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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — By the time Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi boarded his window seat on a helicopter ferrying him, the foreign minister and six others, thick clouds already had begun forming around the mountaintops along the Azerbaijan-Iran border. Despite the worsening weather, the helicopter lifted off for

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A soaring demand for food delivered fast has spawned small armies of couriers — and increasing alarm — in big cities where scooters, motorcycles and mopeds zip in and out of traffic and hop onto pedestrian-filled sidewalks as their drivers race to drop off salads and sandwiches.

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sen. Rick Scott of Florida says he’ll vote in November against a ballot amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in his state. He says this is a deeply personal decision based on his brother’s long history of addiction. Roger Scott died in April at the

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This year, the “calamari comeback” chef might not be coming back. John Bordieri became known as the “calamari ninja” for standing wordlessly, clad head-to-toe in black, and holding a platter of sautéed squid during a video roll call of states that nominated Joe Biden during the 2020

By ALBERT STUMM Associated Press Do you tend to see things as glass half full or glass half empty? Numerous studies over the years have demonstrated a link between a positive outlook and good health outcomes. But what if you’re just too negative? Sue Varma is an NYU clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and author

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press HARMONY, Wis. (AP) — Looking to go where supporters of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump live in harmony? Live in Harmony. Residents here, spread out on rich farmland and residential subdivisions, seemingly embody the name of the 24-square-mile town and the political leanings of the volatile swing state of

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press The judge presiding over Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial in Delaware is a former corporate civil lawyer with a background in biology who was nominated to the bench by the Biden family’s chief political antagonist: former President Donald Trump. But even while that might raise partisan eyebrows and questions of

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, ZEKE MILLER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — President Joe Biden said France was America’s “first friend” at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off

NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to testify before a Republican-controlled congressional subcommittee, but likely not until after former President Donald Trump is sentenced in July. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan wrote Bragg in late May after Trump’s conviction in his hush money trial, accusing him of having conducted

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers argue he didn’t get a fair trial in Los Angeles when he was convicted of rape and sexual assault in 2022. The brief filed Friday with California’s Second District Court of Appeal comes six weeks after Weinstein’s similar conviction in New York was overturned on appeal.

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her decision to block a plan to reduce New York City traffic and raise billions for its ailing subway system through a new toll on Manhattan drivers. But on Friday, in her first appearance since announcing she was indefinitely

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VERONA, Italy (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has joined top political and cultural figures at Verona’s ancient Arena amphitheater for an open-air celebration of Italian lyric opera’s recognition by UNESCO as a global cultural treasure. Conductor Riccardo Muti presided over an orchestra of 170 musicians from Italy’s 14 opera

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings has been tenderly laid on the hallowed sands where he saved lives and shed blood. U.S. First Army soldiers held a ceremony in honor

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A state judge has ordered academic workers at the University of California to temporarily halt their weekslong strike over the war in Gaza. An Orange County judge issued the emergency restraining order on Friday after UC officials argued the ongoing strike would cause irreversible harm as students are nearing finals.

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Van Dyke has won a historic Daytime Emmy at age 98. The actor was honored as guest performer in a daytime drama series for his part as an amnesiac on Peacock’s “Days of Our Lives.” He is the oldest Daytime Emmy winner. “General Hospital” earned

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Fitch agency says it has raised Cyprus’ credit rating by a notch to BBB+. In its statement Saturday, Fitch cited Cyprus’ heightened ability to withstand financial shocks, the government’s commitment to keeping its finances in order and a strengthened banking sector thanks in part to the lowest bad loan ratio

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Kiké Hernández made an error while in the midst of a live television interview during a 2-1, 11-inning win over the New York Yankees. Hernández had a microphone and was speaking with Wayne Randazzo and former pitcher Dontrelle Willis on

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A New Jersey school district has hired an outside law firm to investigate how and why a Jewish student group was omitted from the high school yearbook. The situation came to light Tuesday after about 375 yearbooks were distributed at East Brunswick High School. The yearbook page was blank where

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Austrian-Canadian auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach has been arrested on sexual assault charges involving accusations from the 1980s to last year. Police said there is more than one accuser but declined to say how many. The 91-year-old founder of Magna auto parts and horse racing investor has