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By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The United States is about to start the countdown to its 250th anniversary. The buildup begins this July 4 at a…

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer Thousands of prisoners throughout the United States get their college degrees behind bars, most of them paid for…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Backups are easing at U.S. airports thanks to a break in the weather, but travelers are still…

BERLIN (AP) — German police have warned of a potentially lethal “Blue Punisher” variety of ecstasy in circulation after the death of two…

By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and ALEJANDRA MOLINA of Religion News Service OAK FLAT, Ariz. (AP) — Azee Romero climbed barefoot on the…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — World Bank President Ajay Banga, Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Dozens of Israeli air force reservists say they won’t show up for duty if the…

By JAIME HANSON of NerdWallet The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering a new rule that would slash credit card late fees by 75%, from…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Three-row SUVs have been a popular choice among car shoppers with large families. They typically seat up to eight passengers…

LONDON (AP) — Two protesters from the Just Stop Oil group have run onto the field at Lords and briefly disrupted play about five minutes after the…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Iga Swiatek is coming off her third title in the past four years on the French Open’s red clay. She also won a…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer There’s a youth movement going on in the National Women’s Soccer League. Eighteen-year-old Alyssa…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is battling an influx of disease-carrying mosquitoes by bringing in hundreds of thousands of the insects after being…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway has approved 19 oil and gas projects on the Norwegian continental shelf, saying the total investments are worth…

By OLEG CETINIC and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Police clashed with protesters overnight just hours after French…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders will push ahead this week with plans to beef up the bloc’s borders and…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they accused of helping Russia direct a…

By HOGIR ABDO and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Few places in Jerusalem speak of the larger conflict being waged over the city more than the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after leaders of major central banks said they need to…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Jurors who will decide the fate of actor Kevin Spacey were sworn in Wednesday in a London court as…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has acquitted a student activist and four other people of impeding the…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused and imprisoned for the rape of a…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has announced a new campaign proposal on United States…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a controversial legal theory that could have changed the way…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to…

By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Armed men have abducted 14 state police officers in southern Mexico. The kidnapping on…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has discussed his country’s interest in boosting economic ties with China during a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Two sisters have told an Australian court that being sexually abused by their Jewish…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Vietjet plane carrying 214 people has made an unscheduled but safe landing in the northern Philippines after…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine House has voted again to allow later abortions in some circumstances, putting the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump’s legal team sought to overturn 2020…

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The NFL RedZone channel will be available to DirecTV customers for the first time as part of a multiyear renewal of its…

MILAN (AP) — A still-life fresco recently discovered in the Pompeii archaeological site features a flatbread with colorful toppings that looks like…

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, who also played for New England, Houston and Baltimore during five seasons in the…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A California man is going to prison for running a cow dung-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Is there really a new way to look at The Beatles, one of the most filmed and photographed bands in…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led an armed rebellion against the Russian military…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A labor group has requested an ethics investigation of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press Louisiana’s Supreme Court has sidestepped a ruling on the constitutionality of legislation that gave adult…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The hush money case against former President Donald Trump appears headed…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday agreed to delay Joran Van der Sloot’s extortion trial until the fall to give him more time to prepare…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii have arrested a man and woman they say supplied the fentanyl in a…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana woman who watched the man who coerced her into a sex act when she was 16 walk free…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Bernardo Arévalo, the surprise of the first round of voting in…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico says it has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Energy…

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Satellite-radio provider SiriusXM said it will shut down its Stitcher podcast app at the end of August in…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer James Gunn has found his new Superman and Lois Lane in David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan. The DC Studios co-chair,…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says the surging violence in Sudan is likely to drive over 1 million refugees out…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Former U.S. Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy says he will seek the 2024 Republican nomination to…

By SALAR SALIM and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — More than 50 members of the local parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region in…

By MELINA WALLING, MELISSA WINDER and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is…

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says in a $1 million lawsuit that a cleaner who switched off power to a lab freezer containing…

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — Police in Muskogee, Oklahoma, confirmed Tuesday they are investigating the shooting deaths of three relatives of seven-time…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Julian Sands, who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis is loaning eight prosecutors to the St. Louis Circuit…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Biden administration has dropped investigations into whether Louisiana officials put Black residents living…

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian officials say rainfall likely won’t be enough to extinguish the wildfires ravaging northern Quebec, but the wet weather…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The family of two Pakistani men who died in the implosion of a submersible as it descended to the…

PARIS (AP) — A 17-year-old delivery driver was shot and killed by a police officer Tuesday in a Paris suburb, according to his family’s lawyers.…