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BEIJING (AP) — A government official from China’s Tibetan region has rejected allegations of forced assimilation and curbs on religious freedom,…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Foreign dignitaries have gathered in Finland’s capital to bid farewell to former President Martti Ahtisaari, including…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, BASSEM MROUE and DAVID RISING Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes hit near several hospitals in Gaza…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited his southern military headquarters as he assesses the state of his…

LONDON (AP) — The British economy flatlined in the third quarter of the year. The Office for National Statistics said Friday that growth in the…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union institutions and conservationists have given a conditional and guarded welcome to a…

MANILA (AP) — Chinese and Philippine vessels have engaged in a new confrontation in the South China Sea, with Manila charging that a Chinese coast…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia is offering the island nation of Tuvalu a lifeline to help residents escape…

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LAÚNDOS, Portugal (AP) — Guilherme Peixoto, a village priest in northern Portugal, has been busy this…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares retreated Friday after rising bond market yields once again weighed on Wall Street,…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The diplomats and defense chiefs of India and the United States met Friday focusing on security issues involving the Indo-Pacific,…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood’s months of labor unrest are coming to an end, but the post-strike landscape that awaits…

By RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press YANKEETOWN, Fla. (AP) — A freshwater spring bubbles amid the mangroves, cabbage palms and red cedars on…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Manchin’s decision not to seek reelection virtually ensures that the…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than a year after California endorsed a proposal to extend the lifespan of its last…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BALATONOSZOD, Hungary (AP) — Zusha Pletnyov left his home in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk in 2014, when…

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has set off a cacophony of criticism over her plans to attend…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, MARK VANCLEAVE and MELISSA PEREZ WINDER Associated Press ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) — A 96-year-old Korean War veteran from…

By KEVIN McGILL, STEPHEN SMITH and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Oct. 7 Hamas raid on Israel — and Israel’s…

By JOHN DUERDEN Associated Press Makram Daboub may be struggling to prepare his Palestinian team for the start of 2026 World Cup qualification but he…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — From the onset of negotiations in April, Las Vegas hotel workers said they would be willing to…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards will arrive Friday. Nominees will be announced…

BEIJING (AP) — A financial services business of China’s biggest bank says it was it by a ransomware attack that reportedly disrupted trading…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Barbie” star America Ferrera has used her platform at a major Hollywood…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Internet access across the war-torn nation of Yemen have collapsed without…

TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) — Parks and schools have been closed in Southern California after officials found asbestos in the charred debris of a historic…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a driver who plowed into a group of Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits on a training run last year, killing…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A pond in Hawaii has turned so bubble-gum pink it could be from the set of “Barbie.” The…

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Days after asking for the public’s help to determine what happened at a California protest that resulted in a Jewish…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Idaho’s “abortion trafficking” law from…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report paints a stark picture of the collapsing Palestinian economy after a…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the lobby of The New York Times on Thursday to demand an…

DALLAS (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of fatally shooting two workers at a Dallas hospital last year as he…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An opposition candidate for the mayorship of Mexico City is accusing the city prosecutor’s office of having filed a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says Alabama cannot use conspiracy laws to prosecute people…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A lawsuit on behalf of four migrants accuses U.S. immigration authorities of disregarded…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood says she will resign from her elected post on…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the world’s population has topped 8 billion for the first time. The agency…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer The head of an Israeli media watchdog says it was simply ‘raising questions’ by wondering whether Palestinian…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli troops have pushed into Gaza City along a key coastal road on the…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man who has spent 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit has been…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two men have been arrested in Indiana and Illinois in connection…

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A former United States senator from Arizona has reported being molested while jogging along the Missouri River in…

By PAUL J. WEBER and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The white Honda Civic sped down Highway 57, a rural two-lane corridor…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for Virginia’s largest school system say that allegations by a 7th…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — Padres slugger Manny Machado put on a hard hat, grabbed a shovel and joined in the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York state comptroller Alan Hevesi has died. He was 83. The longtime elected official from New York City resigned as…

The Associated Press HELMETTA, N.J. (AP) — After two days of searching for a suspect in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol who fled as federal…

WARREN, Pa. (AP) — A homicide suspect who escaped from a northwestern Pennsylvania prison and was on the run for more than a week before a pet dog…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — NASA astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died at age 95. NASA says Borman died…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate who said he received a death sentence due to false…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A project to build a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow…

By DANIEL POLITI and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Politics was suddenly a topic of conversation as thousands…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury says Robert De Niro’s company should pay more than $1.2 million to his former…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James’ path from basketball prodigy to NBA scoring champion is being memorialized where it began. LeBron James’ Home…

DETROIT (AP) — Longtime Chicago White Sox announcer Jason Benetti is moving to Detroit where he will become the TV play-by-play voice of the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A women’s prison in Mexico plagued by food poisoning and poor medical care has now hit by wave of 8 suicides in the last 4 1/2…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Three former New Mexico State basketball players were charged with multiple sex crimes related to a series of…