AP National News

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A rap battle at a local bar means good news for people in…

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press THORNTON, Colo. (AP) — A team comprised of mostly veterans is helping Afghan refugees settle in the United…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In an impassioned speech to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Ugandan activist Vanessa…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The contagious delta variant is driving up COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Mountain West and fueling…

By JUAN LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A 22-year-old college senior who was critically injured at the Astroworld festival in Houston has…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 1972, Big Bird lined up on `Sesame Street’ to receive a measles vaccine as…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Lawmakers in Slovakia have narrowly rejected proposed legislation that would have tightened access to abortion in the…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel faces growing calls to release five Palestinians who have been on hunger strike for weeks…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A group of European parliamentarians has urged the Serbian president and other government officials to stop glorifying…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial could ask the jury to consider less…

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II will attend a national service of remembrance for Britain’s war dead this weekend. The…

SCOTLAND, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been charged with murder and other counts for allegedly gunning down his ex-girlfriend, her father and…

By CLAUDIA TORRENS, PHILIP MARCELO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly six months ago, U.S. immigration courts established a…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The hunger-striking husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained for more than five…

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Liberty University is responding to a former spokesman’s lawsuit alleging he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. government is urging U.S. citizens to leave Haiti because of the country’s…

PARIS (AP) — A French man has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor to death in an antisemitic attack.…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two new medicines against the coronavirus for people at risk of…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Opposition campaign group Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation says freestyle skiing world champion Aliaksandra Ramanouskaya…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was 2015 when Congress last approved a major renewal of federal highway and other transportation…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government’s tax income over the next few years is expected to be considerably higher than previously forecast as…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The speaker of Sweden’s parliament tasked the leader of the Social Democratic Party  with trying to form a new…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The skeptics of Wall Street have gone missing. As the stock market surges to record after record,…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch public health institute has announced the highest daily tally of new COVID-19 cases since the pandemic…