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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s information minister says the government soon will lift the country’s…

By JOCELYN GECKER and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California will become the first state in the nation to require all…

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Georgia prosecutors have charged 14 people with recruiting poor children from Atlanta to sell…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer Asian shares are mixed as caution set in among investors following another wobbly day of trading on Wall Street.…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is pledging to set a better tone in…

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’n prosecutors have opened a criminal probe into an oil spill off the country’s Black…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Fred has weakened to a tropical depression while sweeping over the…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has agreed to provide 30 billion euros ($35 billion) to help rebuild regions hit by devastating floods last…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated…

GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow after destroying more than 1,000 buildings,…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Postal Service’s aging fleet of trucks is soldiering on even as a contract for greener…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The death toll in fires ravaging mountain forests and villages in Algeria’s Berber region climbed on Wednesday to 65,…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Almost 120 years ago, African American domestic workers settled in the Como neighborhood of…

By LINDSEY TANNER and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all pregnant women to get vaccinated…

By TARIK EL BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister has opened a two-day visit to Morocco to seal ties with the…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government says it will deliver nearly 837,000 Pfizer vaccines to Caribbean…

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A small historically Black college in South Carolina is offering all full-time students free tuition for the upcoming…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Italy is baking in sweltering temperatures that continue to drive deadly wildfires. while…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new host has been chosen for the long-running “Jeopardy!” to fill the void left…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The only child of Alfred Hitchcock has died. Pat Hitchcock, who made a memorable appearance in…