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By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer When she prescribes the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy, Dr. Angela Fitch sends patients on a quest she likens to “The Hunger Games.” They will have to call drugstores over several days to find one with the properly sized first dose. Then they’ll do that again for their second dose,

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a fierce government critic to six months in prison over charges that stemmed from an online spat with a former minister. Hisham Kassem is a leading official with a coalition of mostly liberal parties called the Free Current. He was convicted of slander, defamation and verbally assaulting

LONDON (AP) — London police have arrested a 25-year-old man after he allegedly climbed over a wall and entered the royal stables at Buckingham Palace. The Metropolitan Police says the man was detained at 1:25 a.m Saturday for trespassing on a protected site. He was taken to a police station, where he remained by late

MUNICH (AP) — The beer is flowing and millions of people descending on the Bavarian capital to celebrate the official opening of Oktoberfest. With the traditional cry of “O’zapft is” — “It’s tapped” — Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg at noon on Saturday, officially opening the 18-day festivities. Revelers decked

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of South Korean school teachers are calling for tighter legal protections from bullying by parents, a rising problem in a country known for its brutally competitive school environments. The weekend demonstrations in the capital, Seoul, which have gone on for weeks, were triggered by

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An Afghanistan-based nonprofit says it is working with the U.N. to free 18 of its staff, including a foreigner, from Taliban detention. Conditions have become tougher for nonprofit organizations working in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover two years ago, with more reports of interference and restrictions on jobs for Afghan women. On

By SAMY MAGDY and YOUSEF MOURAD Associated Press DERNA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities have opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city as rescue teams searched for bodies on Saturday, nearly a week after the deluge killed more than 11,000 people. It’s unclear how

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Newly discovered correspondence in the Vatican archives suggests that Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland. The documentation, being published in Italian daily Corriere della Sera this weekend,

By ROBERT F. BUKATY and DAVID SHARP Associated Press BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Atlantic storm Lee pummeled a large swath of New England and Maritime Canada with destructive winds, rough surf and torrential rains that toppled trees, flooded roadways and cut power to tens of thousands on Saturday. One person was killed in Maine

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A war monitoring group says that dozens of Syrians who fled war at home are among the thousands killed and missing in the deadly flooding in Libya. They are people from all walks of life who had left their war-torn country and moved to the Libyan city

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s election is just a month away and candidates hoping to break through the pack tried to set themselves apart during a televised debate. The event on Friday hosted by Nexstar Media Group and airing on multiple Louisiana news stations is meant to help voters

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of President Joe Biden ‘s top goals — fighting climate change and expanding the middle class by supporting unions — are colliding in the key battleground state of Michigan as the United Auto Workers go on strike against the country’s biggest car companies. The strike involves

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months since a single senator froze military promotions over the Pentagon’s abortion policy, the uniformed officers affected have been largely silent, wary of stepping into a political fray. But as the ramifications of Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s freeze have grown, more of them are

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — With just weeks left before his scheduled execution, Oklahoma death row inmate Anthony Sanchez took the unusual step of firing his attorneys and skipping a clemency hearing that many viewed as the last chance to spare his life. Sanchez’s decision, and his relationship with an activist

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — For many in Florida’s vast immigrant community, daily life in recent months has become one governed entirely by fear. Some try to drive as little as possible and make fewer trips to the supermarket. Others no longer take their children to the park and worry about allowing

By PAUL J. WEBER and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was fully acquitted Saturday of corruption charges in a historic impeachment trial, a resounding verdict that reaffirms the power of the GOP’s hard right and puts an indicted incumbent who remains under FBI investigation back

By JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press When a small city abruptly parked all its buses to launch a publicly subsidized van service offering $1.50 trips anywhere in town, only one of its bus drivers — a big-city transplant — went along for the ride. Milton Barnes used to oversee packed subway stations in Washington, D.C., a

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Once upon a time, the moderates, the mavericks and the underdogs in presidential politics had a chance to break through in New Hampshire. Former Sen. John McCain, an independent-minded Republican, resurrected his anemic campaign with a victory in the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary in