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By Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — Brian May has once again proven why he is rock royalty. Not only is he the Queen guitarist, but he is also an…
Continue ReadingBy Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — Brian May has once again proven why he is rock royalty. Not only is he the Queen guitarist, but he is also an…
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Lego says it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of London’s police force is calling for increased legal protections for officers who use…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press NEW PLYMOUTH, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is facing an uphill battle to woo voters…
Continue ReadingBy AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Thousands of Armenians streamed out of Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani military…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan authorities have fined a golf ball manufacturer $75,000 and warned of criminal charges after a major factory fire…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press LYON, France (AP) — A trial is opening in a French counterterrorism court over the killing of two police…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is blocking leading U.S. online travel agency Booking from acquiring Sweden’s flight booking…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Oil prices are up, and that affects people far and wide. Drivers pay more for…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — First came the castle. Then the golf course. The nearly 300,000 fans due to…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has awarded more than $1.4 billion to projects that improve railway safety and boost rail capacity, with…
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces have imposed a curfew in parts of eastern Syria after new clashes…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chief prosecutor says he has ordered the detention of eight current and former officials…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Last year’s spike in inflation, to the highest level in four decades, was painful…
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The chairman of Hong Kong’s leading journalist group has been found guilty of obstructing a…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A statue of a deceased German cardinal has been removed from its perch outside Essen Cathedral in western Germany, days after…
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials have vowed to remove a floating barrier placed by China’s coast…
Continue ReadingBy FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is observing a day of mourning for the Kosovar Albanian police…
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Top Thai officials have welcomed hundreds of Chinese tourists at Bangkok’s international…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister is accusing Germany of trying to interfere in his country’s internal affairs. He made the…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senior Australian public servant has stepped aside while an investigation is underway…
Continue ReadingCNN By Tim Lister and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s playgrounds are becoming parade grounds. At schools from the Pacific to the Black…
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian state radio says that Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the…
Continue ReadingBy TAMMY WEBBER and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press More Americans believe they’ve personally felt the impact of climate change because of…
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — The sole survivor of a poisoning involving suspected death cap mushrooms that killed three others in Australia…
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The European Union’s trade commissioner has called for a more balanced relationship with China,…
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing more than four months ago after being…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in…
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR and MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writers More research is showing that we carry genes from other kinds of ancient humans, and their DNA…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — From just outside the burn zone in Lahaina, Jes Claydon can see the ruins of the rental…
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh, Lucas Lilieholm and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A Mafia boss who spent nearly three decades evading law enforcement…
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A record-breaking $785 million Powerball jackpot is up for grabs in Monday night’s drawing – the fourth…
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press LUHANSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Flying above enemy lines, a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone sends a clear image back…
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin as members of an extended family face trial on kidnapping…
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man says authorities wrongly arrested him based on a match generated by facial…
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Judge Peter Cahill hardly slept during the six weeks he presided over the murder trial of…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Just a few years ago, artificial intelligence got barely a mention at the U.N. General…
Continue ReadingBy ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The exclusive online livestream for the second Republican presidential debate this week will take…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Ed Sheeran centered on his relationships, a spinoff of “The…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — This fall, the United Nations is to convene an advisory group on artificial intelligence.…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares in Asia were mostly lower on Monday, with Tokyo the only major regional market to advance, after Wall…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supplying of bomb-carrying drones to Russia could see Moscow help…
Continue ReadingBy Paula Newton and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons has apologized after celebrating a Ukrainian veteran…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Now that a tentative deal has been struck to end Hollywood’s writers strike after…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “a guy with a trash-like…
Continue ReadingBy Sahar Akbarzai, Rhea Mogul and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Intelligence gained by the “Five Eyes” network led to Canada’s public…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Union leaders and Hollywood studios reached a tentative agreement Sunday to end a…
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — International soccer star Megan Rapinoe will leave her national team career a winner. The United States Women’s…
Continue ReadingSANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have rescued a 17-year-old boy in Southern California after he was kidnapped and held hostage for four days…
Continue ReadingLEUVEN, Belgium (AP) — Lithuanian teenager Dominika Banevič and American Victor Montalvo have qualified for next year’s Paris Olympics after…
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons is apologizing for recognizing in Parliament a man who…
Continue ReadingBy DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A 35-year-old businessman without prior political experience has been elected to lead…
