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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Perry’s “Friends” co-stars are sharing more remembrances of the star in their first personal social media posts since the actor’s death last month. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer posted heartfelt notes about Perry, who died Oct. 28, on Instagram. The posts on Tuesday and Wednesday were

By SARAH BRUMFIELD, ERIK VERDUZCO and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A video circulating on social media shows a North Carolina police officer repeatedly striking a Black woman during an arrest while several other officers hold her down, and although the department contends that the officer was “intentional” about where he hit

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB AND ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Security and judicial officials say Lebanon’s military tribunal has released a man accused of killing an Irish United Nations peacekeeper almost a year ago on bail. Lebanon’s military tribunal in June charged Mohamad Ayyad and four others with the killing of Pvt. Seán Rooney,

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Voting on a tentative contract agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers union that ended a six-week strike against the company appears too close to call after the latest tallies at several GM factories were announced Wednesday. The union hasn’t posted final vote totals

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is signaling that she’s willing to put her name forward for NATO’s top job when it falls vacant next year. Kallas, who has led the small Baltic nation as its first female head of government since January 2021, was at the Politico Defence Summit in Washington.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has ruled that a company must pay compensation to five Iranian victims of chemical weapons attacks by Iraq in the 1980s after the company did not show up in court to defend itself against claims it supplied raw materials for poison gas. The court in The Hague

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police say a U.S. tourist has died in the Bahamas after a catamaran carrying more than 100 people sank while traveling to a private island. Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings says that the unidentified 74-year-old woman was from Broomfield, Colorado and was on a five-day

By AAMER MADHANI, COLLEEN LONG and DIDI TANG Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping head into their big meeting at a country estate on Wednesday hoping to stabilize U.S.-China relations after a period of tumult, but the U.S. president also is prepared to confront his counterpart on difficult issues

ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press The Department of Energy is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain — the minerals and parts that go into batteries. Up to $3.5 billion through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will go to projects that can help advance lithium ion batteries and their alternatives for electric vehicles and

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s prosecution authority has appealed a ruling that acquitted a Russian-born Swedish businessman who had been accused of collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service for almost a decade. The Stockholm District Court said advanced technology had been acquired and delivered to Russia but that Sergey Skvortsov’s activities were “not aimed at

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO has opted to buy six new E-7A Wedgetail surveillance planes built by U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing as it looks to update its eyes in the sky in coming years. NATO’s fleet of 14 AWACS aircraft are outdated and expensive to maintain. But their large fuselage-mounted radar domes can detect aircraft hundreds

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Some of the 40 workers trapped for days in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India are getting sick, while falling debris and technical glitches delay the work to free them. Rescuers have been trying to drill through the rubble and insert wide steel pipes to