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SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia is suffering unusually high temperatures for June. Authorities have urged people to stay indoors when possible and avoid heavy labor in the hottest hours of the day. The heat exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in several parts of the small, landlocked Balkan country Thursday. Authorities have

By PATRICK WHITTLE and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Former U.S. Marine Gerry Brooks died alone at a nursing home in Maine, abandoned and all but forgotten. Then the funeral home posted a notice asking if anyone would serve as a pallbearer or simply attend his burial. Within minutes, it was turning

By BASSEM MROUE and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese government officials are working to maintain friendly relations with Cyprus a day after the militant Hezbollah group threatened to attack the Mediterranean island if it allows Israel to use its territories to attack Lebanon. Lebanon’s state news agency said the country’s foreign minister

MORRILTON, Ark. (AP) — An Alabama man wanted in connection with homicides in Oklahoma and Alabama has been apprehended in Arkansas. Arkansas State Police say 50-year-old Stacy Lee Drake was taken into custody Thursday around 10 a.m. in a wooded area in Morrilton, Arkansas. He was being held in the Conway County Detention Center. Arkansas

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Crew members on the cargo ship Dali can head home under an agreement that allows lawyers to question them amid ongoing investigations into the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Judge James K. Bredar confirmed with attorneys at a hearing Thursday morning

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is putting employees on leave after they were involved in an incident in which several Black passengers were removed from a flight earlier this year. Airline CEO Robert Isom is calling the incident unacceptable, saying that it contradicts American Airlines’ values. Three of the

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Home loan borrowing costs eased again this week as the average rate on a 30-year mortgage declined to its lowest level since early April. The rate fell to 6.87% from 6.95% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Mark Rutte has gotten to know a thing or two about finding consensus among fractious coalition partners over the course of more than a dozen years at the top of Dutch politics. Now he’s on track to bring the experience of leading four Dutch multiparty

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of mostly young people have demonstrated Kenya’s capital and across the country against new tax proposals in the government’s annual budget legislation. The protests brought Nairobi’s central business district to a standstill as horse-riding riot police threw tear-gas cannisters and opened water cannons on demonstrators

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian opposition leader and New Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has been granted bail by a court in the capital after he was arrested in a bribery case in March. The development was reported Thursday by news website Live Law. Kejriwal is the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party or Common

By NICK PERRY, HOLLY RAMER and ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press SQUAM LAKE, N.H. (AP) — As New England baked in a heat wave Thursday, guests at one campground were keeping their food and beer cold with blocks of ice harvested months earlier from a frozen lake. And while some relief is expected in the

NEW YORK (AP) — Some 580,000 glass coffee mugs are being recalled across the U.S. after dozens of burn and laceration injuries were reported by consumers. According to a Thursday notice from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the now-recalled JoyJolt-branded Declan Single Wall Glass Coffee Mugs can crack or break when filled with hot

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence’s foundation is launching a $10 million campaign to preserve the Trump-era tax cuts. Parts of the 2017 tax bill that became law when Donald Trump was president expire after 2025. Pence’s Advancing American Freedom group is pressing conservatives not to stray

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to qualify for next week’s debate in Atlanta, according to host network CNN, falling shy of benchmarks both for state ballot qualification and necessary polling. The missed markers mean that the June 27 showdown will be solely

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and public intoxication after officers say they found him at the city’s marina shouting obscenities at people on a yacht and disobeyed their order to leave. Officers went to the marina shortly before 1 a.m.

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a California woman who said she didn’t know about a stash of methamphetamine hidden inside her car. The 6-3 majority opinion issued Thursday sided with the Justice Department in allowing expert testimony about a defendant’s possible mindset. In dissent,

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss museum has pulled down five paintings, including a van Gogh and a Monet, after the foundation that owns them called for a deeper look at their origins following new U.S. guidelines on how to handle artworks once confiscated by the Nazis. The Foundation E.G. Bührle

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests, declining their invitation to weigh in on a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left in place a provision of a 2017

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — NATO member Romania’s top defense body says the country will donate a Patriot missile system to neighboring Ukraine to help Kyiv in its war against Russia as Moscow’s forces continue to bombard civilian areas and energy infrastructure. President Klaus Iohannis chaired the Supreme Council of National

By FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s health ministry has tallied at least 125 heat-related deaths this year. More than 2,300 more have suffered heat stroke, dehydration and sunburns. The heat has hit the elderly, laborers and migrants hard, underscoring the disproportionate effects climate change and rising global temperatures