AP National News

By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ, KATHY GANNON AND JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan protesters have defied the Taliban for…

By ANNABELLE LIANG Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Asian stock markets are mostly lower as worries surrounding the spread of the delta variant…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press ALISTRATI, Greece (AP) — Persephone is not your ordinary robot. Billed as the world’s first robot used as a…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — When the Taliban swept over Afghanistan, Russia was ready for the rapid developments after…

By ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — On Aug. 19, 1991, a group of top Communist Party hard-liners declared they had removed…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is disputing a Human Rights Watch investigation into disappearances of government critics and others as built…

The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — More than two dozen Hungarian nationals evacuated from Kabul have arrived in Frankfurt, Germany, and…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Gulf Coast is glowing like a bad sunburn on maps that show COVID-19 trouble spots…

HONG KONG (AP) — Two Hong Kongers have reportedly pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces as well as Next Digital founder Jimmy…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president. The backhanded…

By GARANCE BURKE, MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams, a 65-year-old grandfather…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Independent ethnic organizations that have been providing health care in Myanmar…

By ROBERT BURNS, MATTHEW LEE, and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are struggling to speed the pace of…

By ROBERT BURNS, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden says that even with the Taliban in power in…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The warnings were clear: The Afghan government would likely fall once U.S.…

By MARK STEVENSON and EVENS SANON Associated Press LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s entrenched poverty, insecurity and lack of basic…

By GARANCE BURKE, MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press Michael Williams, a 65-year-old grandfather from Chicago, sat…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Grace has struck Mexico’s Caribbean coast just south of the ancient Mayan…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic-led congressional committees are vowing to press President Joe Biden’s…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Several groups are working to get COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, but the efforts are falling…

By GARANCE BURKE, MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to…

By MATTHEW LEE and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his national security team say the Trump administration…

By ETHAN SWOPE and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Dry and windy weather is dogging firefighters’ efforts to contain…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nearly three years later, former Nissan executive Greg Kelly is still wondering why the questions…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Deputy Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob appears to have won majority support…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility plans to switch out 1,200 of its vehicles for…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is urging more than 150 countries planning to send their leader or a…