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By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread across the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, at his first troop review, has renewed his pledge to…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say shots were fired near a food court at a shopping mall in Tacoma, Washington. Pierce County Sheriff’s Sgt.…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The widow of South Korea’s last military dictator has issued a brief apology over…

HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu city worker has died after being trapped in a tank at a sewage treatment plant. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched airstrikes targeting the country’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The president of the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances says there is an “almost total, structural” lack of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden is back at his rental home on the Massachusetts island of…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from saxophone legend Kenny G, a documentary about the 12 young…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim had to endure a public fuss when a…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. and JONATHAN DREW Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A police chief says three people were shot and wounded Friday during an…

NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) — Authorities say a man eating Thanksgiving dinner inside a home in the Philadelphia suburbs was killed by a stray…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization is postponing its conference set to open Tuesday after Switzerland…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Police and media reports say an unknown gunman has opened fire on a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has designated the armed groups blamed for hundreds of abductions and killings in…

BOSTON (AP) — One of the first coins minted in Colonial New England has sold at auction for more than $350,000, more than it was expected to get.…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Golf, cricket and rugby have become the first major sports to be affected by the…