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BERLIN (AP) — Two people died on Friday after jumping from a building in Berlin to escape a fire on an upper floor, authorities said. An apartment…

YORK, S.C. (AP) — A fatal boat crash believed to have spun the downfall of Alex Murdaugh has resulted in a $15 million settlement in a lawsuit…

CHICAGO (AP) — Officers searching the apartment of a Chicago man accused of fatally stabbing a man on a restaurant’s roof discovered the body…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A freshman Republican congressman from Wisconsin is refusing to apologize…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Bangladesh’s governing and opposition parties have held…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are demanding the release of a transcript from a new FBI witness, saying it…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Authorities in North Macedonia have arrested 21 people following clashes between visiting Levski Sofia soccer fans…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A merger that would have created one of the largest health service companies in the Upper Midwest has been scrapped.…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Streams of air whirled by Ida Cartlidge in every direction, but…

BY SETH BORENSTEIN, CAMILLE FASSETT and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press ROLLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Many were not just killed at home. They were…

BY SETH BORENSTEIN, CAMILLE FASSETT and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Many were not just killed at home. They were…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An official in charge of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says the upcoming release of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Signs that inflation pressures in the United States are steadily easing emerged Friday…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a fiery two-vehicle crash on an interstate highway south of Atlanta killed four people. Clayton County police say in a…

By MEG KINNARD and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is criticizing fellow Republican presidential…

PRAGUE (AP) — The organizers of a women’s tennis tournament in the Czech Republic say Russian and Belarusian players will not be allowed to…

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 870,000 newer F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press A University of Notre Dame professor has filed a defamation lawsuit against a student-run publication…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine coast guard chief says the skipper of a ferry that flipped over in a lake…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Adidas said Friday that it is releasing a second batch of high-end Yeezy sneakers…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The German economy is still failing to grow. The country that should be the industrial…

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed Africa’s growing role in global affairs and offered to expand…

By MATTHEW BROWN and MORGAN LEE Associated Press HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — A man was detained and questioned by police and his Montana apartment searched…

BERLIN (AP) — A leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany is urging members of the country’s main opposition conservative bloc to break…

By AMIR VAHDAT Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Millions of Shiite Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and around the world on Friday…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis has urged governments to do more to fight climate…

By JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press AUBURN, Maine (AP) — President Joe Biden used his trip to a textile plant in Maine on Friday to…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order giving decisions on the prosecution of serious…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on Friday and its second…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong judge has rejected a government request to ban the protest song “Glory to Hong…

BEIJING (AP) — Typhoon Doksuri has made landfall in China after bringing deadly landslides to the Philippines. The storm plowed into the eastern…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Nearly 200 million people in the United States, or 60% of the U.S. population, are under a heat advisory or flood…

By FELIPE DANA and JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces on Friday struck the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro and…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China has demanded that the United States invite Hong Kong’s leader to an economic conference…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — French luxury conglomerate Kering has reached a cash deal to purchase a 30% stake in Italian…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Amna al-Nour narrowly escaped death twice. The first was when militias torched her family’s home in…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. judge is considering whether to temporarily stop Hawaii from enforcing a new…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville International Airport has quietly faced an identity crisis for weeks under a…

By SAM MEDNICK and RENATA BRITO Associated Press SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal (AP) — In the seaside town of Saint-Louis, Senegal, officials and residents…

By SAM MEDNICK and RENATA BRITO Associated Press SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal (AP) — The small mounds of sand that dot the beach in northern Senegal blend…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s central bank has opted to keep its benchmark interest rate at minus 0.1% but has fine-tuned its bond purchases to allow…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government stepped up its alarm over Chinese assertiveness, warning in a report issued…

By MEG KINNARD and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press New charges — and a new defendant — added to the classified documents case against…

By CARLOS VALDEZ and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is now using the yuan to pay for imports and exports, becoming…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shared center stage with senior delegates from Russia…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Immigration advocates say an online appointment system to seek asylum at the U.S. border with…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A jury has found a Green Bay woman wasn’t mentally ill when she killed and dismembered a former boyfriend and scattered…

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a massive annual defense bill that would deliver…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as…