Heard seeks to throw out verdict in Depp defamation trial
By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard’s lawyers have asked a judge to throw out the $10.35 million…
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Chlorine gas leak in Iraq’s south injures at least 300
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a chlorine gas leak at a water purification plant in southern Iraq injured at…
Continue ReadingIn rural West, more worries about access to abortion clinics
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In the central Oregon city of Bend, the sole Planned Parenthood clinic…
Continue ReadingJoey Chestnut is chomp champ again in July 4 hot dog contest
By JENNIFER PELTZ and JULIA NIKHINSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Frankfurter-munching phenom Joey “Jaws” Chestnut put a protester in a…
Continue ReadingTensions persist as Rwanda denies Congo rebel charges
By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused Congo of supporting rebels opposed to his…
Continue ReadingGermany records 1st export deficit in over 30 years
BERLIN (AP) — New figures show that Germany recorded its first monthly trade deficit since 1991 in May because of higher import prices. The Federal…
Continue ReadingCardinal Hummes, close friend of Pope Francis, dies at 87
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the Brazilian Catholic cardinal who inspired Pope Francis to pick…
Continue ReadingActivists with Peng Shuai T-shirts searched at Wimbledon
By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Four activists wearing “Where is Peng Shuai?” T-shirts were stopped by security…
Continue ReadingMexican army patrol attacked after detaining suspects
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican army patrol was surrounded and attacked in the town of Altar. The town has long been known as a staging ground for…
Continue ReadingAdd rent to the rising costs bedeviling small businesses
By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The rent has come due for America’s small businesses and at a very inopportune time. Landlords…
Continue ReadingOusters, upsets halfway through 2022 primary election season
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than halfway through a tumultuous primary season, voters have rendered verdicts in a…
Continue ReadingUS: Israeli fire likely killed reporter; no final conclusion
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MATTHEW LEE and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Monday the bullet that killed veteran Al…
Continue ReadingFrench president reshuffles Cabinet after election losses
By BARBARA SURK and MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has reshuffled his Cabinet in an attempt to…
Continue ReadingImmigration detention facility near empty in California
By AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A sprawling, privately run detention center in the wind-swept California desert town of Adelanto…
Continue ReadingGerman leader gathers employers, unions to tackle inflation
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has gathered top employer and labor union representatives at his Berlin office to seek ways of…
Continue ReadingMyanmar hosts 1st regional meeting since army takeover
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has hosted its first high-level regional meeting since the army took power last year, with Chinese…
Continue ReadingLebanese PM criticizes Hezbollah over drone provocation
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has criticized the militant group Hezbollah for sending…
Continue ReadingPope denies resignation rumors, hopes to visit Kyiv, Moscow
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has dismissed rumors he plans to resign anytime soon and says that he hopes to visit Moscow and Kyiv after travelling to…
Continue ReadingVirginia law stops early inmate releases, angering families
By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A last-minute amendment to Virginia’s budget has blocked the planned…
Continue ReadingGermany: 101-year-old appeals conviction in Nazi guard case
BERLIN (AP) — A German court says that a 101-year-old man who was convicted last week as an accessory to murder for serving as a guard at a Nazi…
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