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By GHAITH AL-SAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Activists say a Kurdish-led force attacked Turkish-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria on Monday, killing at least 13 of the militants. The opposition activists blamed the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces for carrying out the assault, though the U.S.-backed group did not claim responsibility. Turkey says Syria’s

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The crash site for a stealth fighter jet that went missing during the weekend after its pilot ejected was located Monday in rural South Carolina after the military asked the public for help finding an aircraft built to elude detection. The debris field was discovered in Williamsburg County, about 60

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Planned Parenthood resumed offering abortion services in Wisconsin on Monday after halting them for more than a year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Providers across the state stopped offering abortions following the June 2022 decision, fearing enforcement of an 1849

By KATHY McCORMACK and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — Marilyn Manson was sentenced to 20 hours of community service and a fine on Monday after pleading no contest to blowing his nose on a videographer at a 2019 concert in New Hampshire. The shock rocker, 54, wanted to appear via video for

By NICOLE WINFIELD, LORNE COOK and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Italian Cabinet has approved new measures to crack down on migration. That comes after the southern island of Lampedusa was again overwhelmed last week by a wave of arrivals from Tunisia, and the migration issue returned to center stage in Europe

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Hundreds of soccer fans have stormed into a hotel in Tehran, hoping for a glimpse of star player Cristiano Ronaldo, who arrived along with his Saudi teammates ahead of a game. Chanting “Ronaldo, Ronaldo,” the fans pushed past police on Monday, filling the corridors and public spaces of the Espians Palace

By MARCIO SANCHEZ and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — A man has been arrested in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was shot as he sat in a patrol car. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna says the 29-year-old suspect surrendered at a home in the city

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities say big ocean waves caused by a phenomenon known as “spring tide” crashed into coastal parts of the country over the weekend, leaving two people dead and injuring several. The South African Weather Service said Monday that two people died and at least seven were injured

By YOUSEF MARUD and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press DERNA, Libya (AP) — Officials are warning that a disease outbreak in Libya’s northeast, where floods have killed thousands, could create “a second devastating crisis” as adults and children fell ill from contaminated water. The United Nations Support Mission in Libya said Monday that there are nine

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Northern Virginia Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton says she won’t seek reelection next year after learning that she has a severe form of Parkinson’s disease. Wexton is a Democrat who announced in April that she had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s and that she planned to continue her

MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a former NFL player after his 73–year-old mother’s body was found near a creek behind her suburban Chicago home. Relatives told police Saturday that they could not find 35-year-old Sergio Brown, 35, or Myrtle Brown. Officers found Myrtle Brown’s body. She had been injured during an assault.

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Just playing is a small victory for Shakhtar Donetsk but the Ukrainian champions won’t stop there. Team captain Taras Stepanenko tells The Associated Press that Shakhtar’s opening Champions League game against Porto is part of his team’s duty to represent Ukraine and show his country’s

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s armed forces have declared three days of national mourning after five members of a military rescue team were killed in a road accident in flood-hit Libya. The bodies of the five — three military officials and two civilians — were flown back to a military base near Athens early on

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, claiming that two agents publicly alleging tax-probe interference wrongly shared his personal information, a case that comes amid escalating legal and political struggles as the 2024 election looms. The agents “targeted and sought to embarrass Mr. Biden” with

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say that war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace deal signed nearly a year ago to end a devastating conflict that also engulfed the country’s Tigray region. The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police say the trial of five Israelis accused of gang raping a British woman in a hotel room is scheduled to start next month, when they will enter pleas to charges including rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment and abduction. Defense lawyers objected to a prosecution request for the suspects to

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — State media report that a military drone has crashed during a test flight in northern Iran, wounding two people and damaging buildings. The official IRNA news agency says debris fell in different parts of the northern city of Gorgon on Monday. A semiofficial news agency released a video showing white smoke

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The same Ohio river valley where the Wright brothers pioneered human flight will soon manufacture cutting-edge electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. An agreement announced Monday between the state and Joby Aviation Inc. will bring air taxi production to a 140-acre site at Dayton International

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet When you purchase an immediate annuity, you’re paying a lump sum now in exchange for a stream of payments over a fixed period or for your lifetime. That money can round out your retirement cash flow plan, along with Social Security, retirement plan withdrawals, other investments and a pension if

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s prime minister has accused the European Union special envoy in the normalization talks with Serbia of not being “neutral and correct.” Prime Minister Albin Kurti says EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak coordinated with Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic in the EU-facilitated talks held last