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Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From jail, Shane Jenkins helped sell T-shirts, tote bags and other merchandise promoting the notion that he and…

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fire in a school dormitory in Kenya has killed 18 students and 27 others have been hospitalized, with 70…

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island…

Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This week’s indictment of two Russian state media employees accused of paying a Tennessee company to…

AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Everyone knows how much is at stake for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during Tuesday’s presidential debate,…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump looked on as his lawyer pressed three federal appeals judges to overturn a verdict…

Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Donald Trump has accepted a key endorsement from one of the nation’s most influential law enforcement…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It could be a well-rehearsed zinger, a too-loud sigh — or a full performance befuddled enough to shockingly…

Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A powerful typhoon has made two landfalls in southern China after it swept south of Hong Kong, bringing many…

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has visited Seoul and reaffirmed sympathy for the suffering of…

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A man has been charged with murder in the shooting of a Texas deputy constable at an intersection in Houston. The…

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has ended a defamation lawsuit brought by casino mogul Steve Wynn against The Associated…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video game performers have reached a turning point in their strike against developers with 80 individual video…

Associated Press/Report for America BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana legislators interrogated New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams about…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NBA legend Charles Barkley has made the first of 10 promised donations to a New Orleans school where two of its students made…

Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The leader of Canada’s leftist New Democratic Party says that policies supported by Liberal…

Associated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not…

AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When you look at some of the numbers, it’s hard to believe “Moana 2” was ever going to be anything but a…

Associated Press/Report for America MANASSAS, Virginia (AP) — When Mamta Kafle Bhatt disappeared in late July, members of her local community in…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts medical doctor who punched a police officer during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol has been…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey real estate developer convicted alongside Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has pleaded guilty to a separate bank fraud…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced the Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as “ChiefsAholic” to more than 17 years in prison…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Three police officers have been shot and wounded while trying to serve a warrant on a man inside a Milwaukee apartment building.…

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A 44-year-old man accused of randomly shooting at vehicles on Interstate 5 near Seattle has been charged with five…

Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New…

Associated Press Some selective colleges are reporting drops in the number of Black students in their incoming classes, the first admitted since a…

Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Women in the Nebraska Legislature largely took the reins in a recent special session called by Gov. Jim…

Associated Press The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office plans to test DNA from a hair found on a wipe that was pulled from the throat of a…

Associated Press People gathering wild rice from Minnesota’s third largest lake have stumbled across human skeletal remains that are believed to be…

AP Technology Writer (AP) — New Mexico’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the company behind Snapchat. He says that the site’s…

AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — The word “DOPING” is printed in all caps inside a red circle with a slash through it on the box containing the…

AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto International Film Festival is the clean-up hitter of the fall festival circuit. Coming on the heels of…

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Two brothers from Nigeria have been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexually extorting…

Associated Press Xian Zhang has been hired as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast…

Associated Press Russian commentators are mocking allegations that Moscow is meddling again in the U.S. presidential election, while President…

Associated Press A rare but deadly mosquito-spread disease is posing a serious threat in parts of New England, health officials warn, prompting the…

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators say Atlantic City’s top-performing casino, the Borgata, underpaid some…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel says Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro broke the law by publicly endorsing the…

Associated Press Thirteen former cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are accusing overseers of the Connecticut school of failing to prevent sexual…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — UConn and South Carolina are headed to the White House to celebrate their latest NCAA basketball titles. The schools…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Police say a groom struck a groomsman with a vehicle and killed him after a wedding in Flint, Michigan. Investigators say Terry…

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Sens. Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren are among several political leaders who are attacking…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say three people who tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease have died after an outbreak at an assisted living…

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has refused to take Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name off the state’s presidential…

AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials reported…