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By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — An heir to a fortune built on Ecuador’s main crop of bananas has pulled off an upset by advancing to the country’s presidential runoff election. Daniel Noboa will face leftist Luisa González, an ally of a convicted former president who remains an influential figure in

By MARK J. TERRILL, JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Tropical Storm Hilary has drenched Southern California, swept people into swollen rivers, toppled trees onto homes and flooded roads. Crews worked to clear away the debris Monday. The National Hurricane Center said only vestiges of a weakened system was

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalans overwhelmingly picked an independent progressive to be the country’s next president but his opponent remained silent Monday, leaving open the possibility of a challenge to landslide results that resoundingly rejected the country’s elite. With 100% of votes counted, anti-corruption crusader Bernardo

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s king has congratulated the country’s new lawmakers and urged them to promote economic growth and equality. It was his traditional speech on the opening day of the new National Assembly after elections. The Cambodian People’s Party won a landslide in the elections last month

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — As a wealthy dentist convicted of killing his wife at the end of an African safari listened in court, her brother vowed on Monday to move her remains to a place that Larry Rudolph would never discover. Shortly before a judge sentenced Rudolph to life in prison

By JOHN FLESHER and ED WHITE Associated Press BELLAIRE, Mich. (AP) — The final trial of suspects in a bizarre plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor is underway. Eric Molitor and brothers William Null and Michael Null are charged with providing material support for terrorist acts in the scheme against Democrat Gretchen Whitmer. They are among

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, JULIE WATSON and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Foreign workers once benefitted from jobs that were plentiful in Lahaina before fires whipped by hurricane-force winds leveled the Hawaiian town earlier this month. Immigrants from all over the world had been lured to the town on Maui for its

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal indictment and one in Georgia charging Donald Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn President Joe Biden’s win have done nothing to slow the geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former president and his supporters. Just two days after

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press Francis Ndege isn’t sure if his customers in Africa’s largest slum can afford to keep buying rice from him. Prices for rice grown in Kenya soared a while ago because of higher fertilizer prices and a yearslong drought in the Horn of Africa that has reduced production.

By REBECCA SANTANA and GISELA SALOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Valerie Laveus remembers when she first heard about an immigration program designed to allow people to come to the U.S. from four countries, including her native Haiti. “I said, ‘Whoa! This seems like it would work well for bringing my nephew and my brother

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When Republican candidates for president gather for their first debate Wednesday in Milwaukee, the spotlight will not only be on them but also on Wisconsin’s role as one of a shrinking handful of genuine battleground states. Republicans chose Milwaukee for the first debate and for the

By JON GAMBRELL and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Border guards in Saudi Arabia have fired machine guns and launched mortars at Ethiopians trying to cross into the kingdom from Yemen, likely killing hundreds of the unarmed migrants in recent years, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four Mexican citizens died in a climbing accident on the Pico de Orizaba, which is the highest mountain the country, authorities said Sunday. The civil defense office in the central state of Puebla said all four deaths appeared to have been caused by a fall on the volanic mountain, which is

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Monday as traders looked ahead to the Federal Reserve’s summer conference for signs of whether the U.S. central bank thinks inflation is under control or more interest rate hikes are needed to cool inflation. Shanghai and Hong Kong retreated while Tokyo and Seoul

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean media say leader Kim Jong Un observed the test-firing of strategic cruise missiles as the U.S. and South Korean militaries kicked off major annual drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal. The North’s report on missile tests came three days after

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has confirmed that he will be skipping Wednesday’s first Republican presidential primary debate — and likely others as well. Trump wrote Sunday on his social media site that the public knows him and “what a successful presidency” he had, so he “will

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri respiratory therapist who pleaded guilty in the deaths of two hospital patients has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Jennifer Hall was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder but pleaded guilty in April to reduced first-degree involuntary manslaughter counts in the deaths of 75-year-old

SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities say three people are dead and six others wounded after a shooting at a hookah lounge in south Seattle. City police didn’t immediately release any information about a possible suspect or suspects in Sunday’s early morning shooting. Police say officers responded to the scene around 4:30 a.m. after receiving multiple 911

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — North Carolina junior tight end John Copenhaver gets a group text message from his university pointing out the latest betting scandal or reminding him of the importance of not violating rules against betting on sports. “It’s being put in our heads every single day,” he

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Olga Carmona, whose goal won the Women’s World Cup for Spain on Sunday, learned after the final of her father’s death, the Spanish soccer federation said. He had been ill and died while Carmona’s mother and other relatives traveled to Australia to watch her play in