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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices soared in July from a year earlier by a record amount as buyers…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — While acknowledging the inevitable advance of alternative energy sources and…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The authoritarian leader of Belarus has announced a referendum on a new constitution to be…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press CHESTER, Mont. (AP) — A 911 call over the weekend about an Amtrak train that derailed in rural Montana, killing…

LONDON (AP) — A defense lawyer says a man charged with the murder of a 28-year-old school teacher in London plans to plead not guilty. Delivery…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s official news agency says the country’s national airline will resume direct flights to Syria’s…

By MARIA CHENG and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — A panel commissioned by the World Health Organization has identified…

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s legislature on Tuesday descended into a rowdy brawl on Tuesday, after opposition lawmakers…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick is Richard Powers’ “Bewilderment.” It’s his…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say fierce clashes between government forces and Houthi rebels over a crucial…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Toyota is revving up acquisitions in mobility technology, adding Renovo Motors,…

By KIM COOK Associated Press Fall is a busy time for moving and changing homes. And many people have relocated because of pandemic-related changes in…

PARIS (AP) — French drugmaker Sanofi says it is shelving plans for a COVID-19 vaccine based on messenger RNA despite positive results from early…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The operator of an oil tanker seized by Indonesian authorities at the request of…

By ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press ABU SNAN, Israel (AP) — Arab citizens of Israel are seeking to raise awareness about the spiraling rate of violent…

By LAURA MCMULLEN of NerdWallet Emotions influence our decisions, including whether or not we should buy something. And these are emotional times,…

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Sam has strengthened again to a powerful Category 4 storm. It’s centered well offshore in the Atlantic Ocean but could…

PARIS (AP) — A 19-year-old student who threw an egg at French President Emmanuel Macron has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital. The egg hit…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Council has approved a 5 billion-euro ($5.8 billion) reserve aimed at helping EU businesses tackle the short-term…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Bowing — if only for a moment — to pressure from lawmakers, critics, the media and child development…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says European nations must boost their defense plans and make…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The family of a Lebanese man who was critically injured in last year’s massive explosion at…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Nearly nine months have passed since the riot at the U.S. Capitol, and federal agents…

By MAURO BUCCARELLO Associated Press LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — A rusty and overloaded fishing boat carrying 686 migrants has arrived at an Italian…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating nine lawyers to run U.S. attorney’s offices across the…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO and CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s military junta has released a transitional charter that…

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — Lava flowing from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma has picked up its pace on its…

ZHUHAI, China (AP) — A military drone whose manufacturer says it can cruise for 20 hours at 15,000 meters (50,000 feet) is among Chinese warplanes,…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France and Greece have announced a defense deal worth around 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion)…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Pressure is growing for a quick start to talks on Germany’s next government as newly elected…

BEIJING (AP) — Two American siblings have returned home after China lifted an exit ban following Canada’s release of a top Chinese tech…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As Europe’s economic powerhouse Germany embarks on the task of piecing together a…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Police suspect an apartment building explosion in Sweden’s second-largest city might have…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Animal rights groups have welcomed the South Korean president’s offer to look into banning consumption of dog meat.…

By SALLY HO Associated Press More than a year after Black Lives Matter protests launched a worldwide reckoning about the centuries of racism that…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks fell broadly in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday, led by more declines in Big Tech companies. The…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Days before Germany’s federal elections, Facebook removed a network of accounts that it said had spread…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A strong aftershock with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 has struck the southern Greek island of Crete, a day after a…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s top diplomat has held a virtual meeting with NATO’s chief to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, amid longstanding…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The vaccination situation in Europe is a story of two regions. In some European Union…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s Expo 2020 opens this week, after being delayed for a year over the…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are trying to figure out, now that they are back in power in Afghanistan,…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Accusers and others demanding accountability for R&B superstar R. Kelly over allegations that…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are set to meet for the second and…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” became the first work by a Black composer in the 138-year history of…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man already sentenced to life in prison for killing four people at a massage business outside…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a man who killed five people at a newspaper to more than five life…

BEIJING (AP) — The World Bank has cut its economic growth forecast for developing countries in East Asia due to the impact of the coronavirus’s…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press HAMPTON, S.C. (AP) — The influential Murdaugh family is at the center of an unfolding drama in the tiny South…

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first congressional testimony on the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from…