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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Beto O’Rourke has raised nearly $32 million in his bid for Texas governor during…

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. (AP) — An intoxicated pilot was arrested after landing a small aircraft early Friday on Interstate 70 southeast of Kansas City,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Officials from Japan’s top police agency began their probe into security lapses blamed for former…

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Officials in a West Virginia county plan to appeal a federal judge’s ruling in favor of three major U.S. drug…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British authorities issued their first ever “red” warning for extreme heat early next week,…

BERLIN (AP) — Dock workers at Germany’s North Sea ports are on strike in the latest of several walkouts that have added to pressures on shipping…

LONDON (AP) — A British aid worker detained by pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine is reported to have died in captivity. A separatist official and a…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, the Kremlin is expanding its information war…

A Russian court has sentenced a top opposition figure to four years in prison, the latest move in the Kremlin’s crackdown on opposition activists,…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Seven protesters from Hong Kong are being sentenced to up to 10 months of jail. The Hong Kongers were…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers picked up their spending from May to June,…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has reshuffled his top officials, naming a new head of the…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Togo’s military says that its forces patrolling against extremist rebels mistakenly killed…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An amusement park in northwestern Denmark said Friday it would scrap a roller coaster for good after a 14-year-old girl…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Iran’s ambassador to Sweden has met with a Swedish Foreign Ministry official to protest the sentencing of an Iranian citizen…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Julianne Moore has been selected to serve as president of the main competition jury for the Venice International Film…

By AAMER MADHANI, AYA BATRAWY, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Joe Biden met Friday with…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is entering five days of political and financial uncertainty after the 5-Star Movement…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man who died last month at the hands of police in…

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia’s far east on Friday handed a rare acquittal to a feminist artist who was charged with disseminating…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s defense minister says the country’s defense capabilities will not be seriously affected by Moscow’s…

By RAF CASERT and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has intensified its legal standoff with Hungary by…