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By NAPAT KONGSAWAD and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights groups are urging Thailand not to extradite a Vietnamese activist…

PARIS (AP) — French national Louis Arnaud has arrived in France after being released by Iran where he was imprisoned for over 20 months for…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities are closing down the Acropolis for much of the afternoon for a second day as the country swelters under…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO defense ministers are trying to agree on a new plan to provide long-term security assistance…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Court of Justice has ordered Hungary to pay a fine of 200 million euros and a further 1 million euros per day of delay…

By The Associated Press A guide to everything you need to know about the European Championship, which starts on Friday in…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Now that Europe has announced tariffs on China-made electric cars, the continent is bracing to see…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali has began the trial of an…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African lawmakers are expected to elect the country’s president on Friday after…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — For summer trips overseas, a smartphone is essential for most people. How else will you check…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media say that a military history buff found a collection of confidential documents related to the country’s…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Thursday, as investors turned their attention to what the Bank of Japan…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Senate began what’s likely to be an all-night voting…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s grip on a key federal energy commission will last beyond his first term,…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — All five Republicans battling for Utah’s only open U.S. House seat agreed in a…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is making a triumphant return to Capitol Hill to meet with House and…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press A tropical disturbance has brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida as residents prepared…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Robert De Niro showed up outside a Manhattan courthouse to decry Donald Trump as his New…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Desperate hands clutched at Ali Elwan’s arms, legs and neck, and screams misted…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed to engineer a $50 billion loan…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press BARI, Italy (AP) — A Group of Seven summit is opening in Italy with agreement on a U.S. proposal to back a $50…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly a decade, Ozy Media projected an image of new-media success. The company boasted…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Bob Good is fighting a two-front battle to hold his seat in Virginia’s 5th…

By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 31 points, Jaylen Brown had 30 and the Boston Celtics held off a furious…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency says he understands that the Biden administration enacted new…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A widespread power outage has hit Puerto Rico and left more than 340,000 customers without electricity after two of…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — One thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady brought the New England Patriots endless memories and six Super Bowl trophies…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona lawmakers have voted to send an initiative to the November ballot that would protect two…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees have given final approval to an agreement that…

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — China’s Premier Li Qiang has arrived in New Zealand at the start of…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press READING, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign has teamed up with the Republican National Committee and…

By GABE STERN Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada GOP Senate Republican runner-up Jeff Gunter has continued his attacks on the nominee and…

By STEVEN DuBOIS and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Neil Goldschmidt, a former Oregon governor whose confession that he had sex with a…

By KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After organizers for Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest said Joey…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors say a man charged with taking three people hostage while robbing a Southern California bank last month had…

SEATTLE (AP) — A woman armed with a handgun was taken into custody after an hourlong standoff at the FBI building in Seattle. That’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say they have found the remains of some of the 63 miners who were trapped 18 years ago in a coal mine in…

Associated Press RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s ex-husband pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment Wednesday after separate…

ABINGDON, Va. (AP) — A South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to federal charges in the shooting death of a police officer in southwest Virginia in…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — A Native American community in the heart of New Mexico has officially doubled…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor says Sen. Bob Menendez sought to discuss the…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and REBECCA SANTANA The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups sued the Biden administration…

Associated Press Union flight attendants are getting help from some members of Congress as they try to negotiate new labor contracts. A group of 31…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state’s next budget will be slightly less than the current year’s…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A proposal seeking to eliminate a hefty price tag for New York City renters is drawing fierce…

PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Kari Lake has lost an Arizona appeals court challenge arguing that thousands of Phoenix-area mail ballot signatures were…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials who track disinformation campaigns say they’re issuing more warnings to…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former Mississippi police officer has been sentenced to a year in federal prison…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A political newcomer’s closer-than-expected finish in Tuesday’s special…

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the University of Miami has been chosen to become the next chancellor of the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are amplifying their calls to end the gag order that bars the former…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptist delegates expressed alarm Wednesday over the way in vitro fertilization is…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say the sheriff of a rural Tennessee county illegally profited from the work of…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah has vowed to intensify its attacks along the Lebanon-Israel border to avenge the killing…

NEW YORK (AP) — Social media platform X is now hiding your likes. In an update posted on the platform formerly known as Twitter earlier this week,…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s highest court is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A near-total abortion ban was defeated in South Carolina with the help of the only three…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota voters have just approved a ballot initiative that bars anyone who would be 81…

By MARTINA REBECCA INCHINGOLO and KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — At the London premiere of the second part of season 3, the stars…

DENVER (AP) — Authorities say four people, including two children, were shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide late Tuesday in a small city…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two advocacy groups have asked a judge to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the class action…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 46-year-old man who was driving while impaired when he fatally struck two Nevada troopers last November has been sentenced to…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — If Tesla shareholders vote against restoring Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package Thursday, the CEO…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine riot police have blasted protesters with water cannons to disperse crowds outside of Congress, escalating…

DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Multiple people have been reported shot in northern Illinois in what authorities are calling a “mass casualty incident.” A…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have likely launched a boat-borne bomb attack…

U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber, who presided over singer R. Kelly’s trial on child sex abuse charges, has died. He was 87. The eastern…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Food authorities in Denmark have recalled three types of spicy instant noodle products imported from South Korea over…

WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Noah and Kristen Dweck have seen a number of black bears around their home in Vermont but this was a first. It was a bear…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The University of Cambridge has repatriated more than three dozen traditional artifacts…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The charity was called Modest Needs but federal prosecutors who filed charges against its…

REYNOLDS STATION, Ky. (AP) — Police say cadaver dogs have been used to search for a missing western Kentucky baby whose parents and grandfather…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press A Republican incumbent on a commission that oversees elections in a major swing county in Nevada has fended off a…

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer It started bad, got a little worse before it got a little better, and then finished as widely expected for the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Sony Pictures Entertainment is getting into the exhibition business. The studio behind recent films like “Bad Boys:…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold. A new…

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Whether you go big, small or DIY, there are lots of way to please dad on Father’s Day. If…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A group of New Jersey police chiefs and Republican lawmakers says parents should be held…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press The annual rainy season has arrived with a wallop in much of Florida, where a disorganized disturbance of tropical…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended plans for the controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia following a spate of unrest…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Tony Awards are Sunday with a familiar host and a new venue, Lincoln Center’s David…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal court on Wednesday dismissed the appeal of a lawsuit that challenged a transgender…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The leader of South Africa’s Inkatha Freedom Party says it will join a proposed…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Palestinian supporters have vandalized locations associated with the Brooklyn Museum and the…