AP National News

By NICOLE WINFIELD and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press SASTIN, Slovakia (AP) — Pope Francis has urged Slovakians look out for the neediest among…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The economic ravages of COVID-19 are forcing some families in Zimbabwe to abandon the…

PARIS (AP) — Emergency workers have rescued or evacuated hundreds of people in southern France as flash flooding abruptly turned roads and fields…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police say a fugitive walked into a Sydney police station to give himself up…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — One of China’s biggest real estate developers is struggling to avoid defaulting on billions of…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is committing 200 million more vaccine doses to Africa and low-income nations to…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A defiant Republican Larry Elder conceded his fight to become California’s next…

By OLEG CETINIC and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Health care workers in France face suspension from their jobs if they…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new scientific report that looks at what each nation is doing to fight climate change finds nearly every…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks are mostly lower in Asia after the region’s two biggest economies released data that were weaker…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — One of Russia’s most ardent feminists is running for a seat in the State Duma with the goal…

HONG KONG (AP) — Nine Hong Kong activists and ex-lawmakers have been handed jail sentences of up to 10 months over their roles in last year’s…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Associated Press has declared that Gov. Gavin Newsom had survived a recall effort, with…

BEIJING (AP) — China is imposing lockdowns and ordering mass testing in cities along its east coast amid the latest surge in COVID-19 cases. Checks…

By AMY DiPIERRO and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) — At most of the largest U.S. public universities, students are under no…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The chief of the U.N. refugee agency says the international community and the Taliban…

By REBECCA SANTANA and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bands of heavy rain have been pummeling parts of the Alabama Gulf Coast and…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortion providers in Texas say they have seen a sharp drop in patients in the two weeks…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A rarely seen Tennessee Williams short story confirms his longtime passion for Italy and…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ably fended off Republicans’ recall attempt. He did so by changing the…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State police say a prominent South Carolina lawyer tried to arrange his own death this…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have begun the serious work of trying to implement President Joe Biden’s…

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer is defending his phone calls to his Chinese…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban are arriving in the U.S., and a handful…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader has criticized South…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A small cargo plane has crashed in a steep mountainous forest in Indonesia’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in Mexico have located 38 people, including 22 Haitians and Cubans, who were abducted from a hotel by armed men. The…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. official says 4 million Afghans are facing “a food emergency” and the…

By JOHNSON LAI, HUIZHONG WU and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press JIADONG, Taiwan (AP) — An F-16 screeched across the sky before landing on a highway…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says it has successfully completed a three-month push to provide coronavirus vaccines to all adult…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A case seen as an early test of New York’s law criminalizing police chokeholds has ended…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of South Korea and China are meeting for talks expected to focus…

LONDON (AP) — China’s ambassador to Britain has been barred from Parliament and told he could not enter the building for a talk he was scheduled…

MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors say a former University of Miami professor, his wife and his sister are facing federal charges related to purchasing…

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska lawmaker is apologizing after saying Nazi experimentation on prisoners “produced results.” State Rep. Sara…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is releasing nearly $200 million in military aid to Egypt but will…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has rejected the latest version of a proposed charter amendment on the future of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are giving the go-ahead for temporary storage of highly radioactive waste in west Texas. The Nuclear Regulatory…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected the state Senate’s effort to keep records of its…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s public health officials say crisis standards of care are imminent for the state’s…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Members of a New York City crime family threatened violence, pressured workers and pocketed…

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man claiming to be a film financier was sentenced to 13 years in prison for running a scheme to steal over $60 million…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police bomb technicians made major miscalculations in June when they detonated…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facebook has indicated the campaign page of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey was briefly taken down…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — One of the primary insurers of the Boy Scouts of America has reached a tentative settlement…

By MARK GILLISPIE and KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press A man has pleaded guilty in the murders of his child’s mother and seven other members of her…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NBC owes Tom Brady a thank you note. The ageless Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback led a charge in the…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills have joined the Las Vegas Raiders as only the NFL teams to require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for…