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Japan and Philippines sign a pact allowing their troops to train in each other's countries

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Japan and the Philippines on Monday signed a defense pact allowing their troops to enter each other's country for joint military training. The Reciprocal Access Agreement wa...

Jul 07, 2024

June sizzles to 13th straight monthly heat record. String may end soon, but dangerous heat won't

Earth's more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June, according to the European climate service Copernicus. There's hope that the planet will soon see an e...

Jul 07, 2024

While Biden campaigns in Pennsylvania, some Democratic leaders in the House say he should step aside

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - President Joe Biden urged his supporters to stay unified during a series of Sunday stops in critical Pennsylvania on Sunday, even as some leading congressional Democrats private...

Jul 07, 2024

Motorcyclist dies from heat exposure temperature reaches 128 in California's Death Valley

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A visitor to Death Valley National Park died Sunday from heat exposure and another person was hospitalized as the temperature reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit (53.3 C) in eastern Cali...

Jul 07, 2024

Texas coastal residents told to expect power outages, flooding as Beryl moves closer to landfall

MATAGORDA, Texas (AP) - Texas officials are telling coastal residents to expect power outages and floodings as Beryl was forecast to regain hurricane strength before making landfall early Monday. The ...

Jul 07, 2024

France is voting in key elections that could see a historic far-right win or a hung parliament

PARIS (AP) - Voting has begun in mainland France on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immig...

Jul 07, 2024

4 killed in shooting during party at a Kentucky home; suspect died after a vehicle chase, police say

FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) - Four people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting during a party at a home in northern Kentucky, police said. The shooting suspect later died aft...

Jul 06, 2024

New UK Prime Minister Starmer says controversial Rwanda deportation plan is 'dead and buried'

LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that he is scrapping a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda. "The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried befo...

Jul 06, 2024

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian leads hard-liner Saeed Jalili in Iran presidential runoff election

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian's lead against hard-liner Saeed Jalili widened early Saturday to over 2 million votes as counting continued in Iran's president...

Jul 05, 2024

Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024? Arkansas organizers have joined the list

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban on Friday said they submitted enough signatures to get the measure on the November ballot. Arkansans for Limited G...

Jul 05, 2024