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By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers Americans at high risk from COVID-19 because of severely weakened immune systems are now…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) —  The Canadian government will soon require all air travelers and passengers on interprovincial…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools says it will require all its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they qualify for a…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE AND MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Republicans have long viewed Kevin Faulconer as…

The U.S. Department of Treasury says the second monthly child tax credit payment has begun to be disbursed. More than $15 billion will be paid out to…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has reported a new daily record for COVID-19 fatalities. The Russian government’s…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ environment minister says the disappearance of rural communities in…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Durham, the federal prosecutor tapped to investigate the origins of the Russia…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is refusing landlords’ request to put the Biden administration’s new…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — As electoral officials in Zambia counted ballots a day after tense voting, President Edgar…

RUTLEDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say a 29-year-old Tennessee man who rode on a school bus and walked into a high school with students has been…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A right-wing Danish lawmaker who was considered a rising star within the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party has…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church says 25 people charged this week in connection with the…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Midnight on Sunday is the deadline for consumers to take advantage of a special…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a Wisconsin woman accidentally shot a friend while using the laser sight on a handgun to play with a cat. A…

By The Associated Press The Latest developments on Afghanistan, where a weeklong Taliban blitz has taken large swaths of territory just weeks ahead…

BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand’s capital have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to stop hundreds of protesters who were attempting to march to…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing a fresh hurdle to passing President Joe Biden’s…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Marian Anderson broke barriers throughout her career, from her 1939 Easter Sunday performance on…

BERLIN (AP) — No job is too small for Hamburg police. Officers in the German city found themselves having to perform CPR on a Chihuahua last week.…

By MARK GILLISPIE and TOM KRISHER Associated Press CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is viewed, along with…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Intense heat baking Italy is creeping northward towards the popular tourist destination of…

BERLIN (AP) — Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk says he hopes to start producing cars at its new factory outside Berlin in October. The…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Confirmation that the Taliban captured the capital of Afghanistan’s Helmand province has…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A young man who killed five people and then took his own life in Britain’s first mass shooting in…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have expanded a state of emergency in northeast Siberia to bring in…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Lekulutu Nsima says he’s a “lucky man” after receiving his first…