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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court has refused Tuesday to halt Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial, which is…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker Prize…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The death of a British man and injuries impacting dozens of other people aboard a…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has denounced the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Oklahoma over a state law that seeks to impose…

By JACK DURA Associated Press Voters in South Dakota this fall will decide whether to replace their partisan primary election system with contests…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating the deadliest shooting in Maine history plans to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Israel’s shutdown and seizure of an Associated Press video camera that provided a live…

BY COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Residents in a small city in the northeastern corner of Colorado are cleaning up after hail the…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal jury has ruled against a Black couple who sued a Little Rock steakhouse over…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The former head of New Hampshire’s youth detention center is defending himself against…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bodies of four men and two women have been found strangled and dumped in a pile in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus carried out raids and property seizures targeting more than 200…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Fred Roos, the Oscar-winning producer of “The Godfather Part II” who helped launch the careers of numerous…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SAM MAGDY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program is warning that the new U.S. pier project for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An investigation has been opened into the death of Matthew Perry and how the “Friends” actor received the anesthetic…

By WALTER BERRY Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A former University of Arizona graduate student has been convicted of first-degree murder for…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top ally of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been released from prison after nearly a year when a…

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An extensive report by Human Rights Watch says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan…

MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s often violent disputes between street performers reached a new level this week when a group of guitar-toting…

By The Associated Press Russia’s Defense Ministry says it has begun a round of drills involving tactical nuclear weapons. It was the first time…

LONDON (AP) — British police say a man charged with assisting Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in the United Kingdom has died in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published May 14, 2024, about an ejection seat malfunction, The Associated Press erroneously described the T-6A Texan…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Vince Gilmer, the former North Carolina doctor whose murder conviction and medical mystery…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press Former President Donald Trump seems open to supporting regulations on contraception and says his campaign…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won a 2005 Oscar for the movie “Finding Neverland,” has died at age 71.…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and ROB GILLIES Associated PRess ROME (AP) — A retired Canadian judge says he hasn’t been able to find any reliable…

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian authorities say serial killer Robert Pickton who killed over 20 women has been hospitalized and is in a life-threatening…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A team of attorneys has withdrawn from representing a Utah mother accused of killing her husband with fentanyl then…

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s National Museum has hosted a welcome-home ceremony for two ancient statues…

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — ESPN will carry England’s FA Cup in the U.S. through 2028 after reaching a four-year extension with England’s Football…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees. At least 83 of…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it’s releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a…

CHICAGO (AP) — Caitlin Clark has signed a multiyear deal with Wilson Sporting Goods for a signature basketball line. The No. 1 pick in the WNBA…

ELY, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say bad weather is hampering the search for two men who went over a waterfall while fishing in the Boundary Waters…

By SAM GURWITT Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Politically motivated crime in Germany last year reached its highest level since the government…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says three people recently have been arrested on…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Ports Authority says a surge of auto imports rerouted from Baltimore led to its…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Residents in Omaha, Nebraska, awoke to weather sirens blaring and widespread power outages…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says thousands of victims of the U.K.’s infected blood scandal will start…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s high court has upheld a rule requiring companies with health insurance plans to cover medically necessary…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is celebrating the removal of a hulking container ship just under eight weeks after the deadly collapse of…

By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida recruit and current Georgia quarterback Jaden Rashada is suing Gators coach…

PARIS (AP) — The landmark trial of three former Syrian intelligence officials has begun at a Paris court for the alleged torture and killing of a…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN GROVE, N.J. (AP) — A Christian religious group that has closed its beaches on Sunday mornings for generations…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian news reports say a general who was relieved of duty last year after complaining about problems faced by his troops…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban have confirmed the resumption of Turkish Airlines flights to Kabul’s international airport. It…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — She’s the U.S. Open champion. The highest paid female athlete in the world. And a frustrated…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Spain says it is pulling its ambassador from Argentina in response to comments made by Argentine President Javier…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The granddaughter of Elvis Presley is fighting plans to publicly auction his Graceland…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The European Union has reprimanded Kosovo over the unilateral closure of six branches of a Serbia-licensed bank. The EU…

BEIJING (AP) — China has sanctioned Mike Gallagher, a former Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin who has shown support for Taiwan.…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday,…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has made another big overture to China. It is reaffirming it poses no threat to…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — A U.N. tribunal on maritime law has found that countries are legally required to reduce…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A London judge says Prince Harry can’t expand his privacy lawsuit against The Sun…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press The world’s top-selling pizza chain is betting big on the generosity of its customers. And they are not alone.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have reached an agreement to use the profits earned from frozen Russian assets to help arm Ukraine and…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Police have broken up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Michigan less than a week after demonstrators…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese town known for some of the best views of Mount Fuji has completed construction of a…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court has ruled that new regulations that gave U.K. police more powers to intervene in protests were unlawful.…

By JESSICA DONATI, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Congo’s army spokesman on Tuesday released the name of the third…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s Parliament has voted unanimously to condemn political violence following an assassination attempt on Prime…

BANGKOK (AP) — Singapore Airlines says a person has died aboard and others were injured when a London-Singapore flight encountered severe…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say at least six women have died after a vehicle carrying about two dozen people slid off a ferry and plunged…

VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s leader has praised Britain as a “pioneer” in outsourcing asylum proceedings to places outside Europe, citing a U.K.…

MILAN (AP) — A women’s prison near Naples has been evacuated as a precaution following a 4.4 magnitude quake with an epicenter at an active…