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MAKOTI, N.D. (AP) — The first car jumping attempt in five years by North Dakota’s version of Evil Knievel ended in disaster when the car driven…

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Northwestern University professor is set to stand trial in the stabbing death of his boyfriend as part of what prosecutors…

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Legislature will consider whether to try to impeach Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg for a car crash last year…

WOODSON TERRACE, Mo. (AP) — The FBI has opened an investigation into the arrest of a Black man in Missouri during which cellphone video shows three…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Dear Evan Hansen” may have been a hit on Broadway, but the filmed adaptation of the Tony-winning show is off to a…

By ARIJETA LAJKA Associated Press HOLBROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Mourners are paying their respects to Gabby Petito, whose death on a cross-country trip has…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel regarded as the architect of the 1994…

By MARIA VERZA Associated Press CIUDAD ACUÑA, México (AP) — Some of the thousands of Haitian migrants who briefly formed a camp in the Texas…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — On this rainy Sunday morning, the fashion crowd filed into a richly upholstered movie theater for a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — They spent weeks in the captivity of gunmen in forests ringing Nigeria’s troubled…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in two Indian coastal states are on high alert with evacuations and preparations underway as a cyclone hit the eastern…

By TODD RICHMOND and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The deputy leader of Britain’s main opposition party is refusing to apologize for calling the…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press The Taliban want a seat at the United Nations and international recognition of their rule over Afghanistan. The group…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As political muscle goes, big doesn’t automatically translate to power. That’s the…

By ALBERTO ARCE and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — This is the Port-au-Prince that awaits Haitian deportees: An…

HELSINKI (AP) — Police in Norway have reported dozens of disturbances and violent clashes including mass brawls in the Nordic country’s big…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Many of the law enforcement changes enacted by states after George Floyd’s death have…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — What will it cost to enact President Joe Biden’s massive expansion of social programs? Congress…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists and pro-government media say warplanes have attacked Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria,…

LA PALMA, Canary Islands (AP) — A massive ash cloud from an erupting volcano has prevented flights in and out of the Spanish island of La Palma.…

By EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland briefly celebrated electing a female-majority parliament Sunday — before a…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCESCO FEDELI Associated Press SAN MARINO (AP) — Residents in the tiny republic of San Marino have voted overwhelmingly…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is urging North Korea to restore dormant communication hotlines, a day…

LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering a primary school teacher killed as she walked in a London park. Sabina…

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Sam is a Category 4 storm, but forecasters say the system could fluctuate in strength over the next day or so. The U.S.…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Copenhagen’s Christiania neighborhood is turning 50. The counter-culture enclave is…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say at least five Palestinians have been killed in shootouts with…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has said he would consider buying a second Russian missile system in defiance of strong objections by the…

By MARK KENNEDY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” a jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s hyperactive 2001 movie,…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland has voted by a wide margin to allow same-sex couples to marry, bringing the Alpine nation into line with many others in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government is hoping a combination of relatively high vaccination rates…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego police are investigating the deaths of a woman and her 2-year-old son Saturday after they fell from the third level of…

By FRANK JORDANS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The center-left Social Democrats have won the biggest share of the vote in…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has bracketed Myanmar with Afghanistan and Ethiopia as…

BERLIN (AP) — Two climate activists have ended their hunger strike after a leading candidate for chancellor of Germany agreed to a public meeting…

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Police say a man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed one person and critically injured another near…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved a vote on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill to later…

NEW YORK (AP) — Newborn twins have finally been laid to rest following a funeral service organized by the New York City police officers who are…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister is defending the Mali government’s right to hire a private…

By JIM HOEHN Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — As expected, the ceremony honoring popular Brewers announcer Bob Uecker’s half-century at the…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a North Florida sheriff’s deputy who was recently shot twice during a traffic stop is not going to…

By AMY BETH HANSON, MARTHA BELLISLE and ANITA SNOW Associated Press JOPLIN, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials sent a team of investigators from the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fourteen Mexican army soldiers were briefly detained and then returned to Mexico after they crossed into the U.S. at a border…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ethiopia is telling the international community to steer clear of sanctions and avoid…

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain (AP) — Female actors and filmmakers have swept the top awards at the San Sebastian film festival, with the Golden Shell for…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska billionaire Walter Scott has died at the age of 90. The Suzanne and Walter Scott…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Asssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister says the United States, China, Russia and Pakistan are…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The “amistad,” or friendship, that Del Rio, Texas, and Ciudad Acuña,…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have pushed a $3.5 trillion, 10-year bill strengthening social safety net and climate…