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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Unveiling a new chapter in its illustrious history, Louis Vuitton made an indelible mark on Paris…
Continue Reading Daughter of California man on death row in Iran files criminal complaint against Tehran in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — The daughter of a California-based man sentenced to death in Iran has asked authorities in Germany to open criminal proceedings…
Continue Reading Israeli settlers storm into Palestinian town in West Bank as Israeli airstrike escalates crackdown
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press TURMUS AYYA, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank,…
Continue Reading UN expert urges a different approach to resolve the crisis in Myanmar
By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An independent expert working with the United Nations on the issue of human rights in…
Continue Reading Aaron Rodgers talks about taking ayahuasca at a psychedelics conference
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — An eclectic crowd of thousands — podcasters, vendors, startups, seekers —…
Continue Reading Russia says it downed 3 drones outside Moscow, suspects it was attack by Ukraine
By The Associated Press Russian authorities say two drones have crashed outside Moscow as they were approaching the warehouses of a local military…
Continue Reading Biden calling China’s leader a ‘dictator’ opens new rift just after Blinken’s tensions-easing trip
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s remarks calling Chinese leader Xi…
Continue Reading Stock market today: Asian shares mixed after Fed chair inflation comments
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Thursday following a retreat on Wall Street after the Federal…
Continue Reading Cooperation or competition? China’s security industry sees the US, not AI, as the bigger threat
By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s security and surveillance industry is now focused on shoring up its vulnerabilities to the…
Continue Reading Lawsuit: Insufficient prototype testing could put Titanic sub passengers in ‘extreme danger’
By GENE JOHNSON and ROBERT JABLON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Documents show the company whose submersible vanished in the North Atlantic on a…
Continue Reading UK borrowers brace for more expensive loans as inflation fails to fall as anticipated
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that consumer price inflation across the U.K. is unchanged at 8.7% in the year to…
Continue Reading The Biden-Modi relationship is built around mutual admiration of scrappy pasts and pragmatic needs
BY AAMER MADHANI and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have developed a…
Continue Reading Paris summit aims to shake up the financial system. It will test leaders’ resolve on climate
By FATIMA HUSSEIN and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Heads of state, finance leaders and activists are converging in Paris to seek…
Continue Reading Search area for lost Titanic-bound submersible deepens, doubles in size as oxygen dwindles
By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Rescuers on Wednesday rushed more ships and vessels to the area where a submersible disappeared…
Continue Reading Wisconsin Assembly passes sweeping bill to overhaul liquor law
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The laws governing Wisconsin’s multibillion-dollar liquor industry has passed the state…
Continue Reading In the West Bank, UNESCO site Battir could face a water shortage from a planned Israeli settlement
By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press BATTIR, West Bank (AP) — Generations of Palestinians have worked the terraced hillsides of this West Bank farming…
Continue Reading Allies pledge billions for Ukraine rebuilding and seek big-business investment at London conference
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Ukraine’s allies have pledged several billion dollars in non-military aid to rebuild the…
Continue Reading Gang slaughtered 46 women at Honduran prison with machetes, guns and flammable liquid, official says
By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Gang members in a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other women inmates…
Continue Reading Trump-Russia special counsel Durham at center of political clash as he appears before Congress
By NOMAAN MERCHANT, ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel who investigated the FBI’s probe of…
Continue Reading Modi flexes India’s cultural reach on Yoga Day with backbends and corpse poses on the UN lawn
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Praising yoga as “a way of life,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed…
Continue Reading Pride and pain for Biden as his son Hunter reaches a plea deal after 5 years of investigation
By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden had just six words to offer after his 53-year-old son Hunter pleaded guilty…
Continue Reading Once starved by war, millions of Ethiopians go hungry again as US, UN pause aid after massive theft
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An Orthodox Christian priest, Tesfa Kiros Meresfa begs door-to-door for…
Continue Reading ‘She just wants a friend’: Families push for full school days for children with disabilities
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — One Thursday morning in May, instead of sitting at a desk in her sixth…
Continue Reading Math scores plunge for 13-year-olds as pandemic setbacks persist
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Math and reading scores among America’s 13-year-olds fell to their lowest levels in…
Continue ReadingOnce wrongly imprisoned for notorious rape, member of ‘Central Park Five’ is running for office
