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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Wednesday in Asia ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve on interest…

GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say in a report issued Wednesday that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants engaged in sexual and…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday will likely make official what’s been clear…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s top trade official is predicting China will lift a ban on Australian…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed the country’s expanding relationship with…

By OMAR ALBAM and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — For more than a decade, a steady flow of Syrians have crossed the border from…

By MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — As Muslims worldwide prepare to celebrate Eid Al-Adha, Senegal’s locally bred star…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca for the…

The lead investigator in the case of a woman accused of leaving her Boston police officer boyfriend for dead in a snowbank acknowledged disparaging…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Survivors and the families of victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre had hoped by now to have a permanent memorial in place…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to back out of a deal he made last year to pay doctors…

By TERESA CRAWFORD and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press WAUBEKA, Wis. (AP) — Each June, the people of Waubeka venerate perhaps the…

By VIVIANNE WANDERA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In Kenya’s capital, a woman cooking with firewood engulfs herself in smoke as she…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An extreme weather phenomenon known as the dzud has killed more than 7.1 million animals…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court is delivering verdicts in the trial of nine men suspected of…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to online scams and foreign disinformation, it pays to be female. Or at least to…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Across the U.S., thieves have been targeting electric-vehicle charging stations, intent on stealing…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Less-expensive gas likely slowed U.S. consumer inflation in May. But when the…

By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has a lot of work left to do, and little time to do it.…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Apollo Theater is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. The bastion of Black music and…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government has canceled the passports of six overseas-based activists under the new…

SYDNEY (AP) — Former Australian rugby league international Jarryd Hayne has had his rape conviction overturned on appeal. The New South Wales Court…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Party Bus, a 3-year-old bull bred for bucking, has performed in his first and last rodeo.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Only six to eight critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises were sighted this year in the Gulf of California. But…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace’s Republican primary victory in South Carolina on Tuesday was powered by a…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has asked the state Supreme Court to authorize another execution using nitrogen gas. The request comes months after…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press The family of a Texas man who died after an altercation with jailers, including one who pinned his knee to the…

By ERIC TUCKER and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group…

NEW YORK (AP) — National Amusements, which owns a majority voting stake in the embattled entertainment giant Paramount Global, says it has ended…

By RAÚL VERA Associated Press YAJALON, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of residents displaced by violence that intensified this week in the southern…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s weather agency says a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck a region near the southwestern county of Buan. It…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s legal woes are not over after his…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs and other public properties, deciding the…

CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old man has entered a plea of not guilty in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Chicago police officer. Xavier L. Tate Jr.…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Lawyers for the gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket say he should…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A pastry competition kicked off what Chef Emeril Lagasse calls a kind of “culinary Olympics” taking place in New Orleans…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline has been given the go-ahead to start…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has tried to assure frustrated senators she is not attempting to cover up the…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press An off-duty security guard has been charged with murder after authorities say he stopped three teens outside a…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — American investor Martin Shkreli is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly retaining and sharing…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The government’s prized turncoat witness at the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez has been…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A reworked version of a bill that originally caught flak for removing a pandemic-era…

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police say a transit bus fled from officers responding to a dispute on board, leading them on a wild and lenthty chase into…

CLAYTON, Ohio (AP) — State troopers in Ohio say a truck hauling more than 150 pigs overturned on an Ohio interstate highway ramp. Troopers say the…

By KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billy Ray Cyrus has filed for divorce from singer Firerose after seven months of marriage.…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say the United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system.…

By CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s elections commission says it’s reviewing its contract with a…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Same-sex spouses were typically younger and were more likely to be employed than those in opposite-sex marriages,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report says violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating…

By SUSAN HAIGH and DAVE COLLINS Four campaign workers have been charged with mishandling absentee ballots during the 2019 Democratic mayoral primary…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that investigators are looking into the killings of four women and two…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The Biden administration is pushing to prevent medical debt from being considered in most decisions made over whether…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal appeals court says a mentally ill man charged with killing three people at a Colorado…

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer The sport of cricket is as foreign to most Americans as driving on the left-hand side of the road or drinking…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Former president Donald Trump’s company says he is not the holder of liquor…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — America’s perennial hot dog swallowing champion won’t compete in this year’s Independence…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jay-Z is putting his weight behind an effort to fund private school vouchers in Philadelphia. The entertainment mogul’s…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s transitional council has appointed a new Cabinet. It’s…

By JEFF AMY and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s mayor says four people have been shot at a food court in downtown…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for LGBTQ+ youth, teachers and major publishers have asked a federal appeals court…

NEW YORK (AP) — Inspired by her beloved dog, Jennifer Aniston will soon become a children’s author. The “Friends” star has a four-book deal…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Waffle House is increasing pay for its U.S. workers after a push from labor advocates. In a video message to…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ Associated Press VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities are using a simple but harsh tactic to deal…

NEW YORK (AP) — Author Ted Chiang has won a lifetime achievement prize for short stories, the PEN/Malamud Award, just the second time a science…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of Amazon delivery drivers have filed legal claims against the company. Two law…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Three Republican incumbent U.S. House members in South Carolina are facing primary…

By ELLA JOYNER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The next European Parliament will have more hard-right members than ever before, occupying close to…

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — New research shows space tourists experience some of the same body changes as astronauts who…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana law that requires porn websites to verify users’ ages is being challenged by…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press A federal jury in Florida has found that Banana giant Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3 million to 16 family members…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The Poconos will soon have to welcome a new summering New Yorker: George Santos. Santos, the former congressman and…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Residents have been ordered to evacuate a 16-story apartment building in Ohio due to concerns about the…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Jake Gyllenhaal stars in his first TV series in “Presumed Innocent” for Apple TV+. It’s based on the novel…

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden kept his distance from the courtroom where his son Hunter…

By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer The costs keep adding up for families trying to pay for their children to play in youth sports in North America.…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans will meet privately with Donald Trump as the former president…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The children who survived the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s third biggest political party, led by former president Jacob Zuma, has…