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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Officials from Sapporo and the Japanese Olympic Committee have announced a decision to withdraw the…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A former prime minister of Slovakia who plans to end the country’s military support for Ukraine is poised to return…

By CHASE BIERENKOVEN Edmunds The Honda Pilot has become a byword for the affordable midsize SUV. With three rows and a fresh face, the Pilot is more…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist…

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of travelers are facing disruption after flights were suspended at London’s Luton airport. The airport shutdown came…

VIGO, Spain (AP) — The mayor of Spain’s northwestern city of Vigo says that four people, including three children, have died in a fire at an…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press COTONOU, Benin (AP) — The French military says it’s begun withdrawing from Niger following the July coup when…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozen of activists are protesting at Norway’s parliament to express frustration over the Norwegian government’s…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission is proposing a rule to ban any hidden and bogus “junk” fees, which…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Animal rights groups have protested the use of puppies as live bait to capture black…

BANGKOK (AP) — A military tribunal in strife-torn Myanmar has sentenced two high-ranking generals to life imprisonment after they were found guilty…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived at NATO for meetings with alliance defense ministers to further drum up…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced Wednesday in Asia, tracking Wall Street gains following an easing of…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Chinese-Australian journalist who was convicted on murky espionage charges and detained in China for three years has…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer High school students’ scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Residents of the Gaza Strip scrambled to find safety Wednesday, as Israeli…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Heavier-than-normal turnout is expected Wednesday as early voting begins in Ohio’s…

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Connor Bedard did not disappoint in his NHL debut. The Chicago Blackhawks rookie picked up an…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The filing period for the New Hampshire presidential primary is getting underway, with a…

By JOCELYN NOVECK, MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the most harrowing of times, some Israeli citizens…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stalemated over a new House speaker, the Republican majority is scheduled to…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New polling shows that the unprecedented ouster of House Speaker Kevin…

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Nurullah crossed the border into Iran to earn money for his family, like so many…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walgreens has named a new CEO as pharmacy staff walked off the job this week over concerns…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Guatemalan migrants are dead and three others _ along with a Honduran man _ are wounded after a shooting in northern Mexico…

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Corey Seager and Adolis García homered early, Nathan Eovaldi struck out seven over…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Louise Meriwether, the author and activist whose debut novel “Daddy Was a Number…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is defending her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic by…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Dozens of people have been evacuated from their homes in Argentina’s central Córdoba province as forest fires…

BY ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer has ended a 8,950-mile run at the central Australian…

HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — Another strong earthquake has shaken part of western Afghanistan where a quake on Saturday killed more than 2,000. The…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Phillips, the author, commentator and political strategist whose landmark 1969 book,…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama lawmaker has pleaded guilty to a voter fraud charge after he rented a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a U.S. Navy sailor charged with providing sensitive military information to China has pleaded guilty to…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Morgan State University leaders are planning to build a wall around most of the northeast Baltimore…

NEW YORK (AP) — A member of a New York City drug-dealing crew blamed for the fentanyl-laced heroin death of actor Michael K. Williams has been…

The Associated Press Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton has pneumonia and is in intensive care in a Texas hospital. Retton’s daughter,…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Eyewitness testimony Tuesday in the continuing trial three police officers, who are white and Asian American, charged with the…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press KFAR AZA, Israel (AP) — On the road approaching this rural village, the bodies of militants lie scattered between…

MIAMI (AP) — A former Haitian senator has pleaded guilty in the United States to charges related to the 2021 assassination of former President…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — New public records have widened questions over when the Arkansas governor’s…

Birkenstock has set a price for its initial public offering of stock that values the 249-year-old German maker of upmarket sandals at $8.64 billion.…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s top election official has confirmed that Nebraska voters will decide next…

LONDON (AP) — An airport in London said all flights have been suspended after a fire broke out in one of its parking lots. Luton Airport, located…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Democratic members of Virginia’s congressional delegation have urged the U.S. Justice…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A new indictment filed Tuesday charges U.S. Rep. George Santos with stealing the identities of…

By DAVID A. LIEB and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — More than 427,000 Arkansas residents were dropped from Medicaid as…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed two laws to require the California…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor who has accused former President Donald Trump and others of trying to…

By AARON MORRISON The Associated Press Hughes Van Ellis, who was the youngest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and who spent his latter…

By CHINEDU ASADU LAGOS, Nigeria Associated Press (AP) — Nigerian police say gunmen have attacked yet another school in the country’s troubled…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — One of the two biggest proposed carbon dioxide pipeline projects in the Midwest is being put on…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The White House is condemning a violent crash at the Chinese Consulate…

By The Associated Press The Coast Guard says it has recovered remaining debris from a submersible that imploded in June on its way to explore the…

By ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s interview with prosecutors over his handling of…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Over five years, the largest U.S. city on the Mexican border developed a well-oiled system to…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Republican attorney general will oppose a proposed amendment protecting the right to an abortion if it makes…

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press Dorothy Hoffner, a 104-year-old Chicago woman whose recent skydive could see her certified by Guinness World…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein has kicked off his…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel and the war it launched has raised new questions about…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press New York (AP) — More than 30 years after the musical “Harmony” was written, it finally prepares to make its…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Residents and visitors in Italy’s capital can ride a city bus this month that recounts how…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s firebrand populist presidential candidate Javier Milei is coming…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans have enacted vote-count restrictions and weakened the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday exonerated a man who spent 30 years in prison for a 1987 rape and…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are hosting a conference in New York City on how the…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Utah became the latest state Tuesday to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is “baiting” children…

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — A woman killed when a mast snapped and toppled onto the deck of a historic sailing vessel that carries tourists off the…

By KEN SWEET and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried took a star turn Tuesday as his…

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — A spokesman says four Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after a fire during…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he rejected a U.S. request to set up migrant transit centers in Mexico. Guatemala has set up one…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas is moving ahead with preparations to execute a condemned inmate in the hopes that the U.S.…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Republican majority is stuck and unable to coalesce around a new…

By AAMER MADHANI, TARA COPP and DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden planned to use a Tuesday speech about the four-day-old war…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Movie theaters are readying for an onslaught like they’ve never seen before beginning Friday when…

By ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Collapsed buildings, mangled infrastructure, streets turned into fields of rubble.…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will designate Juneteenth as a state holiday, joining 28 other states and the District of Columbia. Kansas Gov. Laura…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s police chief has fired an officer who shocked a 62-year-old Black deacon with a stun gun…

CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — Students at a Vermont university have returned to classes as police continue to search for the killer of a retired dean who…

By SAM MEDNICK and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has officially declared the ouster of Niger’s democratically-elected…