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By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The African Union has suspended Niger from all of its institutions and activities “until the…

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet There’s a common misconception that prenuptial agreements are only for protecting the assets of an ultra-wealthy…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Save the Children says about 500 children have died from hunger in Sudan, including two dozen babies in…

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer POND GAP, W.Va. (AP) — In seven decades of following West Virginia football, little has gotten in the way when Terry…

By RIAZ KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says militants have ambushed a military convoy in a former stronghold of Pakistani…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Basketball’s World Cup starts on Friday, spread out over three nations. The…

BEIJING (AP) — A North Korean commercial flight has taken off from Beijing in a sign that Pyongyang is its opening its borders again after almost…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators have opened a new investigation into Microsoft’s revamped bid to…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — American sprinter Erriyon Knighton has often drawn comparisons to retired Jamaican great…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters scouring the area of a major wildfire in…

By RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Eight people who got trapped in a disabled cable car dangling high above a…

By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken multiple shots at the West on…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The defense and economy ministers in Denmark’s centrist government have swapped places. The move Tuesday came a day…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A review of hundreds of emails provides insight into the damage control that top…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine media are reporting that a pair of recent drone attacks on air bases deep inside…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Presss ISLAMABAD (AP) — A new U.N. report says more than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say that Israeli security forces stormed into a town in the north of…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe are facing one of the…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Colorful campaign posters adorn street poles, buildings, vehicles and trees in Zimbabwe,…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and GERARDO CARRILLO Associated Press XOCHIACA, Mexico (AP) — The sound of hammers and chisels striking stone rings out on most…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian markets were trading mixed Wednesday ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s highly…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mexico’s government has repeatedly raised concerns with the U.S. about large buoys…

By MARK J. TERRILL, JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Crews in mountain and desert towns worked to clear…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military has accused India’s troops of opening fire at their disputed border in the Himalayan region of Kashmir…

By AUDREY McAVOY, GENE JOHNSON and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii pleaded Tuesday with…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press It’s almost time for the first Republican presidential debate. The two-hour debate will start at 9 p.m. Eastern on…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Tennessee’s Republican-led Legislature is meeting in special session this week to consider a package of…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If 2023 has taught anything to the people running Fox News Channel, it’s the importance of…

By ALI SWENSON and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s aggressive response to his fourth criminal indictment in five…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hours before doors would open, thousands of K-pop fans lined up in downtown Los Angeles,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel,…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A jailed university student who pleaded guilty to inciting secession in Hong Kong has lost his bid…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A divisive former prime minister of Thailand made a dramatic return home Tuesday to face an…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive…

By DAVID RISING and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The son of longtime autocratic Cambodian leader Hun Sen has been…

AUBURN, Wash. (AP) — A track for live horse racing in suburban Seattle turned prehistoric over the weekend as more than 200 people ran down the…

CEDAR GLEN, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 27-year-old man killed by California sheriff’s deputies over the weekend after he fatally shot a…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press A second person has died in wildfires in eastern Washington state that ignited on Friday, burning hundreds of…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists figure a natural El Nino, human-caused climate change, a stubborn heat dome over the nation’s…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks are suing the Toronto Raptors, the Raptors head coach and a former Knicks…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan says North Korea has told it of a plan to launch a satellite in the coming…

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed Monday to pay $225 million to settle price-fixing…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit in Virginia to try to keep the state in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday thanked Canadians for their support in his first…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has moved a floating barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border closer to…

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s Roman Catholic archdiocese has filed for bankruptcy, saying the filing is necessary to…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Monday approved the first RSV vaccine for pregnant women so their babies…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alabama can enforce a ban outlawing the use of…

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (AP) — Syria’s state media say Israel’s military has carried out airstrikes near the capital of Damascus wounding one…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press Former President Donald Trump says he will surrender to authorities in Georgia on Thursday…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — While Republican Daniel Cameron has downplayed his support for charter schools and…