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By ANGELA CHARLTON and MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Police said Friday they found no weapons on a man detained at the Iranian consulate in Paris after responding to a report of a suspicious man possibly carrying a grenade and explosives vest. A Paris police official told The Associated Press that officers were

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has designated two forever chemicals used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances. Friday’s action is intended to ensure quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds and require those responsible for contamination to pay for its removal. Designation as a hazardous substance

Israel’s long-term credit rating is being downgraded by S&P, which cited the risk of military escalation with Iran. It is the second major U.S. credit ratings agency to do so. There was an apparent drone attack at a major air base and a nuclear site near the central city of Isfahan early Friday, which is

NEW YORK (AP) — Opening statements in Donald Trump’s hush money case are set to begin next week after a jury of 12 people and six alternates was seated Friday. The seating of the jury sets the stage for weeks of testimony in a case charging Trump with falsifying business records to suppress stories about

By CHINEU ASADU and JOHN MINCHILLO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate has played chess nonstop for 60 hours. Tunde Onakoya was attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon. Onakoya started the attempt Wednesday in New York City’s Times Square and aims

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Olympic organizers have unveiled their plans to use artificial intelligence in sports, joining the global rush to capitalize on the rapidly advancing technology. The International Olympic Committee outlined its agenda for taking advantage of AI. Officials said it could be used to help identify promising athletes,

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The American envoy to the United Nations has called for countries armed with atomic weapons to pursue nuclear disarmament as she visited the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki, Japan. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who became the first U.S. cabinet member to visit Nagasaki, stressed the importance of dialogue and

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will go before voters next week in Pennsylvania’s presidential primaries. It’s a prelude to the November general election, when the commonwealth is expected to again play a critical role in the race for the White House. The Democratic and

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon can get weapons moving to Ukraine quickly once Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That’s because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe. Those sites already hold some of the munitions and air defense components that

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press CAPRI, Italy (AP) — The United States told the Group of Seven foreign ministers that it received “last minute” information from Israel about a drone action in Iran, Italy’s foreign minister said. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who chaired the meeting of ministers of industrialized countries, said the United States

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The head of the European Union’s executive branch says that Finland’s decision to close its border crossings with Russia over a surge in migrants was a security matter for the whole 27-member bloc to consider. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the remarks during a trip to the frontier

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Firefighters in Copenhagen stabilizing the burned-out husk of Copenhagen’s historic Old Stock Exchange tried to use giant shears on a crane Friday to cut away dangling scaffolding, but suffered a setback when the implement fell into the debris. A large blaze broke out at the

By BECKY BOHRER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. oil industry’s top lobbying group says Biden administration rules restricting oil and gas leasing in 13 million acres of Alaska’s petroleum reserve are “misguided.” The American Petroleum Institute says the rules limit development in a region “intended by Congress to bolster

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression. The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration. The new provisions are part of a revised Title IX regulation issued by the Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge

By GRACEY WAKARY and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — More than 2,100 people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island were evacuated Friday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami. Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation recorded

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government says it will slow down a plan to admit more students to the country’s medical schools from next year, in a bid to end a weeks-long strike by thousands of doctors. More than 90% of the country’s 13,000 medical interns and residents

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s air force is claiming it shot down a Russian strategic bomber. But Moscow officials say the plane crashed Friday in a sparsely populated area due to a malfunction after a combat mission. Neither claim could be independently verified. Meanwhile, officials say Russian missiles struck cities

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — A group of Japanese doctors has filed a civil lawsuit against U.S. search giant Google, demanding damages for what they say are results showing unpoliced derogatory and often false comments. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Tokyo District Court, demands 1.4 million yen, or about $9,400, in

By LIUDAS DAPKUS and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Officials say that two Polish citizens have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on the orders of foreign intelligence services. Volkov was attacked in March outside his home