ISLAMABAD (AP) - The U.N. food agency says more than 300 Afghans have died in flash floods that also destroyed more than 1,000 houses in the northern province of Baghlan. The World Food Agency said Saturday it was distributing fortified biscuits to the survivors of one of the many floods that hit Afghanistan over the l...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. this weekend and potentially disrupt power and communications. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on Fri...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration said Friday that Israel's use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law but wartime conditions prevented U.S. officials from determining that for certain in specific airstrikes. The administration's findings of "reasonable" evide...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on Friday to grant new "rights and privileges" to Palestine and called on the Security Council to favorably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of the United Nations. The 193-member world body approved the Arab and Palestinia...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has reappointed Mikhail Mishustin as prime minister for the lower house's approval. Parliament Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the house, the State Duma, will hold a session later Friday to consider Mishustin's candidacy. Mishustin's approval is a mere proforma in the Krem...

CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) - Nelly Korda is going to have some work to do to win a record sixth straight LPGA Tour title, especially with the way Rose Zhang is playing. Korda shot a relatively mistake-free 3-under 69 early in the first round of the Cognizant Founders Cup on Thursday and then could only watch as the 20-year-old...

N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Chad's military leader, Mahamat Deby Itno, was declared the winner of this week's presidential election, according to provisional results released Thursday. The results were contested by his main rival, Prime Minister Succès Masra. The national agency that manages Chad's election released ...

SANDY, Utah (AP) - Two skiers were killed and one was rescued after an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City that occurred after several days of spring snowstorms, authorities said. A rescue team responded just after 10 a.m. to an avalanche reported near Lone Peak in the Wasatch Range southeast ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's defense attorney on Thursday accused Stormy Daniels of slowly altering the details of an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, trying to persuade jurors that a key prosecution witness in the former president's hush money trial cannot be believed. "The details of your story keep c...

NEW YORK (AP) - The judge in Donald Trump's hush money case denied a second request from defense attorneys to declare a mistrial over porn actor Stormy Daniels' testimony, which concluded Thursday. Judge Juan M. Merchan, echoing his denial Tuesday of the defense's initial mistrial motion, said Trump's lawyers had ample...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A Florida sheriff's deputy announced himself as law enforcement just before fatally shooting a Black U.S. Air Force airman inside his apartment in the state's Panhandle, body camera video shown to reporters Thursday shows. Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden presented the video hours after ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley was suspended by the NBA on Thursday for four games without pay to begin next season for his actions during and after the final game of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series with the Indiana Pacers. The league announced the suspension and said Beverley ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - A shipment of humanitarian aid has left a port in Cyprus and is on its way to the U.S-built pier in Gaza, the first delivery to the newly built ramp, Cyprus' foreign minister said Thursday. The U.S. vessel, loaded with much needed humanitarian assistance, departed from the Larnaca port with the a...

Nikola Jokic did it all again. And the MVP trophy is his again. Jokic, the Denver Nuggets star from Serbia, was announced Wednesday night as the NBA's Most Valuable Player - his third time winning the award in the past four seasons, a feat that just six other players in league history have accomplished. He averaged 26....

MIAMI (AP) - Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man's family said Wednesday. Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah - the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza - over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there. Biden, in an interview with CNN, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called Wednesday for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, pressing ahead with her long-shot effort despite pushback from Republicans at the highest levels tired of the political chaos. Greene, who is one of Donald Trump's biggest supporters in Congress, stood on th...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to bank and tax fraud in a sports betting case in which prosecutors allege he stole nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off debts, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The scandal surro...

ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump. Trump and some other defendants in the case had tried to get Willis an...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Police began to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University early Wednesday and arrested 33 protesters, hours after dozens left the site and marched to President Ellen Granberg's home. Officials at the university in Washington, D.C., had warned of possible suspensions for s...

HONG KONG (AP) - An appeals court Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government's request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the once-freewheeling global financial hub. "Glory to Hong Kong" was often sung by demonstrators during the...

JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military said Wednesday that it has reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, a key terminal for the entry of humanitarian aid that was closed nearly three days earlier after a Hamas rocket attack killed four Israeli soldiers nearby. An Israeli tank brigade seized the nearby Rafah cross...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on launching a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah against the wishes of the U.S., a senior administration official said Tuesday. The shipment was supposed to consist of 1,800...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two-term U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz won a contentious Republican primary to defend her seat just months after she decided to run for reelection in a campaign that focused attention on her opposition to sending aid to her native Ukraine. She defeated eight rival Republicans to secure her place on the ...

DENVER (AP) - A sweeping bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms was nixed in Colorado's Democratic-controlled Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed forward with a slew of other gun control bills on the 25th anniversary year of the Columbine High School massacre. The western state has a deep ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden condemned the "ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world" during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhe...

NEW YORK (AP) - As the third week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial takes place, all eyes are on who will be called next and whether the former president will be able to abide by the terms of his now twice-broken gag order that bars him from speaking publicly about jurors, witnesses and some other...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump returns to the hush money trial Tuesday facing a threat of jail time for additional gag order violations as prosecutors gear up to summon big-name witnesses including porn actor Stormy Daniels. An attorney for Daniels, Clark Brewster, told The Associated Press that the porn actor, whose rea...