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By JEFF AMY and BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A right-wing Republican Party faction in Georgia is seeking to punish GOP officials it…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The archbishop of Canterbury has urged the Anglican Church of Uganda to reject the country’s new…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian health officials say Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian man at a checkpoint in the occupied…

By AHMAD MANTASH Associated Press KFAR CHOUBA, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli soldiers have fired tear gas to disperse scores of stone-throwing protesters…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — The world’s first lipstick. The first modern perfume. The first Nivea cream. These are some of…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations World Food Program says it is temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia because its supplies are being…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden traveled to the recently renamed Fort Liberty in North Carolina on…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two giant inflatable ducks made a splash in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor on Friday, marking…

By JAMEY KEATEN and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says Ukrainian troops have started…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s president recently announced that national elections will take place on Aug.…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis is “progressively improving” and sitting in an armchair working. That follows surgery this week to…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — The attacker slashed at the 24-year-old man with the knife that he used to savagely stab…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops, police and rescue workers began forcibly evacuating residents near Mayon Volcano on Friday as its…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s government says the U.N. envoy to the country, a key negotiator in its brutal conflict,…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — For Cypriots, it was a collective “here we go again” moment: In April,…

By TIFFANY STANLEY Associated Press GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — As Ron DeSantis wrapped up a 12-stop campaign tour that began in an Iowa evangelical…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A little white pill has given Syrian President Bashar Assad powerful leverage with his Arab…

By TIFFANY STANLEY Associated Press GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — As Ron DeSantis wrapped up a 12-stop campaign tour that began in an Iowa evangelical…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has long been known as a mecca for high-quality marijuana, but that reputation has come…

By BEN FINLEY, PETER SMITH and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Pat Robertson united tens of millions of evangelical Christians…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drake could make an impactful mark at the BET Awards later this month. The…

By JEFF McMURRAY and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sadaf Zahoor has bucked California’s car culture by never owning one,…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press A judge overseeing the case against Bryan Kohberger, charged with killing four University of Idaho students last…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is studying the history books and considering the appointment of a…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — Baseball is steeped in the tradition of fans wanting to jeer the umpire.  One Little League…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — Back in Mudville, when mighty Casey took an unheeded pitch for a strike, there went up a…

By ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump improperly stored in his…

By MALAK HARB Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Restoration efforts are underway in the United Arab Emirates as coral reefs…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Before fleeing North Korea in 2014, Jeon Jae-hyun kept U.S. dollars as a store of value…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the…

By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — West Coast social media users are sharing their DIY tips for building an air purifier at home as…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Senate adjourned on Thursday without voting on a…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT…

By The Associated Press Donald Trump’s legal problems appear to have escalated significantly with federal charges over the retention of top secret…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has another acting leader at the controls. The White House said Thursday that President Joe…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a weekday afternoon and Anna Sorokin is on house arrest in a New York apartment building…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer The Los Angeles county district attorney’s office said Thursday it has left Twitter due to barrage of…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii tourism officials urged tourists to be respectful when flocking to a national…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis nursing home resident pleaded guilty to murdering and raping an 80-year-old invalid. Sixty-one-year-old Dwayne…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Mexico has charged another Venezuelan migrant for his alleged role in the March blaze at a Mexican detention…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a man wanted in the 1984 killing of a Florida woman has been arrested nearly four decades later. The…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The FBI on Thursday arrested a businessman at the center of the scandal…

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama prisoner received a life sentence on Thursday for escaping with the help of a jail official who ultimately took…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A former school dance teacher in Cleveland has been sentenced to life in prison for raping six teenage students and sexually…

By ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump said Thursday that he was indicted for mishandling…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The Tunisian coast guard says five Africans were found dead and dozens are believed missing after three migrant boats…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Salt Lake City man who says his job offer to become an Alaska State Trooper was…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States Agency for International Development says it has suspended all food aid to Ethiopia after an internal…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recruiters set their sights on Sacred…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general has filed a federal lawsuit against an anti-abortion group whose…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An attorney representing the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville school says…

Associated Press The S&P 500 is now in what Wall Street refers to as a bull market, meaning the index has risen 20% or more from its most recent…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ashish Jha, the White House’s point person on the COVID-19 response, will depart from the administration next week. A White…

SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas (AP) — Nearly two dozen teenagers from a summer camp were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed Thursday in a beachside…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer There were many stressful things about making “The Flash” and getting it to theaters. It was shot in the middle of…

TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police officer has testified he didn’t initially know where shots were being…

CANTONMENT, Fla. (AP) — Officials say animal control officers rounded up more than 600 pigs from an animal sanctuary in Florida after their…

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for a 43-year-old Kansas man accused of killing his two sons before…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say a $5 million jury award for his sexual abuse and…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The hazardous haze from Canada’s wildfires is taking its…

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The prosecutor in the murder trial of a man charged with killing a Massachusetts police officer and an innocent bystander…

MOSCOW (AP) — The co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, Oleg Orlov, has gone on trial in Moscow, charged with…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BONN, Germany (AP) — The United Arab Emirates official tapped to head the next global climate summit pledged…

DETROIT (AP) — A murder charge has been filed in another fatal shooting involving Detroit gas station clerks and customers. Police say Anthony…