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WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Wrexham’s celebrations aren’t over yet. The Welsh soccer team owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob…

By LUJAIN JO Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A closed-door summit on Afghanistan has ended in Qatar without any formal acknowledgment of the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained…

By MIKE CORDER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Authorities in the U.S. and Europe have arrested nearly 300…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The president of long-haul carrier Emirates is suggesting that it could reach…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin has died at age 59. Russian news outlets on Tuesday cited Yudashkin’s wife, Marina,…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer The average historically Black college and university received 178 times less funding from foundations than the…

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press DIVERNON, Ill. (AP) — Winds stirred up a wall of dust from farm fields that engulfed a stretch of busy…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A wide-ranging selection of papers that belonged to liberal Supreme Court…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, “The Covenant of Water,” is Oprah…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan lawmakers have passed a new version of an anti-gay bill that removes a clause…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch government plans to drastically cut emissions of nitrogen pollution have…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia have started a three-day state visit to Estonia. It is their first…

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet Millions of Americans struggle with mental illnesses. While some can function on their own, others rely on family…

MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — California authorities are investigating the shooting deaths of four people in a small Mojave Desert community in yet another…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Jared Leto was looking for a place to hang his hat. Er, actually his head. Leto was walking around the cocktail…

LONDON (AP) — British energy giant BP has posted strong quarterly profit numbers even as energy prices that soared after Russia’s war in Ukraine…

By JIM GOMEZ, AARON FAVILA and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO (AP) — When two Philippine coast guard vessels set out to…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to a dozen…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s painful inflation inched higher last month, extending the squeeze on…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Exhausted Sudanese and foreigners are joining growing crowds at Sudan’s main seaport. They are…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader has unveiled plans to eliminate most directly elected seats on local district…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya have clashed with anti-government protesters in the capital, Nairobi. The…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s tobacco tax will be increased by billions of dollars over the next four years as the government cracks…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian law enforcement authorities have charged an Albanian man with supporting terror attacks in Western Europe on social…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels on Tuesday only to…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has called for stability along the country’s border with Myanmar and a crackdown on…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has called for governments around the world to work on setting an ambitious target for…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The main challenger trying to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Rabbi Nicky Liss won’t be watching King Charles III’s coronation. He’ll be doing something he…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank has surprised markets by increasing its benchmark interest…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares declined Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street as shares of beleaguered banks tumbled again…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he is arranging a trip to South Korea for talks with…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials are suing a local government for not approving an apartment complex…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Tennis star Nick Kyrgios helped police catch a man who allegedly stole his Tesla at gunpoint from a home in…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Some Like It Hot,” a Broadway musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began Tuesday as the economic pressures of the streaming era…

By ISABEL DEBRE and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says that Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired a…

By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Akira Schmid rebounded from his only bad game and made 31 saves in Game 7 to lead the New…

SYDNEY (AP) — Qantas says Chief Financial Officer Vanessa Hudson will become its next chief executive. Hudson has been with the Australian airline…

NEW YORK (AP) — Comcast subscribers will still get the NFL Network. The cable company says there’s a new carriage agreement after the old one…

TORONTO (AP) — Gordon Lightfoot, the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service said Monday it blocked a Muslim mayor from Prospect Park, New Jersey,…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma on Monday became the latest state to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors as…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Police say officers responding to a report of a temporary restraining order violation…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The manager appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to oversee reforms to the beleaguered water system in Mississippi’s…

OTTAWA, Canada (AP) — The Canadian government is proposing a ban on assault-style firearms that would apply once legislation now before Parliament…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress on Monday that the U.S. could default on its…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press HENRYETTA, Okla. (AP) — As law enforcement officials went silent while investigating what led to the killing of…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida ethics board has dismissed a complaint that allies of former President…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan apologized Monday for taking a job as a consultant for…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will continue to allow tens of thousands of Afghans…

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press DIVERNON, Ill. (AP) — A windstorm in central Illinois kicked up dangerous clouds of blinding dust off farm…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A hair found stuck to duct tape wrapping the body of a 7-year-old boy matched the child’s mother, a DNA analyst told…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado county and a health care company contracted to provide medical care in its jail have…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A powerful Southern Baptist committee was looking to appoint a new leader Monday who could navigate controversies…

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A bride leaving her wedding reception was killed when a woman driving under the influence and well over twice the speed…

By The Associated Press First Republic Bank has become the second large regional bank with assets over $200 billion to fail in just a few weeks. Like…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will end the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A spokesperson for the court system in St. Louis says the departure of two more prosecutors from…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Labor Department says 85% of the country’s 140,000 officially registered labor contracts are in danger of being…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — In May 2017, comedian John Oliver tauntingly coined the phrase “Stupid Watergate” to refer…

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A baseball player for a small college in Texas was in stable condition after he was struck by a stray bullet during a game…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press A New Mexico teenage mother has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for tossing her newborn son into a trash…

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN said Monday that former President Donald Trump will participate in a town hall forum next week in New Hampshire. The event will…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is being sued by wildlife and environmental…