National-World

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets were mostly lower in cautious trading on Wednesday after U.S. stocks hit new record…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. fell sharply to its lowest level in nearly three years in April on the back of…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A renowned Sherpa mountain guide has scaled Mount Everest for record 30th time which…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The owner of Nepal’s largest news organization has been arrested for allegedly violating the country’s citizenship laws…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s African National Congress rose above politics for years. It was a…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader will preside over a funeral Wednesday for the…

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation’s primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Zhang Zhan has been released from prison after serving four years for charges related to reporting…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Tom Brady is coming into the booth of Fox Sports top NFL team with seven Super Bowl rings. Greg Olsen is leaving it…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT, SCOTT McFETRIDGE and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Officials said multiple people were killed…

By NAPAT KONGSAWAD Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Singapore Airlines says most of the passengers who were on one of its jetliners that was…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While President Joe Biden and his guest of honor at a White House state dinner chew over…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hunter Biden’s lawyers are pressing a judge to delay his federal…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s attorney general says a court has ordered the manufacturers and distributors of…

By TERRY SPENCER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the classified documents case against…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty plans to spend more than $3 million on a…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — As she runs to replace outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum is…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Sustained Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid in recent weeks have forced leaders…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press The number of people of both Latino and Asian American or Pacific Islander heritage has more than doubled in the last…

Since being elected co-chair of the Republican National Committee in March, Lara Trump has worked to reshape the party in Donald Trump’s image. The…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says Russia is conducting a “shadow war” against…

By TIA GOLDENBERG and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An AP examination of the handling of two debunked stories alleging that Hamas…

By MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Since being elected co-chair of the Republican National Committee in…

By TIA GOLDENBERG and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies…

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Barbie dolls will honor tennis champion Venus Williams and eight other athletes as part of a project announced by Mattel…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mastercard says it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia says its military has flown 115 people from the restive French Pacific…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s trade deficit in April grew nearly 8% from a year earlier as the weak yen boosted the…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnam’s National Assembly has confirmed the country’s top security official, To Lam, as its…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former model accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her at his New York City recording studio in 2003 in a lawsuit…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Senate has passed a set of ambitious reparations…

By MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press Sen. Cory Booker says prisoners should be learning professional skills that help prepare them for…

By ANUPAM NATH Associated Press MORIGAON, India (AP) — Yaad Ali is dreading the rainy season’s arrival this year. The 56-year-old farmer from…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would reclassify two abortion-inducing drugs,…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Rangers have recovered the body of a Japanese man who died after an apparent fall while climbing North America’s tallest…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — U.S. House candidate Adam Hollier will be left off Michigan’s August primary…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s National Police appear to confirm that retired Gen. Humberto Ortega, brother of President Daniel Ortega, has been…

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than $30 million…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has toured the Houston area to assess the…

LUQUE, Paraguay (AP) — Coaches at the Copa America will be able to make a 6th and extra substitution in cases of suspected head trauma or…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — José Rubén Zamora has spent nearly two years locked in a dark 16- by 13-foot cell in…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team has rested its case in his hush money trial after calling just two…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill before California lawmakers would require new cars sold in the state in coming years…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Forecasters say this year’s hurricane season for waters around Hawaii will likely…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — One of the Washington state police officers cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis — a Black man who…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The family of an Alaska man who was fatally attacked by a moose said the amateur…

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A coroner says a renewed effort to identify thousands of bones found at the Indiana estate of…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have introduced legislation that would prohibit U.S. officials from accepting money,…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A conservative legislative committee in Louisiana has blocked an effort by the Jewish…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press A Minnesota city and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached an agreement addressing allegations the city…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York trial of Sen. Bob Menendez grinded to a weeklong break after Manhattan federal…

COLUMBIA, N.C. (AP) — A federal lawsuit is seeking the removal of a Confederate monument marked as “in appreciation of our faithful slaves”…

By ZEKE MILLER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former national security adviser Robert O’Brien on Tuesday said he and…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former employee is suing the city of Minneapolis, alleging ex-police Officer Derek Chauvin…

By The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed the felony convictions of five retired military officers who had admitted to…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia students struggling to figure out how to pay for college could be…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s presidential campaign will begin accepting donations in cryptocurrency, the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court has refused Tuesday to halt Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial, which is…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker Prize…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The death of a British man and injuries impacting dozens of other people aboard a…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has denounced the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Oklahoma over a state law that seeks to impose…

By JACK DURA Associated Press Voters in South Dakota this fall will decide whether to replace their partisan primary election system with contests…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating the deadliest shooting in Maine history plans to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Israel’s shutdown and seizure of an Associated Press video camera that provided a live…

BY COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Residents in a small city in the northeastern corner of Colorado are cleaning up after hail the…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal jury has ruled against a Black couple who sued a Little Rock steakhouse over…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The former head of New Hampshire’s youth detention center is defending himself against…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bodies of four men and two women have been found strangled and dumped in a pile in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus carried out raids and property seizures targeting more than 200…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Fred Roos, the Oscar-winning producer of “The Godfather Part II” who helped launch the careers of numerous…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SAM MAGDY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program is warning that the new U.S. pier project for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An investigation has been opened into the death of Matthew Perry and how the “Friends” actor received the anesthetic…

By WALTER BERRY Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A former University of Arizona graduate student has been convicted of first-degree murder for…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top ally of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been released from prison after nearly a year when a…

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An extensive report by Human Rights Watch says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan…