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By JONATHAN J. COOPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republicans are responding to Hunter Biden’s conviction on federal gun…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a helicopter has crashed in southeastern Jiangxi province and three people on board are missing. The crash…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The three-story building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO, GISELA SALOMON and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A fleet of Russian warships reached Cuban waters on…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland is at risk of becoming the third attorney general in U.S. history to be held…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bestselling author V.E. Schwab has a 7-figure book deal. Tor Books announced Wednesday that it has agreed to terms on a two-book,…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is celebrating what it considers a liberation day, marking the…

By PETER SMITH and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have launched new deadly attacks on Ukraine, killing at least nine people a…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it has urged Russia to return Indian citizens recruited by Russia’s army after two were killed recently in the war in…

By JEROME PUGMIRE and CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writers BERLIN (AP) — A recent surge in violence around soccer games is contributing to concerns over…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Russian woman has been detained and questioned in Denmark for allegedly helping a foreign intelligence agency to…

LONDON (AP) — The British economy failed to grow in April in a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made the return of growth a central…

BERLIN (AP) — German energy company Uniper says a tribunal has awarded it more than 13 billion euros (nearly $14 billion) in damages for gas that…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s government says the Alpine country’s next parliamentary election will be held on Sept. 29.  The government, which is…

By GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The Malawi government says that Vice President Saulos Chilima will be honored with a…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has moved to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing’s subsidies…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lawmakers in the Polish parliament have observed a minute of silence to honor a young…

By LEA SKENE and BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities anticipate that commercial shipping traffic through the Port of…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Athens announced the closure of the Acropolis for five hours on Wednesday due to heat wave temperatures that…

By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron defended his decision to call snap parlimentary…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The military’s hundreds of V-22 Ospreys will not be permitted to fly their full range of…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary has agreed not to veto NATO support for Ukraine. But Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar, once a thriving emerging economy, is struggling to regain momentum as the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At least 40 Indians died after a fire swept through a building that housed foreign workers in Kuwait. Officials…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special judge’s court in Bangladesh has indicted Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13…

By BASSEM MROUE and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that mediators would keep…

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Six years ago, Ilkay Gündogan’s place on the German national team was in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Thursday, as investors turned their attention to what the Bank of Japan…