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By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer All seven members of BTS are currently serving South Korea’s compulsory enlistment for men of a certain age. In…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Both the Beach Boys and “The Beach Boys” — the new documentary dropping Friday on Disney+ — are all…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have arrested two men suspected of plotting a knife attack on worshippers at a synagogue in the…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is set to sign two bills that will overhaul the…

CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival draws glamour to itself like a moth to the flame. Over the last two weeks, the French Riviera…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation, attributing a second miracle to a…

By HOGIR AL ABDO Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Syrian Kurdish-led authorities in the country’s northeast say they have handed over…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all…

By JOSH KELETY/AP and ERIC SCICCHITANO/CNHI NEWS Despite growing demand for long-term care, the industry struggles with labor shortages, and experts…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — When Makkabi Berlin became the first Jewish club to ever play in the German Cup last year, it was a…

LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker who returned to work this week after losing his hands and feet to sepsis announced Friday that he will not run in…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has waded into the European election campaign by warning that the next president of the European…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the removal of 25 Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who says Sean “Diddy” Combs subjected her to violence and abuse over several years…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An outspoken former activist and member of South Africa’s ruling African National…

By The Associated Press Russian state media have reported that an American soldier arrested in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on charges…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press CANNES, France (AP) — The canine star of “Dog on Trial” has been awarded the Palm Dog prize at Cannes. Kodi is…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office has warned of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer The looming athlete pay system that will upend the traditional college sports model and still-to-be-determined details…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say a nighttime Russian attack has destroyed train tracks and rolling stock in…

LONDON (AP) — A judge says an office manager of the Hong Kong trade office in London and another man will go on trial in February for allegedly…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Sherpa guide Kami Rita is back from Mount Everest after his record 30th successful…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are looking to settle political…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says that he will seek to opt his country out of any NATO…

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press LOPBURI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, has…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing the formation of a new partnership to help provide…

LONDON (AP) — A British neonatal nurse who was convicted of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has lost her bid to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s lawmakers will leave Parliament on Friday for the last time before an election is held…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III won’t be out and about much over the next six weeks. And it’s not because of…

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. member countries have concluded a new treaty to help ensure that traditional knowledge about genetic resources — like…

BANGKOK (AP) — Singapore Airlines says it will halt meal services and get all cabin crew to buckle up when planes fly through turbulence as part of…

PARIS (AP) — The French prosecutor for New Caledonia says a police officer has been taken into custody after shooting and killing a man after they…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea appears to be preparing to launch its…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Police have released details on four people killed when a building housing a bar and restaurant club collapsed on…

SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney judge has ruled that former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan can be extradited to the United States on allegations he…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The U.S. is seeking to build support for squeezing more money for Ukraine out of frozen Russian assets as finance…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defense secretary says it will continue to build security alliances and…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s military says the helicopter carrying late President Ebrahim Raisi caught fire soon after it crashed into a…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s army says the bodies of three more hostages killed on Oct 7. were recovered overnight from Gaza. The bodies…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court is set to rule on an urgent plea by South Africa for…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares retreated Friday after strong reports on the U.S. economy raised the possibility of interest…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a resolution that…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it will pay $2.58 million in compensation to the families of five Chinese engineers who were killed in March when a…

By SEBABATSO MOSAMO, FARAI MUTSAKA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press LILANDA, Zambia (AP) — Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Residents of the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, are working to…

THANE, India (AP) — Officials say at least nine people have been killed and 64 are injured in an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept into office nearly six years ago with a…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press It began last month with the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister. Then the head of the ministry’s…

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating a mass shooting in Maine plans to hear more testimony from law enforcement sources…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports more than 100 people are estimated to have been killed in a landslide in remote…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass. Yet for weeks, the famously combative…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election-year…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden are due in court days before the…

By HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — State media say a fire in a small apartment building in Hanoi, Vietnam, has killed at least 14…

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. (AP) — Six people killed when a pickup crashed into a passenger van in Idaho on Saturday were agricultural workers from Mexico,…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan tracked dozens of Chinese warplanes and navy vessels off its coast Friday on the second day of a large exercise…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BEED, India (AP) — India’s 120 million farmers share fast-shrinking water resources as groundwater is pumped out…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press ANTIBES, France (AP) — Some of the biggest stars in the French Rivera for the Cannes Film Festival made…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors won’t be penalized for a last-minute document dump that caused former…

By The Associated Press The nearly $2.8 billion settlement that has been approved by the NCAA and the nation’s five largest conferences is a…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has rejected a recommendation to cut a proposal for what would be the state’s largest wind farm…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The NCAA and the nation’s five biggest conferences have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a six–day-old U.S. pier project in Gaza is starting to get more aid…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Defense officials from Chile have convened a meeting at the bottom of the planet, a bid to bolster their territorial claims…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has designated Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers. He also…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Youth services and civil rights groups are suing to block a new Washington state parental rights…

By YURAS KARMANAU and DASHA LITVINOVA Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening arrived in Belarus for a two-day visit. The Russian…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of four of the five Marines killed when their Osprey crashed in California in June of 2022…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — American comedian Dave Chappelle has said a “genocide” is striking the…

MADRID (AP) — Four people have died and several more have been seriously injured when a building collapsed on the island of Mallorca. Spanish…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A SWAT team has raided rapper Sean Kingston’s rented South Florida mansion and…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Holocaust museum in New York City will offer free educational field trips to eighth grade public school students in a program…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s attorney general says his office is looking into a company’s attempt to sell…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year mortgage dipped this week to just below 7% for the first time…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that he is calling a special session of the General Assembly next week to…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Louis Vuitton has unveiled its latest fashion designs at Barcelona’s Park Güell in an…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a…