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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is poised to become the latest and most populous state to tighten restrictions on transgender athletes in public high…

CAMPTON, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a 4-year-old boy who fell off a 70-foot cliff at Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky suffered a few scratches and…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — A Czech official says health problems are preventing Czech President Milos Zeman from carrying out…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer COVID-19 booster shots are an extra dose of the original vaccine, and some experts wonder why they…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country star Luke Bryan is stepping into a new role as host of the CMA Awards this year. The “American Idol” judge will…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has ordered a halt to routine medical care at state clinics in order to devote more resources to coronavirus patients.…

The Ford Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, announced Monday that it will divest millions from fossil fuels,…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says Cuba Gooding Jr. will go on trial in February in his New York City groping case.…

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — An insurer is suing the operator of a coastal Georgia warehouse where 50,000 tons of biofuel wood pellets went up in smoke…

HELSINKI (AP) — Norwegian police say the Danish man suspected of killing five people and injuring three in an attack in the southern town of…

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Two men have been arrested and police are looking for others in the drive-by shooting that killed a 13-year-old Alabama boy…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A state governor in Nigeria’s troubled northwest region says that at least 30 people…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British Museum says it will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major…

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — One of the world’s last three countries to administer COVID-19 vaccines has started…

CAIRO (AP) — The trials of three Egyptian activists and a rights lawyer, who have been held in prison for over two years on a number of charges,…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say law enforcers backed by troops have killed four suspected Chinese drug dealers who opened fire at…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France says its ambassador to Belarus has been ordered out of the country. In a statement Monday,…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats on Monday became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A provincial minister says a roadside bomb exploded near a police bus parked outside a university in southwest Pakistan. It…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s president is criticizing the violent protests that have erupted against Italy’s new…