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By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The discovery of a whale carcass in Hong Kong waters Monday sparked an outpouring of grief on…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court is out with a decision that provides critical relief for thousands of people…

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Trucking company Yellow Corp. has shut down operations and is headed for a bankruptcy…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah next week and is expected to talk about his…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-controlled government has extended the state of emergency it imposed when the army seized power from an elected…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH and ALI SWENSON Associated Press Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rose to prominence during the COVID-19…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who drove his car into a group of migrant…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — This year Whitney Houston would have turned 60, and a special celebration to raise money for a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Nigeria’s Adamawa state have relaxed a curfew which they…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation. Georgia Power Co.…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled central bank governor has ended his 30-year tenure. Riad Salameh stepped…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China has imposed restrictions on exports of long-range civilian drones, citing Russia’s war on…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An escalating dispute over a gas field in the Persian Gulf poses an early…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police say a French man apparently has fallen to his death from a high-rise residential…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has sentenced a man to 23 years in prison for stabbing a passenger and setting a…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A British man has been freed immediately after a Cyprus court sentenced him to two…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it will grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea in a bid for energy…

By ABBY SEWELL and FADI TAWIL Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Thousands of mourners have gathered in south Lebanon for the funeral of a…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Neighboring nations are levying economic sanctions over a coup last week that toppled one of…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s economy is growing again — but not by much. Growth came in at 0.3% in…

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russian ballistic missiles have slammed into an apartment complex and…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Fans of singer and songwriter Coco Lee, who was known for her powerful voice and live…

BEIJING (AP) — A zoo in eastern China is denying suggestions some of its bears might be people in costumes after photos of the animals standing…

By ANWARULLAH KHAN and RIAZ KHAN Associated Press KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — An Afghan branch of the Islamic State group on Monday claimed…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Officials say the Australian army helicopter that crashed during a multinational…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — When Pope Francis made the first foreign trip of his papacy, to Rio de Janeiro for World…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (AP) — The dogs bark and stare as Kim Jong-kil approaches the rusty cages housing the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, boosted by market optimism set off by a Wall Street rally…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia prosecutor is expected to seek a grand jury indictment in the coming weeks in her…

BEIJING (AP) — A survey shows Chinese factory activity contracted in July as export orders shrank. That adds to pressure on the ruling Communist…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate made his…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Work has begun on the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. Crews have mostly…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell has been sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh tracks from Quavo, the arrival on Disney+ of James Gunn’s cornball…

By ELLEN McINTYRE Associated Press DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — Women’s World Cup host city Dunedin, at latitude of 45.88 degrees South, is…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The leader of the European Union’s executive commission has warned against China’s…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Fangbiaogan Real Estate Agency in the southern city of Nanning is still waiting for China’s…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400…

By WALTER BERRY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix sizzled through its 31st consecutive day of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius)…

ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — Four people are dead after the all-terrain vehicle they were in rolled over and burst into flames on a dirt road in…

BRIGHTON, Iowa (AP) — You-pick farms are struggling through heat, drought and haze. Specialty crops that require lots of water — like blueberries…

By ASHRAF SWEILAM Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Security and health officials say a shooting at a heavily fortified security facility in…

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — A massive wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave National Preserve is spreading rapidly…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark’s foreign minister said Sunday the government will seek to make it illegal to desecrate…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Officials under Kansas’s Democratic governor are seeking to have the state resume…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Police say two people were killed after shots rang out in a crowd in the home city of Florida’s flagship university. The…

SANDY HOOK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say four people found clinging to the hull of an overturned boat off New Jersey were rescued and taken to a…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Dozens of Russian antiwar supporters in Serbia have held a protest after two prominent activists and critics of Russian…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated. Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s…

By DAVID BRUNAT Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s government researchers say they’ve identified hundreds of foreign fighters…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Several thousand people briefly took to the streets across the Gaza Strip to protest the territory’s chronic power…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his…

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a helicopter hit power lines and crashed near an interstate in Ohio over the weekend, killing the pilot…

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Police say one person was killed and multiple people were injured after a shooting early Sunday morning in Muncie, Indiana. The…

The Associated Press A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The bodies of four women were found in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City in…

By ANWARULLAH KHAN and RIAZ KHAN Associated Press KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. But he’s more interested in the 80-year-old…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Two women out for an afternoon walk outside Atlantic City found a body in a ditch and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump won’t be on the Republican debate stage Wednesday. But the former…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Police in Michigan say an early morning shooting wounded five people, including two who were listed in critical condition.…

CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian factions have met in Egypt to discuss reconciliation efforts amid surging violence between Israel and Palestinian…

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The Central African Republic went to the polls Sunday…