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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s population has declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Observant visitors to the area around the U.S. Capitol building on Tuesday afternoon were treated to a unusual sight: an…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks held steady Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to their highest level…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — NatWest, one of Britain’s biggest banks, says its chief executive has left her job after…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The truce that stopped the bloodshed in the Korean War turns 70 years old on Thursday…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia, the new home of some of soccer’s biggest stars and a co-owner…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The horrors of war arrive through the night at a hospital in eastern Ukraine, a procession…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Workers for corporations owned by Michael Jackson had no legal obligation to protect…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Months after the last newspaper closed in a declining coal community in West Virginia,…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The water temperature around the tip of Florida has hit triple digits — hot tub levels — two days in a row.…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Months after the last newspaper closed in a declining coal community in West Virginia,…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday for the 11th time in 17…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Volunteers worked frantically on a second day Wednesday to save dozens of pilot whales that have stranded themselves on a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, faced new challenges on the eve of a scheduled…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Doksuri has lashed northern Philippine provinces with ferocious wind and rain,…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the tiny kingdom of Tonga as the United…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro says the network could take on a sports league as a minority…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Senators Joe Manchin and Tommy Tuberville introduced a college sports bill that would require athletes…

WINDSOR, Nova Scotia (AP) — Canadian police say the body of a child who went missing when the province of Nova Scotia was hit with extreme flooding…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Rocky Wirtz, who won three Stanley Cup titles as owner of the Chicago Blackhawks and presided over the…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Justin Herbert is set to become the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback by annual salary, agreeing to a five-year, $262.5…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The last report submitted by a panel of outside experts has raised further questions about the Mexican military’s role in the…

By PAOLA FLORES and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is interested in obtaining Iranian drone technology to protect…

BOSTON (AP) — A nearly 500-year-old manuscript signed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés in 1527 has been returned to the Archivo General…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A gynecologist who sexually abused vulnerable and trusting patients for over two decades at…

By WALTER BERRY and TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Longtime Phoenix residents know that sweltering Julys are to be expected, but no one…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — West Africa has recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado police officer on trial for putting a handcuffed woman in a parked police…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday vacated the military conviction of Bowe Bergdahl, a former…

PARIS (AP) — Ensconced in a glass cage lined with bamboo shoots, the first panda ever born in France bid ‘’adieu’’ to the French zoo where…

HONOLULU (AP) — A boat that washed ashore in Hawaii has been identified as belonging to a California mariner who ran into trouble while sailing…

CEDAR HILL, Texas (AP) — Police say a man suspected of shooting and injuring a doctor at a Dallas-area medical building was shot and injured by…

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — A man who has been jailed in Georgia for 10 years awaiting trial for a 2013 drive-by shooting that killed two people and injured…

By JACK DURA Associated Press Three more men charged in connection with an alleged international fentanyl ring have been sentenced this month to…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In the final months of the Trump administration, a new plan to seal off the United…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment…

In a story published July 24, 2023, about a peanut monument in Ashburn, Georgia, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the executive…

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say human remains found buried in 1983 at an abandoned Indiana farm have been…