Austrian-Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach was arrested again and is facing additional sexual…

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a civil rights group challenging North Carolina’s…

Associated Press SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Rick Satterwhite’s house backs up to the Missouri River, but flood insurance hadn’t really…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published June 25, 2024, about Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declaring gun violence a public health crisis, The…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says troops who were convicted under an old military policy criminalizing consensual gay sex…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Four Baton Rouge police officers have been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on charges alleging that they covered up the…

Associated Press A couple in West Virginia is set for trial later this year after some of their adopted children were found locked in a shed. Donald…

SHANGHAI, China (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Beijing says China’s support for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by providing…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two astronauts are spending extra time at the International Space Station as NASA and Boeing troubleshoot capsule…

HOUSTON (AP) — A second Venezuelan man living in the U.S. illegally and accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl has been ordered to be held…

AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pardoning potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of…

Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Yusif Eyvazov have separated. The couple had been together since 2014, when they appeared together in Puccini’s…

Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine federal court has opened proceedings in the trial of three people suspected in the…

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee city is facing a third lawsuit claiming its police refused to conduct proper investigations…

Associated Press Marvel star Anthony Mackie swam with sharks in the Gulf of Mexico for the new National Geographic special “Shark Beach with…

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Former “Jackass” star Bam Margera will spend six months on probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct…

Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Human rights experts working for the United Nations have accused Sudan’s warring parties of using starvation as a…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Two doctors and five other medical workers in Albania have been charged with abusing their posts by sending cancer patients…

Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced a debt restructuring deal with countries…

Associated Press CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (AP) — Dorothy Carr is fed up with how things are run in her hometown. It’s impossible to get a…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities say a suspected missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship in…

MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A cable car in the Colombian city of Medellin failed and plunged onto a sidewalk next to a station platform Wednesday,…

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Opposition politicians who were arrested in a crackdown in Mali were sent to prisons across the country this week. Human rights…

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A report by a U.N. expert on human rights says that Thai banks have become the main supplier of international…

Associated Press Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western Pennsylvania, on Wednesday became the youngest person ever elected as leader of the…

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s government has ordered the dissolution of multiple extreme right and radical Muslim groups, four days…

AP Film Writer Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s oeuvre defies simple categorization. She’s made documentaries about acid attack victims and…

AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Thursday in most Asian markets ahead of a key U.S. inflation report due Friday that might point the…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has overturned the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor, the latest in a series of…

Associated Press A wildfire in Oregon’s high desert, near the popular vacation destination of Bend, grew rapidly Wednesday, and officials urged the…