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By LAUREN WEBER and ANNA MARIA BARRY-JESTER KHN (Kaiser Health News) A review of hundreds of pieces of legislation across the United States shows…

By DANICA KIRKA and PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. posted the biggest jump in annual inflation on record last month as global…

LONDON (AP) — A British woman who ran away from home at age 15 to join the Islamic State group in Syria has asked for forgiveness and appealed to…

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press QUESHAN, China (AP) — China has emphasized its role in United Nations peacekeeping operations with its…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press SASTIN, Slovakia (AP) — Pope Francis has urged Slovakians look out for the neediest among…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The economic ravages of COVID-19 are forcing some families in Zimbabwe to abandon the…

PARIS (AP) — Emergency workers have rescued or evacuated hundreds of people in southern France as flash flooding abruptly turned roads and fields…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police say a fugitive walked into a Sydney police station to give himself up…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — One of China’s biggest real estate developers is struggling to avoid defaulting on billions of…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is committing 200 million more vaccine doses to Africa and low-income nations to…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A defiant Republican Larry Elder conceded his fight to become California’s next…

By OLEG CETINIC and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Health care workers in France face suspension from their jobs if they…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new scientific report that looks at what each nation is doing to fight climate change finds nearly every…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks are mostly lower in Asia after the region’s two biggest economies released data that were weaker…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — One of Russia’s most ardent feminists is running for a seat in the State Duma with the goal…

HONG KONG (AP) — Nine Hong Kong activists and ex-lawmakers have been handed jail sentences of up to 10 months over their roles in last year’s…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Associated Press has declared that Gov. Gavin Newsom had survived a recall effort, with…

By AMY DiPIERRO and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) — As a new semester begins amid a resurgence of the coronavirus, 26 of the…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The chief of the U.N. refugee agency says the international community and the Taliban…

By REBECCA SANTANA and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bands of heavy rain have been pummeling parts of the Alabama Gulf Coast and…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A rarely seen Tennessee Williams short story confirms his longtime passion for Italy and…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortion providers in Texas say they have seen a sharp drop in patients in the two weeks…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State police say a prominent South Carolina lawyer tried to arrange his own death this…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ably fended off Republicans’ recall attempt. He did so by changing the…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have begun the serious work of trying to implement President Joe Biden’s…

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer is defending his phone calls to his Chinese…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban are arriving in the U.S., and a handful…