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Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has ordered the closure of all three Iranian Consulates in the country in response to the execution of…

Associated Press The city of Asheville has restored running water to most of its users nearly a month after Hurricane Helene damaged infrastructure…

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Country music has become a dominant force, bleeding into pop music’s mainstream. Artists who were once not…

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Billions of dollars in advertising are raining down on voters across the Rust Belt, Rocky Mountains and…

Democrat Kamala Harris says recent comments by her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, are “offensive” and that it’s clear he doesn’t…

Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Few elections in the nation’s history have provided such a divide as this year’s, with the two…

AP Business Writer Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs remained at historically healthy levels despite elevated…

AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Chinese online retailer Temu is facing a European Union investigation over suspicions it’s failing to prevent…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rowdy crowds took to the streets in Los Angeles after the Dodgers won the World Series, setting a city bus on…

Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Rocket barrages from Lebanon into northern Israel killed four foreign workers and three Israelis on…

Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A judge in New Zealand is to decide whether the owners of an island volcano suffered a miscarriage…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A ban on protesting outside abortion clinics has gone into effect in England and Wales. However, it leaves a…

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s defense minister says India and China have pulled most of their frontline troops further away from…

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Two medical groups in Mozambique say at least 10 people were fatally shot by police and 63 others sustained gunshot…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have struck a residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, killing…

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics has reported progress on a major supply deal for artificial intelligence-focused…

Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says a semiconductor research facility in upstate New York will be getting $825…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the millions of Americans on the radar of the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns and those of their…

COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine military and civilian officials say at least 14 people have been killed in a long-seething land dispute…

Associated Press BARRIO DE LA TORRE, Spain (AP) — Crews searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings Thursday as residents salvaged…

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — As voters in nine states determine whether to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions, opponents are…

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — As India gears up for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, people are divided over whether they should celebrate…

Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — America’s presidential election next week comes just after Iran marks the 45th anniversary of the 1979…

AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You gotta hand it to Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers. And not just because the…

AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Just when it appeared Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees were right back in this World Series, they all but…

Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The United States’ European allies are bracing for an America that’s less interested in them no matter…

AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The World Series trophy is headed to Los Angeles, but there’s a hearty celebration going on across the Pacific…

Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — To be a parent in the Ukrainian front-line city of Zaporizhzhia means weighing your child’s life…

Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Voters in the scenic mountain town of South Lake Tahoe in Northern California are considering a…

Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Few elections in the nation’s history have provided such a divide as this year’s, with the two…

Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Snow fell on Hawaii’s tallest peak this week, briefly turning the mountaintop into a winter wonderland. The…

Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Washington state man who authorities say led a wildlife trafficking ring on a Native American reservation…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans are feeling a lot of emotions heading into Election Day, but excitement is not one of them. A new…

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The downside of high expectations thumped Wall Street on Thursday, and Microsoft and Meta Platforms dragged U.S.…

Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Millions of Indians began celebrating the annual Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, by symbolically lighting…

Associated Press The right to abortion has been codified in Connecticut law since 1990, but U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is warning how women in the state…

Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Election results from the vote for the regional parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region…

AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S.…

Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia judge has set a hearing Thursday morning in the city prosecutor’s bid to shut down Elon…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, who dressed as a giant panda, hosted their final White House Halloween…

Associated Press CALI, Colombia (AP) — The United Nations, scientists and governments made an urgent call Wednesday for increased funding to…

BANDON, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 has struck off the southern coast of Oregon.…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik and Lyle Menendez’s resentencing hearing has been set for Dec. 11, when a judge will decide whether they…

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in almost a year,…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s President Javier Milei has dismissed his foreign minister hours after the country voted against the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A journalist who covered the violent western Mexico state of Michoacan for a Facebook news page has been shot to death. Mauricio…

Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A senior official with Europe’s top human rights watchdog is urging the government of ethnically divided…