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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An inquiry has opened into an apartment building fire that killed at least 76…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are debating ways to best use their combined leverage to ensure that more aid…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago father has been convicted of attempting to kill three people to avenge the slaying of his 9-year-old son who was lured…

CLINTON, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff in southeast North Carolina says five people have been found fatally shot at a home. News outlets report that…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek army specialists have destroyed an unexploded World War II bomb discovered during work on a massive urban development…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister says he fully supports an…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top court has cleared a scholar of charges that she defamed Korean…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, artificial…

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose last week but remains historically low as the labor market continues to…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A nonprofit organization in Afghanistan says the Taliban have freed an activist who campaigned for the education of…

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Officials say at least 16 people are dead after a man opened fire at a restaurant and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine.…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press Norwegian police have launched an investigation into allegations by the three Ingebrigtsen brothers that their…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — As authorities around the world scramble to draw up guardrails for artificial intelligence, British…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the number of suicides among members of the military and their families…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government has vowed to explore “all legal options” after a Qatari court handed…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has hiked interest rates again in efforts to curb inflation, pressing ahead with more conventional…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Supreme Court has refused to void the election of President Bola Tinubu and…

By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Johnson is the new speaker of…

By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Roughly 1.8 million businesses in the U.S. are owned by someone with a disability, according to the American Community…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he is calling the first session of the country’s newly elected parliament for Nov.…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press Leaders from Brazil, Indonesia, Republic of Congo and other countries with the three largest tropical forest…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the United Kingdom next week for a…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Russian-born Swedish businessman has been acquitted of collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service,…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is ramping up political pressure on Serbia and Kosovo to normalize their relations. Serbian President Aleksandar…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Military divers from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Lithuania have participated in an…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say an American man has been charged with murder and other offenses for attacking two women from the U.S. near…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities have charged seven people with helping launder hundreds of millions of dollars for a Chinese…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares skidded Thursday in Europe and Asia after Wall Street tumbled as bond yields…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is setting up deportation centers to hold migrants living in the country illegally,…

By DALATOU MAMANE and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Families in Niger say they are struggling after economic sanctions…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank is likely taking a break from interest rate increases. The…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and AMY TEIBEL Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops and tanks launched a brief ground raid into…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China’s Environment Minister Huang Runqiu says his country wants to strengthen cooperation with…

By MARK STEVENSON and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — A day after Hurricane Otis roared ashore in Acapulco, unleashing…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press KYBURZ, Calif. (AP) — On a steep mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake…

The Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Stellantis says it plans to invest about 1.5 billion euros, or about $1.6 billion, in Leapmotor, a Chinese…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea, the U.S. and Japan have strongly condemned what they call North Korea’s…

By DIDI TANG and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the midst of two potentially world-changing conflicts, the U.S. is hoping to…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t used to constraints. The former…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate is facing execution for killing another prisoner more than 26 years ago. However,…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be the center of attention at an EU summit on Thursday…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press Muslim and Jewish civil rights groups say they’ve seen large increases in reports of harassment, bias and…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Economic crises are rippling through the countries bordering Israel. That raises…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) — Many of Michigan’s top Democrats, including Gov.…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The new speaker of the U.S. House had a key role in trying to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is expected to report stellar growth for the U.S. economy during the…

By SAMY MAGDY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have decided to stay in…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An Australia-based company is announcing plans to build a campus in New Mexico to expand its…

BEIJING (AP) — China has launched its youngest-ever crew for its orbiting space station as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon before 2030. The…

By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — What authorities describe as an off-duty pilot’s attempt to shut down the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has failed again to address the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza,…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Thousands of hotel workers fighting for new union contracts are rallying on the Las Vegas Strip.…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to reinstate a gag order on Donald Trump. They’re…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The leader of a Mexican megachurch who is serving more than 16 years in a California prison for sexually abusing young followers…

By RAUL DOMINGUEZ Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Victor Wembanyama is making his NBA debut with the Spurs against the Dallas Mavericks and the…

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting his wife and a bystander and injuring a third person at a southern Indiana gas station…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison in the the murders of her two youngest children…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The World Bank has approved a $1 billion loan for South Africa to help it address…

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police ordered residents in the state’s second-largest city to shelter in place Wednesday night because of…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Dusty Baker has retired as manager of the Houston Astros, ending an illustrious 26-year career as…

MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says former NFL player Sergio Brown bought a one-way ticket to Cancun, Mexico, after being the last person seen…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and AMY TAXIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials said Wednesday that conditions have improved on the…

BELOIT, Wis. (AP) — People go to Noodles & Company to save a buck, not to have one interrupt their meal. But that’s what happened in Beloit,…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Al-Jazeera says its chief correspondent in Gaza has lost three members of his family in an Israeli…

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer A Michigan State University hearing officer has determined former Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker sexually…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hyundai says it will set up “mobile clinics” at five U.S. locations to provide anti-theft software upgrades for vehicles…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press A low-key lawmaker who has been in the House for less than a decade, new House Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court will decide whether Republican state senators who carried out a record-setting GOP walkout during the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman was charged Wednesday with a misdemeanor for triggering a…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly has given final approval to new redistricting maps…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Hurricane Otis unexpectedly turned from mild to monster in record time, and scientists are struggling to figure…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An estimated 17 million households reported problems finding enough food in 2022 — a sharp…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All or most of a $267,000 loan obtained by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to buy a…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s state university system is disbanding chapters of a…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Boston City Council has passed a resolution that calls for renaming Faneuil Hall, a popular…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s chief prosecutor has announced a criminal investigation into…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama judge has dismissed Birmingham-Southern College’s lawsuit against the state treasurer over a loan denial.…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first thought that comes to mind when you enter the Balloon Museum for the “Let’s Fly”…

ATLANTA (AP) — Dwight Howard has denied accusations by a Georgia man who says he was sexually assaulted by the former NBA star and another person.…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking lawmakers for more than $23 billion in emergency funding to help the…