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By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Memphis guard Ja Morant has been suspended 25 games by the NBA — his second ban in four months — and…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Devout baseball fans might view their teams’ performance as heavenly or hellish, depending on the quality of…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer The global soccer players’ union says is working with FIFA to make sure that payments promised to all players…

By HARUNA UMAR Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Local authorities in northeast Nigeria say Islamic extremist rebels have killed at least…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO has launched a new center to help protect vulnerable undersea pipelines and cables. The…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The top official in former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party has…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The production company founded by Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, is splitting ways with Spotify less than…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s nothing that can keep Christian Cooper from enjoying his “happy place,”…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in southern Germany are appealing for photos and videos taken by witnesses of an attack near Neuschwanstein castle in which an…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — There is now one fewer place to access abortion in Utah after Planned Parenthood closed its only…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has rejected as “far-fetched and unprofessional” a report by a U.S. security firm that blamed…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The smell of pineapple bread fills the kitchen of “Vida Libre,”…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The smell of pineapple bread fills the kitchen of “Vida Libre,”…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund has praised the European Central Bank’s…

BERLIN (AP) — An Austrian court says it has ruled in favor of Ukrainian businessman Dymitro Firtash in a years-long legal saga over a U.S. bid to…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry has condemned a resolution passed by the European Parliament concerning…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have quite a bit in common as two populist iconoclasts in hot…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is poised to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in…

By KAVISH HARJAI Associated Press The federal effort to expand internet access to every U.S. home has taken a major step forward with the…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU says new harmful illicit drugs are inundating a flourishing market for traffickers amid…

BERLIN (AP) — A large mass of rock slid down a mountainside above a Swiss village that was evacuated last month, stopping just short of the…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard is defending its actions in responding to a…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — UNICEF says Sudan’s warring factions should better protect vulnerable children in the conflict…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to a group of African leaders to ask his…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Survivors and local authorities in Nigeria say most of the 108 people who drowned after a…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police say Indian soldiers have killed five suspected militants in a gunfight along the highly militarized de-facto frontier…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The head of Finland’s conservative National Coalition Party says four parties have…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Russia accused Australia of “Russophobic hysteria” for canceling the lease on the…

By AJIT SOLANKI, SIBI ARASU and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press MANDVI, India (AP) — Cyclone Biporjoy is weakening as it churns past coastal India…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer John Simon III was a hungry baby, a “chunky” toddler and a chubby little boy, his mother said. But by age 14,…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday was discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — When fighting in Sudan erupted in mid-April, Abdel-Rahman Sayyed and his family tried to hold…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — While ripping out yellow blooms blanketing hillsides in Los Angeles, Max Kingery has been…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and GARY FIELDS Associated Press As Donald Trump became the first former president to face federal charges, he and his…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Abortion will remain legal in Iowa after the state’s high…

By WILL WEISSERT and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden opened his 2020 presidential run at a Pittsburgh union hall,…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States deployed a nuclear-powered submarine capable of…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — An American woman accused of helping to kill her mother and stuffing her body in a suitcase…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reassigned its chief medical officer after the in-custody death of an 8-year-old girl…

By JIM SALTER and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday issued a withering critique of Minneapolis…