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By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Two separate shootings 2,000 miles (3,218 kilometers) apart. One killed 11 at a Pittsburgh…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy…

By TY O’NEIL Associated Press DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — As uninviting as it sounds, Death Valley National Park beckons. Even…

BEIJING (AP) — China says its coast guard issued a warning to a Japanese fishing boat operating in waters surrounding uninhabited East China Sea…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea’s U.N. ambassador has defended his country’s recent long-range missile…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As the six-month sprint to the Iowa caucuses begins, the sprawling…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Guatemalan government’s clumsy interference with its…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A professional butcher whose bloody, wild-eyed face became one of the most memorable images…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Vermont prepared for the next round of storms — and possibly a tornado — as people took advantage of calm…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and LUIGI NAVARRA Associated Press ROME (AP) — A train strike across Italy has stranded workers and tourists alike on a…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico regulators have revoked the license of a marijuana retailer in Albuquerque for…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A tentative deal has been reached between employers and workers in a strike that has halted shipments in and out…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Syrian government has given a green light for the United Nations to use a key…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Authorities in Ottawa say at least one tornado has hit a suburb of Canada’s capital, damaging more than 100 homes.…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some Republican members of Congress on Thursday denounced the Biden…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Democratic Party is looking to force the new political party No Labels to…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the man who coordinated stashing nearly two dozen migrants…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s secret police say charges have been filed against the suspended central bank…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi woman…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley died from complications from bariatric surgery she had several years…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has told federal legislators that his government plans…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is urging a judge to reject Donald Trump’s efforts to postpone his…

By MARIA CHENG and JONEL ALECCIA Associated Press The World Health Organization’s cancer agency has deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of this year’s United Nations climate talks is calling for governments and businesses to…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala sank deeper into political turmoil Thursday as an effort by prosecutors to…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrats in the California Legislature have revived a bill that would increase penalties…

By JIM SALTER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal investigators are beginning the task of trying to determine what…

By LORI HINNANT, HANNA ARHIROVA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are detained…

LOUISVILLE, Miss. (AP) — More than a half-dozen people were rescued as torrential rain deluged central Mississippi and sent water over roads and…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wildlife officials were trying to capture a wayward sea otter Thursday that has been…

By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A northern Michigan city is investigating after a hair salon owner posted on social…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court has thrown out a first-degree murder conviction because of a sexual relationship between the judge…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Controversial social media personality Andrew Tate and his brother are suing a…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed to the mixed U.S. Supreme Court decisions this term…

ATLANTA (AP) — The ex-wife of R&B singer Usher is calling to drain Georgia’s largest lake, where her son was fatally injured 11 years…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a Las Vegas police officer accused of stealing…

By MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and The Associated Press said Thursday that they’ve made a deal for the artificial…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it plans a massive increase in diplomatic personnel and spending…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian activist group in the West Bank says Palestinian security forces have detained a Palestinian journalist…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration has quietly suspended satellite monitoring of coca crops in Colombia amid…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer An already warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Organizers of Poland’s 2nd Frederic Chopin piano competition on period…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just you. Sriracha is hard to come by these days — at least for one…

ROME (AP) — A coalition of humanitarian groups is formally asking the European Commission to review Italian legislation governing migration. The…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — There was a time when Ons Jabeur might not have recovered from the deficit she found…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators on Thursday approved the nation’s first over-the-counter birth…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A government office in Hungary has levied a hefty fine against a national bookseller for…

By ERIN HOOLEY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium has welcomed the first southern rockhopper penguin chick to join its…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has been welcomed in Zimbabwe by people singing…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A drug cartel bomb attack that allegedly used a fake report of a mass grave to lure police…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chair of the Federal Trade Commission has defended her…

By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the baggie of cocaine found in a lobby…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s serious about pursuing a prisoner exchange for…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police say an initial investigation shows the man who shot two on-duty firefighters at an Alabama firehouse had a personal…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The United Nations says that Ghana has forcibly deported hundreds of people…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press The anticipation of getting to play a Filipino character for the first time is something shared by the entire company…