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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court has agreed to hear a challenge to a police officer using his…

By JACK JEFFERY and IMAD ISSEID Associated Press SILAT Al-DHAHR, West Bank (AP) — Tareq Zubeidi says he was abducted and beaten by a group of…

By STACEY PLAISANCE and JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is showing signs of making a comeback nearly two weeks after…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, JULIE WATSON, BERNARD CONDON and PADMANANDA RAMA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. veterans, lawmakers and others say…

By MEAD GRUVER and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — When a 20-year-old Wyoming soldier was among the last U.S. casualties in…

By TOM KRISHER and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press The new federal vaccine requirement for large companies has raised concerns over whether it will…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and PAUL WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Hoping to prevent another school year from being upended by the pandemic, President Joe Biden visited a…

By AAMER MADHANI and JOE McDONALD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke with China’s Xi Jinping on Thursday amid growing…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has gone from waging war on the virus to a war on the unvaccinated. The…

By AMY TAXIN and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Unified School District has ordered all students ages 12 and…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations development agency says Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Where the party girls at? On Thursday night, some were on top of the Empire State Building…

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer MULLINS, S.C. (AP) — About 130 Black morticians have died of COVID-19 across the United States. The deaths are…

By IGNACIO MARTÍNEZ DE JESÚS Associated Press CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Olaf has slipped back to tropical storm force after…

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer MULLINS, S.C. (AP) — About 130 Black morticians have died of COVID-19 across the United States. The deaths are…

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By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada’s Conservative party says he is personally “pro choice” and voters can…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are unanimously moving to allow the return of prime beachfront…

NEW YORK (AP) — The drugmaker Endo International is the latest company to settle a New York case over opioids. The Dublin-based company will pay…

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base went into lockdown for several hours while security officials…

HONG KONG (AP) — The group that organized annual Tiananmen candlelight vigils and three of its leaders have been charged with subversion under Hong…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Colorado trucker who nearly killed a Black man by slashing his neck in an unprovoked attack at an eastern Oregon truck stop…

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Petersen and Jorja Fox are reuniting to solve crimes in “CSI: Vegas.” The CBS series…

By ARON RANEN and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The weather was not exactly cooperating, but Moschino had the antidote for a gray…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-winning producer Elizabeth Ireland McCann has died. McCann helped mount an…