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Associated Press Tens of thousands of Brazilians gathered at Rio de Janeiro’s mega-festival Rock in Rio on Friday, with many staking out spots of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Tens of thousands of Brazilians gathered at Rio de Janeiro’s mega-festival Rock in Rio on Friday, with many staking out spots of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Netherlands (AP) — At first, working in the oil and gas industry was great, Jordi Zonneveld recalls. Near his…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Donald Trump has long pledged to deport millions of people, but he’s bringing more specifics to his current…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, made her first public appearance Sunday since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writers The Federal Reserve gave home shoppers what they hoped for this week: a big rate cut and a signal of more cuts to come. Even so,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Vice President Kamala Harris is a Baptist who was influenced by religious traditions in her mother’s home country of India. Former…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican activists in swing states say they have seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — This should be a time of celebration for Britain’s Labour Party. It’s opening its annual conference Sunday…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Officials in Italy say a two-story building has collapsed in the southern province of Naples, killing two young siblings and their…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — New Russian strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have hit high-rise apartment buildings. Officials say…
Continue ReadingBEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah has launched over 100 rockets into northern Israel in response to ramped-up Israeli attacks that…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A search is underway for the shooters who killed four people and injured 17 others in a popular nightlife…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to increase protections for the Alpine country’s cherished plant and…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Extremist attacks in the Sahel have been increasing. Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako, the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MUNICH (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers marked the opening day of the 189th Oktoberfest. The celebration began Saturday and…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have won an election in the eastern German state of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel, with some landing near the city of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others. The disaster…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities searched the homes of New York City’s newly named interim police commissioner and seized…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s not a great moment in world affairs right now. The world is fragmented. Conflicts and crises are…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MAYOS, Cameroon (AP) — Indigenous people have lived in harmony with the forests of central Africa for hundreds of years. But the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sidewalks once teeming with tents, tarps and people passed out next to heaps of trash have largely…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — On an island of windswept tundra in the Bering Sea, hundreds of miles from mainland Alaska, a resident…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The trial in the slaying of rapper Young Dolph is set to begin in Memphis, Tennessee. Proceedings are…
Continue ReadingAP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli troops have raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the…
Continue ReadingAP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Breanna Stewart lost her father-in-law, Josep Xargay, to cancer nearly a year ago. Stewart is now helping…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Former Washington state Gov. and U.S. Sen. Dan Evans has died. The popular Republican was 98. He served as governor…
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