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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Congressman Mike Bost has won the Republican nomination in a competitive downstate primary battle with former state Sen. Darren Bailey. Bailey, the 2022 GOP nominee for Illinois governor, challenged the five-term incumbent, claiming he wasn’t conservative enough for the district that encompasses virtually the entire bottom one-third of the state. He

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Residents in the Philadelphia area are about to see a rare site — a battleship floating down the Delaware River. The USS New Jersey is scheduled to move Thursday from its dock in Camden, New Jersey, when it will head to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for

By MOSES NDUNGU and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further. The agencies are referring to “e-waste,” which is defined as discarded devices with a plug or battery, including cellphones,

By GENE JOHNSON and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press A white supremacist Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice remained on the loose Wednesday after the accomplice staged a brazen overnight attack to free the inmate as he was being transported from a Boise hospital, police said. Police identified the man suspected of shooting two corrections

By NICOLE EVATT Associated Press JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — St. Helena, a small, craggy island in the South Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. Until several years ago, it took five nights by boat to reach the British overseas territory, which is nearly halfway between southern Africa

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are set Thursday to underscore their support for war-torn Ukraine. The aim is to help boost arms production and to prove to Russia that they are in it for the long haul. Ukraine’s munition stocks are desperately low. Russia has more and better-armed troops.

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel this week as part of his sixth urgent mission to the Middle East since the Israelis’ war with Hamas began in October, as relations between the two countries have soured dramatically in recent weeks.

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for a third straight time amid falling inflation and an effort to help the economy. The cut by a half-percentage point brought the interest rate down to 5.75%. Wednesday’s move was expected by most analysts. The bank started to trim borrowing

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Tennis could be on the verge of massive structural change if one of two separate proposals formulated by the four Grand Slam tournaments and the WTA and ATP professional tours ends up moving forward. There is plenty of discussion happening now behind closed doors about the sport’s future. Negotiations

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court says the government has systematically put the interests of the aviation sector above those of people who live near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The Hague District Court ruled Wednesday that the treatment of local residents amounts to a breach of Europe’s human rights

BANGKOK (AP) — Britain’s foreign secretary has met with Thailand’s prime minister on his first visit to the Indo-Pacific region. Britain’s foreign office says the discussion between David Cameron and Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin was aimed at improving cooperation in areas including defense, the economy and trade. Britain estimates the countries’ trading relationship as being

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say an F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea during a training flight. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and was later rescued.  The incident occurred near the small island of Psathoura, 175 kilometers (110 miles) northeast of Athens, after the single-seat jet fighter took off from an

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — French bulldogs. U.S. dog owners. C’est l’amour. Frenchies remained the United States’ most commonly registered purebred dogs last year, according to American Kennel Club rankings released Wednesday. The club calls the Frenchie the most popular breed, though other canine constituencies may beg to differ. Is it

By JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who made history as his country’s first gay and first biracial leader, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down for reasons that he said were both personal and political. Varadkar announced Wednesday he is quitting immediately as head of the center-right Fine Gael party,

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a Yazidi girl she and her husband enslaved when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst. The defendant, a German convert to Islam, was convicted in 2021 of two counts

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam court has ruled that Dutch national airline KLM made misleading statements about sustainable aviation in a case that accused the carrier of “greenwashing.” The decision Wednesday was hailed by environmental groups as a historic victory. Amsterdam District Court says in a statement that

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press A Russian border region being pounded by Ukrainian shelling and drones is expanding its closure of schools and colleges amid a major evacuation plan. Kyiv’s forces are extending their campaign of long-range strikes that aim to put the Kremlin under pressure. Authorities in the Belgorod border region announced Wednesday that

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s national police chief and one of his deputies have been temporarily suspended under the order of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, as accusations that the deputy was involved in an illegal online gambling ring sparked concerns about a possible power struggle in the police department. Torsak Sukvimol,

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese accident investigators have indicated they have not yet determined the cause of a 2022 plane crash that killed all 132 people on board. An update issued Wednesday by the Civil Aviation Administration of China on the eve of the second anniversary of the crash shed little new light on it. The

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman to head up its consumer artificial intelligence business, adding another influential figure to its pool of talent leading the charge to build a technology that Suleyman views as both as a boon and threat to humanity. Suleyman, co-founder of AI research lab DeepMind, said Tuesday in a