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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African Cabinet minister who is a senior member of the African National Congress party has appeared in court over…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say four police officers in the capital region have been arrested for kidnapping for ransom that…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s online safety watchdog has dropped her Federal Court case aimed at…

BERLIN (AP) — German news agency dpa is reporting that a member of a far-right party was stabbed and wounded in the southwestern city of Mannheim.…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — United States President Joe Biden will mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo says construction of the first phase of the country’s…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says that the U.S. has flown a long-range B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula for its first…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares traded mixed Wednesday, as investors weighed recent data highlighting a slowing U.S.…

By LORNE COOK and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Voters in the European Union are set to elect lawmakers starting Thursday for the…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army said Wednesday a gunman attempted to attack on the U.S. embassy near Beirut.…

By JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — About 2 million people have been displaced in Burkina Faso by growing violence between…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A global human rights group claimed that Israel has used white phosphorus incendiary shells on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris spent part of a Tuesday episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” rehashing how she found out about former…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is visiting Albania to thank the tiny Western Balkan…

By COLLEEN BARRY The Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox is returning to an Italian courtroom for the first time in more than 12½…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwestern US with triple digit temperatures…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Months after Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees agreed to end a protracted legal…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union elections start Thursday and results will be known late Sunday. All eyes are on…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The leader of the United Arab Emirates has met with an official in the Taliban…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Major Republican campaign funders are investing millions in Missouri’s GOP attorney general primary. Big…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Political observers have already placed their bets on U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, predicting the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In an election-year effort to put Republicans on record on reproductive rights issues,…

By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — Kate Bulkeley’s pledge to stay off social media in high school worked at first.…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is about to trade its all-male state Supreme court for an all-white one.…

By JILL COLVIN, STEPHEN GROVES and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tried to address a major liability…

The Associated Press It’s dangerous. It’s addictive. Get off your phone. Kids constantly hear about the downsides of social media from…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, ISABEL DeBRE and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press In a transformative year of elections around the world, voters in democratic…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, ISABEL DeBRE and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press In a transformative year of elections around the world, voters in democratic…

By JACK JEFFERY and JALAL BWAITEL Associated Press NUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — An Israeli army raid in April set off a near three-day…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press JERUSALEM, Israel (AP) — An independent group of experts warned Tuesday that it’s possible that famine is…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Asylum-seekers mainly from Angola, Congo and Venezuela have set up an encampment in a…

By ROBERT YOON and MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has declared U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez the winner of the…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Democratic Rep. Andy Kim and Republican Curtis Bashaw have won their New Jersey U.S. Senate…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein and Netflix announced Tuesday they’ve settled the defamation lawsuit she filed…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans who view Donald Trump’s felony conviction by a Manhattan jury as politically…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Kansas legislators have intensified efforts to woo the Super Bowl champion Kansas City…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A new Washington state parental rights law derided by critics as a “forced outing” measure will…

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has agreed to take additional steps to make its students feel secure on campus. It is part of a settlement…

By JEFF AMY and SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Workers continued to install pipes to replace a ruptured water main in Atlanta on…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the U.S. Congress say the ruling Chinese Communist Party that sent in tanks against…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An investigator has provided a New York jury a riveting account of an evening in Washington,…

SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Animal control officers in Michigan are struggling to capture an elusive peacock that has been on the loose for at…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A new agreement between Alaska’s capital city and major cruise lines seeks to cap the…

CAMP HILL, Pa. (AP) — A young black bear that roamed into a suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood took a dive from a tree into a waiting tarp after…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A student-run legal journal has been taken offline by its board of directors after it objected…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press New York lawmakers say they are finalizing legislation aimed at giving parents more control over what their kids…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are asking a New York judge to lift the gag order that barred the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has been charged in a sports betting scandal that spurred the NBA to ban Jontay…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The ex-husband of a “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member has been convicted on charges he hired a reputed mobster to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has sold off his stake in Revolt, the media company the rapper and entrepreneur founded over a decade…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Halsey has been privately battling illness. She shared the news Tuesday on Instagram in a series…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has permanently blocked some efforts in North Carolina to restrict how…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a halt to asylum processing at the U.S. border with…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has set a Sept. 24 execution date for Marcellus Williams, even as the inmate awaits a court…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of Rick Cobb II say they were mistreated by government officials and failed by a…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s ruling party has introduced draft legislation curtailing LGBTQ+ rights. The proposals by the Georgian Dream are…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man who attacked a Muslim state representative outside a prayer service in Connecticut has been sentenced to five years in…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is agreeing to pay $3.5 million in a settlement with the family of an Iowa State University student who drowned after…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who escaped from Oregon’s state psychiatric hospital while fully shackled and was later found floundering in a muddy…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Authorities in Michigan say they have recovered a stolen classic car that was restored years ago by the Make-A-Wish…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Fears are rising that time is running out for hostages in Gaza that are still alive. Israel…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected to pass legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former protege of The-Dream, the Grammy-winning writer and producer on some of…

NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok says it has taken steps to stop a cyberattack targeting high-profile accounts, including one belonging to CNN. TikTok…

LOWELL, Ind. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says a hot air balloon struck power lines before crashing to the ground over the weekend in…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The father of an Alaska woman killed in a murder-for-hire scheme in 2019 died during a weekend memorial motorcycle ride…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A prosecutor says he is asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reverse the governor’s…

MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A small independent daily newspaper in northern West Virginia has ceased operations after 133 years. Moundsville Daily…

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M’s president says the traditional bonfire, which ended 25 years ago after 12 people were killed and 27…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ new legislative maps have given Democrats hope of regaining…

By KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria are the next family set to star in their own reality…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore man has been sentenced to life without parole in the 2021 ambush shooting of a city police officer who was killed…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just back from a visit to Ukraine, a U.S. Treasury official is describing a country whose…

By LOUIS PATRICK OKAMBA Associated Press OYO, Republic of Congo (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister says any French military instructors in…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer As the temperature heats up and summer approaches, small business owners may be considering offering summer hours,…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling is touting the nation’s second-largest police…

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime technology news and review site Gizmodo has been sold for the third time in the past eight years. This time the buyer is a…