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By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s third biggest political party, led by former president Jacob Zuma, has filed legal papers seeking to halt the first sitting of Parliament scheduled for Friday to elect the country’s president. The party says it is boycotting the sitting and has alleged irregularities in the election.

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The king and queen of the Netherlands are taking a day of their U.S. trip to visit Savannah, Georgia — a city that is both a historic gem and a growing powerhouse in global trade. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima arrived Tuesday morning at Savannah City

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A school district in eastern Tennessee has agreed to implement changes after a federal investigation found several incidents of race-based harassment. The Department of Justice announced the settlement Monday after initially alerting the school district in 2023 that it would launch an investigation because school officials

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Democratic lawmakers are fast-tracking a bill aiming to crack down on resellers of stolen goods. The proposal would require marketplaces like eBay and NextDoor to start collecting bank accounts and tax identification numbers from high-volume sellers who advertise online but collect payments offline. Supporters say

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say its military has been emptying villages on the outskirts of the capital of the western state of Rakhine as part of an evident effort to defend against expected attacks by a powerful rebel group that has captured most of the surrounding area. The

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A defense contractor is being sued over allegations that it discriminated against older workers in job ads. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boston accuses RTX Corp. of posting ads that target younger workers at the expense of their older peers. RTX, formerly Raytheon Technologies, is an

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to testify before Congress on July 12, a day after former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money trial. A spokesperson for Bragg’s office confirmed that he will appear before the House Select Subcommittee on

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The far right racked up wins across much of Europe in the EU Parliamentary elections that just concluded. Former President Donald Trump is trying to ride the same populist wave to return to the White House in November. But while the movements are propelled by similar forces, it’s far from

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain. The corporate jet disappeared shortly after departing the Burlington airport for Providence, Rhode Island, on Jan. 27, 1971. Those aboard

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the pro-slavery views of ornithologist and illustrator John James Audubon. The name change follows similar moves by Audubon Society chapters in Chicago, Seattle and other cities. The

By JULIA FRANKEL and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The resignation of a senior member of Israel’s war Cabinet was a dramatic show of distrust in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his strategy for the eight-month-old war with Hamas. But the Sunday departure of the centrist Benny Gantz does not immediately appear to

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is under investigation by a court-appointed watchdog who has been working to stamp out corruption at the union in wake of its stunning bribery and embezzlement scandal several years ago. The monitor, Neil Barofsky, disclosed that he was investigating

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has ordered a lawyer for rapper Young Thug to spend the next 10 weekends in jail after finding him in contempt. Defense attorney Brian Steel represents the rapper, who is currently on trial in Atlanta on charges including violation of Georgia’s anti-racketeering and gang laws. Fulton County Superior Court

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio say officers shot and killed a man who they say charged at them with a knife after they first tried to stop him with a Taser. Police in Columbus received multiple calls Monday night about a man in the middle of the street running at vehicles with a

Associated Press TIARET, Algeria (AP) — Violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households. Protestors in Tiaret wearing balaclavas set tires aflame and set up make-shift barricades to block roads in protest

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. plans to add several new features to Apple Pay and Apple Wallet later this year that will more deeply integrate financing, rewards, and buy now, pay later options into the iPhone when consumers shop on their phones. The biggest change for consumers will

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is on his way to South Korea in his sixth overseas trip as governor. The Republican left late Monday for a roughly 10-day trip to the Asian nation. Kemp also went there in 2019 in his first overseas trip. State officials say Kemp is focusing on visiting with

LONDON (AP) — Animal rights activists pasted a cartoon image over a portrait of King Charles III at a London art gallery in the latest in a series of incidents at U.K. museums as campaigners use vandalism to publicize their causes. A group called Animal Rising shared a video of campaigners pasting a picture of

PARIS (AP) — The Palace of Versailles has been briefly evacuated after plumes of smoke were spotted amid construction work near the Marble Court, an area of the original château built in 1623 by French King Louis XIII. The palace press office told The Associated Press there was no fire, but smoke was emanating from

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek tourist island. Greece’s Culture Ministry said that the structure is a “unique and extremely interesting find” from Crete’s Minoan civilization, famous

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Christian McCaffrey grew up playing the Madden NFL video game with his brother, dreaming of being a player in the league one day. Getting on the cover of the famed video game was never even a consideration. Electronic Arts Inc. announced Tuesday that the San Francisco 49ers star

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL’s dedication to expanding flag football starts at the top. Commissioner Roger Goodell has been fully invested in growing the non-contact version of the most popular sport in the United States. Flag football introduces more people, including folks around the world, to the NFL so it’s a

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Smart,

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A new poll finds that people around the globe have greater confidence in President Joe Biden to do the right thing compared to his challenger in this year’s U.S. elections, former President Donald Trump. The Pew poll of 34 countries found a median of 43% across the 34 countries trust

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer USA Basketball said experience was a major reason Caitlin Clark was not on the U.S. women’s Olympic roster that was officially revealed Tuesday. The selection committee didn’t believe the talented Clark had enough of high-level reps to be a member of the group headed to the Paris Games. The

By JIM SALTER Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his former lover and her husband in what prosecutors called a fit of rage has been executed in Missouri. An official says 69-year-old David Hosier was pronounced dead Tuesday evening following a lethal injection at the state prison in Bonne

By PETER SMITH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from its ranks. Messengers, as voting representatives are known, voted 6,759 to 563 to oust First

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful Japanese business lobby is calling on the government to quickly revise its civil law to allow married couples an option to keep dual surnames, saying the lack of freedom to do so hinders women’s advancement and has even become a business risk. Keidanren, or The

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is backing away from a weekend report that a ship may have struck something in Lake Superior before it began taking on water. Authorities now say the ship likely had a stress fracture in its hull. The ship is called the Michipicoten. It was carrying