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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A former National Security Agency employee has been sentenced to 14 days of imprisonment for storming the U.S.…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States dropped 0.3% from April to May, another sign that…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet As many as 8 in 10 older Americans couldn’t afford more than four years in an assisted living facility or two years…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait says it has struck an agreement worth $367 million with Turkish drone…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s decision to leave interest rates alone for the first time in 11 meetings…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this weekend as part of the Biden…

By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After three years, the pandemic-era freeze on federal student loan payments will…

By ED DAVEY Associated Press A landmark ruling that an Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon could reclaim ancestral rainforests has been set…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican spokesman says Pope Francis is expected to be released from the hospital “in the…

By KELVIN CHAN and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union antitrust regulators took aim at Google’s lucrative…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt could become the most expensive painting…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia has convicted an associate of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it hopes to weed out false or misleading animal-welfare claims on meat…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of people have demonstrated across Poland against the country’s restrictive…

MADRID (AP) — Scottish charity group Mary’s Meals has won a prestigious Spanish prize for its work feeding schoolchildren facing extreme poverty…

By JIM GOMEZ AND JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) — A gentle eruption of the Philippines’ most active volcano that has…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans on the right and the left have a lot more in common than they might think —…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer Images of players are being used in sportsbook advertisements. Sportsbook branding has prominent placement in…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi is being honored with a state funeral in Milan’s Duomo cathedral and a day of…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese lawmakers have failed in yet another attempt to elect a president and…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has filed a $35 million damage suit against North Korea for blowing up a…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s government says that at least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when two…

By FRANK JORDANS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has said Russia is the greatest security threat “for the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Police in England are working to piece together details of a knife and van attack that killed two…

By IYA FORBES Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Chinese navy training ship with hundreds of cadets has made a port call in the…

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Officials say rival ethnic groups fired at each other in fresh violence in India’s remote northeast that left at least…

LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that the British economy bounced back in April amid strong sales at bars and pubs as well as a rebound in car…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Lawmakers in Europe signed off Wednesday on the world’s first set of comprehensive rules for…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press KALAMATA, Greece (AP) — An overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants capsized and sank…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang have shared…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Power outages are leaving Vietnamese homes and businesses without power for hours at…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Six months after she got the call informing her that her U.N. assistance would be…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting Wednesday, as Wall Street waits to hear what the Federal Reserve’s latest…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press Paul Nelson is used to doing battle with an invasive fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila, a pest that one…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Old North Church played a pivotal role in the nation’s fight for independence and has continued to…

By LUCAS DUMPHREYS and DAVID BILLER Associated Press ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — The Indigenous adolescents danced in a…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has signed two bills related to transgender…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOYOTA, Japan (AP) — Toyota executives have fielded challenges and reaped praise from investors at an annual…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A plan to prevent Milwaukee from going bankrupt is expected to win bipartisan approval in the…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Benito the giraffe arrived in Mexico’s arid northern border city of Ciudad Juarez just last…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Venturing back into the nation’s culture wars, the Republican-controlled House is taking…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation may be cooling — just not yet fast enough for the Federal Reserve. Chair…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against German immigrant Tobias…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press The U.N. says 110 million people in the world today have had to flee their homes because of conflict, persecution,…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media say airstrikes attributed to Israel over Syria’s capital have critically wounded one soldier. Syria’s state…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Golden Knights games have always been as flashy as any show on the Las Vegas Strip, the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In his first visit to Latin America, Iran’s hardline president met Tuesday with his Nicaraguan counterpart and railed against…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The weapons supervisor on the film set where Alec Baldwin shot and killed a…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An entrepreneur who promoted group “orgasmic meditation” as a road to women’s well-being…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft’s planned $69 billion purchase of video game company Activision Blizzard was blocked by a federal judge…

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Canadian police have issued warrants for a former “Dances With Wolves” actor who is facing nine charges…

By DAVID BAUDER and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s arraignment on federal charges in Miami…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hosted a massive concert on the South Lawn of the White House to commemorate Juneteenth, the country’s…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The first-grade teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia has resigned from her position, school…

DETROIT (AP) — A judge has ordered Michigan Republican Party Chairperson Kristina Karamo and others to pay more than $58,000 in legal fees incurred…

BERLIN (AP) — A court has ordered a German diocese to pay $323,000 in compensation to a former altar boy who was repeatedly abused by a Catholic…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An immigrant from Iraq has pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland, Oregon, to conspiring…

By EDITH M. LEDERER, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is urging skepticism…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate has narrowly confirmed Jared Bernstein to be the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Los Angeles city councilman with embezzlement and…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a New Jersey doctor who sexually abused patients say their client has faced…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Since taking on the role of White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre has become known…

By SUE MAJOR HOLMES and HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tory Lanez’s sentencing for shooting and wounding hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion was delayed on Tuesday. Los Angeles…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it will not bring criminal charges against soldiers involved in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transgender advocate Rose Montoya is no longer welcome at White House events after posting on social media a video of herself and…