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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Lee is whirling north of Puerto Rico as a Category 3 storm, with forecasters noting it would remain in open…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A sweeping study of sex abuse by priests and others within the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland…

By ROBERT BADENDIECK and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish officials say an American researcher who was pulled out of a deep…

By MARC LEVY and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press Authorities warned that an escaped murderer who has evaded capture in southeastern Pennsylvania for…

By ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet Despite having great soft skills, workers with a history of food service work may be overlooked as not having relevant…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. rights chief says the Taliban have waged a systematic assault on the freedom of Afghanistan’s people. United…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Fans cheered Germany’s basketball team on its return home after winning the World Cup for the first time. The team…

LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — Heavy rainfall has flooded parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with one city declaring a state of emergency as water…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigrant farm workers would receive new protections under a Biden administration…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says his government will not lift its embargo on imports of Ukrainian grain as scheduled Friday…

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has asserted that the criminal cases against former U.S. President Donald Trump are…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a rhino at a zoo in Austria has attacked and killed a zookeeper and seriously injured another. The fatal attack happened…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s center-right opposition party has won local elections, with the conservatives of former Prime Minister…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Holocaust survivor Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, who spent the late years of her life warning of the…

ROME (AP) — The World Food Program is warning that humanitarian funding cuts by governments are forcing the U.N. agency to drastically cut food…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia to see President Vladimir Putin.…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Rescue teams in eastern Libya have retrieved hundreds of bodies from the rubble in a coastal city…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has been acquitted of a final tax evasion charge though she still faces two…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Tuesday following a Big Tech rally on Wall Street, as investors…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says it spotted 22 Chinese military aircraft and 20 warships near the island on Tuesday. Over the weekend, the United…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Several major Japanese companies have decided to stop using stars represented by Johnny &…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has begun hearing petitions to strike down a law that curbs its own…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has accused Iran of building an airport in southern Lebanon that could be used as a launchpad for attacks against Israelis…

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Snap checkpoints. Internet disruptions. University purges. Iran’s…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — How much does an extramarital affair matter to whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton…

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Court of Appeal has upheld the acquittal of former Prime Minister Najib Razak of audit tampering in…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Aerosmith has postponed a half-dozen dates on their farewell tour because frontman Steven Tyler injured his vocal cords during…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Some U.S. urban areas gained population. But it’s not because of a flood of moving trucks into Atlanta, New…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — It took four and a half months for Shannon Ross’ life to unravel. Ross, who…

By MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois appeals court will hear oral arguments Tuesday that the panel should toss Jussie…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton is stepping over the White House threshold in yet another role. Over the…

By PAUL WISEMAN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning…

By SHARON LURYE Associated Press For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The MTV Video Music Awards return Tuesday night and for the first time in the show’s history,…

BEIJING (AP) — Rainstorms battering southern China have killed at least seven people and allowed dozens of crocodiles to escape from a farm. Nearby…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Joined by his top military officials handling his nuclear-capable weapons and…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ effort to restrict the public’s…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have approved legislation requiring major…

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers was injured on his fourth snap in his debut with the New…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Swedish government wants to increase the country’s defense budget by 28% as it prepares to join the NATO alliance. The…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island are watching anxiously as county…

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A candidate in a high-stakes legislative contest in Virginia performed sex…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have voted to end a ban on state-funded travel to states with…

By TARA COPP Associated Press NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Indigenous tribes in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin are asking federal officials to deny…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First Lady Jill Biden saluted Colleen Shogan, the first woman to be sworn in as national…

DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a fatal single-vehicle crash just hours before Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida has been declared the…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A Colorado’s sheriff’s office says two deputies were fired after an…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard says that he will wait to see how the ruling party of President…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The U.N. says coca cultivation reached an all-time high in Colombia last year the…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer NYON, Switzerland (AP) — European soccer body UEFA has hosted a storied group of women players and coaches for a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — Think of movies about the financial system and your mind is almost sure to go to Gordon Gekko and…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A coalition of civil society groups is seeking to force the Environmental Protection…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge presiding…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A tortilla chip maker’s decision to pull its extremely spicy product sold as a…

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a 55-year-old man from Virginia has died in the Grand Canyon while trying to hike from the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested Monday and charged with assault and strangulation after allegedly attacking his…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Monday that she has chosen Anne Kirkpatrick, a former…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Most fast food workers in California would get a raise next year under a new bill in the…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against a onetime business partner of former…

DENVER (AP) — Retired Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton is teaming up with the organization RIP Medical Debt to help eliminate $10 million…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Advocates are asking a Missouri judge to rewrite what they say are misleading…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A man charged with assisting the leaders of a plan to kidnap Michigan’s governor is denying any role. But he told…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who Republicans are threatening…

PAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor says there’s insufficient evidence to charge the BTK serial killer in the 1976 disappearance of a…

WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Canadian federal prosecutors are arguing that a man facing murder charges in the deaths of four members of a Muslim family…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Sports betting company DraftKings apologized Monday after using the Sept. 11, 2001,…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say a 68-year-old man walked into an FBI field office in Oregon and confessed to…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Croatia climbed atop its European Championship qualifying group by beating Armenia 1-0 away thanks to Andrej…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino and hotel giant MGM Resorts International says a cybersecurity issue led to the shutdown of computer systems at its…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The president of the Dominican Republic says he has…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Officials from the City of Atlanta have refused to verify tens of thousands of signatures submitted by…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has tested positive for testosterone. Italy’s anti-doping agency…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The British foreign secretary has arrived in Israel on a three-day visit to a country in turmoil, facing its biggest protest…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators have approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, shots…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The sheriff in New Mexico’s largest metro area has vowed not to enforce an…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to an…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia has launched a joint military exercise with the United States, a move that has…

LONDON (AP) — The fashion designer who created the wedding dress of Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, is stepping down as creative director at…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) — As the U.S. races to build offshore wind power projects that will transform…