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CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian factions have met in Egypt to discuss reconciliation efforts amid surging violence between Israel and Palestinian…

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The Central African Republic went to the polls Sunday…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinian officials say at least five people have been killed and seven others wounded during…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Salvage crews have started towing a burning cargo ship loaded with thousands of new cars to a temporary anchorage…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Thousands of people backing the coup in Niger marched through the streets of the capital…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — More than a third of the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet come from growing and raising…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s emergencies ministry says that 10 people have died, including three children, after high winds tore through central…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — African leaders have left two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin with…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Hundreds of new laws will take effect Tuesday in North Dakota, passed earlier this year by the…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe…

By The Associated Press ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Stepping onto the field against South Korea in Morocco’s second Women’s World Cup match,…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of…

By The Associated Press Ukraine brought the war far from the front line into the heart of Russia again Sunday in drone penetrations that Russian…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Drastic changes in consumer demands are driving labor unrest in diverse industries upended by…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press SANTA MARIA DE JESUS, Guatemala (AP) — Presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo won just 11% of the vote in…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the…

By AAMER MADHANI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out…

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — With the summer heat wave in full swing in Southern California, a backyard pool is a tempting place to take a dip. Even for…

By BERNIE WILSON and SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writers SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Texas Rangers have acquired three-time Cy Young Award winner Max…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruit who was struck by an SUV during a training run last year has died. The Los Angeles…

CANMORE, Alberta (AP) — Canadian police say six people have died in a small plane crash west of Calgary, Alberta. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police…

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Two people were killed and two others injured Saturday in a midair collision at an airport in Wisconsin. Authorities say a…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A firefighter has been killed while fighting a massive wildfire in northeastern British Columbia, marking the…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court…

By the Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday appeared to downplay not attending an economic summit in Johannesburg next month…

NEW YORK (AP) — Online records show the man known as New York City’s “Preppy Killer” is again out of prison, after spending 15 years in…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and…

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say at least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being…

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Power was cut off in large swaths of southern and central Iraq during scorching summer heat…

C0LUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A staff sergeant who oversaw Marine training at South Carolina’s Parris Island has been cleared of criminal responsibility…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hoping to stave off inflationary pressures on a diet staple, the Indian government is…

HAMPTON BEACH, N.H. (AP) — Authorities and visitors at a New Hampshire beach say a small plane towing a banner landed in the ocean nearby. The…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press BATH, Maine (AP) — Marine 1st Lt. Harvey “Barney” Barnum jumped to the ground when he came under fire during an…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and KEN MILLER Associated Press Nearly two years after 10 people were crushed to death during the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival…

By ZANE IRWIN and BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s public prosecutor said the opposition leader has been charged…

By FELIPE DANA and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday signed a law moving…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bronny James plays piano in a video posted by his father, LeBron James, on Saturday, five days after the teenager went into…

By The Associated Press Police say at least eight dogs died after air conditioning stopped cooling the back of a van that they were being transported…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish prime minister says that over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer COLFAX, Iowa (AP) — It’s become easy to say that “small-town America” is slowly dying. That opportunities…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Pres PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Not long ago, Marine Col. Jennifer Nash, a combat engineer with war deployments…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The oldest historically Black collegiate fraternity in the U.S. says it is relocating a…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man whose 2-year-old daughter died after going days without food while he was passed out drunk has been sentenced to…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri is joining No Labels’ effort to lay…

DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — Police in Bangladesh’s capital have clashed with supporters of the country’s main opposition Bangladesh…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday pushed back against Australian…

BY SAM MEDNICK and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The African Union has asked the junta that overthrew the democratically…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Port workers in the province of British Columbia have voted to reject a mediated contract offer meant to end a…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pamela Smith’s voice soared and quivered like a preacher in midsermon as she recalled her…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A 9-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother have been called as witnesses in a criminal case against their mother who is…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police arrested the president’s son Saturday as part of a high-profile money laundering probe into funds he…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — “Excuse me, are you a city of Atlanta voter? Do you know about ‘Cop City?’” Clipboards in…

BANGKOK (AP) — A large explosion at a fireworks warehouse in southern Thailand has killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens. The local Public…

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America. Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi says that Sri Lanka’s strategic…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A group of Indian opposition lawmakers on Saturday visited a remote northeastern state where deadly ethnic clashes have killed at…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will make a two-day trip to Marseille, France, in late…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police say an explosion ripped through a firecracker factory in southern India, killing eight people and wounding several others.…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The United States says it will expand its military industrial base by helping Australia…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says that if governments of Muslim-majority…

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON and ROD MCGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Political instability in Niger resulting from a military takeover…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says that salvage crews are preparing to tow a car-carrying…

SEATTLE (AP) — Five people were wounded in a shooting at a Seattle parking lot during which the police chief said “dozens and dozens of rounds”…

By BELA SZANDELSZKY Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In a snug, wood-paneled Jewish bookstore in Hungary’s capital, Eva Redai…

By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press HUARINA, Bolivia (AP) — A 70-year-old man’s feet sink into the soil as he passes abandoned boats where there…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle…