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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a Wisconsin woman accidentally shot a friend while using the laser sight on a handgun to play with a cat. A…

By The Associated Press The Latest developments on Afghanistan, where a weeklong Taliban blitz has taken large swaths of territory just weeks ahead…

BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand’s capital have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to stop hundreds of protesters who were attempting to march to…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing a fresh hurdle to passing President Joe Biden’s…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Marian Anderson broke barriers throughout her career, from her 1939 Easter Sunday performance on…

BERLIN (AP) — No job is too small for Hamburg police. Officers in the German city found themselves having to perform CPR on a Chihuahua last week.…

By MARK GILLISPIE and TOM KRISHER Associated Press CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is viewed, along with…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Intense heat baking Italy is creeping northward towards the popular tourist destination of…

BERLIN (AP) — Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk says he hopes to start producing cars at its new factory outside Berlin in October. The…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Confirmation that the Taliban captured the capital of Afghanistan’s Helmand province has…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A young man who killed five people and then took his own life in Britain’s first mass shooting in…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have expanded a state of emergency in northeast Siberia to bring in…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Lekulutu Nsima says he’s a “lucky man” after receiving his first…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has acknowledged he may have lost…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s official news agency APS says a prosecutor has ordered an investigation into the circumstances of the mob…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States says it’s sending a special envoy to Ethiopia as the fast-moving…

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet The threat of COVID-19 still looms, but Americans are getting back out there and once again spending on travel, dining…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has refused to renew a visa for a BBC journalist in Moscow — an effective expulsion amid simmering tensions between the two…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A new fire that broke out Friday morning on Greece’s second largest island of Evia was…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense minister has visited a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Carnival cruise on which 27 people tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week is…

By ASHRAF SWEILAM Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian officials say that a roadside bomb has exploded in the restive northern part of…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea Clinton has a full schedule of books coming in 2022. The daughter of former President…

By ROBERT BURNS and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The last-minute decision to send 3,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan to help…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say a second person has died following an explosion on a city bus about 280 miles south of Moscow. They said Friday…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Friday commemorated 60 years since the day East German authorities started building the Berlin Wall, where at least 140…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Police say a Malaysian air force officer went on a shooting rampage Friday, killing three colleagues before turning…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian media report that a town in the west of the country is planning to remove a memorial to three soldiers who were members of…