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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With Pride Month in full gear, U.S. shoppers can find the usual merchandise many stores…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say officers have shot and wounded a man who was threatening them with an axe and a firebomb in the northern city of…

By CHRISTINE FERNADO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using a range of…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press OBBÜRGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Countries resumed talks Sunday on how to iron out issues of nuclear safety, prisoner…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus health official says a second elderly person has died from heatstroke after a weeklong heatwave that baked the east…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami expressed joy with how several of his short stories were…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Authorities in Texas say a shooting in a park left two people dead and several wounded. Police in Round Rock say the victims…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and ALEX BABENKO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Several hundred LGBT Ukrainian servicemen and their supporters have…

BEIJING (AP) — China is being buffeted by two extremes of severe weather, with heavy rain and flooding in parts of the south and a heat wave and…

PARIS (AP) — The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is shortening its overnight curfew and reopening its international airport that was…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service says inmates at a pretrial detention center in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press BUSHBUCKRIDGE, South Africa (AP) — More than 300 traditional leaders in South Africa will be trained to do HIV…

by MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — The upcoming holiday of Eid al-Adha should have been a joyful occasion for…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 28 Broadway shows that earned at least one Tony Award nomination last month are hoping…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Masses of pilgrims have embarked on a symbolic stoning of the devil in Saudi Arabia,…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu police have recently received some attention on social media for recommending that…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, WAFAA SHURAFA and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has announced a “tactical pause” in…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — An oil spill caused by a dredger boat hitting a stationary cargo tanker has blackened part of Singapore’s southern…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s chairman Akio Toyoda will be facing some disgruntled shareholders this week, as two…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia has focused on positive aspects of the…

GORMAN, Calif. (AP) — Authorities issued evacuation orders Saturday as a wildfire in Los Angeles County spread thousands of acres close to a major…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has suggested President Joe Biden “should have to take a cognitive test,” only…

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Several people have been wounded in a shooting at a splash pad in Rochester Hills on Saturday. The Oakland County…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An American tourist was killed and his wife hospitalized after being electrocuted in a hot tub in a Mexican beach town earlier…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the capital as protests sweep…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has returned his key to New York City after a request from Mayor Eric Adams in response to the release of a…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say they have identified a homicide victim whose remains were first found in a Southern California city 41…

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The president of Honduras has announced the creation of a new 20,000-capacity “megaprison.” The plan is part of…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A Missouri judge has rejected the argument that lawmakers intended to “impose their religious beliefs on…

ROME (AP) — Italian anti-fascist activist Ilaria Salis has returned to her parents’ house in the northern Italian city of Monza. Salis arrived on…

ROME (AP) — The Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade has celebrated its 30th anniversary as tens of thousands of people in brightly colored outfits marched…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a Japanese climber has died while trying to scale one of the highest mountains in northern Pakistan and a…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Amid ongoing wars, hardening political divides and accelerating climate change, Milan designers…

MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) — A malfunctioning steam room at a YMCA in Rhode Island pumped out so much steam that it triggered an a sprinkler system…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Local media are reporting that a missing Dutch tourist has been found dead on the eastern…

GREENWOOD LAKE, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Yankees superstar Derek Jeter has found a potential buyer for his New York castle after the sprawling…

By ELENA BECATOROS and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has dismissed a cease-fire…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE, NICK INGRAM and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. (AP) — On Father’s Day, Kansas residents Jen…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s interior minister has demanded an “urgent explanation” after police officers were filmed ramming a runaway cow with…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military said Saturday that eight soldiers were killed in southern Gaza in the deadliest attack in months. Only one…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The beleaguered director of Haiti’s National Police has been ousted…

Much of the U.S. is bracing for extreme weather – especially high temperatures — this weekend and into next week. A heat wave is already…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s main political rivals are now partners in government after they…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say they shot to death an Afghan man after he fatally attacked a compatriot and later wounded three people watching the…

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press A heat wave will bring dangerously hot temperatures to the Midwest and Northeast next week, with health officials…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Even though the median U.S. CEO pay package last year was nearly 200 times more than a worker in the middle of their…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer One in four older adults in the U.S. fall each year, putting them at risk of injury, broken bones and even death.…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The Australian Olympic Committee has selected a 41-member swim team to represent Australia in the pool at the Paris…

MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) — The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is underway in Tennessee, bringing tens of thousands of fans to a 700-acre farm…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and Sweden have carried out a prisoner swap that involves the release of…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer FOREST PARK, Illinois (AP) — Mayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting together, whips…

By STEVE PEOPLES and JOEY CAPPELLITTI Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Donald Trump will use back-to-back stops Saturday to court Black voters and a…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Police in Maine issued a shelter-in-place order while officers dealt with an armed individual in an area where there were at…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Peter Pellegrini has been sworn in as the president of Slovakia in a ceremony that took place amid heightened security…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is putting on a display of birthday pageantry for King Charles III with a military parade on…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has asked a United Nations body to formally recognize the extent of a vast…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus says it won’t let up on a course of strict fiscal discipline while supporting economically vulnerable groups and…

By TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The water quality of the Seine river in Paris is raising concerns ahead of the upcoming Olympic and…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The presidents of Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Somalia will join many Western heads of state and…

By JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Antiracism groups will join French unions and a brand-new left-wing coalition in protests in Paris…

By The Associated Press Charles Barkley said Friday that next season will be his last on TV, no matter what happens with the NBA’s media deals.…

By FATMA KHALED and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Last summer, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip celebrated the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States military unleashed a wave of attacks targeting radar sites…

By DAVE COLLINS, JUAN A. LOZANO and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Bombastic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Attorneys general across the U.S. have a new fight on their hands: protecting Americans from unproven and…

By ROD McGUIRK and CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang is due to arrive in Australia soon…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Masses of Muslims gathered at the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The efforts to tamp down organized retail theft in California this year have largely…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An unusual contest is taking place at the Indiana Republican convention. Party delegates…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A group of midwives who focus on traditional Native Hawaiian birth…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is seeing lots of action targeting gaps in its vote-by-mail laws. The problem is…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After the 2020 election, many Republican senators distanced themselves from Donald Trump.…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A rivalry is flaring up as Kansas lawmakers try to snatch the Super Bowl champion Kansas City…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hollywood’s A-list is turning out for President Joe Biden’s campaign…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s Vice President Kamala Harris, not President Joe Biden, who will join world leaders in…