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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans have enacted vote-count restrictions and weakened the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday exonerated a man who spent 30 years in prison for a 1987 rape and…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are hosting a conference in New York City on how the…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Utah became the latest state Tuesday to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is “baiting” children…

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — A woman killed when a mast snapped and toppled onto the deck of a historic sailing vessel that carries tourists off the…

By KEN SWEET and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried took a star turn Tuesday as his…

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — A spokesman says four Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after a fire during…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he rejected a U.S. request to set up migrant transit centers in Mexico. Guatemala has set up one…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas is moving ahead with preparations to execute a condemned inmate in the hopes that the U.S.…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Republican majority is stuck and unable to coalesce around a new…

By AAMER MADHANI, TARA COPP and DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden planned to use a Tuesday speech about the four-day-old war…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Movie theaters are readying for an onslaught like they’ve never seen before beginning Friday when…

By ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Collapsed buildings, mangled infrastructure, streets turned into fields of rubble.…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will designate Juneteenth as a state holiday, joining 28 other states and the District of Columbia. Kansas Gov. Laura…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s police chief has fired an officer who shocked a 62-year-old Black deacon with a stun gun…

CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — Students at a Vermont university have returned to classes as police continue to search for the killer of a retired dean who…

By SAM MEDNICK and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has officially declared the ouster of Niger’s democratically-elected…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington to…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian police have arrested 12 people accused of illegally exporting dual-use goods to Russia that can be used by…

PELLA, Iowa (AP) — Voters in a small central Iowa city will decide in November whether to give their City Council more say over what books the…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is rebuffing accusations that efforts to crack down on French private schools constituted hostility toward the…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s president has threatened to crack down on pro-democracy demonstrations…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a new book titled “Goth: A History,” The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst traces a…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Tens of millions in the Americas will have front-row seats for Saturday’s rare “ring of fire” eclipse of…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Adm. Stuart B. Munsch of NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Four of Pennsylvania’s universities are plugging budget gaps while…

By MATT O’BRIEN and FRANK BAJAK The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, says it is trying to take action on a flood of posts…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Family and friends are remembering a late North Dakota lawmaker and his family, who died last…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is heading into one of its biggest sales events of the year — Prime Day — with a…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The NHL sent a memo to teams last week clarifying what players can and cannot do as part of theme celebrations this…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says four Britons who were detained in Afghanistan on allegations that they broke the laws of the country have…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Nearly 30 years since Rena Sofer first joined “General Hospital” as a fast-talking Brooklynite with long,…

BEIJING (AP) — A group of U.S. senators visiting Beijing are expressing hope that they had opened the door ever so slightly to government talks…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s president says damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from former coal company executive Don Blankenship, who argued that major news outlets…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Lidia is taking aim at Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta. Lidia is strengthening and may have…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that makes it easier for authorities to…

NEW YORK (AP) — The hero of Chris Colfer’s next book series is no ordinary boy. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announced Tuesday that the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Geraldine Brooks’ “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former baseball MVP Steve Garvey is joining the race to succeed the late California Sen.…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Russian teams will not be allowed to play in Under-17 European Championship qualifying…

By TOM KRISHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press WAYNE, Mich. (AP) — Electric vehicles and their potential impact on job security have become…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — There should be no effort to impeach a liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice based on what…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say several more people suspected of being involved in planning a far-right coup and plotting to kidnap the German health…

MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian diplomat says that Moscow will move to revoke the ratification of a global nuclear test ban to put itself on par…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has traveled to…

By JACKIE VALLEY of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside a high school classroom, Bryan Martinez jots down several purchases that…

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet Living in a high-cost city can strain your finances, but three tips can help you thrive. Consider shopping at…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s national police chief says an escalation in gang violence this year — with almost daily shootings and bombings that…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA has decided the future of soccer’s European Championship for the next decade. The…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges has lost his appeal against his arrest, meaning he will stay in…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Humanitarian groups are scrambling to assist civilians caught in the war between Israel and…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s coast guard claims to have chased a Philippine navy ship from a disputed shoal in the…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese property developer Country Garden has warned it cannot meet deadlines to repay its debts.…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is touting its 10-year-old Belt and Road Initiative as an alternative model for economic…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two top commanders of the Polish armed forces have tendered their resignations. Polish media have reported on growing…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A 2-year-old girl has become the second person in Cambodia to die of bird flu this…

By MARK N. MENGONFIA and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian President George Weah is seeking a second term in office,…

By ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are packed into United Nations…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The world economy is losing momentum in the face of higher interest rates, the ongoing war in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is delivering that amounts to a public job…

By OMID HAQJO and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan rescuers and villagers are still digging through rubble in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An executive at Japanese publishing house Kadokawa has been found guilty of bribing a former Tokyo…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares have climbed after Wall Street advanced on potentially encouraging news about…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A senior Filipino diplomat known for his past expletive-laced tirade against China joined…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military is accused of launching an airstrike on a camp for displaced persons in the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The 43 Malaysians rescued from a trafficking syndicate operating a telecommunication fraud in Peru were young people…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia faces a tough fight to regain a seat in the U.N.’s premiere human rights body…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands and Canada are taking Syria’s government to the United…

By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA and MICHAL DYJUK Associated Press CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP) — Dominika Gala grew up going to Mass with her grandmother and…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes pounded downtown Gaza City, home to Hamas’ centers of…

TORONTO (AP) — Auto workers have launched strikes at three General Motors facilities in Canada. Their union, Unifor, represents about 4,300 workers…

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has said peace with China is the “only option,” while strongly asserting the self-governing island’s…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s new defense minister says he would push to suspend a 2018 military…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader says the city will seek to strengthen its economic and trade ties with…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s second attempt at student loan cancellation is moving forward as a…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake is preparing to launch a U.S. Senate campaign with a splashy rally outside Phoenix,…

By JULIA FRANKEL and ADAM GELLER Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The families of some 130 Israelis kidnapped by Hamas are anxiously waiting to…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg helped spare the former…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Lawyers will make closing arguments in the trial of the first two officers to be prosecuted in the…

By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than three weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nonprofit Turning Point rocketed to prominence by latching on to Donald Trump’s 2016…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nonprofit Turning Point rocketed to prominence by latching on to Donald Trump’s 2016…