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By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top ally and potential running mate of ex-President Donald Trump is launching an effort to win…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press VER-SUR-Mer, France (AP) — King Charles III came to northern France to honor the 22,442 British troops who died in…

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Baseball at the highest club level in Britain is competitive but it’s a league in which babysitters…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Opening arguments were expected to begin Thursday in a class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is meeting with senior officials of the…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vows that the country will start deporting criminals from…

By The Associated Press Officials say Ukrainian drones have struck an oil refinery and a fuel depot in Russian border regions. The attacks are part…

MADRID (AP) — Spain will ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, its foreign…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Ibu has erupted three times in one day, spewing red lava and clouds…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KALTUNGO, Nigeria (AP) — The 9-month-old twins cried nonstop and tugged at their mother, seeking attention but…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unveiled a new, solid-fuel missile in their…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets rose Thursday after Wall Street barreled to records Wednesday as the frenzy around…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank appears ready to start cutting interest rates before the…

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New South Wales has become the last Australian state to apologize for…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Called “Tokyo Futari Story,” the city hall’s new site is just that: An effort to create…

LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) — A toddler was killed and his mother was injured when a tornado struck suburban Detroit without warning, while five people…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s abundant hydroelectric power is helping the Himalayan nation cut its…

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a school in central Gaza that the military said was being…

By The Associated Press Starting in 2010, police searching for a missing woman found 10 sets of human remains in the scrub along a barrier island…

By SAM MEDNICK and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press SOUTH HEBRON HILLS, West Bank (AP) — More than a dozen Israeli settlers — as well as two…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Prosecutors are planning a major announcement in the Gilgo Beach serial killings as the prime suspect in the case…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press DULZURA, Calif. (AP) — Abigail Castillo was about to cross the U.S. border illegally when…

By SAM MEDNICK and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press SOUTH HEBRON HILLS, West Bank (AP) — For weeks after being sanctioned by the United States, Yinon…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia were set to get seats on the U.N. Security…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa is in a moment of deep soul-searching after an election that brought a…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press A ghost from recent election cycles — controversies over certification of results — is…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer At what age should kids be on social media? Should they be on it at all? If they aren’t, will they be…

By VERDA SUBZWARI Associated Press A single image, not even an authentic photograph, is the focus of a singular campaign on Instagram. It has caught…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A growing number of experts say the most realistic and effective way of teaching children about social media…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations humanitarian chief says leaders in many conflict areas are more…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A growing number of experts say the most realistic and effective way of teaching children about social media…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Polls are to open across the Netherlands to kick off four days of voting across the…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui have voted to oppose a U.S. military proposal to…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s bruised and battered opposition was largely written off in the…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least six crewmembers of a fishing boat died while six others were rescued when an explosion and a fire hit the…

UTAH BEACH, France (AP) — As the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it will rise again Thursday over the Normandy beaches where the waves long ago…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean activists’ group has flown large balloons carrying propaganda leaflets…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has begun requesting information from his potential vice…

PRAGUE (AP) — Officials say a passenger train collided head-on with a freight train in the Czech Republic, killing at least four people on board.…

LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) — A tornado killed a 2-year-old boy and injured his mother Wednesday when a tree fell on their house in suburban Detroit,…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Health authorities say a man in Mexico died from a type of bird flu called H5N2 that has…

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A state audit has found lax oversight by California’s transportation agency contributed to a…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York judge who was censured after being seen on video shoving a police officer during a brawl with…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Three people have been shot and killed at a small grocery store in Montgomery. City officials say they are investigating if…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Professional athletes get the lecture at the start of every season, and see the warnings any time…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators have advanced a proposed constitutional amendment…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state man who pleaded guilty to making 20 false reports of bombs and shootings around the U.S. and in Canada has…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A judge has rejected a law Illinois Democrats approved last month that…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Biden administration officials say the U.S. has been tracking Russian warships and aircraft…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer is declining to comment on the case against a New York man charged in a sports…

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors who will decide whether President Joe Biden’s son is guilty of federal firearms charges are hearing deeply…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Government advisers say it’s time to update the recipe for the COVID-19 vaccines…

VIGO PARK, Texas (AP) — Storm trackers in the Texas Panhandle have recovered a massive hail stone that’s about the size of a pineapple. It…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A black bear who had ventured into a Salt Lake City neighborhood from the nearby mountains took a 20-foot tumble from a tree…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Sen. Bob Menendez has been excused from appearing in court next week after her…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A Latino advocacy group has filed a lawsuit asking a court to prevent a border proposal from…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens says he will support a plan to spend $5 million reimbursing businesses for…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico voters have ousted several incumbents from the Democratic-led Legislature in the…

By JOHN HANNA and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Florida and Kansas officials are accusing two petition circulators of…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is appointing two far-right Republicans to the powerful House…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Month after month, global temperatures are setting new records. Meanwhile, scientists and…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado woman who was seriously injured when a freight train hit the parked police vehicle in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has hired retired Army Lt. Gen. Reynold Hoover as its CEO. In a news…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden commemorates the 80th anniversary of D-Day in 1944, he might be…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Curtis Bashaw’s Senate nomination over Donald Trump’s preferred candidate in the New…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Most people who received money from Norfolk Southern in the wake of last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court has halted the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald…

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas county has agreed to pay a group of female deputies $1.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed they were abused…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Police investigating a shooting at a street party in Akron that left one dead have increased the number injured by three.…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed legislation overhauling access to the state’s public records, likely making it harder…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — YouTube is changing its rules to protect its youngest users from potentially harmful firearm…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff will kick off with a first-round game on Dec. 20 and conclude…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jury deliberations continue in the trial of seven Minnesotans accused of exploiting the…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press Joro spiders — invasive, brightly colored, orb-weaving arachnids that have been spreading in the U.S. for the…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Thousands of people including police officers from throughout the Northeast have gathered…

By KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The reality/competition series “The Traitors” has announced a lineup of reality…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press VER-SUR MER, France (AP) — Along with the generals and the paratroopers, the pilots and the infantrymen, spare a…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have issued criminal referrals against Joe Biden’s son and brother,…