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By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy has shown remarkable resilience but still bears deep scars from the…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Attorneys for Texas are asking federal appeals court judges to let the state keep in place a…

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who wants to run for Congress next year is suing the state over one of its requirements. He takes…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military on Thursday shot down a Turkish drone that had come in too close to U.S. troops…

By JACK JEFFERY The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. Ambassador to Libya says that the floods that devastated a Libyan coastal city last…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The cost of financing a home surged again this week as the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Investigators have identified two individuals allegedly involved in a shooting that claimed the…

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Former Northwestern University football coach Pat Fitzgerald is suing the school for $130…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who opened fire on a New York City subway train during rush hour last year is scheduled…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An accountant who prepared Donald Trump’s financial statements is back on…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Star Wars-obsessed man who says he was encouraged by a chatbot girlfriend to slay Queen Elizabeth…

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been a big year for labor organizing in the U.S. And from auto production lines to Hollywood, all eyes are on strikes…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Progressive activist Cornel West will run for president in 2024 as an independent,…

THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a 77-year-old man for allegedly buying more than $1,800 in erectile dysfunction drugs…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man illegally brought a handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol, demanding to see Gov. Tony…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The ex-campaign treasurer for U.S. Rep. George Santos is scheduled to enter a guilty plea to an…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s agriculture minister has resigned as the country’s anti-graft…

MILAN (AP) — Prosecutors in Italy say they have ordered an expert examination of an overpass guardrail that gave way when struck by a shuttle bus…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new organization, the Sustainable Media Center, is trying to unite young activists with power…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have launched an investigation into the alleged assault of a co-leader of the far-right Alternative for…

By JERRY HARMER and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand say they have arrested three men they accuse of selling the…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence are having their moment this year, at least when it comes…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Four doctors have been shot — three of them fatally — beside a beach in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in what may…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal problems may be a headache for the former president, but they are…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it has set no deadline so far but remains determined to reduce Canada’s…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has received the first uranium shipment from Russia to fuel the country’s only nuclear power plant, still…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African flag will not be displayed at the rugby and cricket World Cups…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Amnesty International is urging Pakistan to maintain its support for Afghan refugees by enabling them to live with dignity and be…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Philippe is aiming for Bermuda on a path that would eventually take it to Atlantic Canada and eastern…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T and Gallaudet University have developed a football helmet to assist players who are…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A gala concert featuring the Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich opens the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president has refused a plan by her country’s caretaker government to send further military aid to…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A lawyer says five Israelis accused of gang raping a British woman in a Cyprus hotel room won’t plead to charges including…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A mysterious injury suffered by a 16-year-old girl not wearing a headscarf…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — In a simply built concrete house a few yards off a dirt road in the rural…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Vikings had windows — usually only associated with medieval churches and castles —…

PARIS (AP) — Fans will be able to roam from venue to venue and soak up multiple sports with day passes that are among 2.8 million tickets going on…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has recorded 100 suspected deaths from cholera and more than 5,000 possible…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press SAHY, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has begun conducting border checks with neighboring Hungary because of what it says…

By BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Adnan Syed is now free after being imprisoned for the murder of his…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a judge to postpone his Florida classified…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan security forces briefly arrested opposition figure Bobi Wine, foiling a planned street demonstration by his…

VIENNA (AP) — A special unit of police and customs officials have raided several properties of a Russian national in the southern state of Bavaria,…

By SAM METZ Associated Press Family members of jailed lawyers and politicians in Tunisia want the International Criminal Court to investigate claims…

LONDON (AP) — Scottish authorities have signed an extradition order for an American fugitive accused of faking his own death to avoid a rape charge…

LONDON (AP) — Concerns from regulators about the dominance of Amazon and Microsoft in Britain’s cloud computing market have triggered a…

MADRID (AP) — Officials say firefighters are battling to control a new wildfire on Spain’s Tenerife island that has forced some 3,000 people to…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s official anti-graft watchdog has questioned Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Surging interest rates are intensifying the challenges for the U.S. economy and…

By JOHN SEEWER and TOM KRISHER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Among the many changes being sought by striking United Auto Workers is an end…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has targeted Ukraine with drones in another massive attack as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Spain to rally…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinian men were killed by Israeli gunfire during an army raid in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. The…

By RAF CASERT and RENATA BRITO Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — Some 50 European leaders are gathering in southern Spain’s Granada on…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The mayor of Tokyo’s busy Shibuya shopping and entertainment district is asking Halloween…

By DAVID KEYTON and MIKE CORDER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday, with the new laureate,…

By GHAITH AL-SAYED and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Activists and emergency workers say the Syrian government has shelled a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares advanced Thursday after a plunge in oil prices aided a recovery on Wall Street.…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish media are reporting that two trains have collided head-on in the northern city of Gdynia and that three people were…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescue workers are searching for more than 100 people after flash floods triggered by a sudden…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It’s been 15 years since the world’s elite gas balloon pilots have gathered in…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state Senate committee says it will start its own investigation of jail conditions in the…

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Bedbugs go wherever people go, and they have become a nightmare haunting France for weeks. The…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Koinu is sweeping southern Taiwan, injuring 190 people but causing no deaths as it brings intense winds and…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has quietly helped fuel Azerbaijan’s campaign to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh,…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press When the megaphone called out for the daily Islamic prayers, the nonbeliever grabbed his prayer beads and ambled…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press There’s the Tunisian woman who fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, though not for God. The Iraqi woman…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press CAPILLA DEL MONTE, Argentina (AP) — In the pope’s homeland, there’s a woman who…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press ISOLA DEL GRAN SASSO, Italy (AP) — Two children scribbled petitions to St. Gabriele dell’Addolorata…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Momo Nomura, a graphic artist and entrepreneur, visits a shrine near her business meetings or trips…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press CHENNAI, India (AP) — Despite India’s millennia-old history of nonreligious movements, most atheists and…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (AP) — Israel is a nation perennially swept up in religious fervor and conflict. And yet,…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press There’s the Tunisian woman who fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, though not for God. The Iraqi woman…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Nearly every Alaskan will receive a $1,312 check starting this week, their annual share from…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KANO, Nigeria (AP) — When the megaphone called out for the daily Islamic prayers, the nonbeliever grabbed his…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press ISOLA DEL GRAN SASSO, Italy (AP) — Two children scribbled petitions to St. Gabriele dell’Addolorata…