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Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Police say Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has been arrested for his involvement…

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Four-year-old Hussein Mikdad survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in a Beirut suburb last month. His mother,…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary is still up in the air, but it’s a sure bet he…

Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — At the U.N. climate talks, U.S. Climate Adviser John Podesta said that Trump will likely pull America out…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday named former New York congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental…

NEW YORK (AP) — Toy giant Mattel says it “deeply” regrets an error on the packaging of its “Wicked” movie-themed dolls, which mistakenly…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel has begun a construction project along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the…

Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president has marked his country’s Independence Day with a call for sustained U.S.…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mauritius’ prime minister says his ruling coalition is set for a “huge defeat” following Sunday’s parliamentary…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Five men were found shot to death inside three homes in the same area of Wichita, Kansas, and police believe the shootings are…

Associated Press TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — Tuskegee University student Sid Guynn hid under a car when he heard the gunshots that ripped across his…

Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Afghanistan’s first delegation at United Nations climate talks since the Taliban’s return to power in…

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Authorities in Ivory Coast said Monday 21 people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a road accident. The…

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — A cruise ship rescued four people from a disabled catamaran that was taking on water hundreds of miles (kilometers) off…

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency is investigating complaints that engines can fail on as many as 1.4 million Honda…

Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican and Microsoft on Monday unveiled a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that uses artificial…

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Latin music has taken the world by storm. Across platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, numbers have skyrocketed,…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations,…

Associated Press RINGWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Fire crews battled small wildfires across the Northeast U.S. on Monday, including a blaze in New York and…

LONDON (AP) — A former British soldier who is facing spying charges has admitted escaping from a London prison by clinging to the underside of a…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic says he has spoken with Donald Trump, inviting him to visit the Balkan country while…

Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Two Canadian veterans who served with the U.N. peacekeepers in divided Cyprus have shared their…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian glide bombs, drones and a ballistic missile smashed into cities in southern and eastern Ukraine on…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of the Church of England, spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, is under pressure to resign…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court has sentenced a former top-flight soccer club executive to more than three and a half years in prison for…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a…

Associated Press N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Boko Haram insurgents killed 17 Chadian soldiers in a weekend attack on a military post that also…

Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — United Nations annual climate talks stuttered to a start Monday with more than nine hours of backroom…

Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — The top executive and two other employees of Australia’s gold mining company Resolute Mining have…

Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s railways has suspended all train services to and from a restive southwestern province where a…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is facing a second Donald Trump presidency, and few countries can match its experience as a target of…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan judge is poised to decide whether to uphold Donald Trump’s hush money verdict or dismiss it on…

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship, in the clearest sign yet…

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. researchers have concluded that China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor to power future…

Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate since 2000 to win the majority-Arab city of…

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Four-year-old Hussein Mikdad survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in a Beirut suburb last month. His mother,…

AP Science Writer BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — A complex international two-week-long game of climate change poker is convening. The stakes? Just the…

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There are few images more indelible in the history of American dance: Judith Jamison, regal and passionate in…