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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of people have died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Abortion rights have found an unlikely champion in swing state Pennsylvania. Sen. Bob Casey…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior prosecutor in Ukraine says authorities have created a national registry to…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have urged residents to evacuate an area on the fringes of Athens where a large wildfire is fanned by…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s government says it has tightened controls over adoptions from abroad but will allow the practice to…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military chief has demanded that China return several rifles and equipment…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn in for a second term as South Africa’s president in a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IN THE RED SEA (AP) — The combat markings emblazoned on…

PARIS (AP) — French police say an officer in the northern suburbs of Paris has opened fire and killed an attacker who assaulted a cleaning worker…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been sentenced to…

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Rickwood Field will host an MLB game between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is criticizing France for running up excessive debt, a stinging rebuke at the height of the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The father of a Malaysian man who attacked a police station and killed two police officers last month has been…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Most politicians try to avoid slips, stumbles and undignified photos. Not Ed Davey. The leader of…

PARIS (AP) — Police in the restive French Pacific territory of New Caledonia have rounded up eight people, including an independence leader. They…

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Don’t believe the name: The Demilitarized Zone between the two rival…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — In the run-up to the Paris Olympics, Louis Vuitton celebrated the beauty of humans and their skin…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday after U.S. benchmarks ticked to more records following the…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. has returned to the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% for the first time in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, has died. She was 93.…

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — An explosion and fire at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital has caused fatalities and injuries. The…

By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation met with the Dalai Lama at his residence in…

By MORGAN LEE and ANDRÉS LEIGHTON Associated Press ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Cooler weather — and the chance of rain — could bring some relief this…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe…

By JOHN SEEWER and PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A blast of heat and humidity in the Midwest and Northeast days before the…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press AMBLETEUSE, France (AP) — Strict asylum rules and the hostile treatment of migrants are pushing people from the…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press CAMDEN, Maine (AP) — There was one thing missing when a wealthy Missouri couple purchased their oceanfront home…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s main opposition party says it plans to build Australia’s first nuclear…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Maryland this week became the latest state to announce mass pardons for people convicted of marijuana-related…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Wednesday in…

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok has sentenced an American soldier arrested earlier this year to three years and…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Oh, you thought going to a WNBA basketball game might be an escape from the arguments and…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man and two police officers have joined forces to rescue a baby moose that got…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its exports surged 13.5% in May, helped by a weak yen and strong demand in the…

By TRAVIS LOLLER and KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering removing the…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Connor McDavid had two goals and two assists to added to his historic postseason, Evan…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang is set to talk with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim with the two countries due to…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Willie Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Sudanese government is accusing the United Arab Emirates of fueling the 14-month war…

By The Associated Press Reaction from the sports world and beyond to the death of baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays. He died Tuesday at age 93, Mays…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has approved a new $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan, sending the island hundreds of armed drones,…

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A house has collapsed in Syracuse, New York, injuring at least eleven people. Syracuse Fire Chief Michael Monds says…

By The Associated Press Timeline of Willie Mays’…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Willie Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A bulk carrier sank days after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels believed to…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press McLEAN, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden is emphasizing Donald Trump’s criminal cases, again calling his…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California man charged with killing a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an alleged…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The federal Justice Department alleges the state of Alaska has violated the Americans…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press Baltimore (AP) — Attorneys are asking a federal judge to prevent crew members on the cargo ship Dali from returning…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez are using the testimony of his former campaign…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. Education Department official Wayne Johnson has beaten convicted Jan. 6 offender Chuck Hand…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A report released by Human Rights Watch says authorities in China’s western Xinjiang…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California state trial is wrapping up for the conspiracy theorist charged with…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer The Federal Trade Commission has referred a complaint against TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company to…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution barring discrimination based on “gender identity” and “pregnancy…

DALLAS (AP) — The pastor of a Texas megachurch has resigned after a woman said he had sexually abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s,…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Biden administration policy announced Tuesday will give roughly half a million…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Medical marijuana patients and advocates are upset that the Florida Department of…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is seeking to put the brakes on releasing a woman from prison in a…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and JILL COLVIN The Associated Press RACINE, Wisconsin (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has insisted he loves the city of…

ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama man has pleaded guilty to leaving threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a county…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would have outlawed bump…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday gave an unusual public update into its long-running…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports that the famed linguist and…

Associated Press Nvidia’s startling ascent in the stock market reached another milestone Tuesday as the chipmaker rose to become the most valuable…

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities say they’ve uncovered a complex scheme between one of Mexico’s most…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A newly released autopsy report says the University of Missouri student whose body was recovered from a river after going…

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor is heading back to the Summer Games — as a beach volleyball analyst for…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he wants to restrict…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has fined Amazon a total of $5.9 million, alleging the e-commerce giant worked…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An attorney for the Republican primary winner for North Dakota’s only U.S. House seat has filed complaints with federal…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Sprinting great Michael Johnson is launching a track league that looks to assemble nearly 100 of the sport’s top…

By BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — For years, a few crumbs of cannabis played an outsized role in shaping Shiloh…

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker from Vermont has apologized for repeatedly pouring water into a Democratic colleague’s bag,…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ten alleged members of a Minneapolis gang accused of “terrorizing” a city neighborhood…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Google will invest an additional $2.3 billion to support three data center campuses in central Ohio. The tech giant made the…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Being a political boss in New Jersey ain’t what it used to be. Monday’s indictment on…

By JULIA FRANKEL and DREW CALLISTER Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is claiming that the United States…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Authorities say three young men have died in a drowning in Guatemala when two of them…

CHICAGO (AP) — A teenager who pleaded guilty to a 2022 shooting near a Chicago high school that killed two teens and wounded two others has been…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her…