CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) - Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, heralding a week of ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. On June 6, 1944, soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Al...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Sunday as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country's top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation's president. The populist former leader's registration puts ...

SINGAPORE (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged a group of top defense officials at Asia's premier security conference on Sunday to attend an upcoming conference on ending the Russian war on Ukraine. Zelenskyy told the group of more than 500 delegates from about 40 countries that he was "disappointe...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Catcher Payton Henry of the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons was released from the hospital on Saturday, a day after he was struck by a batter's backswing and carted off the field on a stretcher. "I'm doing pretty good and hoping to recover as quick as possible," Henry posted Saturday on the soci...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Chad Daybell has been sentenced to death for the murders of his wife and his girlfriend's two youngest children in Idaho. The sentence was handed down Saturday after an Idaho jury unanimously agreed that imposing the death penalty would be a just resolution to the triple-murder case. The sentence ma...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - At least 20 people were killed when a boat sank while crossing a river in eastern Afghanistan Saturday morning, a Taliban official said. Quraishi Badlon, provincial director of the information and culture department in Nangarhar province, said that the boat sank while crossing a river in Mohmand Dara d...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago. With nearly 99% of votes counted, the once-dominant ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's lawyer told The Associated Press he was surprised at Trump's stoic demeanor as he listened to the verdict that made him the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. Todd Blanche was sitting to Trump's left in the Manhattan courtroom as the verdict was read - the jury foreman repe...

NEW DELHI (AP) - Indians began voting Saturday in the last round of a six-week-long national election that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decade in power. The election is considered one of the most consequential in India's history. If Modi wins, he'll be only the second Indian leade...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, has died. She was 86. Mrs. Robinson's death was announced by Michelle Obama and other family members in a statement that said "there was and...

A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground. Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson on May 3 after responding to a domestic violence call and being directed to Forts...

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A woman convicted of helping her boyfriend plot and cover up the murder of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, during contentious divorce and child custody proceedings in Connecticut was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday. A state judge in Stamford handed down the punishment to Michelle Troco...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Top U.S. leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress, a show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel's military assault on Gaza. The invitation from House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, and Sena...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday. The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to th...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A climber from Malaysia who was stranded for three days near the top of North America's tallest mountain following a summit push was rescued Friday, but his partner was dead, officials said. A third member of their team had been rescued this week after descending lower on Denali in Alaska. After d...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Friday that Hamas is "no longer capable" of carrying out another large-scale attack on Israel as he urged Israelis and Hamas to come to a deal to release remaining hostages for an extended cease-fire. Biden addressed the nearly eight-month Israel-Hamas war as the Isr...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Friday that his predecessor, Donald Trump, was found guilty and "it's reckless, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible, for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don't like the verdict." His comments came the day after the conclusion of Trump's criminal trial in...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - El Salvador said authorities have broken up a plot to plant bombs around the country to coincide with President Nayib Bukele's inauguration on Saturday. The country's National Police said the plot involved "veterans" of the country's 1980-1992 civil war, an apparent reference ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York's criminal justice system Friday as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid. Trump spoke to reporters at his namesake towe...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications. The ruling from the court, whose nine justices are all elected Republicans, is the latest decision to uphold Texas' a...

Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to remove an encampment and barricades where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have blocked the main entrance to the campus this week. Many people were arrested, the university said. Campus, local and state police swar...

PARIS (AP) - The French interior minister said Friday that security authorities have foiled a plan to attack soccer events during the Paris Olympics. Gerald Darmanin said in a statement that the members of the General Directorate of Internal Security arrested an 18-year-old man from Chechnya on May 22 on suspicion of b...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Body Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Friday he has registered as an independent, raising questions about his future political plans. Manchin, who would have faced a tough reelection in November if he had chosen to run, has long been an outspoken critic of the Democratic Party an...

JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military has confirmed that its forces are operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city. The military said in a statement Friday that its troops in central Rafah had uncovered Hamas rocket launchers and tunnels and dismantled a weapons storage cit...

BERLIN (AP) - An assailant with a knife attacked and wounded several people in a square in the southwestern German city of Mannheim on Friday, police said. Police shot at the attacker, who also was hurt. Police said the incident happened shortly after 11.30 a.m. They said that they couldn't immediately give any informa...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - Slovakia's populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from a hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt. Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, said on Friday that Fico was transported to his home, where he conti...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The German government says Ukraine can use weapons it delivers against attacks from positions just over the Russian border. The government said in a statement Friday that, together with its closest allies and in consultation with Ukraine, it is continually adapting its support to developments in th...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 35 others, the rebels said Friday, the highest publicly acknowledged death toll by the rebels from the multiple rounds of strikes carried out over their attacks on shipping. Three U.S. ...