Harris confronts Democratic divisions over Gaza war in convention speech
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With anger over the war in Gaza simmering, Vice President Kamala Harris tried to defuse one of the most divisive…
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Two freelance journalists reportedly killed with guerrillas in army raid on home in southern Myanmar
Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Two freelance journalists in the strife-torn nation of Myanmar have been killed, one allegedly after being…
Continue Reading From Ferguson to Minneapolis, AP reporters recall flashpoints of the Black Lives Matter movement
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On May 28, 2020, Associated Press photographer Julio Cortez got a call asking him to head to Minneapolis from…
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Ukraine says it used US glide bombs in Russia’s Kursk region and has retaken some land in Kharkiv
Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military says it used high-precision glide bombs provided by the United States to carry out…
Continue Reading Germany plans $3.7 billion program to help decarbonize industry, including carbon storage
BERLIN (AP) — The German government has announced plans to provide about 3.3 billion euros ($3.7 billion) in funding for projects to make industry…
Continue Reading Judge declines to dismiss murder case against Karen Read after July mistrial
Associated Press DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts judge has ruled that Karen Read can be re-tried for murder and leaving the crime scene in the…
Continue Reading Biden promised to clean up heavily polluted communities. Here is how advocates say he did
Associated Press Just a week after taking office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order prioritizing environmental justice. He committed the…
Continue Reading Germany’s president approves the date for next year’s national election
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s next national election has been set for Sept. 28, 2025. Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he will run for a second term, but…
Continue Reading AP Source: Biden to dispatch adviser to China as he looks to sharpen policy focus in final months
Associated Press BUELLTON, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to dispatch his national security adviser Jake Sullivan to China as the White…
Continue Reading Arbitration hearing between Canadian railroads and union ends with no decision on back-to-work order
Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A workers union on Friday threatened a strike at one of Canada’s two major freight railroads, only hours after…
Continue Reading Norway proposes relaxing its abortion law to allow the procedure until 18th week of pregnancy
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s government says it wants to relax restrictions on abortion for the first time in nearly half a century to…
Continue Reading AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Oklahoma’s state primary runoff elections
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Republican Oklahoma state lawmakers will go before voters for the second time in about two months in…
Continue Reading New Zealand official says Western neglect of Pacific Islands let other nations boost their influence
Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Western nations, including the United States and New Zealand, failed to understand swiftly enough…
Continue Reading A seventh body is recovered from sunken superyacht off Sicily, believed to be Mike Lynch’s daughter
ROME (AP) — Italian rescuers on Friday brought ashore the last of seven bodies from a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily, the Coast Guard…
Continue Reading ‘It’s our time’: As Harris accepts the nomination, many women say a female president is long overdue
AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The kinetic energy powering Kamala Harris’ whirlwind presidential campaign carries the hopeful…
Continue Reading A woman plunges into an 8-meter-deep hole after pavement sinks in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities say a woman from India has plunged into an 8-meter (26-foot) -deep sinkhole in the center of…
Continue Reading As more floods batter Bangladesh and India, death toll rises to 30
Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Floods wreaked more havoc in India’s northeast and neighboring Bangladesh’s eastern region, raising…
Continue Reading The twins are here! A second set of giant panda cubs has been born in Berlin
Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Zoo announced Friday that longtime resident giant panda Meng Meng has given birth to twins — for a…
Continue Reading Searchers dig in muddy swamp near Bangkok where plane carrying 5 Chinese tourists, 4 Thais crashed
Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Searchers dug into the mud of a flooded mangrove swamp outside Bangkok for plane fragments and the remains of the…
Continue Reading Security is stepped up at a NATO air base in Germany due to a ‘potential threat’
BERLIN (AP) — NATO says security at an air base in western Germany has been raised because of intelligence information pointing to a “potential…
Continue Reading Powell at Jackson Hole: ‘The time has come’ for the Fed to soon begin reducing interest rates
AP Economics Writer JACKSON, Wyoming (AP) — With inflation nearly defeated and the job market cooling, the Federal Reserve is prepared to start…
Continue Reading Indian Prime Minister Modi offers to help ‘as a friend’ to bring peace to Ukraine
Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered “as a friend” to help bring peace to Ukraine in a meeting…
Continue Reading Team with Korean roots wins famous Japanese high school baseball tournament
AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — A team with ties to the ethnic Korean community for the first time has won Japan’s famous summer high school…
Continue Reading House fire in northern Serbia kills 6
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A house fire in a northern Serbian city has killed six people, including four children, police said. The fire erupted…
Continue Reading Death toll from bandit attack on police in Pakistan rises to 12
Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from Pakistan’s deadliest bandit attack on police has risen to 12 after one of the…
Continue Reading A baby evacuated from Gaza lost an eye and most of his family in the war
Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — When Mostafa Qadoura was a week old, an Israeli strike on his home in the Gaza Strip last October launched him and…
Continue Reading The ‘joyful’ Democratic convention is over. The real test for Kamala Harris’ campaign now begins
Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Over and over, from the massive stage in the electric convention hall, the Democrats this week predicted that…
Continue Reading Stock market today: Wall Street rallies after Fed’s chair says ‘time has come’ for cuts to rates
AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are climbing closer to their records Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve finally said out…
Continue Reading France’s Macron holds talks with key political players in a bid to form a new government
Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is holding talks with key political players in a bid to form a new government. The…
Continue Reading Kamala Harris’ racial and cultural firsts were onstage throughout the Democratic convention
Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — On the night she became the first woman of Black and South Asian heritage to be a major party’s nominee, Vice…
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