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By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest dropped 33.6% in the first six…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama said Thursday he believes Britney Spears grabbed…

STURGEON BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin police officer who ran into a burning barn and rescued three cows trapped inside says the bovines “made a…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have granted full approval to a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug for…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The railroad industry has sued to block a new minimum crew-size requirement that Ohio…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — John Berylson, an American businessman and owner of English soccer team Millwall who was remembered…

GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (AP) — A 40-acre plot of Minnesota forest land connected to a polygamous sect once led by Warren Jeffs is up for sale. News…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT, LOLITA C. BALDOR and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has decided to provide…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — An engineering company accused of partial responsibility for Flint’s lead-contaminated water in 2014…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The lengthy process of putting the retired space shuttle Endeavour on display in the vertical launch position will begin this…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for a robust international force to…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a drug-related street feud…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials in Pakistan say the death toll from two weeks of monsoon rains rose to at least 55 on Thursday after at least 12…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press The company that owned a submersible that imploded on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic says it has…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press Maritime nations have been finalizing a plan Thursday to slash emissions from the shipping industry to net zero by…

CAROLYN THOMPSON BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a fire in a Buffalo costume shop where a trapped firefighter died earlier this year has been…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers failed to override the governor’s veto of a bill aimed to ensuring more…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will travel to the periphery of Roman Catholicism this summer becoming the first pontiff to visit Mongolia. The…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending an anti-LGBTQ video his campaign shared online that…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The company that wants to build a mine in southeast Nebraska has signed a deal with a major…

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A hiker has been missing in Yosemite National Park since last weekend after being swept away by a cold and…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor attempted to lock in a school funding increase for the next 400…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Johnny Knoxville is no stranger to head injuries. In the decades since he rose to fame as the…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When archaeologists first discovered the 5,000-year-old ornate tomb in Spain, they assumed…

FLORENCE, Wis. (AP) — Workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy from injuries he received last week at a…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial…

By The Associated Press Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are divorcing after nearly six years of marriage, the couple announced Thursday. “For some…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian man has opened fire near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, killing…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and RENATA BRITO Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tensions have spiked dangerously in a Tunisian port city after three…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday announced the expelling of nine Finnish diplomats and shutting down Finland’s consulate in…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings slipped in May but remained at levels high enough to show the American…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet So-called alternative credit cards from financial technology companies can offer you the opportunity to build…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The trial of 10 men accused over the 2016 suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station is taking a major step toward…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There are, as a rule, only so many places you can go as an action movie after leaving Tom Cruise…

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The courts are finally dry at Wimbledon and the sun is even shining through the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press BOKSBURG, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a toxic gas leak in South Africa blamed on an…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose last week, but remains at healthy levels despite the…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court has acquitted a border police officer who was charged with reckless…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A missing 2-year-old Michigan girl who disappeared during an attack on her mother was found dead nearly 100 miles (161…

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have packed the town hall square in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona to celebrate the…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A girl was killed Thursday when an SUV crashed into an elementary school on a very narrow road in the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police have arrested another person accused of supporting overseas activists who…

LONDON (AP) — The head of global energy giant Shell says it would be “irresponsible” to cut oil and gas production at a time when the world…

YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The minister charged with an overhaul of this nation’s digitized system to assign a number to all…

BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers in Germany have failed to agree on new rules regulating assisted suicide. They voted Thursday to reject two proposals drawn…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say they have activated a national response plan ahead of…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Turkish man has been found guilty of attempted aggravated extortion, weapons possession and attempted terrorist financing,…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish migrant rights group says 951 migrants have died while trying to reach Spain by sea in…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press The president of this year’s United Nations’ climate talks urged the oil and gas industry Thursday to reach net…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans to tell Chinese officials that Washington wants healthy…

By ANNA FRANTS Associated Press MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The mercenary leader who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A human rights advocacy group says it found allegations of dozens of labor and…

BEIJING (AP) — The leader of the Solomon Islands will visit China next week, highlighting the accelerating contest between Beijing and Washington…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli forces have shelled a southern Lebanese border village after several…

By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARMSALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has celebrated his 88th birthday among hundreds of supporters and exiled…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Five years after her death, the final wishes of music superstar Aretha Franklin are still…