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By DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer A screening tool the federal government is using to decide which neighborhoods have a disproportionate amount of…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press An 18-year-old northeastern Nebraska woman was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail and two years of probation…

LONDON (AP) — The chief executive of U.K. bank NatWest Group has apologized to populist politician Nigel Farage after he complained that his bank…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve has launched a new instant payment service that allows banks and credit…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A local officials says an explosion killed at least nine people in North-Kivu province in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Thursday imposed travel restrictions on most British diplomats in the country, a practice reminiscent of the Soviet…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in June to the slowest pace since January, as a…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Three of Kevin Spacey ‘s accusers are liars, his lawyer told jurors Thursday at the…

ISABELLA O’MALLEY Temperatures have peaked at or above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) the entire month of July in Phoenix. Air…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Tonga, New Zealand and Australia next week as…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s first open call for grants yielded 6,353…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer From high school to the professional leagues, hazing is ingrained in teams sports in the United States.…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker…

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer UConn has settled a lawsuit filed by a former women’s soccer player who lost her scholarship for flashing…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Discovery Channel has landed the perfect host this year for “Shark Week,” none other…

By RIO YAMAT and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A home that Las Vegas police raided this week in connection with the 1996 drive-by…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Treasury says the amount of public funding for King Charles III and the royal family’s…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Prosecutors are asking a Russian court to sentence imprisoned opposition leader Alexei…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Volunteer searchers say they have found 27 corpses in clandestine graves in the border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen,…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serb parliament has passed a law recriminalizing libel which critics say will restrict freedom of…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A street-food salesgirl who became a tech entrepreneur and senator is shaking up the…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who was twice convicted of defrauding investors out of $230 million and whose lengthy prison sentence was…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to show fortitude in the…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says the European Union made a “regrettable choice of words” when it referred to the U.K.-run Falkland…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Tesla is recalling nearly 16,000 of its 2021-2023 Model S and Model X vehicles because some front-row seat…

By The Associated Press Many sunbathers who want to take a dip in the cool water to escape the summer heat are being thwarted by high bacteria levels…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say they have been ordered not to report deaths amid demonstrations against the…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate in another sign of commitment to a…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans says he wants to lead a combined campaign by two left-leaning parties…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors in England are staging a 48-hour walkout to demand better pay and…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Fire Service has intensified water drops west of Athens where a huge blaze was contained overnight, as authorities…

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Families and a rights defender say two prominent figures from Egypt’s human rights…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Investigators looking into the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a German museum have…

By ELLEN McINTYRE Associated Press DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — For a nation more than 7,000 miles from the United States, the Philippines boasts a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Mercenaries from Russia’s military company Wagner have launched joint drills with the Belarusian military almost a month after…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told former top U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger that relations between the two countries are at a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama plans to execute an inmate for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state seeks to…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead with his…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Voters are going to the polls in three electoral districts of England, with the governing…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told top Vietnamese officials that Washington considers…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pop star Shakira is facing more trouble from Spain’s tax office after a court near Barcelona said Thursday that it had…

By JOSH BOAK and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden has paid a visit to Philadelphia’s shipyard to…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Croatian firefighter has died during a deadly storm that swept the Balkans after a heat wave, raising the death toll to…

By The Associated Press China’s ambassador to the United States says it does not want a trade war but will retaliate against any further U.S.…

By The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities say one man has been killed and at least 48 people are injured, some of them seriously,…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — An eighth cheetah death in India’s Kuno National Park last Friday has raised new questions…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Fans of late martial arts legend Bruce Lee, who broke negative stereotypes around Asian men in…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke more than two months of public silence over deadly ethnic…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say two suicide bombers attacked a sprawling compound housing a police station and…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have warned people in Berlin’s southern suburbs to watch out for a potentially dangerous animal, suspected to be…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Friday in Asia after the latest rally on Wall Street fizzled, with big…

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s elections Sunday will be a battle between two leftist and two rightist…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A recent Saturday evening Mass at Sagrada Familia parish had all the hallmarks…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — One of the world’s largest refugee camps offers a stark example of the global food…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek says Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have signed deals worth $50.7 billion, as President…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — As Jordan hosted regional talks this spring aimed at ending Syria’s isolation after more…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An abortion opponent pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge Thursday after telling…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The contests have names such as Predator Slam, Squirrel Scramble and Final Fling for Fox. And…

By MARCIO SANCHEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles sold the winning ticket for the Powerball…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Pink sauce on that Burger King burger? What about “Barbie-fying” your pet with…

By LISA MASCARO and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. worked to defend himself Thursday against accusations that…