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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish lira has tumbled to fresh record lows, extending its slide against the U.S. dollar. The lira weakened by around…

By CURT ANDERSON and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A woman accused of shooting and killing a mother in front of her kids last…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — United Nations judges have declared an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI and DESMOND TIRO Associated Press MBIRIKANI, Kenya (AP) — Parkeru Ntereka lost almost half of his goat herd to hungry lions that…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and MARIA CHENG Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis underwent successful surgery Wednesday to repair a hernia in his…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The global economy is bouncing back from an an energy price spike fed by…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese writer Haruki Murakami says walls are increasingly built and dividing people and countries…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A real estate deal in Jerusalem’s Old City, at the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press As Mina gets increasingly sick, her body withering away, her husband dotes on her: He washes her hair, helps her…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares fell Thursday after heavy selling of big-name tech stocks pushed benchmarks lower on…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JACK DURA Associated Press North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia regulators have voted to advance Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s plan to withdraw…

By BRITTANY PETERSON and DREW COSTLEY Associated Press As 30 environment and trade ministers, and 50 CEOs gather in Paris for the 8th international…

By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press BELLAIRE, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of supporting a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After a payment pause that has lasted more than three years, more than 40 million student…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican federal official says the Attorney General’s Office is investigating a possible…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Air India flight from New Delhi to San Francisco has been diverted to Russia after it…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Leaders of Venezuela’s fractured opposition are shaking voters’ hands and…

By ANNIE MA, CLAUDIA LAUER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press NOLENSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The first encounter with racism that Harmony Kennedy…

By JILL COLVIN and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence opened his bid for the Republican…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s exports fell 7.5% from a year earlier in May and imports were down 4.5%, adding to…

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — Search crews on Mount Rainier have found and recovered the body of a man matching the description of an…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — As many as eight young workers were confirmed dead Tuesday in Mexico after they apparently…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are using a grand jury in Florida as part of their investigation into the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and ROB GILLIES Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Fiji’s leader indicated his nation is reconsidering its security ties with China at…

DENVER (AP) — Former Colorado state senator Mike Johnston claimed victory as opponent Kelly Brough conceded Tuesday night in a runoff election to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard will resign his position next week to dedicate himself to seeking the…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — As shelling from Russia’s war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Democratic lawmakers stood on the steps of the state Capitol Tuesday and implored…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House conservatives staged a mini-revolt Tuesday in retaliation for Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Attorneys for Delaware’s largest county and three police officers are asking a federal…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Françoise Gilot, a prolific and acclaimed painter who produced art for well more than a…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One passenger was a caretaker from Jamaica known for her generous portions of…

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A woman who received a desperate text from her husband indicating he had been taken hostage said…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The promotion of certain beliefs that some North Carolina lawmakers…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two former executives of a company known for offering “orgasmic meditation” sessions have…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The PGA Tour’s merger with rival LIV Golf has reignited a debate over sportswashing and drawn critics ranging…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Once rivals in court, the PGA Tour and LIV Golf are now partners in business. The PGA Tour, Europe tour and Saudi…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida law banning transgender youth from getting medical treatment is temporarily on hold after a surprise decision…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan’s top prosecutor has disavowed over 300 convictions tied to New York City police…

BY BEN FINLEY Associated Press The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia is now facing federal charges that she used marijuana…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Researchers at California State University, Long Beach, used drones to study juvenile white…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers are scheduled to introduce bipartisan legislation that would give…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative American think tank says the past drug use that Prince Harry detailed in…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request to block a new Washington state law banning the sale…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge has affirmed this week’s planned extradition to the U.S. of the main suspect in the unsolved 2005…

By CURT ANDERSON and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities came under pressure Tuesday to arrest and charge a white woman…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the…

By ADRIAN SAINZ and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Questions remain over how a law designed to limit drag shows in…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion providers have sued Kansas over what they are required to tell patients before a…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Black man who was shot in the mouth by a Mississippi…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In an election that reflected strong global opposition to Russia’s war against…

By The Associated Press It was almost a year ago to the day that Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf teed off for the first time as the PGA Tour’s…

LONDON (AP) — A British police motorcyclist is facing a criminal investigation over the death of a woman who was struck in a collision with the…

ROME (AP) — Italian state television and other media have reported that prosecutors based in Naples are investigating a former premier and some…

UNION, Mo. (AP) — A 67-year-old man has pleaded guilty to strangling a woman in Missouri and leaving her bound body in the woods three decades ago,…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is considering whether to join the 2024 Republican…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Browns coach Kevin Stefanski expressed relief that two of his defensive players were…

By TARA COPP Associated Press AMERICAN CEMETERY, Normandy, France (AP) — U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley says fighting in Ukraine has…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico lowered the alert level on the Popocatepetl volcano Tuesday after more than two weeks of its eruptions of gas and ash had…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An official with Poland’s state broadcasting authority says it has received multiple…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A top aide to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is joining Daniel Cameron’s…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law championed by…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal magistrate ruled Tuesday to make public the names of the cosigners on indicted Rep.…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The PGA Tour ended its expensive fight with Saudi Arabia’s golf venture and now is joining forces with it, making a…

By COURTNEY BONNELL and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The collapse of a major dam in southern Ukraine sent global…