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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police and a government official in Pakistan say a powerful bomb has exploded at a rally celebrating the birthday of…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets were mixed on Friday, with only a few open due to public holidays across the…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Visiting South Sudan President Salva Kiir has agreed in a meeting with Russia’s…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Many millions of Chinese tourists are expected to travel within their country, splurging on hotels,…

By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager who killed four students at Michigan’s Oxford High School will…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is not the…

By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new generation of Democratic presidential prospects is taking steps to…

By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new generation of Democratic presidential prospects is taking steps to…

By TARA COPP Associated Press STE MERE EGLISE, France (AP) — Gen. Mark Milley, in June, made his last trip to Normandy to honor those who fought on…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Armenian diaspora has been stunned by the swift fall of the Armenian-majority enclave of…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is among many countries in Africa to take steps to transition parts of its education system away from French and…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is scheduled to undergo hip replacement…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig is planning to announce a Republican bid for…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia holds an early parliamentary election on Saturday that pits populist former Prime Minister Robert Fico who…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With little time left to prevent a government shutdown, the House is in a familiar position:…

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — David Montgomery rushed for 121 yards and three touchdowns, and the Detroit Lions…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says some 186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in southern Europe so far this year, the vast…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles says the army will never again fly its fleet…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — An Army base in Hawaii has gone into lockdown because of reports that…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Navy is issuing written reprimands to three now-retired military officers for their roles in…

COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — A Compton man who shot and seriously wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in a 2020 revenge attack has been…

By MEGAN JANETSKY & DEBORA REY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The streets of cities across Latin American were bathed in green as tens of…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County and city will spend billions of dollars to provide more housing and support…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Citrus farmers in the southeast corner of Louisiana are scrambling to find ways to irrigate…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with India’s foreign minister amid a…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose case became emblematic of an international movement launched to…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Countries in the Americas are reeling as the flow of migrants reaches historic levels, but a…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Phillies fan and his emotional support animal, an alligator named WallyGator, were denied entrance to watch Philadelphia host…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles have reached a deal with the state of Maryland that keeps the team at…

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle police officer and union leader under investigation for laughing and making callous remarks about the death of a woman…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — An American soldier who sprinted into North Korea and was held there for two months before being…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Senate Caucus is suspending a GOP state senator after an uproar over his plan to…

NEW YORK (AP) — A driver who took an 18-wheel tractor-trailer inside a tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn despite height restriction warnings…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s top elections official says the No Labels party can’t block candidates from…

NEW YORK (AP) — The second Republican presidential debate this week attracted fewer viewers than the first debate in August, with an estimated 9.5…

By THOMAS PEIPERT, COLLEEN SLEVIN, JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The discovery of Suzanne Morphew’s remains three…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A senior adviser to Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro who…

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man who shot and wounded two people, including a sheriff’s deputy, along the South Carolina coast has…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press A hostage situation in Nebraska has ended with the victim’s release and the armed suspect’s arrest.…

By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say he will not seek to get his Georgia…

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Locals are still suffering from a massive 2014 waste spill at a copper mine in the northern…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says…

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Authorities in Maui are opening more of the burn zone from last month’s devastating wildfire for visits by residents and…

CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago police officers accused of shooting an unarmed man and then lying about it have been acquitted. Cook County Judge…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who fled a New York City day care center where a child died earlier this month from suspected drug exposure has been taken…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio high school football coach says he was forced to resign…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge’s plan to hold hearings next week to draw up congressional boundary lines…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An abortion opponent who broke into and burned what was to be Wyoming’s first full-service…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nearly a dozen children, including a 1-year-old, have overdosed on fentanyl since June in Portland, Oregon, its police bureau…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Just days after being elected the new leader of Greece’s left-wing main opposition party, Stefanos Kasselakis will be…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man formerly known as a powerful Michigan lawmaker is going to federal prison for nearly five years. Rick Johnson…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fall vaccination season is in full swing, with health officials urging both an updated…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The premier of Bermuda says the government is slowly restoring operations after being hit by a “very…

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s high-speed passenger train service has suffered its first fatality on its new extension to Orlando. St.…

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has pleaded guilty to calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital as it faced a barrage of…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona and Utah will keep the iconic national parks in those states open if a shutdown of the…

ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect has been taken into custody after shooting and wounding a man at a protest in Española where…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma has ruled in favor of two descendants of…

Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded one person at a Memphis concert headlined by…

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A judge has dismissed state officials from a lawsuit related to past lead contamination in a small southwestern…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed Republican legislation that would…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center — a crucial mission as AI capabilities are…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The complexities of abortion-related politics in the post-Roe v. Wade era are continuing…

COLLEEN SLEVIN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado city has reached a $2.8 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court has rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay a civil trial in a lawsuit brought…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Nebraska lawmaker against a…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok has become a key marketing channel for vendors promoting steroids and other bodybuilding…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press The National Transportation Safety Board says a small jet in a crash that killed four people in 2021 was going…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A new report says the small plane that crashed in rural Alaska earlier this month, killing…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Supreme Court has struck down a major state government budget bill. That means…

BOSTON (AP) — A California man has pleaded guilty to arranging hundreds of sham marriages in an effort to circumvent immigration laws. That is…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA has hired Albert Sanders Jr. as its new head of referee operations. He’s a Google executive and…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company says a bank recently shut…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking America’s colleges to step up their efforts to make…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California fast food workers will be paid at least $20 per hour next year under a new law…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Teddy Swims, the eclectic soulful singer who gained popularity with his YouTube covers,…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese police say that a food delivery driver who opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in…

By KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government shutdown appeared all but inevitable as House Speaker Kevin…

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines is making changes for passengers with wheelchairs after a government investigation into a complaint by a…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — There was no mention of the conflict in Ukraine during the elaborate opening…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With calls for his resignation increasing, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez is expected on…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — The NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race is returning to North Wilkesboro Speedway in North…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has closed the door on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s hopes to be free during his…