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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities say they have detected “movement” underground at a…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Instagram and Facebook’s parent company Meta is adding some new parental supervision tools and privacy…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan announced Tuesday a decision to reinstate South Korea as a preferred nation with fast-track…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say police and prosecutors have searching Catholic Church properties in connection with a probe of the archbishop…

By The Associated Press Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the private army of prison recruits and other mercenaries who have fought some of the deadliest…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Thailand has dismissed claims of American interference in recent elections…

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s anti-graft court has opened a trial for a former…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court found ex-Audi boss Rupert Stadler guilty of fraud in connection with the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Farmers markets gave people something they desperately sought during the pandemic: A place to…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Ivan Rossomakhin returned home from the war in Ukraine three months ago, his…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer The Associated Press has found that the Food and Drug Administration can’t keep up with a flood of illegal…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing…

By JERRY HARMER and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand is to deliver a verdict Wednesday in the case of five…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — One-by-one, victims stood in a Colorado courtroom to confront…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has been invited to address the Irish Senate on Tuesday. She’ll be there to…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s No. 2 leader says economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter and he expressed confidence it can hit the ruling…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Zeneta Everhart became a well-known community advocate after her son…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has made history a few times in her political…

By MARC LEVY and JOSH FUNK Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Spurred on by train derailments, some states with busy criss-crossing freight…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists and tribes are urging a U.S. appeals court to overturn a judge’s decision…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press CARATINGA, Brasil (AP) — The emerald-green canopy shifts and rustles as a troop of willowy,…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the surface, the turmoil in Russia would seem like something for the U.S.…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 26-year-old Kansas City man has been charged in a shooting that killed three people and wounded six more. The Jackson…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Leftist candidate Olivia Chow has become the mayor of Canada’s largest city. Chow is Toronto’s…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Now that the PGA Tour and European tour have a deal with the Saudis, one step is deciding how players can return from…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peg Yorkin, who donated $10 million to the feminist foundation she co-founded and pushed to bring the most common method of…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new California law aimed in part at boosting salaries for fast food workers has been…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The conservative Republican attorney general of Kansas says a new Kansas law requires the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says it has arrested the former head of a federal anti-kidnapping unit in connection with the disappearance of 43…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press California has cited two Northern California mushroom farms for health and safety violations and proposed more…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — James Meredith knew he was putting his life in danger in the 1960s by pursuing what…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Work is underway to clean up rail cars carrying hazardous materials that fell into the Yellowstone River in southern Montana…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors say they are seeking the death penalty against a man accused of stabbing four…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York City gave preliminary approval Monday to a $290 million deal that JPMorgan Chase reached with sex…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man who dubbed himself the “Wolf of Airbnb” has pleaded guilty to a wire fraud…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police say four people found dead in a burned down Little Rock house were killed by gunshot wounds, including one…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press An unexpected culprit toppled beach chairs along the sand at normally calm Clearwater Beach, Florida,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has visited the Stonewall Inn national monument to pay tribute to activists at the site of a watershed…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president has handed out 86 medals to soldiers, Indigenous volunteers and…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The red carpet unfurled Monday in Abu Dhabi for Hollywood action megastar…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Pentagon will announce it is sending up to $500…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Five teenagers were killed when their car ran off a curving street and landed in a southwest Florida retention pond where…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo…

Jesse Watters will fill the Fox News Channel time slot left vacant by the firing of Tucker Carlson, part of a dramatic revamp of the network’s…

By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Diego Luna has mixed emotions about the looming end of his Star Wars series “Andor.”…

WOODY CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Jim Crown, an executive and philanthropist who recently announced an effort to rally other Chicago business leaders to…

SOUTHPORT, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a pilot was killed Sunday when a single-engine plane crashed into a home a few blocks from a North Carolina…

A white woman accused of firing through her door and fatally shooting a Black mother in front of her 9-year-old son in central Florida was charged…

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Major League Baseball wants to grow in Europe and is looking for ways to connect with the local fans.…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s former lieutenant governor and longtime civic leader Richard Ravitch has died…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish government investigators on Monday launched a probe into a roller coaster accident that killed one person and injured nine…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine House has voted in favor of a bill to ensure 16- and 17-year-olds can receive gender-affirming hormone therapy…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will add the festival of Diwali to the list of public school holidays in recognition of the growth of the city’s…

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — The gunman convicted in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history had psychotic,…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden declared Monday that the United States…

By JAKE BLEIBERG, KEN MILLER and ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Scorching temperatures brought on by a “heat dome” have…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis promised to end…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Amazon’s profitable cloud business will invest roughly $7.8 billion by the end of 2029…