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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday upheld former Minneapolis police officer Derek…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says that he heard people’s anger over raising the retirement age…

By RAF CASERT and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press HALLE, Belgium (AP) — Rain or shine, there is no way to keep budding flowers down. And from…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Scientists say many North American bats are in trouble. A report by experts…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been…

By DAVID BAUDER, RANDALL CHASE and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Slovakia has become the third European Union country to ban food imports from Ukraine. The…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press ZOETERMEER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch national intelligence agency has painted a grim picture of a growing…

CONSHOKOCKEN, Pa. (AP) — David’s Bridal has filed for bankruptcy protection, the second time for the chain in the past five years. The…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Japanese police say they have confiscated metal tubes, tools and possible gunpowder from the home of a man…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan authorities say they are closing education centers supported by non-governmental groups in…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — SpaceX called off the first launch attempt of its giant rocket Monday after a…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — China’s defense minister has toured the top Russian military academy on a visit to the…

By LINDSEY TANNER and ANGIE WANG Associated Press Anxiety over academics. Post-lockdown malaise. Social media angst. Study after study says American…

ROME (AP) — The doctors caring for former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in a Milan hospital, where he is recovering from a lung infection, say his…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop arrived in Beijing on Monday, marking the first visit to the…

ROME (AP) — Italian police have scooped up two tons of cocaine that was wrapped in protective plastic and bobbing in the sea off eastern Sicily.…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s right-wing government is pressing ahead with plans to crack down on migrants after…

LONDON (AP) — Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal has been named a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Covention to Combat Desertification. Maal…

By OLIVIA SANCHEZ, The Hechinger Report NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It’s almost 4 p.m. at the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied…

BANGKOK (AP) — Officials in Thailand say a freak storm in the country’s south has capsized a dozen fishing boats and killed at least three…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Defending Boston Marathon champion Evans Chebet wasn’t focused on beating Eliud Kipchoge, the…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet If you’re going to need a home loan in retirement — to buy your next house or replace the mortgage you’ve got —…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s wife says she is stepping down as the education minister of the region where the couple lives,…

By ALI ABDUL-HASSAN and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has offered to mediate between Ukraine and Russia to try resolve the war…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Anthony Davis scared Los Angeles Lakers fans by grabbing at his right shoulder and saying he couldn’t move his…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The NHL playoffs are going on without Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin for the first time since their rookie year in…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A lot was happening in March 1965 in the bungalow in Selma, Alabama, that then-4-year-old…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has delivered the remaining nine of the 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets that it promised to Ukraine. The…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Every day, Americans donate their time, skills and energy to their communities by volunteering with nonprofit…

By The Associated Press A Russian court has convicted top opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr. of treason for publicly denouncing Moscow’s…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a Chinese national has been arrested on blasphemy charges after he…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi-led military coalition has freed 104 more prisoners captured in Yemen’s war, a unilateral release…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong says her country is working to stabilize…

PARIS (AP) — France’s government is sounding the alarm about the growing risk of forest fires because of climate change, as hundreds of…

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — As explosions and gunfire thundered outside, Sudanese in the capital…

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French court has acquitted Airbus and Air France of manslaughter charges over the 2009…

BERLIN (AP) — Former Chancellor Angela Merkel is to be decorated with Germany’s highest possible honor in recognition of her near-record 16 years…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and past leaders of the U.K. and Ireland…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the…

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri, was charged Monday…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Tensions have been brewing for weeks between Sudan’s two most powerful generals, who just 18…

By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press CASA of Lexington has tried just about everything to find volunteers to serve as advocates for…

CHICO, Texas (AP) — A train collision and subsequent derailment has injured two rail employees in Texas. Union Pacific spokesperson Kristen South…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States, South Korea and Japan have conducted a joint…

By WILL WEISSERT and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — For many progressives, the past decade has been littered with disappointments.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — First the Russians gave the U.N. spotlight to the commissioner of children’s rights…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is back at work in the U.S. Capitol on Monday,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s military has recovered two bodies of the 10 crewmembers from an army helicopter that had…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Tuesday as pessimism about global uncertainties remained even as…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to three months in prison for breaching court…

By EDNA TARIGAN and MARIAM FAM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In the heart of Jakarta, the grand Istiqlal Mosque was built with a…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Love isn’t patient, love isn’t kind — at least if you ask the fans of Netflix’s…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The final curtain came down Sunday on New York’s production of “The Phantom of the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, a bridal industry pioneer and Holocaust survivor who decided over a half century ago that brides…

NYSSA, Ore. (AP) — Authorities were looking for a man they believe shot and killed an eastern Oregon reserve police officer. Nyssa officer Joseph…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran’s exiled crown prince is scheduled to come to Israel this week. The visit by Reza Pahlavi reflects the warm ties his father…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — The president of the International Ice Hockey Federation says Russia and Belarus won’t…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Sacramento Kings are investigating allegations from a Bay Area hip-hop star that…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Sunday apologized to the victims of a government-sponsored sexual freedom law passed last…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with China’s defense minister in Moscow. Sunday’s meeting underscored China’s…

By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — David Ortiz says he knows the speech he gave at the first game at Fenway Park after the Boston…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s state media says a court has sentenced an air defense commander allegedly responsible for the…