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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dove Cameron’s new single starts with the sound of maniacal laughter and then a piano…

BEIJING (AP) — China has sent an envoy to the Middle East to push for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in the latest sign of its ambition to…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — Two San Antonio police officers have been shot and seriously wounded while trying to stop a man from burning a home…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say a stampede in Kenya during celebrations to mark an annual public holiday killed at least four people on…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.N. funding cuts to refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for…

By ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Protesters have marched from several mosques to the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy in…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has decided against canceling a Chinese company’s 99-year…

By ALFIAN KARTONO Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province have killed a construction worker and…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he spoke by phone with U.S. President Joe Biden…

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Many Palestinians in Gaza who heeded the Israeli military’s…

By GARANCE BURKE and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hospitals and health care systems are increasingly turning to…

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has announced that she is separating from her partner and the father of her young daughter after nearly…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press OVIEDO, Spain (AP) — Japanese author Haruki Murakami says he is torn by the conflict in Israel since he has…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities across northern Europe are urging vigilance as the region braces for heavy rain and gale-force winds from…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Australian miner Lynas Rare Earths says it will temporarily shut down most of its…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defense chief has ordered all defense personnel and the 163,000-member military to refrain from using…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares retreated Friday as the prospect of a 5% yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury for the…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel bombarded Gaza early Friday, hitting areas…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has decisively won two special elections. They snatched…

By PATRICIA LUNA and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The National Stadium in Santiago will host the opening ceremony of…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones celebrated the release of their first collection of new original songs…

By MATTHEW DALY, DAVID McHUGH and STAN CHOE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty years after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the current crisis in…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Saddled with a dysfunctional Congress, President Joe Biden has the task of assuring European Union…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin Friday for the first defendant to go to trial in the Georgia case…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After turns as a real estate magnate, a New York tabloid mainstay, a reality…

By JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Several families who sent loved ones to a…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the thing that was supposed to make Rep. Jim Jordan the 56th speaker of the House. An…

Associated Press Authorities in Maryland are investigating the fatal shooting of a circuit court judge. The Herald-Mail reports that Circuit Court…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A pediatricians’ group is warning powdered drink mixes known as “toddler milks” are unregulated,…

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI, STEPHEN GROVES and KEVING FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite deepening opposition, Rep. Jim Jordan…

By MANUEL RUEDA and ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Escalating tensions between Colombia and Israel over the Gaza war could…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — Nir Oz is one of more than 20 towns and villages in southern Israel that were ambushed…

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A national Muslim civil rights group is moving its annual banquet out of a Virginia hotel it says received bomb and death…

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — José Abreu hit a three-run homer right after Yordan Alvarez’s tiebreaking…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — City officials say a rapidly intensifying blaze that engulfed multiple rowhouses in northwest…

TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP) — A 19-year-old man shot four people Thursday in central Washington state, killing three of them, and then killed himself,…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army private who fled to North Korea before being returned home to the…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s national police say a former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The government of France has bestowed a further honor on Atlanta’s Andrew Young. French…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas officials have released a second audit in as many years of elections in Harris County.…

By MARIA SHERMAN and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spear’s highly anticipated memoir “The Woman in Me”…

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says a suburban Chicago man has been charged with two hate crimes for allegedly verbally abusing and threatening…

WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A state of emergency has been issued in a northern New York county where the Fort Drum U.S. Army base is located, following…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte  capped a three-hit afternoon with a walk-off single in the ninth, rookie Brandon…

NIAMEY The junta in Niger says it has thwarted an escape attempt to by the West African nation’s outed president. In a communique read late…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A police detective has testified that a a woman whose body was found in the trunk of…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — After going missing nearly 80 years ago, a baroque landscape painting was…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press Federal prosecutors say Donald Trump is “not above the law” as they are urging a judge to reject the former…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The No Labels Party of Arizona has filed a lawsuit seeking to block people from running for…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans says he is being unfairly being prosecuted for disturbing the…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A fatal shooting by police in Wallingford, Connecticut, is raising questions about whether officers could have…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge has ruled to continue halting parts of a Southern California…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh denied having any knowledge or involvement in plotting to steal opponents’…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s governor has scheduled a November execution date for an inmate convicted of shooting and killing a man during a…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court has removed an upstate judge from office for pointing a loaded…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press CARROLLTON, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police officer involved in the Breonna Taylor shooting collided with a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rivian Automotive has confirmed that it will move ahead with construction on a factory in Georgia early…

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California university wrestling with the deaths of four seniors who were struck by a car sought to comfort…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ City Council has approved the appointment of Anne Kirkpatrick as the city’s new police chief.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, the United States is now allowing Israelis wishing to visit the United States for 90 days or…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Advocates and Nebraska lawmakers are defending a reporter after Gov. Jim Pillen said her story about…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana judge says two attorneys representing a man accused in the 2017 slayings of…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Kraken has cracked. Lawyer Sidney Powell vowed to “release the Kraken” as she helped…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Baseball’s League Championship Series are producing solid ratings after seeing declines during the first two rounds.…

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of judicial employees, from administrative staff to judges, took to the steps of…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge who previously overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons did it again, ruling Thursday…

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Maricopa County set a new record Thursday for annual heat-associated deaths. There are 425 tallied so far this year.…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newly appointed California Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler will not seek election to a…

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — There are explosions audible in the cramped, humid room where Azmi…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A Maryland police officer who fatally shot a stabbing suspect earlier this year has…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Prosecutors in the case of a man charged with fatally shooting a retired New Hampshire couple on a hiking trail have argued…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In July, country music star Craig Morgan re-enlisted in the Army Reserves at age 59. It was on…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister says 41 diplomats have been removed from India after the Indian…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Humanitarian donations to conflict-ravaged Haiti have dramatically declined since the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The state of Georgia will start paying for gender-affirming health care for public employees covered by…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The spotlight at Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial turned Thursday to the former president’s…

PARIS (AP) — French police have arrested a man climbing on the Eiffel Tower, temporarily stranding a crowd at the top. Among those trapped were a…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press Ukraine’s parliament voted overwhelmingly Thursday to advance legislation seen as effectively banning the…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a U.S. Navy warship on Thursday took out three missiles…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Black voters in Louisiana to speed the process of drawing new…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old has been arrested and charged with killing a fellow college student in Mississippi. Joshua…