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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s intelligence ministry has arrested nine members of the Baha’i faith on charges of smuggling medicine and financial…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has removed the last of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions, marking the…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and ED WHITE Associated Press BELLEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — The pilot of a Cold War-era jet noticed it was losing power and decided…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The military junta that seized power in Niger says it plans to prosecute deposed President…

By SAM METZ and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — When flames swept through western Maui, engulfing the town of Lahaina,…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar left more than 30 people missing, and a…

By JOHN HANNA and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small newspaper and a police department in Kansas are at the center of a…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — After two years in power, the Taliban are entrenched as rulers of Afghanistan, facing no…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty on Monday to…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Belen Diaz was walking home from college one evening when a motorcycle carrying…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As children across the U.S. head back to classes and practices for fall sports, four more states…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — David McCormick had a clear explanation for why his fellow Republican, Dr. Mehmet Oz, lost a…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Just one month after Donald Trump’s January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia’s secretary of…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Irish singer-songwriter Hozier and Idina Menzel, the animated…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent democracy advocates have had part of their convictions…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A lioness escaped from a farm in South Korea, touching off an emergency search before…

By MICHAEL CASEY, PAT EATON-ROBB and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press Wildfires devastated parts of Maui in Hawaii last week, leaving a trail of…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again toured major munitions factories and ordered a…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — All 105 soccer fans suspected of being involved in extensive clashes in the Greek capital…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has named Larry Snelling, the police department’s counterterrorism head, as his choice for police…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State Sen. John Scott, a longtime South Carolina lawmaker who served in state government for…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Two Nigerian men have been extradited to the U.S. after they were indicted for allegedly sexually extorting teenage boys…

By JOHN HANNA and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and ZARAR KHAN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A record-setting Norwegian mountaineer pushed back Sunday against claims that…

PLUM, Pa. (AP) — Five people were found dead after a house explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed three structures and damaged at least a…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.S. nurse who was released by kidnappers in Haiti last week says a Christian song called “See a Victory” became…

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A 13-year-old North Dakota boy has survived a fall of nearly 100 feet at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Barbie” has legs. Director Greta Gerwig ‘s film phenomenon remained a…

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia pursued a stolen ambulance whose driver they say allegedly committed over a dozen hit-and-run crashes…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — For scores of families still hoping to…

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A gunman has opened fire at a prominent shrine in southern Iran, killing one…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Makkabi Berlin has become the first Jewish team to compete in the German Cup with a 6-0 loss to…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have safely rescued 48 migrants from a rudderless inflatable boat off the island of Lesbos, close…

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law banning firearms advertising that officials determine produces a public safety threat…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Migrants from dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers in Tunisia have set foot on three…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — White House officials concerned by AI chatbots’ potential for societal harm and the Silicon…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Miss Universe Organization has cut its ties with its Indonesian franchisee and…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan says insurgents opened fire on a convoy carrying Chinese citizens in the restive…

LONDON (AP) — Police in Wales say nine people were injured when a car careened into a coastal campground. Dyfed-Powys Police said the crash late…

By GABE STERN and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Republicans in Nevada could have two chances next year…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is taking on “junk fees,” those extra charges tacked on to plane tickets,…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Seven people – including a 23-day-old baby girl – were killed in Russian shelling in…

By JOSH BOAK and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even President Joe Biden has some regrets about the name of the Inflation…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese emergency agency says the death toll from a mudslide that struck a village on the outskirts of the western Chinese city of…

By HANK KURZ Jr. AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia running back Mike Hollins knows he will never be the same, and admits that…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian emergency officials say over 2,000 people have been evacuated from flooded areas of the Primorye region in the…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Analysts say Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim faces a daunting task in uniting an…

By Sopheng Cheang Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — China’s foreign minister visited Cambodia to reaffirm his country’s commitment…

BEIJING (AP) — News reports say a gas explosion at a restaurant in eastern China has killed two people. A video posted on the website of the…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Patients who take blockbuster drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic for weight loss may face life-threatening complications…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting…

By LOUISE DELMOTTE Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, a former newspaper publisher and one of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy…

By AUDREY McAVOY and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — The cost to live in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui keeps rising…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For a vast number of book writers, artificial intelligence is a threat to their livelihood and…

By DAVID A. LIEB and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — If Wisconsin state Rep. Jimmy Anderson wants to visit residents in some of…

By AARON MORRISON, AISHA I. JEFFERSON and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on…

By CLAIRE RUSH, AUDREY MCAVOY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Parishioners mourned the dead and prayed for the…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Argentine peso plunged Monday after a shaggy-haired 52-year—old…

By ANITA SNOW and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Postal worker Eugene Gates Jr. was delivering mail in the suffocating Dallas heat…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Douglas Guzmán’s TikTok feed was dotted with workout routines and videos…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media and Damascus residents say the sound of repeated explosions could be heard in the area around the capital before…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running…

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s government has moved the leader of one of the country’s most powerful gangs into a maximum-security…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gone was the helicopter, but Donald Trump is renewing his…

HALLE, Germany (AP) — American soccer player Julian Green has been the victim of racist abuse in a German Cup game. Green, who is Black, was…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville schools will remain closed early next week to allow for more time to fix bus routes whose redesign left some…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois is the first state in the U.S. to ensure child social media…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, the first Black woman elected to statewide office in New Jersey history, was remembered in a memorial…