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By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press AUBERVILLIERS, France (AP) — Renowned actor Forest Whitaker, who has portrayed a dictator, a Mafia hitman, a…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has asked a federal judge to allow her to…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Many patients in Nigeria are left without health care as the association of doctors in…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CNN said Kaitlan Collins will host a new hourlong show at the center of the prime-time lineup,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 50 migrants have been kidnapped by a gang in northern Mexico, the latest in a series of mass abductions. President Andrés…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A senior South African government minister denied Wednesday there was extensive corruption…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is strengthening a rule aimed at controlling and cleaning up…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who brought a touch of the wild to swanky Manhattan as he nested…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — More than 5,000 soldiers and 500 police have encircled a small town in northern El Salvador after President Nayib…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors in Minnesota have dropped sex abuse charges against R. Kelly. They alleged that…

ATLANTA (AP) — A former state House member and a former South Fulton city council member are heading to a runoff in Georgia House District 68.…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a man who was already charged in the stabbing deaths of four…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish court has convicted nine people, including two former activists of the governing Law and Justice party, of using…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Writers’ group PEN America and publisher Penguin Random House sued a Florida…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An optimistic President Joe Biden declared Wednesday he is confident the U.S.…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, were trailed in their…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Wednesday that Illinois can, for now, keep in place a new law that bars the sale of certain semiautomatic…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, who has…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed bills Wednesday that ban gender-affirming care for…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal marshals fugitive task force has recaptured the second of two inmates who escaped from a Philadelphia prison earlier…

By FARES AKRAM Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s ruling Hamas militant group is calling on Palestinians to confront a…

In a May 23 story about developments in abortion policy, The Associated Press erroneously listed the states where self-managed abortion is illegal as…

By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates’ highest court has ordered a British hedge fund…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A key lawyer for former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was leaving the legal team,…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — In a story published May 17, 2023, about abortion legislation across the South, The Associated Press erroneously reported that…

OXFORD, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts say an officer shot a man who was running at him at a full sprint with a sword over his head.…

DETROIT (AP) — In a story published May 17, 2023, The Associated Press reported that Ford was recalling 310,000 trucks in the U.S. because the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein has a book coming out in September that will combine personal reflections with…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Appearing at the Cannes Film Festival the day after premiering his first film in three years,…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s opposition Nationalist Party has picked the popular mayor of New Taipei City as…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Arab foreign ministers are meeting Wednesday in Saudi Arabia ahead of the Arab League’s annual…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s foreign minister says Russia has frozen the bank accounts of Finnish diplomatic…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The world’s fourth-biggest carmaker by sales has warned of a potential existential threat to large…

IMOLA, Italy (AP) — This weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in northern Italy has been canceled because of deadly floods. Formula One said it…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overruled two lower courts, saying a cartoon depicting Copenhagen’s The Little…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — A searing heat wave in parts of southern Asia in April this year was made at least 30 times…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian journalist says an appeals court sentenced him to five years in prison for revealing details of a counterterrorism…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of South Korea and Canada have vowed to strengthen their security and…

BERLIN (AP) — A top official at the German economy and climate ministry has resigned following accusations that he was involved in choosing his…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s King Harald V, who was released from a hospital earlier this week, has waved from the royal castle’s…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer There’s a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the next…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rallied Wednesday on hopes the U.S. government can avoid a potentially disastrous…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities say dozens of Serbian schools have received bomb threats amid security concerns…

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Katie Taylor had Olympic dreams long before she became one of the faces of women’s professional…

BERLIN (AP) — Employees at a beverage company in eastern Germany that produces the country’s popular Vita Cola have gone on strike. They say…

BERLIN (AP) — Five people are going on trial in Germany accused of planning a coup and plotting to kidnap the country’s health minister. The four…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — More than 40 countries at a summit of European leaders have backed a system to estimate…

PARIS (AP) — A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld a one-year prison sentence for former President Nicolas Sarkozy on a conviction for…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police have surrounded the home of former Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, claiming…

By LUCA BRUNO and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press IMOLA, Italy (AP) — Exceptional rains Wednesday in a drought-struck region of northern Italy…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss has warned of the economic and political threats posed to the West by China during a…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Papua New Guinea had declared next Monday a public holiday in anticipation of an…

By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The symbolism will be palpable when leaders of the world’s rich democracies sit down…

By SUZAN FRASER, JAMEY KEATEN and COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia agreed to extend a deal that has allowed Ukraine…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The lead trauma surgeon at a military hospital in Ukraine’s…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A truck driver has been charged after seven children were hospitalized with serious…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore has hanged another citizen for trafficking cannabis, the second in three weeks, as it clings firmly to the…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest mountain guides regained his title for the most climbs of Mount…