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BRUSSELS (AP) — Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair says his country looks on track to meet NATO’s military spending guideline. He says Canada…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A reunion of R.E.M. was one of the unexpected highlights at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame…

By MATT O’BRIEN and SARAH PARVINI AP Technology Writers The artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has raised tens of millions of…

By FU TING Associated Press Chinese soccer fans have poured their love — and money — into a Singaporean goalkeeper’s food stall after his…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Friday after Wall Street’s continued frenzy around…

By MOUSTAPHA DIALLO Associated Press SAN, Mali (AP) — For hundreds of years, people have gathered in the southern Mali town of San for a collective…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ and CRISTIANA MESQUITA Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — He was the poetic voice of the Cuban Revolution, an inspiration for…

SYDNEY (AP) — A 16-year-old boy accused of committing a terrorist act by stabbing a bishop in a Sydney church in April faces two additional…

By R.J. RICO and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In downtown Atlanta, shipping containers have been transformed into an oasis for…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BARI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis is no stranger to artificial intelligence — a deepfake photo…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A crew is scheduled to begin tearing down the three-story classroom building where 17…

By FREIDA FRISARO, TERRY SPENCER and DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Forecasters have warned Floridians to prepare for…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In sweltering temperatures, Muslim pilgrims in Mecca converged on a vast tent camp in the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.-built pier to bring food to Gaza is facing one of its most…

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will be spending his birthday at the country’s…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden’s campaign is using social events like bingo and pickleball to get…

By DAVE COLLINS and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is on the brink of losing the Infowars…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press BARI, Italy (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations are turning their attention to…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland will host scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out first steps toward…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Aleksander Barkov and Sergei Bobrovsky led the way as the Florida Panthers moved within…

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Officials in one of Ecuador’s most dangerous cities are acknowledging a building of…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York Police Department inspector has been indicted on charges that he lied to investigators and tried to get incriminating…

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Bennett’s two daughters are suing their brother, alleging he mishandled and failed to disclose some of their father’s…

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Two people have been killed in a single-engine plane crash in Northern California. The Alpine County Sheriff’s…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Visa applicants from Africa who want to visit Europe’s Schengen Area face far higher rejection rates than people from…

By MARIANA MARTÍNEZ BARBA MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar has warned that migrants who do not opt for a legal pathway…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The heads of six U.N. agencies and three international humanitarian organizations issued…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been charged with allegedly threatening an FBI special agent who had been involved in an investigation…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay are tied for the lead after one round of the U.S. Open at…

By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Heavy rains lashed much of Chile, damaging homes, flooding roads, knocking out power and…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police say a Louisiana woman has been found dead in her home and her two young daughters were abducted and found hours later…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal investigators say a loss of engine power due to poor maintenance caused a 2022 helicopter crash in New Mexico that…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she is considering a ban on face masks in the New York…

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says Phoenix police had a pattern of violating people’s rights, from unjustified deadly force to…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges are deciding whether a redistricting lawsuit claiming a state…

BOSTON (AP) — An Oklahoma man accused of throwing a pipe bomb at the Massachusetts headquarters of a group called The Satanic Temple has pleaded…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature has passed its own version of a state spending plan that rejects…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Attorneys for the two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre say they will petition the Oklahoma Supreme…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has opened a trial run allowing a limited number of people to apply to renew their passports online. Windows…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Legislation to legalize recreational marijuana in New Hampshire has died on the House floor, but the effort by New England’s…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Legislature is signaling that it could cancel a $400 million loan payment to…

By STEPHEN SMITH and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The chefs heading Team USA at an international food competition this week in…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A bill aimed at outlawing “revenge porn” has been approved by lawmakers in the Massachusetts…

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was convicted of accepting bribes to let…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin says his committee has uncovered at least three additional…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An attorney charged in connection with an effort to illegally access and tamper with voting machines in Michigan after the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Cannabis regulators in Massachusetts have issued an administrative order that will allow pot…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Former Illinois standout Terrence Shannon Jr., a potential first-round NBA draft pick, was found not guilty…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has expressed dissatisfaction at the operation of some U.S. plants on…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host a White House event next week celebrating an…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Senate has approved a bill that would ban school…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press A watchdog group says the Environmental Protection Agency should conduct additional soil studies around the site of a…

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. bishops want to assure Native Catholics that they don’t need to feel torn between…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a shootout at a New Jersey hotel ended with a murder suspect dead and two police officers…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Colombian military hospital would offer medical treatment to Palestinian children injured in the Israel-Hamas war under a…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria after becoming…

By SCOTT SONNER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press Dozens of tourists say they became ill after visiting a popular Arizona tourist destination known for…

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden is kicking off her husband’s outreach to older voters, an effort blending rallies and phone banks with…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took 15 months to act on a whistleblower complaint about the Abbott Nutrition…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s chief of staff has argued to an influential group of CEOs that the…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a bystander killed during a 2021 police chase in Minneapolis is suing the city and alleging that dangerous…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to a drug used in the majority of U.S.…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump used the word “horrible” in talking about Milwaukee — the…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press FASANO, Italy (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the…

EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council will vote on a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are holding a vote as part of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s effort…

LONDON (AP) — Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…

DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of wounding three sheriff’s deputies during a standoff at a home in Illinois possessed multiple…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An Army health expert told a panel investigating a mass shooting by a reservist experiencing…

Associated Press President Joe Biden will nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero to replace Martin Greunberg as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance…

LIMESTONE, Tenn. (AP) — A zoo in Tennessee says an antelope choked on a squeezable food pouch and died over the weekend. Brights Zoo is a…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police say Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was seen driving at a “high rate of speed” just before he rear-ended another…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal and advocacy group, is laying off employees. The union that represents  workers…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Chinese “overconcentrated supply chains” pose a…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is defending prisoner swaps that free Americans…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Wildlife experts have hit a dead end in their quest to determine how a gray wolf arrived in southern Michigan for the…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists have hurled red paint at the homes of top…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says Phoenix police violate people’s rights, discriminate against…

LONDON (AP) — A British coroner has criticised the U.S. government over a lack of training for diplomatic personnel prior to a road accident in…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy submarine has pulled into Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of…

STARKENBERG, Germany (AP) — There’s a new big-hitter in the world of soccer soothsayers and this one is going for a win for Germany to open the…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press A series of storms flowing from the Gulf of Mexico swamped South Florida with flash floods that stalled cars,…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The United States has granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver that…

NEEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Twenty-three sets of twins have graduated from a Massachusetts middle school, making up about 10% of the eighth-grade class.…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera sold 72% of available tickets this season, up from 66% in 2022-23. Box…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mortgage rates eased again this week, though the latest pullback leaves the average rate on a…