BILLINGS, Mont. -- A former Park Service ranger said Friday that U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy of Montana has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan —…
MEXICO CITY -- Assailants fired a dozen gunshots at a building housing the newspaper El Debate in the embattled northern Mexico state of Sinaloa, the media outlet said Friday.The newspaper is based in the state…
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A California man was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for abusing foster children he had assigned to care for in his home, including some who had been previously tortured by…
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to expand the arms embargo in Haiti to all types of weapons and ammunition, expressing grave concern at the extremely high levels of gang violence…
WASHINGTON -- A group of Republican lawmakers is demanding a federal investigation into the U.S. consulting firm McKinsey over its work with the Chinese government and state-owned enterprises, even as the company reportedly is revamping…
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A federal judge had some pointed questions but did not immediately rule Friday on a request that Pennsylvania election officials take new steps to verify the identification and eligibility of soldiers and…
BEIRUT -- Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the longest, deadliest and most destructive war in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was killed by Israeli forces in…
PHOENIX -- Phoenix wrapped up its annual six-month warm season this week after the Southwest broiled through an unprecedented autumn heat wave that saw daily highs in the United States' hottest city topping 110 degrees…
BEIRUT -- The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli forces in Gaza this week leaves the Palestinian militant group considering new leadership for the second time in less than three months.Will Hamas now…
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge on Friday delayed an order requiring Google to open up its Android app store to more competition until an appeals court decides whether to block the shake-up because of…
NEW YORK -- A yearslong investigation of New York City's $4 billion homeless shelter system found widespread mismanagement, self-dealing and nepotism.The review of dozens of nonprofit organizations that contract with the city to provide shelter…
RALEIGH, N.C. -- More North Carolina residents turned out to cast ballots on the first day of early voting this year than in 2020, even as residents from the mountainous western portion of the state…
NEW YORK -- Judges seeking appointments to the federal bench. Wealthy Republicans hoping for ambassadorships. Criminals who wanted pardons. They were among the big spenders at Donald Trump ’s Washington, D.C., hotel while he was…
ROME -- A court in Italy on Friday ruled against the right-wing government’s move to detain 12 migrants at newly opened centers in Albania, highlighting a key hurdle in the administration’s plan to outsource some…
A law enforcement investigation report on a deadly shooting at a small-town Iowa high school in January reveals new details of the shooting, including that the teenage shooter attempted to livestream his actions.The town of…
PRAGUE -- The Czech capital has approved a ban on organized nighttime pub crawls, which have caused misery for residents and authorities alike.The popular outings of tourist groups moving from bar to bar in Prague’s…
GENEVA -- Forces in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon are maintaining their positions despite warnings from Israeli Defense Forces to move away, a spokesman for the U.N. force said Friday.Andrea Tenenti of…
LONDON -- Who are you?That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about the cursed king Oedipus two and a half millennia ago.Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Norwegian authorities said Friday they have dropped the case against a real estate tycoon who had been suspected of murder or complicity to murder in connection with his wife’s disappearance almost six…
IDLIB, Syria -- A U.N. official said Thursday that he is “alarmed” by escalating violence in Syria’s opposition-held northwest in recent days, including airstrikes that hit near a food distribution site for displaced families and…
NAIROBI, Kenya -- He may be the president of a small, landlocked state in central Africa, but Paul Kagame has always had outsize dreams.In recent months, Rwanda’s president has embarked on perhaps the biggest of…
BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- At Sunshine Adult Day Center, every morning starts with a parade around the room.Today, the theme is multicultural, and the flag bearers have no shortage of countries: Philippines, India, Haiti, Mexico, United…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Friday it is entering a new phase in its fight against invading Israeli troops, as the region continued to reckon with Israel's claim that top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has…
WASHINGTON -- Global finance leaders face a major uncertainty as they meet in Washington next week: Who will win the U.S. presidential election and shape the policies of the world’s biggest economy?Republican nominee former President…
BANGKOK -- A group of nearly three dozen rights groups called on Thailand's prime minister Friday to release a Vietnamese activist who has been ordered extradited home to face imprisonment on terrorism charges, saying he…
WASHINGTON -- It’s a trend that has surprised many: Why, despite being squeezed by high prices, have Americans kept spending at retail stores and restaurants at a robust pace?One key reason is a relatively simple…
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya’s Senate voted Thursday to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an impeachment trial on corruption and other allegations, hours after the deputy president was taken to the hospital with…
BANGKOK -- Asian shares have mostly gained after China’s central bank released plans for supporting the stock market through share repurchases by companies and major shareholders.Beijing also reported that the Chinese economy slowed further in…
LAS VEGAS -- Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown painted each other as extremists, but fireworks were few during their only face-to-face debate in a presidential battleground state where the…
BERLIN -- Even in Germany, it's hard for President Joe Biden to escape the topic of Donald Trump.The U.S. president meets Friday with European allies for closed-door conversations about Russia's war in Ukraine and the…
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A group of Oklahoma parents of public school students, teachers and ministers filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the state's top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into…
This year has seen President Vladimir Putin repeatedly brandish the nuclear sword, reminding everyone that Russia has the world’s largest atomic arsenal to try to deter the West from ramping up support for Ukraine.He ordered…
A Virginia elections official who faced criminal charges, later dropped, over a botched vote count in the 2020 presidential election sued the state attorney general Thursday, alleging malicious prosecution.Michele White says in the lawsuit, filed…
Israel says the top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza. Foreign Minister Katz called Sinwar’s killing a “military and moral achievement for the Israeli army.” Sinwar…
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- A mother convicted of abandoning her newborn son in the woods in subfreezing temperatures was given a suspended sentence Thursday, provided she continues to maintain contact with mental health providers.Alexandra Eckersley, 27,…
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reminded his troops to treat South Korea as a hostile foreign enemy and insisted that the North wouldn’t hesitate to attack its rival if the…
FOLSOM, Pa. -- FOLSOM, Pa. (AP) — Elon Musk held his first solo event in support of Donald Trump for president on Thursday, encouraging voters in the Philadelphia suburbs to register to cast their ballots…
MELBOURNE, Australia -- MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive in Sydney for the first Australian visit by a reigning monarch in more than a decade, a trip that has rekindled…
NEW DELHI -- India's government on Thursday denied it was working with mobsters to target Sikh separatists in Canada as alleged publicly this week by Canadian officials in an escalating diplomatic dispute. But Canada is…
BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho prison officials will attempt to execute the state’s longest-serving death row inmate next month using new protocols after botching the first attempt several months ago.A judge issued a death warrant for…
Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia's Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow's war in Ukraine. Posts on YouTube,…
LOS ANGELES -- The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades.The settlement with 1,353 people who allege that they were abused…
With three weeks left in the presidential campaign, Democrat Kamala Harris is spending most of her days trying to shore up support in the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as she tries…
SAN FRANCISCO -- Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads, according to a report published Thursday by the nonprofit…
ATLANTA -- A Georgia grand jury has indicted both a father and son in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder.WAGA-TV, among other media, reported that the Barrow County grand jury meeting in…
LONDON -- An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified several cases where patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness,…
OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Afghan man who is accused of plotting an Election Day attack in the U.S. was ordered Thursday to remain in custody as officials disclosed that he had previously worked as a…
BEIRUT -- Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight.In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old…
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent panel investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally says the Secret Services needs fundamental reform" and that “another Butler can and will happen…
BOSTON -- Prosecutors have called on the state's highest court to allow them to retry Karen Read for murder in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, arguing against defense claims that jurors had…
WASHINGTON -- Americans stepped up their purchases at retailers last month as low unemployment, steady pay gains and rising stock and home values helped sustain their willingness to spend despite higher prices. Retail sales rose…
MOSCOW -- Russia's lower house of parliament on Thursday gave quick initial approval to a bill outlawing “propaganda” that discourages people from having children, the latest in a slew of restrictive laws as the Kremlin…
With just 21 days to go before the final votes are cast in the 2024 presidential season, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are scrambling to win over and turn out Black voters, women and other…
CHICAGO -- CHICAGO (AP) — Donald Trump has had a tough time finding a consistent message to questions about abortion and reproductive rights.The former president has constantly shifted his stances or offered vague, contradictory and…
WASHINGTON -- The federal judge overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump directed prosecutors Wednesday to search for and provide to the former president's lawyers any Justice Department information related to a separate investigation…
BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders are using a summit Thursday to seek ways to make the bloc a more hostile destination for migrants and asylum seekers following a recent surge in support for the extreme…
BANGKOK -- Shares mostly advanced in Asia on Thursday after U.S. stocks rose following better-than-expected profit reports from Morgan Stanley, United Airlines and other big companies. Chinese markets fell back after officials in Beijing announced…
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Early in-person voting was set to begin statewide Thursday in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where thousands of potential voters still lack power and clean running water…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- U.S. long-range B-2 stealth bombers launched airstrikes early Thursday morning targeting underground bunkers used by Yemen's Houthi rebels, officials said. It wasn't immediately clear what damage was done in the…
NEW YORK -- Billie Jean King started the Women’s Sports Foundation with a $5,000 check.She’s turned that investment into $100 million and a half century of helping girls and women achieve their dreams through travel…
ATLANTA -- For Georgians unhappy about rising property tax bills, lawmakers say they have a solution — a limit on how much of a home's increasing value can be taxed.With early balloting underway, voters are…
FREDERICK, Md. -- In an election where the future of reproductive rights is on the ballot in Maryland and elsewhere across the country, the state’s all-male congressional delegation stands to gain an influx of women.…
LA RIOJA, Argentina -- They look like cash, fit into wallets like cash and the governor promises they’ll be treated like cash.But these brightly colored banknotes aren’t pesos, the depreciating national currency of Argentina, or…
UNITED NATIONS -- The top U.N. humanitarian official accused Israel on Wednesday of blocking the delivery of desperately needed aid to Gaza, and the U.S. ambassador demanded that its government step up efforts to tackle…
BRUSSELS -- NATO showed no sign Wednesday it would invite Ukraine to join anytime soon as allies sought more information from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about his “victory plan” for ending the war with Russia.The…
LOS ANGELES -- Oil company Phillips 66 announced Wednesday that it plans to shut down a Los Angeles-area refinery by the end of 2025, citing market concerns.The refinery accounts for about 8% of California's refining…
ATHENS, Greece -- At least one man has died and two were missing after a wooden boat carrying 100 migrants sank south of the small southern Greek island of Gavdos on Wednesday, Greece’s coast guard…
ATLANTA -- A Georgia judge has declared that seven new election rules recently passed by the State Election Board are “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox issued the order Wednesday after…
MEXICO CITY -- A U.S. indictment unsealed Wednesday in the District of Columbia claims that the leader of one of Mexico’s most violent gangs continued to run an offshoot group, the Northeast Cartel, from inside…
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' campaign is dismissing accusations that she and a co-author plagiarized parts of a 2009 book on the U.S. criminal justice system as a desperate attempt by “rightwing operatives”…
LAS VEGAS -- A Nevada man who was arrested over the weekend with guns at a security checkpoint outside a Donald Trump rally in the southern California desert has filed a lawsuit accusing the sheriff…
WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's president on Wednesday condemned the government’s contentious plan to suspend the right to asylum for irregular migrants, calling it a “fatal mistake.”President Andrzej Duda, whose approval is needed for the plan…
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe says it will compensate local and foreign white farmers who lost land and property more than 20 years ago in farm seizures meant to redress some of…
NEW YORK -- An outspoken pro-Israel professor at Columbia University has been temporarily barred from campus, a university spokesperson said Wednesday.Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at the Manhattan university's business school, had his campus access…
Time capsules are fickle, and the opening of one entombed a century ago inside one of the nation's preeminent World War I memorials was no exception. The first challenge was just getting to the time…
TORONTO -- TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday that Canada's national police force went public with its allegations against Indian diplomats this week because it had to disrupt violent acts in Canada…
MINNEAPOLIS -- A Minnesota school district has banned a police officer from working as a substitute teacher after a series of “racially harmful” actions that officials say included putting a student on the ground for…
WASHINGTON -- The federal government has approved nearly $2 billion in assistance across six states to help people hit hard by hurricanes Helene and Milton, the White House said Wednesday. The federal government has been…
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has partially revealed his five-point plan aimed at prompting Russia to end the war through negotiations. A key element would be a formal invitation into NATO, which Western…
WASHINGTON -- Washington's newest power couple, Bao Li and Qing Bao, are settling into their new home at the National Zoo. The giant pandas will remain off-limits through early next year, when the zoo will…
ABUJA, Nigeria -- More than 140 people, including children, were killed in Nigeria when an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel, emergency services said Wednesday. Dozens more…
