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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who drove his car into a group of migrant…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — This year Whitney Houston would have turned 60, and a special celebration to raise money for a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Nigeria’s Adamawa state have relaxed a curfew which they…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation. Georgia Power Co.…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled central bank governor has ended his 30-year tenure. Riad Salameh stepped…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China has imposed restrictions on exports of long-range civilian drones, citing Russia’s war on…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An escalating dispute over a gas field in the Persian Gulf poses an early…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police say a French man apparently has fallen to his death from a high-rise residential…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has sentenced a man to 23 years in prison for stabbing a passenger and setting a…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A British man has been freed immediately after a Cyprus court sentenced him to two…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it will grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea in a bid for energy…

By ABBY SEWELL and FADI TAWIL Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Thousands of mourners have gathered in south Lebanon for the funeral of a…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Neighboring nations are levying economic sanctions over a coup last week that toppled one of…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s economy is growing again — but not by much. Growth came in at 0.3% in…

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russian ballistic missiles have slammed into an apartment complex and…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Fans of singer and songwriter Coco Lee, who was known for her powerful voice and live…

BEIJING (AP) — A zoo in eastern China is denying suggestions some of its bears might be people in costumes after photos of the animals standing…

By ANWARULLAH KHAN and RIAZ KHAN Associated Press KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — An Afghan branch of the Islamic State group on Monday claimed…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Officials say the Australian army helicopter that crashed during a multinational…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — When Pope Francis made the first foreign trip of his papacy, to Rio de Janeiro for World…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (AP) — The dogs bark and stare as Kim Jong-kil approaches the rusty cages housing the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, boosted by market optimism set off by a Wall Street rally…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia prosecutor is expected to seek a grand jury indictment in the coming weeks in her…

BEIJING (AP) — A survey shows Chinese factory activity contracted in July as export orders shrank. That adds to pressure on the ruling Communist…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate made his…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Work has begun on the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. Crews have mostly…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell has been sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh tracks from Quavo, the arrival on Disney+ of James Gunn’s cornball…

By ELLEN McINTYRE Associated Press DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — Women’s World Cup host city Dunedin, at latitude of 45.88 degrees South, is…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The leader of the European Union’s executive commission has warned against China’s…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Fangbiaogan Real Estate Agency in the southern city of Nanning is still waiting for China’s…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400…

By WALTER BERRY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix sizzled through its 31st consecutive day of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius)…

ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — Four people are dead after the all-terrain vehicle they were in rolled over and burst into flames on a dirt road in…

BRIGHTON, Iowa (AP) — You-pick farms are struggling through heat, drought and haze. Specialty crops that require lots of water — like blueberries…

By ASHRAF SWEILAM Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Security and health officials say a shooting at a heavily fortified security facility in…

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — A massive wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave National Preserve is spreading rapidly…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark’s foreign minister said Sunday the government will seek to make it illegal to desecrate…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Officials under Kansas’s Democratic governor are seeking to have the state resume…