CALI, Colombia (AP) - Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks and decisions on nature conservation. The COP16 summit hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 acco...

CALI, Colombia (AP) - Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks and decisions on nature conservation. The COP16 summit hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 acco...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead. The 12-member jury returned the late night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used exc...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania. The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that included three jurors and the judge from his trial, a former prison director, pastors and the his family. Moore, 59, was p...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia by a man who claims to be from Haiti is fake and the work of "Russian influence actors," U.S. intelligence officials said Friday. The video in question shows someone claiming to be a Haitian immigrant talking about how he's intending to...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - A concrete roof above the entrance of a railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad collapsed Friday, killing at least eight people. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said that at least four other people have been hospitalized with serious injuries, while rescuers have established conta...

CHIVA, Spain. (AP) - Three days after historic flash floods swept through towns in Spain and killed at least 205 people, the initial shock was giving way to anger, frustration and a wave of solidarity on Friday. Spanish emergency authorities raised the death toll to at least 205 victims, 202 of them in Valencia alone. ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - The death toll from Israeli strikes in the central Gaza Strip rose to 25, including five children, as more bodies have been recovered, hospital officials said Friday. Sixteen people had initially been reported killed in two strikes on Thursday on the central Nuseirat refugee camp, but o...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hospital officials in Gaza said on Friday that the death toll from Israeli strikes on the central parts of the territory the day before has risen from 16 to 25 as more bodies have been recovered. The Palestinians killed in the series of strikes on central Gaza include 5 children and 7 w...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) - Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat in the general election Friday, in a seismic moment of change for the county that ended the ruling party's 58 years in power. Masisi's concession came before final results were announced, with his Botswana Democratic Party trailing in four...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) - Botswana President Mogweetsi Masisi conceded defeat in the general election Friday, in a seismic moment of change for the county that ended the ruling party's 58 years in power since independence from Britain in 1966. Masisi's concession came before final results were announced, with his Botsw...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A Washington state man who authorities said killed at least 118 eagles as part of a wildlife trafficking ring that operated on a Native American reservation in Montana was sentenced Thursday to three years and 10 months in prison and to pay more than $777,000 in restitution. The trafficking ring ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A judge on Thursday handed down long sentences to two former police officers for the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco, an icon of Brazil' s political left whose killing sparked outrage. Ronnie Lessa was sentenced to 78 years and 9 months, and Élcio de Queiroz ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A judge on Thursday handed down long sentences to two former police officers for the 2018 killing of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco, an icon of Brazil' s political left whose killing sparked outrage. Ronnie Lessa was sentenced to 78 years and 9 months, and Élcio de Queiroz...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration said Thursday it has information that some 8,000 North Korean soldiers are now in Russia's Kursk region near Ukraine's border and preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops. In a dramatic moment during a U.N. Security Council meeting, the deputy U.S. ambassad...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Kamala Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump's comment that he would protect women whether they "like it or not" shows that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women's rights "to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies." "I thin...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Kamala Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump's comment that he would protect women "whether the women like it or not" showed that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women's "agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia judge began a hearing Thursday in the city prosecutor's bid to shut down Elon Musk's $1 million-a-day sweepstakes in battleground states. The giveaways come from Musk's political organization, which aims to boost Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Lawyers for Musk filed a motion la...

BERLIN (AP) - Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces. Sharmahd, 69, was put to death in Iran on Monday on...

BERLIN (AP) - Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces. Sharmahd, 69, was put to death in Iran on Monday on...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Projectiles fired from Lebanon into northern Israel killed five people on Thursday, including four foreign workers, authorities said. It was the deadliest such attack since Israeli troops invaded Lebanon earlier this month to battle the Hezbollah militant group. Hezbollah has been firing rockets, missi...

JERUSALEM (AP) - The local council of a town in northern Israel says projectiles fired from Lebanon have killed five people, including four foreign workers. The Metula regional council reported Thursday's attack. Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group has been firing rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel for mo...

BARRIO DE LA TORRE, Spain (AP) - Survivors of the worst natural disaster to hit Spain this century awoke to scenes of devastation on Thursday after villages were wiped out by monstrous flash floods that claimed at least 95 lives. The death toll is expected to rise as search efforts continue with officials removing bodi...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Eight justices of Mexico's Supreme Court have said they will leave the court rather than stand for election as required by a controversial judicial overhaul passed last month. Supreme Court President Norma Piña and seven others submitted letters Tuesday and Wednesday stating they would leave t...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second World Series championship in five seasons, overcoming a five-run deficit with the help of three Yankees defensive miscues and rallying on sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts in the eighth inning to beat New York 7-6 in Game 5 on Wednesday night. Aaron...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second World Series championship in five seasons, overcoming a five-run deficit with the help of three Yankees defensive miscues and rallying on sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts in the eighth inning to beat New York 7-6 in Game 5 on Wednesday night. Aaron...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia judge has set a hearing Thursday morning in the city prosecutor's bid to shut down Elon Musk's $1 million-a-day sweepstakes in battleground states. The giveaways come from Musk's political organization, which aims to boost Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Philadelphia District At...