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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s African National Congress party will not consider any demands…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A shooting on a street in Akron, Ohio, killed one man and wounded 26 other people early Sunday morning. Local news outlets…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has imposed emergency power shutdowns in most of the country a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The nation’s third-largest city is preparing for its first school board elections and the slate…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Ibu has erupted again and spewed thick, gray ash and dark clouds…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press For retirees Tom and Beverly McAdam, the good news is the value of their two-bedroom home in suburban Denver has…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Saudi Arabia and allied oil producing countries face a decision on whether to extend…

DAN MERICA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Television images show emergency workers trying to rescue people trapped under a collapsed apartment building in Istanbul.…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Sunday…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Voters in Serbia are casting ballots in a rerun election in the capital, Belgrade, and in…

By JACK DURA Associated Press Voters in at least three South Dakota counties will decide whether ballots in future elections will be counted by hand.…

By JULIA FRANKEL and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Throughout its grinding seven-month war against Hamas, Israel has pledged to…

NEW YORK (AP) — An annual New York City parade for Israel that draws thousands of people is scheduled to hit the streets Sunday with heightened…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press After his historic guilty verdict in his hush money case, Donald Trump attacked the U.S. criminal justice system,…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A community of breast milk donors has formed in Uganda after women struggled with…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged a group of top defense officials at Asia’s…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — On one side of the classroom, students circled teacher Maria Fletcher and practiced…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Voters choosing Mexico’s next president are deciding between a former academic who promises to further the current…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California firefighters aided by aircraft are battling a wind-driven wildfire burning near the Lawrence Livermore National…

By JOHN LEICESTER and PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Of all the decisions Paris Olympics organizers made about where to hold each…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — China’s defense minister has acknowledged the importance of newly renewed military-to-military…

CHEVY CHASE, Md. (AP) — Police say a registered sex offender wanted in the death of a parole officer whose body was found in the man’s apartment…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) — Birmingham-Southern is still swinging. Now playing for a school that technically no longer…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon authorities have closed the state’s entire coastline to mussel harvesting due to an outbreak of shellfish poisoning…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota law enforcement have identified the man who they believe fatally shot a Minneapolis officer in what police are calling…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft has landed on the moon’s far side to collect rocks in a growing space rivalry with U.S. The official Xinhua…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — It was a historic day for South Africa. The political party that ended the racially…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile has joined a group of nations supporting a genocide case against Israel filed last year at the International Court of…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma is threatening legal action to stop the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican volunteer searcher criticized in the past by the government has found more human remains in Mexico City and officials…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says member countries approved new steps to boost global preparedness for pandemics like COVID-19 and…

DENALI PARK, Alaska (AP) — Park officials say a Malaysian climber likely died of exposure and altitude-related illness as he sheltered in a snow…

MIAMI (AP) — A U.N. development specialist tasked with restoring order to Haiti has arrived to the Caribbean nation to take up his new post as…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s ruling emir has named the small nation’s new crown prince, nearly six months after he took the…

LONDON (AP) — Europe’s biggest club soccer game got a taste of America when rocker Lenny Kravitz performed at Wembley Stadium before kickoff at…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds has died. He was 77 and died Friday night in Virginia. Edmonds…

By SAM METZ Associated Press TAN TAN, Morocco (AP) — Military forces from the United States and nearly three dozen countries have wrapped up the…

By YONAT SHIMRON Religion News Service HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (RNS) — On a warm, sunny morning in farm country, a group of 40 preschoolers and their…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A crowd of students protesting the war in Gaza walked out of the University of Chicago’s…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Biden administration has sent a high-level delegation to…

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A New York woman has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the 2018 death of an anti-gang activist during a dispute over a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A crowd of tens of thousands has gathered in Hungary’s capital in a show of strength…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A court run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has sentenced 44 people to death, including a businessman…

LONDON (AP) — Voters in Iceland are choosing a president and selecting from a field of 12 people including a former prime minister. The candidates…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Jurors resumed deliberations Saturday on whether a man should be sentenced to death after being convicted days earlier of the…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Gymnast Skye Blakely says working on her mental health has helped put her in the mix for…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV is reporting a high-ranking general in the Revolutionary Guard has died after an illness. Gen. Vajihollah…

The Associated Press Live Nation is investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster subsidiary, which dominates ticketing for live events in the…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A German court ordered a 25-year-old man born in Afghanistan held on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with a…

By MATÍAS DELACROIX and JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son was in federal court, prepared to plead guilty to…

ATLANTA (AP) — Downtown Atlanta businesses and attractions were closed Saturday as the city tried to repair water main breaks that led to water…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say 34 people are in custody following a pro-Palestinian protest at the Brooklyn Museum. Hundreds of…

HERZOGENAURACH, Germany (AP) — Germany midfielder Joshua Kimmich has slammed as “absolutely racist” a survey and its findings that one in five…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Voter participation advocate Theresa Pasqual traverses the tribal community of Acoma Pueblo…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Civil rights attorneys say a new Louisiana law that makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet of a police…

HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s government has ratified the country’s full membership in the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a move that…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Acknowledging only “an uptick” in Israeli military activity, the United States has gone…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press South Korea’s military says North Korea launched even more trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea, following…

BEIRUT (AP) — The militant Hezbollah group says it shot down an Israeli drone over south Lebanon after hours Israeli drone strikes killed at least…

By AARON MORRISON and MATT BROWN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this week from…

PARIS (AP) — An environmental activist was detained after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris’ famed Orsay Museum. It was the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has canceled his planned flight around the moon on a SpaceX…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer As weight-loss plans go, it’s easy to see the allure of intermittent fasting: Eat what you want, but only during…

LONDON (AP) — The UK’s ambassador to Mexico has left his post after a video was posted on social media that purportedly shows him pointing an…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing is taking another crack at launching astronauts for the first time aboard its…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV (AP) — Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas have called for all parties to immediately accept a…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) — One of freestyle skier Jay Riccomini’s priceless life moments came this year in…

The Associated Press A daughter of actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has filed paperwork to legally remove “Pitt” from her name. The Los…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials in Ukraine said Russia pummeled the country’s energy infrastructure with a large-scale drone and missile…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official said that at least 20 people were killed as a river ferry sank in eastern Afghanistan. Quraishi Badlon,…

By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is on the brink of…