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AP Science Writer Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead. Beryl smashed storm records even before its major hurricane level winds approached land. The powerful storm is acting more like the monsters that form

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Over 20 years ago, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stood before a crowd at Friday prayers to denounce the United States for its disenchanted electorate. “It is disgraceful for a nation to have a 35% or 40% voter turnout, as happens in some of the nations

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution urging wealthy and developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure they have equal opportunities to use and benefit from artificial intelligence. The U.S.-supported resolution was approved Monday. The first U.N. resolution on artificial intelligence

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A driver whose car struck pedestrians waiting at a crowded intersection in South Korea’s capital, killing nine people, will be investigated on allegations of accidental homicide. Police said Tuesday that a passenger car the previous night had hit pedestrians waiting at a traffic signal in a crowded central Seoul area,

Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man was sentenced to 60 years in prison Tuesday for killing five members of an extended Senegalese family in a house fire, a crime which the victims’ friends and relatives say has forever changed their lives and their community, both in the U.S. and in the west African

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March, the U.N. children’s agency said Tuesday as the Caribbean country struggles to curb killings and kidnappings. Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who have become homeless in the last four months.

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers voted to advance legislation Tuesday that would require artificial intelligence companies to test their systems and add safety measures to prevent them from being potentially manipulated to wipe out the state’s electric grid or help build chemical weapons — scenarios that experts say could be possible in

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ended its term by ruling for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, a decision that almost certainly means Donald Trump won’t stand trial before the November election. That closely watched ruling, which drew sharp dissent from the minority justices, was among a

AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gregg Berhalter gave a single-word answer after the United States was eliminated from the Copa America with a loss to Uruguay when asked whether he was the right man to lead the Americans into the 2026 World Cup. “Yes,” Berhalter said. Plenty of others are sure to

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities have found 19 bodies piled in and around a dump truck in a cartel-dominated area of southern Mexico, near the border with Guatemala. The federal public safety department said Monday the bodies were found in a truck abandoned on a road near the town of La Concordia, in southern Chiapas

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana judge says the Biden administration can’t delay consideration of projects aimed at exporting liquefied natural gas while a legal challenge plays out in federal court. U.S. District Judge James Cain, Jr. issued his ruling Monday, granting a preliminary injunction that puts the Biden administration’s delay on hold. He

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Tuesday it had test-fired a new tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying “a super-large warhead,” a claim quickly disputed by South Korean officials and experts who speculate the North likely fabricated a successful test to conceal a botched launch. It’s the second time that South