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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Central Bank has raised its key lending rate for the fourth time in half a year in an effort to bring down surging…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Ahead of this year’s Halloween weekend, Tokyo’s busy shopping, business and entertainment…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Voters in Maine will be deciding a question in November about whether independent automobile repair shops should…

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press Thanks to a rabble-rousing, socialist priest, it’s a milestone year for direct democracy in the U.S. and not just…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to reopen the case of a famous priest-artist accused of…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s chief epidemiologist who helped drive anti-COVID-19 measures in the country that suspended access to cities and…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders believe it’s time to lay the foundations for a future relationship…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian activists have slammed the government’s plan for a weeklong program in schools to support the Palestinian…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An independent probe has found “serious failings” in how NatWest Group’s private and exclusive…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s ruling party has selected as its leader the daughter of Thaksin Shinawatra,…

By The Associated Press Russian state news agency Tass says Iran’s deputy foreign minister met Hamas representatives in Moscow. Thursday’s…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The United States on Friday expanded its effort to cut off funding for Hamas, announcing a second…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s royal families have elected the powerful and wealthy ruler of southern Johor state as the country’s…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s state RTS television says that a shooting between migrants near Serbia’s border with Hungary has left…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — About 2 in 3 Americans say their household expenses have risen over the last year, but only about 1…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies has reported its profit inched higher in the…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Just three weeks into the deadliest war between Israel and Hamas, it already is clear that the…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares advanced Friday after the latest tumble on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 fell to…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces backed by fighter jets and drones carried out a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Rights groups and lawyers in Nigeria say the West African nation’s law enforcement…

By DAVID SHARP, ROBERT BUMSTED, HOLLY RAMER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to…

By KEVIN McGILL and STEPHEN SMITH Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drought. Sea level rise. Dredging for cargo ships. Those are just some of the…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Abortion has had a complicated history in the Soviet Union and Russia. It was outlawed…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Despite its last-minute scheduling, the meeting at a bookstore in Russia’s…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises to hone their ability to respond to potential…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Survivors of the Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people and devastated…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of an American B-52 bomber flying over the South China…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos is set to be arraigned on a revised indictment accusing him of several frauds, including making…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The sudden death of China’s former No. 2 leader Li Keqiang has shocked many people in the…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old who shot his teacher in Virginia is scheduled to be sentenced…

By DIDI TANG and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s top diplomat is meeting high-level U.S. officials, possibly including…

By WILL WEISSERT and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips is expected to announce a primary…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “Embarrassing,” “chaotic” and “irresponsible.” And those were just the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial is turning to the question of…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One year ago, billionaire Elon Musk walked into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LEA SKENE Associated Press HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Loved ones are grieving the loss of a Maryland judge who was gunned down…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Swift’s reimagined “1989” is here, the album that ushered in the first Peak Swift…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Can’t come to Washington? Couldn’t get a ticket to tour the White House?…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A UNESCO report released during Lagos Fashion Week notes Africa’s fashion industry is…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press SHANGRI-LA TOWN, China (AP) — Village schools have been shuttered across China’s Tibet and replaced with…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Former President George W. Bush, the former Rangers owner, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Texas plays the…

BEIJING (AP) — Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68. Li was China’s…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo’s three celebrity giant pandas will be heading home a little earlier…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than a month after federal officials recommended a new version of the COVID-19 vaccines, 7%…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press Supporters of a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution are far outraising their…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An Idaho woman is suing her one-time fertility doctor, saying he secretly used his own sperm to…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Before opening the World Series, the Arizona Diamondbacks wanted to recount a series of…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is moving closer to giving police broad new authority to arrest migrants who cross the…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say a Houston-area deputy accused of fatally shooting a man while confronting him after…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the appointment of a 39-member global advisory panel to report on…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The removal of contaminated soil from the site of February’s fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio…

By The Associated Press Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder announced Thursday that he was ending his 2024 Republican campaign for president and…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — “Stop the bombs and save lives!” the Palestinian ambassador pleaded at an emotional…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Newly released audio of the 911 call from a woman who was carjacked and police…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press Democratic U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes of Maryland will not seek reelection in 2024, choosing to depart his seat…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves says he is working to ease financial…

By HOLLY RAMER and LISA RATHKE Associated Press Writers Authorities have not released the names of the 18 people killed in two mass shootings in…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press KYBURZ, Calif. (AP) — On a mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake Tahoe in…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The former Alaska Airlines pilot who police say tried to cut the engines…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian court has ruled that former prime minister Sali Berisha, who is accused of…

BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — More than a century after Edward Garrison Draper was rejected for the Maryland Bar due to his race, he has been posthumously…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A man wrongly accused of drunken driving can sue a Michigan police officer who grossly misread a breath test.…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A sale of federal Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases that had been scheduled for Nov. 8 is being…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greenpeace is stepping up its appeal for Greece to abandon a deep-sea gas exploration project in the Mediterranean. It cites…

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (AP) — A man who allegedly attacked two relatives with a sledgehammer in suburban Chicago has been fatally shot by police…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays are pushing for swift approval of a financing deal for a new…

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say one of four men who escaped from a central Georgia jail last week has been caught. The Bibb County Sheriff’s…

By AAMER MADHANII and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says that Russia is executing soldiers who have failed to…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia voter has testified that he felt overwhelmed and discouraged when he…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan government critic María Corina Machado has been declared the winner of…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Five-time Olympic gold medalist Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner head up the USA Basketball Women’s National Team…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern has installed the first of what will be more than a dozen of a new generation…

NEW YORK (AP) — Lionel Messi is a finalist for the MLS Newcomer of the Year award. The league announced the finalists for its season awards on…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Federal officials are warning health care providers and the public about injuries and at least one death in…

By MAYSOON KHAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is refusing to disclose who paid for her to…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis are meeting with United Auto Workers bargainers to see if…

By PATRICK WHITTLE, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MARC LEVY Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Barely four years before a gunman’s deadly…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried got a test run at testifying at his New York criminal trial…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — How many Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war between Israel and Hamas…