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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities in Alaska say search and rescue divers have recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three state scientists whose aircraft went down in a shallow lake last week. The three were on assignment with the Division of Geological and Geophysical Survey, part of the state’s natural resources department. The

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A deck has collapsed during a popular golf tournament at a Montana country club, leaving more than 30 injured. The second-story patio floor of Billings’ Briarwood Country Club broke Saturday evening, causing head wounds, broken ribs and other injuries as patrons landed atop one another and scraps of food and debris

PARIS (AP) — Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard has won the Tour de France for a second straight year as cycling’s most storied race finished on the famed Champs-Élysées. With a huge lead built up over main rival Tadej Pogačar, Vingegaard knew the victory was effectively already his again ahead of the largely ceremonial stage Sunday

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Officials say a soldier in northeastern Congo opened fire on family members and others who had buried his son before he could arrive home to attend the ceremony. The soldier killed 13 people, including 10 children. The attack late Saturday left the soldier’s wife, in-laws and

STOW, Mass. (AP) — Three people were injured when a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Massachusetts. A spokesperon for Stow police says officers and firefighters responding to multiple 911 calls just after 1 p.m. Sunday found the single-engine Cessna 182 in a wooded area between two homes in the town of Stow.

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Brian Harman stood in the tunnel and looked out to the 18th green at Royal Liverpool with his eyes on that shiny claret jug, waiting for his name to be called with the century-old introduction as “champion golfer of the year.” He always imagined this

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has called for new, more equal relationships between Europe and migrants’ countries of origin and transit. She convened a meeting of some 20 nations, EU officials and international organizations aimed at stanching flows of illegal migration. Human rights groups see the one-day summit as creating a future roadmap,

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A deck has collapsed at a Montana country club, leaving more than 30 injured. The second-story patio floor of Billings’ Briarwood Country Club broke on Saturday evening caused head wounds, broken ribs and other injuries as patrons landed atop one another and scraps of food and debris splayed across the lawn

MILAN (AP) — A high-profile Egyptian activist who was recently released from prison has landed in Italy, where the government championed his case. Patrick George Zaki was greeted Sunday by applause and a throng of video and still cameras as he emerged into the arrivals hall at Milan’s Malpensa Airport. He then traveled to Bologna,

By AYESHA MIR Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s last call for New York City’s celebration of baring it all. Sunday’s Bodypainting Day will be the final edition after more than a decade of artists turning nude bodies into works of art. Organizer Andy Golub expects more than 50 people will be painted during

BEIRUT (AP) — The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has suspended the status of Sweden’s special envoy over Quran burnings that sparked mass protests in a number of Muslim countries. The 57-nation bloc said Sunday that the suspension was due to the “granting by the Swedish authorities of licenses that enabled the repeated abuse of the

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Polls closed Sunday in a general election that could make Spain the latest European Union member to swing to the political right. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is trying to win a third consecutive national election since taking power in 2018. But his Socialists and

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Brian Harman turned back every challenge in the British Open, from big names to bad weather, and took his place among major champions Sunday with a victory that was never seriously in doubt at Royal Liverpool. Harman twice responded to a rare bogey with back-to-back

By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Authorities say at least 16 people were killed and nearly three dozen injured Sunday when a four-story building collapsed onto a smaller one in Cameroon’s largest city. “The casualty figures may be higher, said Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua, governor of Cameroon’s Littoral region, where the

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in a hospital on Sunday after an emergency heart procedure, as tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of his government’s judicial overhaul plan held rival rallies ahead of a key vote. Netanyahu’s sudden hospitalization for the implant of a

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A deck has collapsed at a Montana country club, leaving up to 25 people injured. Police and news reports say emergency services responded to a report of a collapsed patio in Billings at 7:50 p.m. Saturday. The Billings Police Department says there were multiple individuals with injuries but no fatalities and

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio fire chief says three people were killed and three others have been injured in a house fire. Fire Department Chief Charles Hood says firefighters responded to the blaze around 3 a.m. Saturday after receiving a 911 call in which people could be heard screaming. Hood says police officers

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The ruling party of Cambodia’s longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election, an outcome that was virtually assured thanks to the suppression and intimidation of the opposition in a vote critics said made a farce of

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Voters in Spain braved soaring summer temperatures to cast ballots in a general election Sunday that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the political right. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers Party and its