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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City Council member accused of biting a police official says officers used excessive force as she tried to help someone…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Massachusetts lawmakers are pressing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to ground the V-22 Osprey aircraft…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has held a wreath-laying ceremony in the country’s largest city to mark the 77th anniversary of…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has released on Friday the program for Pope Francis’ trip to Belgium and Luxembourg in late September, where he will…

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Korean Football Association has filed a complaint with FIFA over an alleged racist remark toward…

Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Republican officials, strategists and activists who packed into their national convention this week are exuding a…

Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Public sector workers in Nigeria on the minimum wage will see their salaries double after the government…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s billionaire king, Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, was officially installed six months after he was sworn in for…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian authorities say that a military aircraft has crashed, killing its crew of two. Officials on Friday say the…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in Serbia to discuss a tentative deal with the Balkan country to excavate lithium. The…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials in the northern English city of Leeds say order has been restored after a night of unrest that began when…

Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian…

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Transit workers around the country are managing their fear and anxiety over a rise in violent crime on subways…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A rapidly growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers called Friday for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection…

Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — For those conservative voters long turned off by former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, his somewhat…

Associated Press Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump were at the Republican National Convention on its last night. Their presence Thursday was a rare…

Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government late Friday announced a nationwide curfew across Bangladesh…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has a delicate balance to strike: how to weigh the mounting opposition to…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden faces a growing drumbeat of pressure to drop his reelection bid, a majority of Democrats…

Associated Press There’s a home movie theater with orange walls and plush recliners at the top of a steep hill on Matthew Rantanen’s ranch in…

Associated Press UMM AL-KHAIR, West Bank (AP) — First came the Israeli military bulldozers. They tore down a quarter of the homes in the West Bank…

Associated Press CABOT, Pa. (AP) — The keen of bagpipes, a three-volley gun salute and a bugle sounding taps pierced the air of a small…

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Christian homeless shelter is challenging a Washington state anti-discrimination law that would require the…

Hard-line President Alexander Lukashenko has led Belarus for 30 years and intends to seek yet another term in office. The former collective farm…

Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — For three decades, European leaders have come and gone by the dozens, but Alexander Lukashenko remains in…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Friday tentatively scheduled Harvey Weinstein’s planned retrial on rape and sexual assault…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Newhart has died at age 94. Jerry Digney, Newhart’s publicist, says the actor died Thursday in Los Angeles after a series…

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has announced nearly $203 million in additional humanitarian…

Associated Press A jury has found that a commuter railroad is mostly at fault for a fiery and deadly 2015 collision between a train and an SUV at a…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials are asking the state Supreme Court for an emergency order to block a ruling that allowed signatures from…

Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas isn’t enforcing a new law requiring abortion providers to ask their patients why they want to…

Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge has ruled that author Salman Rushdie does not have to turn over private notes about his…

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA has postponed a decision on a Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel from international soccer because of the conflict with…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is going on her second trade mission to Europe, with a trip that will include a visit…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Scrutiny of the U.S. Secret Service continues to grow after former President Donald Trump survived an…

Associated Press GOOCHLAND, Va. (AP) — A recount of the votes cast in the Republican primary in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District has been…

AP Technology Writer Netflix’s subscriber and earnings growth accelerated in its latest quarter as the video streaming service benefits from a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shannen Doherty finalized her split with husband, Kurt Iswarienko, just hours before her death at age 53, and she was granted a…

Associated Press Like the star of an arena tour, a spotlight illuminated the glittering, golden vessel carried by a Catholic bishop. Inside, it held…

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal judges say Mississippi can wait until next year to redraw some of its legislative districts to…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A 3-year-old boy who was reported missing from a resort near Walt Disney World in central Florida has been found dead. The…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia man is facing federal charges of threatening to kill the director of the Federal Bureau…

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Stellantis is telling owners of more than 24,000 plug-in hybrid minivans to park them outdoors away from buildings, and…

AP Sports Writer TROON, Scotland (AP) — Tiger Woods had another disappointing round at a major championship. Woods’ 8-over 79 on Thursday at…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and other officials paid a visit to the port of Long Beach to…

An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released photographs of a reclusive tribe’s members searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court blocked the implementation of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan,…

BANGKOK (AP) — The Associated Press has withdrawn its July 27, 2023, story about purported bomb threats allegedly aimed to implicate a Chinese…