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MOSCOW (AP) — Mercenaries from Russia’s military company Wagner have launched joint drills with the Belarusian military almost a month after…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told former top U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger that relations between the two countries are at a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama plans to execute an inmate for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state seeks to…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead with his…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Voters are going to the polls in three electoral districts of England, with the governing…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told top Vietnamese officials that Washington considers…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pop star Shakira is facing more trouble from Spain’s tax office after a court near Barcelona said Thursday that it had…

By JOSH BOAK and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden has paid a visit to Philadelphia’s shipyard to…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Croatian firefighter has died during a deadly storm that swept the Balkans after a heat wave, raising the death toll to…

By The Associated Press China’s ambassador to the United States says it does not want a trade war but will retaliate against any further U.S.…

By The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities say one man has been killed and at least 48 people are injured, some of them seriously,…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — An eighth cheetah death in India’s Kuno National Park last Friday has raised new questions…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Fans of late martial arts legend Bruce Lee, who broke negative stereotypes around Asian men in…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke more than two months of public silence over deadly ethnic…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say two suicide bombers attacked a sprawling compound housing a police station and…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have warned people in Berlin’s southern suburbs to watch out for a potentially dangerous animal, suspected to be…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Friday in Asia after the latest rally on Wall Street fizzled, with big…

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s elections Sunday will be a battle between two leftist and two rightist…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A recent Saturday evening Mass at Sagrada Familia parish had all the hallmarks…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — One of the world’s largest refugee camps offers a stark example of the global food…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek says Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have signed deals worth $50.7 billion, as President…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — As Jordan hosted regional talks this spring aimed at ending Syria’s isolation after more…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An abortion opponent pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge Thursday after telling…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The contests have names such as Predator Slam, Squirrel Scramble and Final Fling for Fox. And…

By MARCIO SANCHEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles sold the winning ticket for the Powerball…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Pink sauce on that Burger King burger? What about “Barbie-fying” your pet with…

By LISA MASCARO and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. worked to defend himself Thursday against accusations that…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRETTON WOODS, N.H. (AP) — The parents of a young woman who died while hiking in New Hampshire’s White…

By AAMER MADHANI and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is deeply concerned about the well-being of a U.S. soldier…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering a new ethics code for the Supreme Court, an…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans by the IRS to test a new electronic free-file tax return system next year have got…

MOSCOW (AP) — A video released Wednesday appears to show Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for the first time since he led a short-lived…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Wildlife authorities have killed the leader of a pack of dingoes that mauled a jogger on…

By BOB SUTTON Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Sue Martin had the summer mapped out for her family from St. Augustine, Florida. Then along…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Doctors in Israel have held a two-hour strike to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s…

By ALI JABAR, ABBY SEWELL and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Protesters angered by an Iraqi man in Sweden who threatened to burn a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man has been convicted of blowing up his ex-girlfriend’s spa business with a package bomb in 2018,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is warning that the Russian military is preparing for possible attacks on civilian shipping vessels in the Black…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Gymnasts from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to take part in sanctioned competitions as “individual neutral…

DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man charged with killing two teenage girls will remain in prison after a judge concluded he’s being treated better…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The State Department says it’s imposing sanctions on two former Salvadoran presidents and dozens of other officials and…

By The Associated Press The intense heat hitting much of the globe this summer can be deadly for the elderly, putting a premium on volunteers who…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with top officials after the longshore union renewed a 72-hour strike…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix enjoyed its biggest springtime spurt in subscribers since the early days of…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Police are casting doubt on a 25-year-old Alabama woman’s claim that she was kidnapped from the side of an…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Country music star Jason Aldean ‘s latest music video for “Try That In A Small Town,” lasted just one…

By ANDREW SELSKY and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The announcement that authorities are holding a person of interest in the…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a shooting at a South Florida Walmart killed one person and wounded another.…

By SCOTT BAUER and MELISSA WINDER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Family members of the U.S. Army private who sprinted across the border into…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nearly a dozen wild horses have died in the first 10 days of a big mustang roundup in Nevada,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge this week appointed an outside expert to help Oregon end its practice of housing kids in foster care in…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press Authorities in North Dakota say a man armed with 1,800 rounds of ammunition and explosives…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — The ever-changing nature of links golf has come to Royal Liverpool for the British Open. A…

NEW YORK (AP) — Marijuana can legally be sold at festivals and other events in New York under a measure approved by state regulators. The…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has announced that it would be allowing all American citizens, including dual-nationality Palestinians from the West Bank…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The former weapons supervisor on the set of the movie “Rust” won’t have to take a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing an order to draw new congressional district lines, Alabama Republicans have…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The president of Stanford University said Wednesday he would resign, citing an independent…

By BEN FINLEY and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A tornado has heavily damaged a major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog sought to reassure Congress on Wednesday about the state of…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is announcing a new $1.3 billion package of long-term military aid to Ukraine…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s bid to move his hush-money…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hush-money payments. Classified records. And now, his efforts to…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin says they’ll ask the…