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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say activities of armed groups in the volatile Central African Republic…

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say a U.S. Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint during President Joe…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AND CLAIRE SAVAGE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have cleared an entrenched pro-Palestinian encampment at California State University, Los Angeles, just days after…

LONDON (AP) — Actor Ian McKellen was hospitalized Monday after toppling off a London stage during a fight scene in a play. The 85-year-old known…

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The city of Los Angeles will pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit it filed against a local…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has met with an Israeli lawyer who has publicly described being…

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A former nurse at a southern Oregon hospital is facing criminal charges that she harmed nearly four dozen patients by stealing…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Iowa law that allows law enforcement in the…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press A federal appellate panel says a Michigan state judge will have to decide whether to shut down a portion of an…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z’s electrifying reunion with Alicia Keys on what appeared to be a live duet of…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New leaders of The Washington Post are being haunted by their pasts, with ethical questions raised…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Officials say Maine’s shortage of public defenders allowed a man with a violent criminal…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto locking in a school…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A flashy Brooklyn preacher who played up connections to New York City’s mayor has been…

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Hoyt Garland Harwell, a longtime reporter for the Associated Press who covered key events in the American South, has died. He…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — Dozens of bottles of centuries-old, impeccably preserved cherries and berries from the…

LAWRENCE, Massachusetts (AP) — Authorities say a small plane with one pilot aboard has crashed into a Massachusetts river. It wasn’t immediately…

MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities say at least 139 people in Russia have sought medical assistance with symptoms of botulism over the past few days, an…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reiterated during testimony in federal court Monday that the…

GLENNVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A prison official says the inmate who shot and killed a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison before fatally shooting himself…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP FASHION WRITER MILAN (AP) — It’s been creative director musical chairs at some of Italy’s top fashion houses, and the…

By COREY WILLIAMS and JIM SALTER Associated Press FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) — It’s hot and getting hotter for workers and everyone else…

By STEPHEN GROVES and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy that would…

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered BNSF Railway to pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state after…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press Communities across the country are grappling with a rash of violence in the final days of spring that included at…

HAVANA (AP) — A fleet of Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, has left Havana’s port after a five-day visit to Cuba following…

By JULIA FRANKEL and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disbanded his war cabinet Monday, a…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge says a historic ocean liner that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more than 70 years ago must…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus-U.S. relations have reached their highest level yet after the two countries…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The National Finals Rodeo extended its agreement to remain in Las Vegas through 2035 and will pay more than $264 million to the…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota elections official says more than 100 absentee ballots cast in the state’s June 4 primary in one of South…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators trying to lure the Kansas City Chiefs to their state argue that helping the…

COLONIE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane has crashed near Albany, New York, killing the pilot. The Federal Aviation Authority says the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After months of conjecture about the fate of Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed epic,…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s attorney general has charged influential Democratic power broker George Norcross with racketeering and other…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Five people have died in separate events that authorities in El Salvador attributed to heavy rains that have…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserves says a reservist who committed the deadliest…

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff is planning to give an update Monday in the investigation of a weekend shooting that wounded nine people at a…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said that his conservative Austrian People’s Party would remain in the current government…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Scooter Braun, one of the most recognizable names in the music business known for representing…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has denied a new report that accused its coast guard of brutally preventing migrants from reaching Greek shores, which…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A recently elected mayor has been shot and killed in southern Mexico, in the state of Guerrero.  The Guerrero state…

NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say six people — including three children — have been killed in a fire that destroyed a home southwest of…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A record more than 20 NATO member nations are expected to hit the Western military…

GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi. (AP) — Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima has been laid to rest in his village south of the…

HASTINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a man drowned in a lake in upstate New York after his keys fell into the water and he tried to retrieve them.…

By MARY CONLON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Lisa Walling’s first house call of the day was with a particularly fluffy hospice patient —…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer People on Medicare who survived a drug overdose were much more likely to later receive opioid painkillers than…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The Democrat-controlled Vermont legislature has returned to the Statehouse to try to override Republican Gov. Phil…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A group of Democratic members of Congress is seeking reassurances that workers at hospitals owned…

DALLAS (AP) — In a story published June 14, 2024, about NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft resuming data collection, The Associated Press…

PRAGUE (AP) — An ammunition explosion in a military training area in the Czech Republic has killed one service member and injured eight other…

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators say they discovered 35.5 metric tons of cocaine worth 2.6 billion euros ($2.78 billion) on different container…

By JEROME PUGMIRE and TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press Writers PARIS (AP) — Curious onlookers gathered on bridges as dozens of boats snaked along the…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and ANNIE MA AP Education Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Michigan failed to assess whether protests and other…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Candidate Cabinet ministers in the Netherlands’ incoming far-right-led government…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish King Frederik X has inaugurated the first element of a future 18-kilometer (11-mile) rail-and-road tunnel under…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Erin Fox has tracked drug shortages for more than 20 years, and she sees no easy solutions for what has become a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A crowd-control gate has been installed halfway up Japan’s Mount Fuji ahead of the start of this…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO, LUCA BRUNO and SARA LEMLEM Associated Press MARINA DI RAVENNA, Italy (AP) — A nonprofit in a northern Italy port city rescues and…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban leader has warned Afghans against earning money or gaining worldly honor, at a time when the country is in the grip of…

ROME (AP) — Italian Coast Guard is searching for possible missing people off Italy’s southern coast, following the shipwreck of a sailboat on…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Tonys are often the most entertaining of awards shows, with Broadway performers showing…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest industrial union says it will seek a 7% pay increase for millions of workers in negotiations starting later this…

By JOSH BOAK and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service plans to end another major tax loophole that could…

By The Associated Press Associated Press The United States is bracing for chaotic weather this week, with the South set to experience another heat…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press CHIHUAHUA, México (AP) — Miguel Lara was born to run. It’s in his blood, his people’s history and…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and DASHA LITVINOVA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine are set to remain locked in battle for the foreseeable future after…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer At what age should kids be on social media? Should they be on it at all? If they aren’t, will they be…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean state media says Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in the country on Tuesday for a two-day visit.…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech authorities say an Indian national has been extradited to the United States to face charges of murder for hire and conspiracy…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband will deliver remarks at the…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China has been at odds with many other countries in the Asia-Pacific for years over its sweeping…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli officials said Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China has kept a key lending rate unchanged despite signs of continued weakness in the…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have used the early morning hours to perform the second day of the…