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By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Department of Corrections has recorded audio of at least 30…

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A soccer player in Ivory Coast has died after collapsing on the field during a league game. The Ivory Coast soccer…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida’s arm in the Arabian Peninsula says two of its operatives were killed by a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will introduce legislation to ban anyone who arrives in the U.K. in…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO-member Denmark’s Defense Ministry has banned its employees from having TikTok on their work phones as a…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A landslide caused by torrential rain has killed at least 11 people and left dozens of others missing on an island in…

MADRID (AP) — A ransomware cyberattack on one of Barcelona’ s main hospitals has crippled the center’s computer system and forced the…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hoda Kotb returned to NBC’s “Today” show on Monday after spending a few weeks tending to her…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press The death toll rose to two on Monday following a stampede at a rap concert in Rochester, New York, that…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A six-party alliance has nominated the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party as its…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts —…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ever-worsening power crisis — putting homes and businesses without…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian health authorities say that 2.8 million of expired COVID-19 doses will be destroyed this year in addition to 2.3…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Many people don’t realize that divorced spouses can claim Social Security benefits based on their ex’s earnings…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he ordered police to crack down on illegal…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press CHASIV YAR, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president is vowing to hold onto Bakhmut as Russian forces encroach…

BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) — Police say three people were killed and a fourth was hospitalized after a shooting during a suspected home invasion in…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s administrative watchdog is trying to find out how a top transport official was permitted to fly to Qatar…

Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Recovery crews in northern Greece cleared the final sections of wreckage from a deadly train collision from…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it deposited $5 billion into the Turkish central bank. The…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A flight to Florida from Cuba was forced to turn back Sunday after it struck birds that caused an engine to catch fire…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s center-right Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has won reelection. Kallas is one…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader says that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls’ schools is proven to be…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Growing up in New England, Leah Ofsevit’s most cherished childhood memories were blanketed in…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s media regulator has banned broadcasts of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are considering a proposal that many disability rights advocates say would…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — In this war-scarred city in Ukraine’s northeast, residents scrutinize every step for…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted a police truck in…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Georgina Beyer, a trailblazing New Zealand politician who in 1999 became the…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — When Moheidein Bazazo opened his Beirut mini-market in 1986, during some of the fiercest fighting…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese economic officials have expressed confidence they can meet this year’s growth target of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher in muted trading Tuesday, as investors tried to digest a slew of…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — Democrats across New Hampshire are upset with President Joe Biden for…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — Steve Shurtleff was at Joe Biden’s side in 2019 when he filed papers in…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea took a step toward improving ties with its traditional…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Paul Manafort, has agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hit Japanese manga “One Piece” is coming to Netflix as a live-action series — a development…

The U.S. government says Exxon Mobil violated federal law for failing to take sufficient action as five hangman’s nooses were displayed at a…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Former Idaho Gov. Phil Batt, a Republican known for signing an agreement with the federal government to remove nuclear waste…

LINDENHURST, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane trying to return to a Long Island airport after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit…

Ricou Browning, a skilled swimmer best known for his underwater role as the Gill Man in the quintessential 3D black-and-white 1950s monster movie…

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Authorities say police in Frederick, Maryland, fatally shot a man with a knife during a weekend encounter after he ignored…

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — The University of Massachusetts is warning about a TikTok drinking trend after 28 ambulances were summoned to off-campus…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling destroyed homes and killed one person in northern Ukraine’s Kharkiv province, the region’s…

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to 12 to 24 years in prison in the death of a firefighter struck along with two other…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say a cargo vessel ran aground in the Suez Canal but traffic through the global…

WILLOW, Alaska (AP) — The race to Nome began Sunday for 33 mushers in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Jessie Holmes. an…

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia shooting has killed two of the more than 100 teenagers who had gathered at a house party…

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say two more children have died from their injuries suffered in a northwest Phoenix condominium fire. Phoenix Fire…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Valerie Torres’ mother has tried to shield her from the worst of Venezuela’s…

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say there is no indication of any risk to public health from the derailment of a Norfolk Southern…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “ Creed III ” punched above its weight at the domestic box office in its first weekend in theaters. The MGM…

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA Associated Press MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Mourners have filled a temple chamber for a final prayer session in northern…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Cabinet ministers have advanced a bill that would allow Prime Minister Benjamin…

MOSCOW (AP) — A shootout between Azerbaijani soldiers and Nagorno-Karabakh region police has killed at least three people. The two sides gave…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press HIALEAH, Florida (AP) — A few days after selling all she had to flee Cuba with her three children on a…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Many states have enacted or contemplated limits or outright bans on transgender medical treatment, with…