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Associated Press JAMMU, India (AP) — The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of Jammu in a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JAMMU, India (AP) — The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of Jammu in a…
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed California’s budget to close an estimated $46.8 billion deficit through $16 billion in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — About 15,000 people have attended the annual EuroPride parade, police say, most of them in support of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Jill Biden was right at her husband’s side Saturday as they exited Air Force One to head for a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) — Aaron Favila has been working for The Associated Press in the Philippines for 26 years, covering…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sports leagues have 4.8 billion reasons to review how they distribute out-of-market broadcasts after the…
Continue ReadingLA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The Bolivian general accused of leading a failed coup has been sent to a maximum-security prison as he faces charges of…
Continue ReadingSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — More than 200 firefighters were battling a wildfire northeast of Phoenix on Saturday that threatened scores of homes and…
Continue ReadingUPLAND, Calif. (AP) — Four people were killed after a six-minute pursuit by law enforcement ended in a two-vehicle crash in Southern California.…
Continue ReadingAP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — There is a real shift happening at the top of tennis, a youth movement that long seemed inevitable but…
Continue ReadingFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A northern Arizona man has been sentenced to prison for the rest of his life on convictions including first-degree murder…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four Missouri prison guards have been charged with murder, and a fifth with accessory to involuntary…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The summer doldrums have set in across much of the United States, with heat advisories being issued…
Continue ReadingPANAMA CITY (AP) — A judge has acquitted 28 people accused of money laundering in an international case known as the Panama Papers. Among those…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Video released late Saturday shows an officer in upstate New York fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who had been…
Continue ReadingREADING, Pa. (AP) — The former president of a Philadelphia labor union has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in what federal…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The United Nations says workers have begun moving tons of humanitarian aid that had been piled up at a United…
Continue ReadingWELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) — Animal rescuers were trying to keep dozens of dolphins away from shallow waters around Cape Cod on Saturday after 125 of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S., European and Arab mediators are pressing to keep stepped-up cross-border attacks between Israel and…
Continue ReadingSHARPSBURG, Ga. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials in Georgia say a man killed three people at a home near Atlanta before fatally shooting himself.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Polls have closed in the presidential election in Mauritania. Incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RED BANK, N.J. (AP) — President Joe Biden looked to recapture his mojo and reassured donors at a Saturday fundraiser that he is…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A former lab manager at Northeastern University has been convicted of staging a hoax explosion at the Boston campus and then lying…
Continue ReadingAn 8-year-old child in Charlotte died after police say she was left in a hot car while her mother was at work. Police say the mother found her…
Continue ReadingAP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump skimmed over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In an increasingly divisive political sphere, Becka Robbins focuses on what she knows best — books.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Long Island man has been arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated after authorities say he crashed his…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The sound you might have heard after the presidential debate this past week was of voters falling between a rock…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.N. cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s massive Pantanal wetlands haven’t technically entered annual fire season but already the number…
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