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By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed the highest-ranking Muslim official in the U.S. government.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City man who found a swastika cut into the grass in front of his home says he…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A white Florida woman charged with shooting and killing her Black neighbor told…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Jack Swarbrick will step down as Notre Dame’s athletic director next year after a 16-year run in which he helped the…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday gave whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s reason to raise a glass,…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — After years of criticizing mail voting and so-called ballot harvesting as ripe for fraud,…

By The Associated Press Racing at Belmont Park was canceled and the Washington Nationals’ home game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A U.S. petroleum company has signed an agreement with Sri Lanka allowing it to…

MILAN (AP) — A special Italian court has shut down a probe into whether the country’s former premier and former health minister caused…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s foreign ministry has informed Russia that it must reduce the number of its embassy positions in Bucharest by…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Spain, Portugal and France are sending 280 firefighters to Canada. With smoke reaching…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian officials say the smoke from Canadian wildfires that has enveloped parts of the U.S. and Canada in a thick…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A human rights organization says lawyers representing critics of Myanmar’s military government face…

WINONA, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, after a deputy found human…

Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of health care workers have protested in Romania’s capital on Thursday, demanding higher…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It’s part fairy tale, part psychodrama. Richard Strauss’s opera “Die Frau Ohne…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s police commissioner is stepping down after four years in the role. Commissioner…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Defiant as ever, many residents of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson who faced…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A report into a deadly shooting during Oslo’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride festival last year says Norway’s domestic…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s longtime president says he is taking “forced leave” after testing…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to its highest level since October 2021, but…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Budweiser will still be the official World Cup beer through the 2026 tournament in the United…

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s popular outgoing foreign minister, who was one of the key negotiators of his country’s recent membership in NATO,…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — “Groundhog Day” is back. Again. The story of a jaded weatherman fated to live the same day over…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russia is urging judges at the United Nations’ highest court to throw out a case…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Tens of thousands of Zimbabwean nationals working in South Africa who were facing…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a bombing in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province killed at…

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Exclusive drone footage of the collapsed Ukrainian dam and surrounding villages under Russian occupation showed the ruined…

By DAVID McHUGH and COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writers LONDON (AP) — The European economy has contracted slightly at the end of last year and…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s biggest police force has apologized for the department’s past…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive is proposing to create an ethics body that would set up…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it is not planning to invite Ukraine to the G20 summit of industrialized and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Friday, led by a jump on the Tokyo Stock Exchange where share prices got…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is launching legal action against Poland over a contentious new law that the…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Once again, Barcelona couldn’t do enough to entice Lionel Messi. Nearly two years after the…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces Thursday shelled a southern Ukrainian city…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N’s agency on children says it is deeply concerned about Taliban plans to bar international organizations from…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court says the lack of legal protections for LGTBQ+ people appears to be…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials have raised the alert level for one of the country’s most active volcanoes after superheated…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have made a breakthrough in migration talks, sealing agreement on a plan to…

PARIS Opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform have failed to pass a repeal bill. It was their latest effort to maintain the…

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia and Indonesia have signed agreements to end longstanding sea border disputes and vowed to bolster cooperation…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Elite wrestlers who are demanding the resignation and arrest of India’s wrestling…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is in “good general condition” following a three-hour operation to remove…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press HARISH, Israel (AP) — The sound of children and music echoed down a narrow basement hallway in Israel as they…

By RICK RYCROFT and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian man who admitted killing a gay American by punching him off a cliff…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army says it has demolished the West Bank home of a Palestinian suspected of involvement in twin bombings in Jerusalem…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The UN children’s agency says about 300 children have been rescued from an orphanage in Sudan’s…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian officials on Thursday condemned a Singapore-born stand-up comedian who mocked Malaysia and made fun of the…

By JESSE BEDAYN, COLLEEN SLEVIN and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say embers from a smoldering scrap wood fire…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is condemning a wave of state legislation curbing the rights,…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a trio of new announcements this week, the Republican Party’s 2024…

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday…

By KIM CHANDLER, REGINA GARCIA CANO and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As it pushes to renew a cornerstone law that authorizes major…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and ROB GILLIES Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Images of smoke obscuring the New York skyline and the Washington Monument this…

By AARON MORRISON and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Ben Crump, the Rev. Al Sharpton says, is “Black America’s attorney general.” In less than a…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Never had two players from the same team had 30-point triple-doubles in the same game. Never in…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland’s city council voted Wednesday to pass an ordinance prohibiting camping during daytime hours in most public…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In a story published June 7, 2023, The Associated Press reported about a lawsuit filed following a building collapse in…