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DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Borussia Dortmund has signed a new sponsorship deal with German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall and will display the defense…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes for interest rate cuts this year by the Federal Reserve are steadily fading,…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office says police have carried out searches at the residence of an employee of the European…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran says that Saudi Arabia expelled six members of a crew from its state television broadcaster after they had…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris head to the battleground state of…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top-ranking Republican on a Senate committee that oversees the military is calling for a…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. has appointed a new representative to Taiwan as China boosts its threats against the self-ruled island following the…

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Police say militants have burned a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest Mount Everest guides is concerned about the peak’s growing…

LONDON (AP) — The owner of Britain’s Royal Mail says it has accepted a 3.6 billion pound ($4.6 billion) takeover offer from Czech investor Daniel…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden will give $1.23 billion of military aid to Ukraine in the Scandinavian country’s largest donation so far.…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Treasury official is traveling to Kyiv this week to talk about U.S. financial support…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its forecast for China’s economy, while warning that…

By EMILY TATE SULLIVAN of EdSurge PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday after a mixed session on Wall Street following a…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Around 400 million European Union citizens go to the polls next month to elect members of the…

By CHISATO TANAKA Associated Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Sweden became NATO’s 32nd member in March. The abrupt end to the Scandinavian…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a speeding passenger bus has crashed off a highway and fallen into a ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing at…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Papua New Guinea are searching for safer ground to relocate thousands of…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors will make their final arguments to jurors on Wednesday in the case of an Idaho…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is expected to return to a New York court as he faces a retrial of his landmark…

By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press About 10 drag artists from around the United States are banding together to protect and promote their art form.…

By LEKAN OYEKANMI and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Power outages remained widespread in storm-weary Texas after another burst of…

By ANNIE MA and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. schools should teach about issues related to race, most Asian Americans,…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been sitting for hours a day in a Manhattan…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press PLAN DE AYALA, Mexico (AP) — At 4:30 a.m., girls and women begin to appear in the dark streets of this village of…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Abortion providers are asking a judge to expand the health exception to Indiana’s…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The top European Union cybersecurity official says that disruptive digital attacks have…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press PLAN DE AYALA, Mexico (AP) — Seventy years ago, Mexican women won the right to vote, and today the country’s…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly accused critics of Israel or…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai prosecutors say former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for defaming the monarchy, three months after he was…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Verdicts in Hong Kong’s largest national security case to date will be delivered on Thursday.…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is celebrating the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S. They were looted years ago,…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court has declined to halt the upcoming execution of an Alabama man convicted of killing an elderly…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un urged his military scientists to overcome a failed satellite launch and continue…

By KANIS LEUNG Associatd Press HONG KONG (AP) — For decades, Hong Kong’s activists have been fighting for democracy. But a national security…

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a natural gas explosion has caused extensive damage to a building in an Ohio city, injuring seven people.…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former FBI officials have reached a tentative settlement with the Justice Department to…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green has signed legislation meant to jumpstart the construction of more…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A onetime attorney for former President Donald Trump is agreeing to a ban from practicing in…

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians won’t be voting this November on a policy that would have required schools to notify…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Algeria is circulating a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution that would demand an…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s congress has voted to ban bullfights in the South American nation, delivering…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans are voting in an election seen as their country’s most important…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Amnesty International says the number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average,…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian insurance company Sura has announced that it will withdraw from the nation’s…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston has agreed to return to from California to…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials say a staff member with an Oregon medical care nonprofit was killed when the team he was traveling with was fired…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JILL COLVIN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money…

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A European-Japanese climate research satellite designed to study Earth’s temperature balance has been…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is lifting some financial restrictions on Cuba…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s election authorities have revoked an invitation to a European Union mission to observe the upcoming…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than 4 million chickens in Iowa will have to be killed after a case of the highly pathogenic bird flu was detected at…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A former California water official has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal water under a deal with federal prosecutors in…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Stewart-Haas Racing, a two-time NASCAR championship team with 69 Cup Series victories…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are presenting their bribery case against New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reaffirmed the importance of properly cooking wild game after six…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Dozens of Oregon wineries and vineyards have sued PacifiCorp over the deadly 2020 wildfires.…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press A former Massachusetts police toxicologist has testified that a woman accused of leaving her Boston police officer…

FESTUS, Mo. (AP) — Police in Missouri say a woman went to a police station and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned…

Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A military aircraft has crashed near the international airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Authorities…

NEW YORK (AP) — The sole physical copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s unreleased “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” is headed to Australia’s Museum of Old…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State Police sergeant who drove his unmarked SUV into a 25-year-old Kentwood…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s wealthy elite could face higher income taxes. That’s according to a proposal from the country’s finance ministry…

By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer Scholarships are not going away in college athletics. But how many there are and which sports they will apply to…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has condemned the loss of life of dozens of civilians as a result of an Israeli…

COLYUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Federal officials have notified Ohio’s former House speaker that they have closed their investigation of him and he will…

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — It’s been almost two months since police raided the Mexican embassy in…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and GEORGE WALKER IV Associated Press BARNSLEY, Ky. (AP) — Devin Johnson’s life has been uprooted for a second time by a…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A four-letter word sent Shradha Rachamreddy to a third-place finish in last year’s Scripps…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge,…

By The Associated Press CENTREVILLE, S.D. (AP) — Three people were shot to death in a small South Dakota town, and a former law officer who once…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was arrested in March on charges of randomly hitting a woman walking down a street in…

MESEBERG, Germany (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says he will greet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy along with other world leaders…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A prosecutor has declined to file charges against a police officer who struck and killed a western Michigan teenager…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press A Massachusetts individual has been arraigned on charges including assault with the intent to murder after six…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — An unusual weather phenomenon called a “gustnado,” which looks like a small tornado but is actually a type of…

By JANIE HAR and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attempting to hold former Speaker Nancy Pelosi…

BY HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Albert S. Ruddy, a colorful, Canadian-born producer and writer who won Oscars for “The…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. built temporary pier that had been used to deliver additional humanitarian aid into Gaza was…