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BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German factory orders, an important indicator for Europe’s biggest economy, dipped in April after a big…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s government says it’s seeking a court order to prohibit people from broadcasting or disseminating the protest…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities detained a second man Tuesday in connection with a racist arson attack on a shelter for asylum-seekers 32 years…

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has arrived at a London court ahead of his testimony against a tabloid publisher he accuses of phone hacking and other…

By BRIAN MELLEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry stepped into courtroom witness box Tuesday to hold Britain’s tabloid…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran claimed on Tuesday that it had created a hypersonic missile capable of…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A local official says a car bombing in Afghanistan’s northeast killed a provincial deputy governor and his driver.…

SYDNEY (AP) — A man who admitted killing American mathematician Scott Johnson by punching him from a cliff top at a gay meeting place in Sydney in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government has adopted a revision to the country’s plans to use more hydrogen as fuel.…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Senior diplomats from China and the United States have held “candid and productive”…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A top Ukrainian diplomat has branded Russia a “terrorist state” as he opened his…

CANBERRA, Australia: (AP) — Australia’s central bank has lifted its benchmark interest rate for a 12th consecutive time to 4.1% and warned…

By SYLVIE CORBET and TARA COPP Associated Press ON OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — An overwhelming sound of gunfire and men’s screams. That’s how…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — A major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, flooding…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Voters in Kuwait cast their ballots for a third time in as many years, with…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Just as a trial was to begin, it was revealed Tuesday that Cuba Gooding Jr. has settled…

By JILL COLVIN and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is wasting no time going after Donald…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AP) — On Dec. 1, 2022, a boat carrying around 180 Rohingya refugees set out from…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AP) — The wind had whipped the waves to nearly three times the woman’s height when…

By STEVE DOUGLAS and JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writers LONDON (AP) — Missing penalties in a major international soccer final was bad enough for…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who killed two jailers in a failed attempt to help an acquaintance escape…

By STEVE DOUGLAS and JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writers LONDON (AP) — Online racist abuse of soccer players is prolific on social media platforms.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers say a New York writer who won a $5 million jury verdict against…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — No team in over 25 years has been more dominant than the Vegas Golden Knights through the first…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Actors represented by the Hollywood union SAG-AFTRA voted to authorize a strike if the major studios, streamers and…

By The Associated Press Speranza Scappucci will become principal guest conductor of London’s Royal Opera starting with the 2025-26 season. The…

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Police in South Florida have arrested three suspects in a Memorial Day shooting along a busy beachside promenade that…

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida mother was fatally shot through the front door of her neighbor’s home while her 9-year-old son stood next to her, a…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning…

SPRINGDALE, Pa. (AP) — A blast of air and dust from the implosion of two smokestacks at a shuttered coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal correctional officer has been convicted of sexually abusing two inmates at a women’s prison in California where…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. George Santos’ lawyer said Monday the indicted New York Republican would risk going to…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press A federal judge has yanked approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho, saying federal land…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources have launched an…

By SAM MEDNICK and BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal experts have called on the government to instill calm after days of…

By MAURICIO MUÑOZ Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The lawyer for the main suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas…

DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A year after the killing of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple has a long history of designing products that aren’t the first to be introduced in a particular…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Cherokee Nation’s Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. has won reelection to another…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Oversight chairman says he plans to move forward with holding FBI Director…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Monday declined clemency for a man who faces execution Tuesday evening for killing two…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s capital collects only a little more than half of the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of a former Chinese official has told a U.S. court about finding an ominous note on the…

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A fire in the engine room of a small cruise ship in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve has prompted the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said the Kansas City Chiefs are “building a dynasty” as he hosted the team at the White House Monday…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of activists gathered to speak Monday at Atlanta’s City Hall ahead of a council vote over…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state school board in Oklahoma voted Monday to approve what would be the first publicly…

By DENISE LAVOIE and BEN FINLEY Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An aviation expert is citing a loss of oxygen as a possible theory for why an…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anna Shay, an heiress, philanthropist and breakout star of the Netflix reality series “Bling Empire,” has died at 62. Shay…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Minnesota Vikings part owner who defrauded a short-lived professional football league while carrying out a $700 million…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to ensure that no records are…

BISHOP, Calif. (AP) — A wolverine was spotted three times last month in the eastern Sierra Nevada, a rare occurrence for an animal that’s…

BERLIN (AP) — Nations have resumed talks on tackling global warming with the aim of shaping a deal that might put the world on track to prevent a…

DALLAS (AP) — The bar from the television series “Cheers” sold for $675,000 at auction over the weekend, garnering the highest bid among the…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new lawsuit says a Mississippi law will restrict free speech by requiring people…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — People living in and around the nation’s capital experienced a rare, if startling, sound: A…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kentucky officials say they won’t begin paying $21 million in economic…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A judge in Argentina has dismissed a long-running money laundering case against…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern has become the first major North American freight railroad with deals to…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a group of people linked to Russian…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yahya Abdul-Mateen II first encountered the play “Topdog/Underdog” in college,…

BERLIN (AP) — Officials say strong winds have fanned flames at a wildfire on a German military training site that is known to contain large amounts…