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By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Violence has intensified in southwestern Colombia with a bomb blast injuring six people in…

By JOSHUA G0ODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Austin Maddox has been arrested in Florida as part of an underage sex sting. Jacksonville…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish president has criticized the Eurovision Song Contest, accusing the annual event of allegedly encouraging…

By JULIA FRANKEL and PHIL HOLM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — New satellite images analyzed by the Associated Press show that sprawling tent…

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — A new study tracks how cockroaches spread around the globe to become the survival experts we…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Studio Ghibli, the Japanese anime factory of surreal ecological wonders that has for 39 years…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A judge has found that an Ohio law prohibiting cities from banning the sale of flavored tobacco products is…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky court has postponed pro golfer Scottie Scheffler’s appearance on charges he…

HANFORD, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed over California’s decision to take over monitoring groundwater use in part of the fertile San…

By CLAIRE RUSH and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press A California congressman says tribes should be more involved in the decision-making process…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency warns that cyberattacks against water…

By KEN POWTAK Associated Press NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Hall of Famer David Ortiz is committed to his post-career work like he was swinging a bat…

NEW YORK (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s move into tennis will now include a multiyear deal to sponsor the WTA women’s rankings. The WTA released word of…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer University presidents around the country are scheduled to meet this week to vote on whether to accept a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — While Donald Trump’s hush money trial entered its sixth week in New York, an origin story for…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI says it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices after some users…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The death of Iran’s president is unlikely to lead to any immediate changes in Iran’s…

Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals on Wall…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s main international airport has reopened for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say a bridge near Galveston, Texas, that was damaged last week when a barge carrying…

SANTA CRUZ, California (AP) — Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike Monday.…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Xander Schauffele made one putt that turned out to mean so much. His 6-foot birdie on the…

Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s national airline said Monday that it ordered more than 100 new Airbus jets, a…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the police department’s response to a pro-Palestinian street demonstration in Brooklyn…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer The CIA’s first chief technology officer Nand Mulchandani is marshaling generative AI tools to the intelligence…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ray Romano is looking back at his hit sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond” and saluting a fellow…

NEW YORK (AP) — A video link between New York City and Dublin that was shut down due to inappropriate behavior on both sides of the Atlantic has…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters have ignored a request by Drexel University’s president to disband their encampment as arrests…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden is pressing for a delay in his federal gun case, asking an appeals court to…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writers Red Lobster, the casual dining chain that brought seafood to the masses with inventions…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s fitting that Kecia Lewis has had her most successful theater season while playing a…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The most powerful Democrat in Congress on banking and financial issues called for President Joe…

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators have returned to the home of a New York architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top investment official says the government has…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer White noise is frequently used to mask background sounds and it now has competition in a rainbow of colors.…

GOODHOPE, Mo. (AP) — Four people in rural Missouri died when an explosion that could be heard 10 miles away occurred at a house. The explosion…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Those who want to climb one of the most popular trails of the iconic Japanese Mount Fuji will now…

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Two people are hospitalized following a shooting during a high school graduation commencement in Missouri. Hundreds of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a Canadian-born former Guantanamo detainee who was seeking to wipe away his war…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos’ collaboration has by now become so regular that it would…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Uber and Lyft say they’ll keep operating in Minnesota after the state Legislature passed a compromise driver pay package.…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Target plans on cutting prices on thousands of consumer basics this summer, goods ranging from diapers to…

By CHRISTINA MALKIA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The spokesman for Congo’s army says six people were killed and dozens arrested…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is committing to keep U.S. weapons moving to…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Fast-moving storms with strong winds, large hail and apparent tornadoes have left a trail of damage in Oklahoma and Kansas.…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has added a stop in Luxembourg to a trip to Belgium in September. The Vatican on Monday announced the Sept. 26-29 dates of…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running in next week’s…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has blamed Chinese fishermen for a massive loss of giant clams in a…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a theater director and a playwright…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Human rights experts working for the United Nations are urging Yemen’s Houthi rebels to release five…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government is expected to apologize as an inquiry is expected to publish a final report into the U.K.’s infected blood…

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money trial is entering its final stretch as the prosecution’s star witness Michael Cohen returns to the…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has officially begun the selection of new set of senators, a process that has…

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s parliament speaker on Monday vowed to override a presidential veto on…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s highest court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma is not…

By FADI TAWIL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Ireland’s top diplomat has expressed concerns about the slow progress of criminal proceedings…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s prime minister will continue leading his shaky governing coalition after winning his fourth vote of confidence in…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed president of…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack on foreigners in central…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces a court hearing in London that could end with him being sent…

By BARAA ANWER Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — As Saudi Arabia liberalizes some aspects of its society, an all-women psychedelic rock…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country’s…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Paralympics organizers in Paris have a message they hope will encourage many more fans to buy…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-liner close to the…

By PIYUSH NAGPAL and BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press AYODHYA, India (AP) — Millions of Indians across 49 constituencies are casting ballots as…

By AMANDA SEITZ and ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press WILLIAMSTON, N.C. (AP) — After one North Carolina city’s only hospital closed, residents…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Exploring the cosmos makes for happy employees, federal workers like to work from home like…

By STEVE PEOPLES, MEG KINNARD and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s allies and…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Numbers show that the economy during Donald Trump’s presidency has never lived up to his own…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Surprising flavor combinations – think gravy-flavored Jones Soda or Sour Patch Kids Oreos — are showing…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks advanced Monday after U.S. stock indexes drifted around their records on Friday with…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A top U.S. pediatricians’ group is making a sharp policy change about breastfeeding by people with HIV. The group…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is scheduled to be refloated and…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an album by Lenny Kravitz, “South Park” mocking weight loss…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and…