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The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says her country will never accept South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s offer of economic benefits in exchange for denuclearization steps, accusing Seoul of recycling rejected proposals from the past.
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A Pennsylvania man has been charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook.
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The Federal Aviation Administration says there were two people aboard a twin-engine Cessna 340 and only the pilot aboard a single-engine Cessna 152 during the crash. No one on the ground was injured. Watsonville is about 100 miles south of San Francisco.
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#JurassicWorldDominion director Colin Trevorrow says a newly-released extended version is "the movie that I made" before last-minute cuts to get the theatrical release under 2.5 hours.
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Hugh Bonneville kills off his friendly "Paddington" and "Downton Abbey" personas in the dark Netflix thriller "I Came By": "My family is just saying it's the real me."
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#HouseoftheDragon star Rhys Ifans says the #GameofThrones series' "excessive" sets helped the actors get immersed in their roles.
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#TheRingsOfPower star Benjamin Walker says the new "The Lord of the Rings" series was born from a "reinvestment in the source material."
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The head of Oregon's public defenders' office was fired Thursday in a clash over how to solve a dire shortage of attorneys to represent people too poor to afford a lawyer.
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Creem, which billed itself as “America’s only rock ‘n’ roll magazine” during two decades of existence that ended in 1989, is being revived next month. apne.ws/P4hd8OJ apnews.com/article/entert
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The Jordan River’s transboundary history and water have been as politically fraught as holy, intertwined with the entanglements of the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict.
This has fueled its decline and complicates efforts to save it. apne.ws/lEzukdY
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced criminal charges against 20 people for illegally voting in 2020, the first major public move from the Republican's controversial new election police unit.
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A large waterspout formed Tuesday morning off Destin in northwest Florida. Boo Freeman captured video of the huge funnel cloud that touched down in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Two planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at a local airport Thursday and at least two of the three occupants were killed, officials said Thursday.
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A Connecticut man was sentenced Thursday to 65 years in prison for the 2015 killing of his wife, who prosecutors say was wearing a Fitbit exercise activity tracker with data that contradicted his statements to police.
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A Utah high school athletics association secretly investigated a female athlete without telling her or her parents after receiving complaints from the parents of two girls she had defeated in competition questioning whether the girl was transgender.
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There have been more than 39,000 cases reported in countries that have not historically seen monkeypox. The vast majority have occurred in men who have sex with men, but health officials stress that anyone can get monkeypox.
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Tatiana Maslany says she understands early criticism that #SheHulk doesn't feature a muscular main character — "something we don't often see on screen."
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The U.S. is setting aside an extra 50,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine for places with upcoming gay pride events, health officials said.
At least a dozen pride events are scheduled over the next two months, including gatherings in Atlanta and New Orleans.
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A top executive at former President Donald Trump's family business has pleaded guilty to tax fraud and other charges. The deal could make Allen Weisselberg a witness against the company at a trial this fall.
Here's what you should know: apne.ws/WS0TesG
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Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices.
Security experts have advised users to update affected devices.
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A child likely died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a Nebraska river.
It's the second such probable death in the Midwest this summer, raising the question of whether climate change is playing a role.
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Instagram and Facebook suspended Children's Health Defense this week after the anti-vaccine group led by Robert Kennedy Jr. repeatedly violated rules prohibiting misinformation about COVID-19.
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A federal judge is ordering Starbucks to reinstate seven employees in Memphis who were fired earlier this year after leading an effort to unionize their store.
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BREAKING: Three men, including a Mafia hitman, have been charged in the 2018 killing of notorious Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger in a West Virginia prison, the Justice Department said.
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The AP Interview: UN refugee chief says Europe’s embrace of millions of Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion shows it’s possible to welcome large numbers of asylum-seekers, and the approach should be replicated to receive those fleeing other nations. apne.ws/W8QCtsl
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President Joe Biden and his allies hope big recent wins on climate, health care and more will at least temporarily tamp down questions among top Democrats about whether he will run for reelection.
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Kentucky's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state's near-total abortion ban will remain in place while it reviews arguments by abortion clinics challenging two state laws.
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Italian environmental activists staged a second museum protest in as many months, gluing their hands Thursday to the base of one of the Vatican Museums' most important ancient sculptures, the Laocoon.
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A Capuchin monkey named Route sent sheriff's deputies scrambling after it dialed 911 on a zoo's cellphone.
“She sees me all the time texting and playing with the phone. So I think that's pretty much what she did,” says Lisa Jackson, zoo owner.
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A judge refused to grant bail Thursday to the man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie as the acclaimed author prepared to give a talk in western New York. apne.ws/I2PQRX2
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Puerto Rico's governor on Thursday denounced the private company his administration contracted to take over the island's power transmission and distribution system amid a recent spike in electricity outages that have outraged many in the U.S.
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The news follows a recent investigation by the which found that a church “abuse help line" is part of a system that can easily be misused to divert abuse accusations away from authorities, leaving victims in harm’s way.
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The order, if it survives an appeal, will require the Mormon church to answer questions and provide records related to church member Paul Adams’ excommunication.
The church had argued those records were protected by clergy-penitent privilege.
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Starbucks left Russia amid the war in Ukraine. This week, entrepreneurs who bought the assets are opening Stars Coffee shops.
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A Utah high school athletics association secretly investigated a female athlete — without telling her or her parents — after receiving complaints from the parents of two girls she had defeated in competition questioning whether the girl was transgender.
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An Arizona judge overseeing a lawsuit accusing the Mormon church of conspiring to cover-up child sex abuse has ruled that the church may not use the state's “clergy-penitent privilege” to refuse to answer questions or turn over documents in the case.
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U.S. health officials are making extra monkeypox vaccine available to places with upcoming gay pride events.
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CNN has canceled its weekly "Reliable Sources" show on the media, and said Thursday that its host, Brian Stelter, is leaving the network.
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