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Outside a Harlem subway station, Yusef Salaam, a candidate for New York City Council,…
Continue Reading Fed’s Powell: More rate hikes are likely this year to fight still-high inflation
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation in the United States still too high, most Federal Reserve officials…
Continue Reading Parents take on struggle for trans rights for their kids and others in conservative Poland
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The parents stood by side-by-side wearing signs offering free hugs at Warsaw’s Pride…
Continue Reading Sudan conflict shows how peace could unravel in South Sudan if world doesn’t watch, UN envoy says
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for South Sudan is warning the Security Council not to take its eyes off…
Continue Reading Judge rules Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors violates US Constitution
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming…
Continue Reading Utah school district returns the Bible to shelves after appeals and outcry
By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Bible will return to the shelves in a northern Utah school district that provoked an outcry…
Continue Reading Foreign companies are shifting investment out of China as confidence wanes, business group says
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Foreign companies are shifting investments and their Asian headquarters out of China as…
Continue Reading What to know about Hunter Biden’s plea deal in federal tax and gun case
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The announcement that federal prosecutors have reached a plea deal with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter over tax…
Continue Reading Controversial Virginia state senators, including ‘pro-life’ Democrat, ousted in primary election
By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A handful of Virginia incumbents prevailed over challengers in Tuesday’s primary election,…
Continue Reading 4 pedestrians injured in apparent hit-and-run collision outside Chicago White Sox stadium
CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say an apparent hit-and-run collision has injured four pedestrians, and a related traffic incident injured four others.…
Continue Reading All hail the rising sun! Stonehenge welcomes 8,000 visitors for the summer solstice
By PAN PYLAS and KIN CHEUNG Associated Press STONEHENGE, England (AP) — All hail the rising sun. Around 8,000 revelers gathered around a…
Continue Reading Reform-minded prosecutors in northern Virginia win reelection nominations in Democratic primaries
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — Three incumbent prosecutors in northern Virginia who faced tough challenges after being…
Continue Reading Hawaii volcano stops erupting, putting an end to stunning lava show
HONOLULU (AP) — The nearly two-week eruption of a Hawaii volcano, one of the most active in the world, has come to a pause, scientists said. After…
Continue Reading Abortion rights groups drop suit challenging Kentucky’s ban but continue legal fight
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Abortion-rights groups have filed a motion to dismiss their lawsuit challenging…
Continue Reading Detroit-area officer charged with assault after video shows him punching man
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit police officer was charged with assault after video showed him punching a young man in the face and…
Continue Reading Idaho man charged with 4 counts of murder in shooting deaths of his neighbors, including one minor
KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary after prosecutors said he broke…
Continue Reading Trial begins for Virginia school administrator charged with perjury in probe of sex assault case
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A lawyer for a school system official accused of perjuring himself during a high-profile…
Continue Reading Georgia officials won’t take over elections in state’s largest county, debunk conspiracies
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s State Election Board won’t take over running elections in the state’s most populous…
Continue Reading Tornadoes clobber Mississippi. Hours later, its governor attends Republican fundraiser in Alabama
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves traveled to Alabama for a Republican fundraising event…
Continue Reading What it’s like to get a Wes Anderson education, from ‘Rushmore’ to ‘Asteroid City’
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Tony Revolori, then a 17-year-old with little Hollywood experience, was beginning to shoot Wes…
Continue Reading Ex-CNN producer sentenced to more than 19 years for luring 9-year-old into sex acts
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A former CNN television producer who had pleaded guilty to luring a 9-year-old girl into illegal sexual acts was sentenced…
Continue Reading Thousands take to the streets in Colombia to protest leftist government’s reforms
By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of people are marching in Colombia to voice their frustration with President…
Continue Reading Counter-terrorism experts say Africa is the world’s terrorism hot spot with half of 2022’s victims
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Counter-terrorism experts said Tuesday that Africa is now the world’s terrorism…
Continue Reading North Carolina legislature pushes limits on transgender youth rights in final days of session
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender rights are taking center stage in North Carolina as the…
Continue Reading Booze, drugs, a pet snake and foreign dealings: Families can cause headaches for a White House
By SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden whose plea deal on federal tax and gun charges…
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