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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The NCAA has presented a plan to Division I conference commissioners that would expand the lucrative men’s…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia is suffering unusually high temperatures for June. Authorities have urged people to stay indoors…

By KIM COOK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — What does “home” mean? Different things to all of us, of course. For some, it’s a place of…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Crew members on the cargo ship Dali can head home under an agreement…

By BASSEM MROUE and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese government officials are working to maintain friendly relations…

MORRILTON, Ark. (AP) — An Alabama man wanted in connection with multiple homicides in Oklahoma has been apprehended in Arkansas. Arkansas State…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is putting employees on leave after they were involved in an incident in which…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Home loan borrowing costs eased again this week as the average rate on a 30-year mortgage…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian opposition leader and New Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has been granted bail by a court in the capital after he was…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Mark Rutte has gotten to know a thing or two about finding consensus among fractious…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of mostly young people have demonstrated Kenya’s capital and across the…

By NICK PERRY and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A heat wave is moving closer to the breaking point from the Midwest to New…

NEW YORK (AP) — Some 580,000 glass coffee mugs are being recalled across the U.S. after dozens of burn and laceration injuries were reported by…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence’s foundation is launching a $10 million…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to qualify for next…

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach police have arrested rapper Travis Scott on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and public intoxication. Police…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a California woman who said she didn’t know about a stash of methamphetamine…

GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss museum has pulled down five paintings, including a van Gogh and a Monet, after the foundation that owns them called for a…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — NATO member Romania’s top defense body says the country will donate a Patriot…

By FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s healthy ministry as tallied at least 125 heat-related…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — France’s prime minister hopes to emerge from the campaign for the early legislative…

LONDON (AP) — Actor Ian McKellen is resting, taking light exercise and undergoing physiotherapy after spending three nights in the hospital after…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Romania’s president has withdrawn from the race to become NATO’s next secretary general. It leaves outgoing Dutch Prime…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Conservative Virginia congressman Bob Good is asking for patience as he hopes the final ballot count from Tuesday’s primary…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish rescuers say that a cruise ship has rescued 68 migrants and found five bodies in a wooden dinghy that was drifting off the…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits slipped last week. The Labor…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Stonehenge monuments that have stood for thousands of years appear unscathed after climate…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Amazon is moving from putting plastic air pillows in its packages in North America to using recycled paper…

BERLIN (AP) — A young German-Austrian heiress has realized her plan to redistribute almost all of her assets to organizations that are devoted to…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Union’s top court says products such as disinfectants can’t be advertised as “skin friendly.” The European Court…

NEW YORK (AP) — The first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Carol Moseley Braun, will have a memoir out next year. Hanover Square Press, a…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union envoys have reached agreement on a “powerful and substantial” new series of sanctions that are part of its…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — At least two people have been killed and nine others injured when a train full of passengers collided head-on with another…

LONDON (AP) — Two climate activists have been arrested after cutting through a fence at a London area airport and spray-painting private jets…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Diaphanous origami-like sculptures that floated like spring seeds caught in the wind captured the…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Rescuers have called off a search for a Japanese mountaineer who went missing a week ago while trying to scale one of the…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A new mutual-defense pact signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israel Antiquities Authority says a company drilling for natural gas off the coast…

MOSCOW (AP) — The trial of a Russian American dual citizen whom Russia accuses of treason opened amid rising tensions between Washington and…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say an Iraqi man who is accused of standing by to carry out attacks for the Islamic State group after he arrived in…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish court on Thursday acquitted a former Syrian army general accused of playing…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Police Department says an Oakland Juneteenth celebration turned violent when several people were shot. Police…

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Police say an explosion in central Montenegro’s historical capital, Cetnje, has killed two people and seriously…

By TERESA MEDRANO and JAMES BROOKS Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Things are looking up for the Iberian lynx. Just over two decades ago, the…

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss National Bank says it has lowered its main policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point, citing a drop in “underlying…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has resumed its aerial attacks on Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again…

By RYAN PEARSON AP Entertainment Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Not content with merely taking a victory lap after winning his battle against…

LONDON (AP) — A senior Conservative Party lawmaker says it would be “reprehensible” for someone to use inside information to bet on the date of…

BERLIN (AP) — A state-owned Dutch company that is the biggest electricity grid operator in Germany says talks on selling its German business to the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim rejects the notion that China’s dominance is to be feared. He called China a…

By ZELIPHA KIROBI Associated Press MWINGI, Kenya (AP) — Antivenom for snakebites can be hard to find in Kenya, where about 4,000 snakebite victims…

By DITA ALANGKARA and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press TANJUNGPINANG, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of refugees are living in community housing on an…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is joining African leaders to kick off a planned $1 billion project to accelerate the rollout of…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — The Australian Government announced it will provide a further two million Australian…

By LORI HINNANT, VASILISA STEPANENKO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The first shock wave shattered aisles stacked…

LONDON (AP) — Any hopes the governing Conservative Party may have of the Bank of England cutting its main interest rate from a 16-year high of…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Officials say at least 29 people have died and dozens are hospitalized after drinking illegally brewed liquor in the southern…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks mostly fell Thursday in thin trading after U.S. markets were closed Wednesday in…

By ALFREDO PEÑA and MARIANA MARTÍNEZ BARBA Associated Press TAMPICO, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Alberto rumbled toward northeast Mexico early…

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Much of the northernmost part of New Zealand is without power after a…

By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Marissa Lasoff-Santos and the person she would marry quickly fell head over heels in love. Lasoff-Santos was a gay…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The fate of the proposed cease-fire deal for Gaza hinges in many ways on two men:…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Vietnam to strengthen ties with its longtime…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A new agreement between Russia and North Korea reached by their leaders requires the…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Ten men have been convicted in Peru for raping nine teenagers while serving in the military during the country’s armed conflict…

EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J, (AP) — An investigation into how and why a Jewish student group was erased from a New Jersey high school yearbook has found…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say seven people have been wounded in a shooting in Philadelphia. It happened just before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in North…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of Brazil’s state-run oil giant Petrobras, Magda Chambriard, has been sworn in as market…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Libyans from rival regions and all walks of life are fed up with the country’s…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A failure in an energy transmission line has produced an blackout throughout Ecuador, the government reported, days after…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil…

TORONTO (AP) — The gunman in a fatal Toronto shooting earlier this week believed the two victims had defrauded his family, his wife is saying as…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One of the defendants in the Vatican’s big financial trial has formally complained to the…

By EVENS SANON and CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A new report from the U.N. migration agency says that surging…

By FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — South Darfur has seen a slight increase in critical aid since the UN’s World Food Program delivered…

MIAMI (AP) — Recreational boaters found $1 million worth of cocaine floating in the ocean off the Florida Keys. Samuel Briggs II, the acting chief…