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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber raised the minimum age requirement for most of its new drivers in California to 25 on Thursday under rules the company…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic fanned out across the…

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court says it has rejected an appeal by a military officer who posed as a Syrian asylum-seeker and was convicted…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — FIFA has opened a disciplinary case against the Spanish soccer official who kissed a player on the…

By ANDREW DeMILLO, LYNNE SLADKY AND LAURA BARGFELD Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Rajee Narinesingh faced struggles throughout her…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by an aggressive 7.5 percentage…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hospital care across England is coming to a standstill as senior doctors launch another 48-hour strike…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO-member Norway will reportedly donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, whose forces are embroiled in a difficult…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Rescue crews are searching for survivors after a building collapse in Nigeria’s…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a top court in Pakistan’s capital is delaying a crucial ruling on an appeal from…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters struggled Thursday against strong winds and hot, dry conditions to tame…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian authorities say that an explosion has ripped through a Hamas militant site in the central Gaza Strip,…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — At the height of the post-pandemic economic recovery, Andy…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been chided by Parliament’s standards guardian for failing to declare his wife’s financial…

By GERALD IMRAY, MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia were among six countries invited…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An avalanche of rocks tumbled down a hillside onto a hiking trail near the Dead Sea in Israel on Thursday, trapping many people,…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims from India crashed in southern Nepal killing at least seven occupants and injuring others.…

By The Associated Press Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants were presumed dead in a plane crash that was widely…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court ruled Thursday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must stay in jail on espionage charges until the end…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping on Wall Street Thursday, despite a blowout profit report from one of its most…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police have arrested 41 workers for poll monitoring groups and accused them of…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press AL-QABUN, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian hamlet of al-Qabun in the central occupied West Bank was silent this…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s top public education official has a new target in his culture war fight: the…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Some California lawmakers want to make striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits.…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press REED POINT, Mont. (AP) — Two months after a railroad bridge collapse sent carloads of hazardous oil products…

By ERIC TUCKER, KATE BRUMBACK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump was set to turn himself in Thursday night to authorities…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press When members of the marine mammal team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare rush to a Cape Cod beach to help…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press WESTON, Vt. (AP) — Members of a beloved Vermont acting company were sleeping in theater housing when torrential…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A key portion of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that grants parole to thousands of…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and JAE C. HONG Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Shortly after the ignition of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former principal of an Australian Jewish school has been sentenced to 15 years in…

By ANNIE MA Associated Press When Wes Brown sought out children’s books for his two young sons, he made sure to seek titles that reflected the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The seasonal drink that made pumpkin spice a star is turning 20. And unlike the autumn days it celebrates, there…

TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — In a story published August 24, 2023 about a shooting at a Southern California bar that left three dead and six…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Public fears and frustrations are being shared in Japan’s neighboring countries…

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is expected to return to the United Kingdom next month to attend a charity awards ceremony on the eve of the first…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has approved a new $500 million arms sale to Taiwan as it ramps up…

By STEVE PEOPLES and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have dominated the Republican…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press OKUMA, Japan (AP) — Japan’s tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant in Fukushima is releasing its first batch of…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump skipped the debate stage typically relished by presidential candidates on…