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Taylor Swift took advantage of an invitation from Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce to see…
Continue ReadingBy KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer Spain is a strong contender to be the next international host of a regular-season NFL game and it could happen as…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press Missouri officials struck back at one of the clinics that unsuccessfully challenged new state restrictions on gender…
Continue ReadingBy ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins scored the most points in a game by an NFL team since 1966,…
Continue ReadingBy Jared Formanek, CNN (CNN) — Six people are dead, including three children, after a train struck an SUV as it crossed railroad tracks in…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Canadian autoworkers have ratified a new labor agreement with Ford Motor Co., averting a threatened strike. The decision on…
Continue ReadingAn asteroid sample collected by NASA has touched down on Earth, giving scientists the opportunity to learn more about the origins of the solar system…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos, CNN (CNN) — France will end its military presence in Niger by the end of 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday,…
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people.…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham weren’t enough to save “…
Continue ReadingBy Maria Sole Campinoti (CNN) — The number of first responders from the New York City Fire Department who have died from 9/11-related illnesses…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron says France will end its military presence in Niger and pull its ambassador out of the country after its…
Continue ReadingSHEFFIELD, England (AP) — Newcastle has equaled its biggest win of the Premier League era by beating Sheffield United 8-0 away with eight different…
Continue ReadingCHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a Chandler, Arizona, woman who ran an animal rescue out of her now-condemned home has been arrested. Dozens…
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Colorado fell out of The Associated Press college football poll after a resounding loss in one of the…
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Lottery players have another chance to win big on Monday after the Powerball jackpot…
Continue ReadingGiorgio Armani has closed Milan Fashion Week with good vibes and a front row that included frequent guests such as Cate Blanchette and Juliette…
Continue ReadingOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police say one person was injured when shots were fired during an argument between two groups of people at the…
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer CASARES, Spain (AP) — Europe has retained the Solheim Cup after securing a first-ever tie with the United States.…
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say former NHL player Nicolas Kerdiles has died after a motorcycle crash in Nashville. He was 29. Police say the…
Continue ReadingTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A student and his parents are suing a University of Alabama fraternity, saying he suffered a traumatic brain injury while…
Continue ReadingFARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — The school superintendent in Farmingdale, New York, says all the high school students who were injured in a bus crash on…
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Nic Kerdiles, a former hockey player who was engaged to the reality TV star Savannah Chrisley, was killed in a…
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova, Josh Pennington, Eve Brennan and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Kosovo police said they killed three armed attackers and…
Continue ReadingARCADIA, La. (AP) — The FBI says a Louisiana man who fled his 1991 trial for attempted murder has been arrested more than three decades later after…
Continue ReadingPLAINS, Ga. (AP) — The Carter Center says former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, on took a ride through the Plains Peanut Festival…
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova, Martin Goillandeau and Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — Armenia’s prime minister has called his country’s security relationships…
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Washington National Cathedral on Saturday revealed four new “racial-justice themed” stained-glass windows to…
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An imprisoned Russian opposition figure has been transferred to a maximum security…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Local authorities in southern China say a coal mine fire has killed 16 people. The blaze broke out on Sunday at the Shanjiaoshu coal…
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has defended his country’s enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade levels,…
Continue ReadingCNN By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has defended his country’s enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON Associated Press The Afghan man speaks only Farsi, but he wasn’t worried about representing himself in U.S. immigration court.…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Usher has a new confession: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music…
Continue ReadingBy AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Officials in Armenia say the first refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have arrived in the…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — It may not be the lightest of topics to begin your Sunday with, but it’s one we shouldn’t shy…
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN Djibouti (CNN) — The US has not seen a withdrawal of Wagner forces from Africa “in any substantial or meaningful…
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Florida authorities have identified the woman found dead after an alligator was seen with a…
Continue ReadingCNN, WFTS By Jamiel Lynch and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Florida authorities have identified the woman found dead after an alligator was…
Continue ReadingBy ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Archaeologists say they have discovered dozens of ancient graves including two rare…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities on Monday will begin allowing the first residents and property owners to…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is poised to allow Israeli citizens to travel to the United States…
Continue ReadingJACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 3-year-old child and two adults are dead after being shot during an argument over an apparent dog sale. Jacksonville…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Early next month, the Vatican will open an unprecedented gathering of Catholic clergy and…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s police force says some officers are refusing to conduct armed patrols after a colleague…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Soon after Felix Llerena arrived in Miami in 2017, the Cuban activist was drawn to…
Continue ReadingWJXT, FAMILY PHOTOS, CNN By Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A toddler was among three people killed Saturday night during a shooting at an…
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A toddler was among three people killed Saturday night during a shooting at an apartment in Jacksonville,…
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