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Associated Press A white former Ohio police officer charged with murder in the shooting of Andre Hill has testified that he thought he saw a gun in…

Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. State Department has warned that it would restrict U.S. visas for people who undermine Ghana’s…

AP Business Writer PepsiCo said Monday it’s closing a Chicago bottling plant, a move the Teamsters union says will impact 150 workers. PepsiCo said…

Associated Press LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — A jury has begun deliberating in the case of an Alabama man accused of killing an 11-year New Hampshire…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A coastal flooding prevention project in New York City could be a model for communities along America’s…

Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s environmental agency has levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking companies and…

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French newspaper Le Monde reported that highly confidential movements of some of the world’s most powerful leaders,…

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A comic calling Puerto Rico garbage before a packed Donald Trump rally in New York was the latest…

AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people refusing to become organ donors, their confidence shaken by…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian…

Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Incendiary devices were set off Monday at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland and another in nearby…

Associated Press NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday cast an early ballot in the 2024 general election. It’s a bittersweet…

Associated Press Philadelphia’s district attorney is suing to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway that’s part of his political…

AP Health Writer Millions who could benefit from hearing aids have never tried them. Cost, access to health care and stigma create major barriers,…

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Of the nearly 30 speakers who recently warmed up the crowd for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, one…

AP Media Writer Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams is asking people interested in election night news to take a leap of faith with him. He’s…

AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A British man who used artificial intelligence to create images of child abuse was sent to prison for 18 years.…

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An extraordinarily rare dime whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s has sold for just over $500,000. The…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from…

BEIJING (AP) — A knife attack near a school in China’s capital has injured five people, including three children. Police say the attack occurred…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese’s long-reigning coalition lost a majority in the parliamentary election, underscoring voters’ outrage…

Parties loyal to Uzbekistan’s president have swept parliament seats in an election devoid of any real opposition in the tightly-controlled Central…

Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida,…

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chad’s presidency says unidentified assailants have killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack…

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that severely restrict the U.N. agency responsible for distributing aid…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two terms as a…

Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least seven people have died when a building collapsed in Nigeria’s capital Abuja over the weekend.…

VIENNA (AP) — Police say two people have been fatally shot in a rural area of northern Austria. The suspected shooter is on the run. The body of a…

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and likely fight against Ukraine within “the next…

BERLIN (AP) — The head of Volkswagen’s works council says the company has informed employee representatives that it wants to close at least…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At soccer games in Ukraine, crowd sizes are determined by the capacity of the nearest bomb shelter. For the…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has sentenced the founder of the far-right English Defense League to a year and a half in prison for…

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in southern Thailand has dropped a case against former state security personnel and officials over the…

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told a Senate inquiry that he maintained a “death…

Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s center-left opposition parties celebrated victory after prevailing over the center-right…

Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Tens of thousands of Georgians massed outside parliament, demanding the annulment of the weekend…

Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The center-right GERB party of ex-premier Boyko Borissov appears to be the winner of Bulgaria’s…

BERLIN (AP) — Voters in Liechtenstein have voted to withdraw state funding from the tiny country’s public radio broadcaster, a decision that…

Associated Press GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana will vote in a national election this week that will decide whether the ruling party extends a…

Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has begun a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — There is no doubt that the U.S. election will determine the trajectory of the war in Ukraine. The status of…

Associated Press VADODARA, India (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez have inaugurated India’s…

TOKYO (AP) — Tree-cutting has begun in the Jingu Gaien park district of central Tokyo, a flashpoint for more than a year between environmentalists…

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman has appeared in an Australian court charged with assaulting the Indigenous senator who shouted…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Polarizing. Challenging. A lot of wasted time. That’s how six lawmakers described what it is like being in the…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American voters are approaching the presidential election with deep unease about what could follow, including…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — They play on the same team, but they couldn’t be further apart. One member of the women’s volleyball team at…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Uncertainty reigns entering the final full week of the 2024 campaign with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican…