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By GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press The issue of abortion will be before voters in at least four states this year, and possibly more. Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Elvis Presley’s estate is fighting what it says is a fraudulent scheme to auction off Graceland to the highest bidder. An auction had been scheduled for Thursday this week, but a Memphis judge blocked it after Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough sought a temporary restraining order and

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban have confirmed the resumption of Turkish Airlines flights to Kabul’s international airport. It comes nearly three years after the carrier’s services were suspended following the collapse of the Western-backed government. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation said the first Turkish Airlines flight landed Tuesday and was greeted by government officials.

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says thousands of victims of the U.K.’s infected blood scandal will start receiving their final compensation payments this year. The scandal is seen as the deadliest disaster in the history of Britain’s state-run National Health Service. Officials announced the plans a day after the publication

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — She’s the U.S. Open champion. The highest paid female athlete in the world. And a frustrated Floridian. American tennis player Coco Gauff has never been afraid to use her voice. Not when she delivered an impromptu speech at a Black Lives Matter rally at the age

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Spain says it is pulling its ambassador from Argentina in response to comments made by Argentine President Javier Milei, who accused the Spanish prime minister’s wife of corruption and described socialism as “cursed and carcinogenic.” Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares told reporters Tuesday that

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The European Union has reprimanded Kosovo over the unilateral closure of six branches of a Serbia-licensed bank. The EU said Tuesday that the move would negatively impact the life of the ethnic Serb minority living in northern Kosovo and damage Kosovo-Serbia normalization talks. Kosovo police closed the branches of the Postal

BEIJING (AP) — China has sanctioned Mike Gallagher, a former Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin who has shown support for Taiwan. Gallagher will be banned from entering China, any assets he holds in the country will be frozen and he will be barred from various exchanges with Chinese organizations and individuals, the country’s Foreign

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s communications minister has ordered the government to return camera equipment it seized from AP after blocking its live video of Gaza. The AP’s live video of Gaza was back up early Wednesday in Israel. Israeli officials accused the news organization earlier Tuesday of

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has made another big overture to China. It is reaffirming it poses no threat to Beijing’s sovereignty and admitting that Catholic Western missionaries made “errors” in past centuries. The Vatican on Tuesday hosted the head of China’s bishops conference for a high-level commemoration of a

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — A U.N. tribunal on maritime law has found that countries are legally required to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. It was a victory for small island nations that are on the front line of climate change. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea found in

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A London judge says Prince Harry can’t expand his privacy lawsuit against The Sun tabloid’s publisher to include allegations that Rupert Murdoch and some other executives were part of an effort to conceal and destroy evidence of unlawful information gathering. Judge Timothy Fancourt said Tuesday in the

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press The world’s top-selling pizza chain is betting big on the generosity of its customers. And they are not alone. Domino’s recently pledged $174 million over the next ten years to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, expecting the funds to come from its longstanding roundup campaign that invites customers to

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have reached an agreement to use the profits earned from frozen Russian assets to help arm Ukraine and rebuild the war-torn country. The 27-nation EU is holding around $225 billion in Russian central bank assets in retaliation for Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Most of it is frozen in Belgium.

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and ED WHITE Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Police broke up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Michigan before dawn Tuesday, citing a threat to public safety and coming less than a week after demonstrators stepped up pressure by placing fake body bags on the lawn of a school

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Sorry, the screen is now up — no more snapping cute photos of Mount Fuji from a popular sidewalk spot in the Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko. Known as a place that offers some of the best views of the iconic Japanese mountain, the town last month started

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court has ruled that new regulations that gave U.K. police more powers to intervene in protests were unlawful. Campaign group Liberty brought legal action against the British government over a law passed last year that lowered the threshold for what is considered “serious disruption” to community life caused by a

By JESSICA DONATI, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Congo’s army spokesman has released the name of the third American involved a foiled coup plot in Kinshasa. Brig. Gen. Sylvain Ekenge told The Associated Press the third American was Taylor Thomson, but his family identified him as Tyler Thompson. It wasn’t immediately clear whether

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s Parliament has voted unanimously to condemn political violence following an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico, who is recovering from multiple wounds from last week’s shooting. Hospital officials say Fico is no longer in life-threatening condition. All 130 lawmakers present in Parliament on Tuesday approved a resolution that calls

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Singapore Airlines says one of its flights hit severe turbulence over the Indian Ocean and descended 6,000 feet in about three minutes. Authorities say a British man died, possibly after a heart attack, and several people were severely injured. The flight from London to Singapore was diverted