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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has imposed new sanctions on three Russian ships and companies…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court says a pause on evictions designed to curb the…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Some Republican governors are using federal pandemic assistance to promote school choice programs, including…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Recreational vehicle and boat manufacturer Winnebago Industries is moving its corporate…

FRANKFORT, Ind. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a woman and her granddaughter outside a central Indiana automotive seating plant where…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery players will get more chances to win giant jackpots as the Powerball game…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son will be attending an exclusive private school not far from…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — U.S. Naval Academy officials announced Friday that 18 midshipmen have been expelled and another 82 sanctioned after an…

LONDON (AP) — A police watchdog says a 22-year-old man who fatally shot five people in southwestern England this month had his confiscated shotgun…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO foreign ministers have committed to focus on ensuring the safe evacuation from Afghanistan of…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban face a major challenge in cementing control of Afghanistan: Money. The military blitz…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A jury has found a chiropractor and Navy veteran guilty in the gruesome killings of four people at a North Dakota property…

By IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America HELENA, Mont. (AP) — While large companies across the U.S. have announced that COVID-19…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Faced with slowing numbers of people getting COVID-19 vaccinations,…

FINLAND, Minn. (AP) — Authorities fighting a northeastern Minnesota wildfire have ordered additional evacuations after the blaze jumped a highway.…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has issued a call for experts to join a new advisory group it’s forming, in part to address the…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ordered the government to take money from the prison account of a former Michigan sports doctor who owes…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An amusement park in Ohio says the world’s second-tallest roller coaster won’t open again…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a 1-year-old boy who drowned in the Florida Everglades after a car wreck have been arrested. Marc…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Major League Baseball is ending a 70-year relationship with trading card company Topps after signing a new…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Producer Mike Richards stepped down from his brief tenure as host of “Jeopardy!” after a…

By MICHAEL HILL and MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Moving vans were at the governor’s mansion in Albany on Friday and…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — K-pop isn’t the only entertainment export from South Korea that’s earned fans…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jason Momoa doesn’t get to play many ordinary guys. He’s Aquaman. He’s Khal Drogo. He’s Conan the Barbarian.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is extending a ban on nonessential travel along the borders with Canada and Mexico to slow the spread of…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson will replace Chairman and CEO Alex Gorsky with another veteran company executive starting next…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Anyone who has to get an injection in the U.S. probably has horseshoe crabs to thank for…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The embattled leader of the Minnesota Republican Party has been forced to resign following accusations that she ran an operation…

By JAMES ANDERSON and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Anxiety in the United States over COVID-19 is at its highest level since…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish refugee rights group says 32 people who fled Afghanistan before the Taliban…

LONDON (AP) — A jury in London has concluded that a terror attack in the south of the city last year could have been prevented had the perpetrator…

LE LUC, France (AP) — Firefighters have tamed but not fully controlled a huge wildfire blazing through the backcountry of the French Riviera. The…

PRAGUE (AP) — The international film festival has returned to the Czech spa of Karlovy Vary after it was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s center-right GERB party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has rejected the president’s offer to form a…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A court in Albania has refused to extradite an Egyptian man who faces a death sentence in his country. A judge in Tirana…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States is warning that food aid will run out this week for millions of hungry people…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A police boat and divers have joined the search for some 30 people still missing more than a week after severe floods…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says a woman who was the only person pulled from a…

By PHILIP MARCELO and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — New Englanders bracing for their first hurricane in 30 years are…

By MATTHEW CHENG and JANICE LO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s granting of a quarantine exemption to Hollywood star Nicole Kidman…

By AHMAD SEIR, TAMEEM AKHGAR and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The scene outside the airport in the Afghan capital is…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has marked the anniversary of a poisoning…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities have suspended more than 50 civic groups for allegedly not complying…

BERLIN (AP) — A union representing many train drivers at Germany’s national railway operator is calling members out on a new strike. The head of…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Seven years after Boko Haram extremists abducted more than 270 schoolgirls in northeast…

By ROD McGUIRK and NICK PERRY Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian state leader is warning that Melbourne may be losing…

By ELENA BECATOROS and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Turkey’s president has told Greece’s prime minister that the…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s longest-governing political party has reclaimed the premiership it lost in…