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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency says record numbers of children are making perilous…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has closed schools and halted trading on the stock exchange as torrential rain lashed the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump hosted a $100,000-a-plate fundraiser for disgraced former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani at his…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The governor of New Mexico is asking the U.S. Justice Department to deploy more federal agents to the state in the aftermath…

By ROB MAADDI and MITCH STACY AP Sports Writers CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow became the highest-paid player in the…

By BRIAN MAHONEY and HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open semifinal between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova has been…

MARION, Ill. (AP) — An autopsy shows a bacterial infection and other factors caused the death of a 3-year-old girl on a bus carrying immigrants…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says in a report that the U.N. goal of achieving gender equality by…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Wynn Resorts and nine unnamed women are settling a lawsuit alleging the casino company failed to…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has christened a purported nuclear attack submarine it had…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators say a blocked radio transmission caused a close call between two passenger planes in San Diego in June. The…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has long denied corruption accusations…

Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Two attacks by Islamist insurgents in the restive north of Mali have killed 49 civilians and 15 government…

By STEPHEN GROVES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is expected to endorse Donald Trump’s…

GEORGIA, Vt. (AP) — Authorities say a Vermont armed robbery suspect who eluded capture in the past week in a vehicle, on a stolen bike, on foot and…

CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly 1,600 migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. will be relocated from Chicago police stations to winterized camps with massive…

DEWITT, N.Y. (AP) — Police have released the ages of two Black teenagers who were fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in upstate New York. The…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN and SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have voted to fast-track…

By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to demonstrate to the world at the Group of 20 summit…

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama teenager convicted of killing five family members, including three younger siblings, when he was 14 years old has…

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers crossed an item off his sports bucket list and then made a…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is criticizing efforts across the U.S. to tamp down a recent jump in COVID-19 cases through…

TORONTO (AP) — Veteran Canadian journalist and author Peter C. Newman has died at the age of 94. Newman died in hospital in Belleville, Ontario,…

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — It’s probably not the strangest item ever donated to a Goodwill store. But employees of the thrift store in the Phoenix…

MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — The mother of a newborn girl whose body was found in a New Jersey park on Christmas Eve nearly 40 years ago has been…

By MICHAEL CASEY and STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Authorities are raising the alarm about a social media challenge in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two cable news personalities with little in common — Mark Levin and Jen Psaki — both learned on Thursday that they will be…

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State Police say they’ve shot and arrested a 39-year-old Florida man in connection with four of the…

CROSS CITY, Fla. (AP) — Officials say an elderly man who was cleaning debris from Hurricane Idalia in north Florida when a tree fell on him has…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana grand jury has charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest with sexually assaulting a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is announcing a new $600 million package of long-term aid to Ukraine, providing…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Criminal domestic violence charges have been dropped against Las Vegas Aces player Riquna Williams,…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities have arrested five activists who chained themselves to a bulldozer to halt construction of…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The sweltering heat wave in Texas has the power grid manager again asking residents to cut…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have voted to raise taxes on guns and ammunition sales in the state.…

By ISSAM ADWAN and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has closed the main commercial crossing in the Gaza Strip,…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has tried to project national unity during…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — People living in Minnesota without legal immigration status can now begin…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Several thousand protesters supporting the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul have rallied…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Kosovo’s president has accused Serbian investigators of dragging their feet over an inquiry…

NEW YORK (AP) — Another top executive at the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange is scheduled to appear in court in New York Thursday afternoon to…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told a judicial conference on Thursday he hopes…

By RAF CASERT and SYLVAIN PLAZY Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium has acknowledged that its primary rail gateway has become a festering sore…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — One of the few remaining Gullah-Geechee communities in the U.S. is in another fight to hold…

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH Associated Press For many bird watchers — novices and experts alike — this fall’s migration will have a soundtrack.…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Democratic Florida state attorney is challenging her suspension by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Monique Worrell filed the…

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Officials say health risks due to high lead levels in drinking water in a majority Black and impoverished Michigan city…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press A report finds that a partial building collapse in Iowa that killed three people was caused by the removal of…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Bruce Springsteen announced Thursday that he’s postponing a slate of concerts in September on the advice of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing American and European condemnations for his recent comments about the Holocaust.…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Victoria’s Secret has been trying to reverse its image built on a man’s vision of…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Federal officials say the probe into the 2021 collapse of a beachfront condominium building in South Florida that…

By AUDREY McAVOY and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — So few tourists are coming to the Hawaiian island of Maui…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Workers are setting the stage for the World Trade Center’s newest component. It isn’t…

By ED WHITE Associated Press One of three men accused of assisting a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is testifying in his own defense.…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has dealt another serious setback to the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada has announced that a judge will lead a public inquiry into whether China, Russia and other…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s state-run veterans homes were unprepared to keep residents safe during the COVID-19 outbreak and suffered a…

ROME (AP) — The right-wing government of Premier Giorgia Meloni has approved a decree to crack down on juvenile delinquency, allowing children as…