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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is offering “audacious” economic assistance…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has renewed Japan’s no-war pledge at a somber ceremony marking the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Five years ago, the Whanganui River was recognized as a living person in a…

By SAM METZ and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Seven Western U.S. states face a deadline from the federal government to…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and NUHA DOLBY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are less concerned now about how climate change might impact them…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Vermont farmer Brian Kemp is used to seeing the pastures at Mountain Meadows Farm…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Elections in Wyoming and Alaska on Tuesday could relaunch the political career of a former…

By MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Jury selection in R. Kelly’s federal trial on charges that he rigged his 2008…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — They hail from their states’ most prominent Republican families. They have been among…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Public school teachers across Venezuela had planned to use their annual vacation…

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court has begun hearing a final appeal by former Prime Minister Najib Razak to toss out his graft…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s central bank has trimmed a key interest rate to shore up sagging economic growth at a…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian man has been charged with three weapons offenses after he allegedly used a handgun inside the Canberra…

GURNEE, Ill. (AP) — Three people were injured in a shooting outside a Chicago-area amusement park’s entrance that sent visitors scrambling…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career…

By JOHNSON LAI Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has announced more military drills around Taiwan as the self-governing island’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of a leading grant program for women’s artists will be honored by the MacDowell artists’ retreat this fall.…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its economy grew at an annual rate of 2.2% in the last quarter as consumer…