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ATLANTA (AP) — A former executive for a longtime city of Atlanta vendor has pleaded guilty to paying bribes in exchange for millions of dollars in…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — The full extent of the damage from India’s sizzling heat that’s causing more deaths,…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s top prosecutor has described for U.S. lawmakers examples of war atrocities that he…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer In Ari Aster’s new film “ Beau is Afraid,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes…

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched his longshot bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday approved a ban on classroom instruction…

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Local leaders have approved plans for a massive Microsoft data center in a southeast Wisconsin village where the world’s…

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Investigators say two teenagers and a 20—year-old man have been arrested and…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Fox News’ nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine company’s defamation…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal watchdog is investigating whether the U.S. Drug Enforcement…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government is seeking to reassure homeowners that plans to phase out gas or oil heating systems will provide generous…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — The jukebox plays Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” as Malli Jarrett and Nathaniel Fornash…

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — An Argentine court says eight health care professionals will stand trial in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona in 2020.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In Belfast this week, leaders of the U.K., the EU and two U.S. presidents have urged Northern…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As autism diagnoses become increasingly common, health officials have wondered how many U.S. kids…

By BRIAN MELLEY and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A French publisher has called on British police to cease their investigation of an…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press A 9-year-old boy who died last year while in the care of Arizona’s child welfare agency was hospitalized twice…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has told Japanese officials the United States hopes to…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The gay prime minister of Luxembourg has used the dais of the European Union’s parliament to stand…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press MUSKO NAVAL BASE, Sweden (AP) — The age of the airman charged in one of the most significant…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press MUSKO NAVAL BASE, Sweden (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says it’s important that Turkey decides to…

By ADAM PEMBLE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s defense minister said Wednesday his country has received the U.S-made Patriot…

By PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP Associated Press BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) — A man confessed to killing four people, including his parents, and then…

By MARK SCOLFORO and PETER SMITH Associated Press YORK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania grand jury in recent months accused nine men with…

By MARK SCOLFORO and PETER SMITH Associated Press YORK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania grand jury in recent months accused nine men with…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has sailed its first drone boat through the strategic Strait of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An unemployed 24-year-old man who allegedly threw a pipe bomb at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The United Nations says India is on track to become the world’s most populous nation,…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A strong earthquake has shaken Papua New Guinea but no serious damage or casualties are expected. The U.S.…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds If a traditional two-door sports car isn’t practical enough for you, consider two hot hatch options, the Volkswagen Golf R…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. officials say Russian hackers are seeking to “disrupt or destroy” Britain’s critical…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A giant panda on long-term loan from China died in a zoo in northern Thailand on Wednesday,…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until…

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s rival generals have made a new attempt at a 24-hour cease-fire…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The presidents of Germany, Poland and Israel, joined by Holocaust survivors and their…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The price of food in the U.K. rose at the fastest pace in 45 years last month, keeping inflation…

BERLIN (AP) — German police have released an initial description of a suspect wanted in connection with a knife attack at a gym in the western city…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are mostly lower in Asia in narrow trading after they barely budged on Wall Street following a mixed…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and MEHDI EL AREM Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisians are on the front lines of a battle against an…

BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a fire at a Beijing hospital rose to 29, including 26 patients, authorities said Wednesday, and a dozen people…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader has ruled out the holding of popular referendums on state policies. Iran faced calls for…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up illegal gambling enforcement after one of the…

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — In many school shootings, the person who pulled the trigger — often a…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — As spring starts to blossom in New England, some Vermont communities come to life with the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police and marines in Mexico’s capital have arrested an alleged senior leader of the Mara Salvatrucha gang who is wanted in…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Black teen Ralph Yarl was shot twice, in the head and arm, after going to the wrong home in Kansas City, Missouri, to pick…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans for months have railed against the Biden administration’s handling of the…