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BY MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) — He quit his corporate job and moved to Mexico to pursue his dream of sailing solo across…

CHANDLER, Okla. (AP) — A newspaper reports that a new judge in Oklahoma is facing scrutiny after courtroom video showed her scrolling through…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — The British Open can still deliver a surprise or two. Christo Lamprecht is the first…

By HAVEN DALEY and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A sea otter launched into the national spotlight after images of…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man on a paddleboard escaped a close encounter with a humpback whale, not even…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — The perpetrator of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre has led a deeply unstable life…

By ACACIA CORONADO and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is becoming the largest state to resign from a bipartisan,…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities are searching for the person who set a fire that killed a Memphis firefighter and sent three others to the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Anonymous comments with racist, sexist and abusive messages that were posted for years…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — A recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists in Sweden…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on roughly 120 firms and people in an effort to choke…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Venezuelan spy chief and longtime adviser to the country’s late leader Hugo Chávez…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Librarians in Florida who feared fines for hosting drag queen story hours, and Pride parade…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing new rules for the nation’s oil and gas leasing program…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II is returning to the man’s family.…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The Biden administration is asking employers to give workers who lose Medicaid coverage more time to land health…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are divided over adopting new congressional districts. State lawmakers…

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Indiana authorities have recovered two complete human DNA profiles from bones and bone fragments found on property once…

By DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer A screening tool the federal government is using to decide which neighborhoods have a disproportionate amount of…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press An 18-year-old northeastern Nebraska woman was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail and two years of probation…

LONDON (AP) — The chief executive of U.K. bank NatWest Group has apologized to populist politician Nigel Farage after he complained that his bank…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve has launched a new instant payment service that allows banks and credit…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A local officials says an explosion killed at least nine people in North-Kivu province in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Thursday imposed travel restrictions on most British diplomats in the country, a practice reminiscent of the Soviet…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in June to the slowest pace since January, as a…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Three of Kevin Spacey ‘s accusers are liars, his lawyer told jurors Thursday at the…

ISABELLA O’MALLEY Temperatures have peaked at or above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) the entire month of July in Phoenix. Air…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Tonga, New Zealand and Australia next week as…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s first open call for grants yielded 6,353…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer From high school to the professional leagues, hazing is ingrained in teams sports in the United States.…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker…

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer UConn has settled a lawsuit filed by a former women’s soccer player who lost her scholarship for flashing…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Discovery Channel has landed the perfect host this year for “Shark Week,” none other…

By RIO YAMAT and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A home that Las Vegas police raided this week in connection with the 1996 drive-by…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Treasury says the amount of public funding for King Charles III and the royal family’s…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Prosecutors are asking a Russian court to sentence imprisoned opposition leader Alexei…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Volunteer searchers say they have found 27 corpses in clandestine graves in the border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen,…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serb parliament has passed a law recriminalizing libel which critics say will restrict freedom of…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A street-food salesgirl who became a tech entrepreneur and senator is shaking up the…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who was twice convicted of defrauding investors out of $230 million and whose lengthy prison sentence was…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to show fortitude in the…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says the European Union made a “regrettable choice of words” when it referred to the U.K.-run Falkland…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Tesla is recalling nearly 16,000 of its 2021-2023 Model S and Model X vehicles because some front-row seat…

By The Associated Press Many sunbathers who want to take a dip in the cool water to escape the summer heat are being thwarted by high bacteria levels…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say they have been ordered not to report deaths amid demonstrations against the…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate in another sign of commitment to a…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans says he wants to lead a combined campaign by two left-leaning parties…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors in England are staging a 48-hour walkout to demand better pay and…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Fire Service has intensified water drops west of Athens where a huge blaze was contained overnight, as authorities…

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Families and a rights defender say two prominent figures from Egypt’s human rights…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Investigators looking into the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a German museum have…

By ELLEN McINTYRE Associated Press DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — For a nation more than 7,000 miles from the United States, the Philippines boasts a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Mercenaries from Russia’s military company Wagner have launched joint drills with the Belarusian military almost a month after…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told former top U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger that relations between the two countries are at a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama plans to execute an inmate for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state seeks to…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead with his…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Voters are going to the polls in three electoral districts of England, with the governing…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told top Vietnamese officials that Washington considers…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pop star Shakira is facing more trouble from Spain’s tax office after a court near Barcelona said Thursday that it had…

By JOSH BOAK and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden has paid a visit to Philadelphia’s shipyard to…