AP National News

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely — in some cases without a shot fired — that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turns out to be the Taliban. They have grabbed not

T-Mobile says it is investigating a leak of its data after someone took to an online forum offering to sell the personal information of cellphone users. The company said Monday that it has confirmed there was unauthorized access to “some T-Mobile data” but was still determining the scope of the breach and who was affected.

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Belarusian activist who stabbed himself in the neck two months ago to protest political repression has been sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison. A court on Monday found 41-year-old Stsiapan Latypau guilty of violating public order, resisting police and fraud. In June, Latypau used

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security is calling for an immediate end to violence in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover of the country and inclusive talks to form a new government that includes women. The council on Monday issued its first statement since the ouster of the U.S.-backed

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Selma Blair says she’s in remission from multiple sclerosis as a result of undergoing stem cell transplantation. The 49-year-old actor was diagnosed with the disease in 2018. Blair is best known for such movies as “Cruel Intentions,” “Legally Blonde” and “Hellboy.” She told a Television Critics

By BRENDON DERR, RYLEE KIRK, ANNE MICKEY, ALLISON VAUGHN, MCKENNA LEAVENS and LEILANI FITZPATRICK Howard Center for Investigative Journalism .

NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of such bestsellers as the “What to Expect” books for parents and the “Brain Quest” educational series has agreed to be acquired by Hachette Book Group. Workman Publishing has been an independent company for decades. It also includes the literary imprint Algonquin and the nature publisher Timber Press. Hachette

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York real estate heir Robert Durst has testified that he lied for years about sending police a note directing them to the dead body of his best friend because he feared it implicated him in the killing. Durst told jurors Monday in Los Angeles County

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — Vaccine mandates are expanding in New York. The state ordered hospital and nursing home workers Monday to get COVID-19 inoculations. And New York City is poised to start requiring them Tuesday for anyone in restaurant dining rooms, gyms, museums and many other

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say the bodies of all eight victims of a tourism helicopter crash in Russia’s far-east region of Kamchatka have been found. The Mi-8 helicopter with 16 people on board crashed into Kurile Lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday. Eight people managed to escape the sinking aircraft and were rescued

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Planned Parenthood is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider the question of whether the state of Louisiana must grant a long-sought license for an abortion clinic in New Orleans. Planned Parenthood has been seeking the license through the administrations of Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal and

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Former Afghanistan women’s national team captain Khalida Popal can hear the distress and tearful pleas for help in the frantic phone calls and voice messages she is receiving. They are from the players in the team Popal helped establish, who now fear for their lives

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — In Leos Carax’s “Annette,” an enchantingly demented rock opera, Adam Driver sings in some very strange places. On a motorcycle. At sea. Since its premiere last month at the Cannes Film Festival, “Annette” has predictably caused a stir. As you might suspect, opinions tend to

DRYDEN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan congressman who quit the Republican Party to protest GOP efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump has died. Paul Mitchell died Sunday, according to a statement his family provided to CNN. He was 64. In June, Mitchell told radio station WJR that he had been

By HALELUYA HADERO and GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writers Humanitarian aid is flowing into Haiti following Saturday’s deadly 7.2-magnitude earthquake. However, the Caribbean nation’s political unrest, as well as an approaching tropical storm, is complicating efforts. Nonprofit groups and philanthropy experts say the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, as well as accusations that some

CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese leaders have visited a disputed area along the country’s eastern borders with Ethiopia. The visit to al-Fashaqa area comes amid growing tensions between the two East African nations. Khartoum has last week recalled home its envoy in Addis Ababa. The decades-long border dispute between Sudan and Ethiopia centers on large swaths

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.S. company Discovery Inc. says it has been granted a Dutch license that would allow it to keep broadcasting its independent news channel TVN 24 into Poland. The announcement Monday comes after Poland’s state broadcasting authority has for a year and a half refused to renew TVN24′s license, which expires

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Republican Adam Laxalt has filed to run for U.S. Senate in Nevada, setting the stage for what could be a decisive battle as both parties fight for control of Congress. Laxalt will aim to unseat Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, who became the

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say gunmen have abducted 15 students and four staffers from a school in the country’s northwest. Zamfara state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said Monday that a police officer and two security guards were killed in the attack on the College of Agriculture and

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian embassy in Kabul has alleged that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled from Kabul with four cars and a helicopter stuffed with cash. Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti cited embassy spokesman Nikita Ishchenko on Monday as saying that Ghani escaped with four cars filled with money. He added that “they