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Canada midfielder Ismael Kone (8) celebrates with teammates after making the winning penalty kick against Venezuela a Copa America quarterfinal soccer match in Arlington, Texas, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Rodriguez)
Elisabeth Beagle, Terviva's director of tree operations, places a newly grafted pongamia tree in a high- humidity greenhouse at the company's nursery, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Fort Pierce, Fla. The tree produces a legume that is now being used to produce several products, including Panova table oil, Kona protein bars and protein flour. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
This photo shows the interior of the first greenhouse of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation's Native Green Grow complex, taken April 3, 2024, near Parshall, N.D. The greenhouse is part of the first of four phases MHA Nation has planned for the growing operation. (RML Architects via AP)
Dancers perform in front of the Moulin Rouge cabaret during the inauguration of the theatre's windmill in Paris, Friday, July 5, 2024. The mill's huge sails inexplicably collapsed after a show last month at the iconic venue, an emblem of the surrounding Montmartre neighborhood and bohemian Paris lifestyle. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Workers segregate the garbage collected en route Mount Everest, at a facility operated by Agni Ventures, an agency that manages recyclable waste, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, June 24, 2024. The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tons (24,000 pounds) of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during this year's climbing season. (AP Photo/Sanjog Manandhar)
FILE - Nita Ambani, left, wife of Mukesh Ambani along with his son Anant Ambani, center right, and his fiancée Radhika Merchant, second left, greet guests during their pre-wedding ceremony at their residence in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 3, 2024.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk next a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Sherri Thompson, with her chihuahua 14-year-old Kiwahi, waits in her vehicle for the Cook Plaza cooling center to open on Friday, July 5, 2024, in Gresham, Ore. Thompson has lived in her car for three years, and can only run its air conditioning for about 20 minutes at a time as it causes the engine to overheat. A heat wave is spreading across Wester U.S., the national Weather Service said, sending many residents in search of a cool haven from the dangerously high temperatures. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
People line up to receive food at an army-provided soup kitchen for those affected by Hurricane Beryl in Tulum, Mexico, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron reacts as he delivers a speech, Wednesday, June 12, 2024 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron's expected political failure in decisive parliamentary elections Sunday may paralyze the country, weaken him abroad and overshadow his legacy, just as France is about to be in the global spotlight as host of the Paris Olympics. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
FILE - Far-right National Rally party president Jordan Bardella, right, leaves with far-right leader Marine Le Pen after a press conference, Monday, June 24, 2024 in Paris. Both Le Pen and Bardella have made clear that, in power, they would seek to rein-in Macron and exert themselves in defense, European and foreign affairs decision-making. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
FILE - In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 1, 2024, a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired from a launch pad in northwestern Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
First lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Douglass Emhoff watch as President Joe Biden raises the hand of Vice President Kamala Harris as they view the Independence Day firework display over the National Mall from the balcony of the White House, Thursday, July 4, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Joe Biden, right, greets supporters at a campaign rally at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wis., Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Reformist candidate for the Iran's presidential election Masoud Pezeshkian, right, leaves a polling station after casting his vote, in Shahr-e-Qods near Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 5, 2024. Iranians are voting in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country’s northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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IRAN-ELECTION — Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili. Pezeshkian has promised to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic. He also said there would be no radical changes to Iran’s Shiite theocracy, and long has held Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the final arbiter of all matters of state. But even Pezeshkian’s modest aims will be challenged by a government still largely held by hard-liners. By Jon Gambrell and Amir Vahdat. SENT: 990 words, photos. WITH: IRAN-ELECTION-MASOUD-PEZESHKIAN — Pezeshkian's stances reflect the dualities of being a reformist politician within Iran’s Shiite theocracy. SENT: 800 words, photos.
ELECTION 2024-BIDEN-TAKEAWAYS — With the survival of his candidacy in question, Joe Biden sat down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos for one of the most important interviews of the Democratic president’s decades-long political career. Biden and his team were hopeful the interview would help rally his party and generate momentum. It’s unclear if he was successful. By Steve Peoples. SENT: 1,190 words, photos, video, audio. With ELECTION 2024-BIDEN — Biden rejects taking an independent medical evaluation. SENT: 1,430 words, photos, video, audio.
ELECTION 2024-GOP-HARRIS — For years, it’s been a Republican scare tactic. A vote to reelect President Joe Biden, they charged, is really a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, an attack line sometimes tinged with racist and misogynist undertones and often macabre imagery. But after Biden’s dismal performance at the presidential debate, what was once dismissed as a far-right conspiracy could now have a chance of coming to pass. Republicans, including Donald Trump, seem to be scrambling to ramp up their preemptive attacks. By Jill Colvin. SENT: 990 words, photo.
RUSSIA-NUCLEAR-MESSAGING — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s message to NATO was simple and stark: Don’t go too far in providing military support for Ukraine, or you’ll risk a conflict that could quickly turn into a nuclear one. As the war slowly turns in Moscow’s favor, Putin declared he doesn’t need nuclear weapons to achieve his goals. But he also says it’s wrong for the West to assume the possibility of using them doesn’t exist. The nuclear messaging heralds what could become the most dangerous phase in the war. SENT: 1,200 words, photos. WITH: RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Russian strikes overnight left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to a regional capital, Ukrainian authorities reported Saturday. SENT: 460 words, photos; NATO-SUMMIT-UKRAINE — NATO leaders plan to pledge next week to keep pouring arms and ammunition into Ukraine at current levels for at least another year. SENT: 900 words, photos; RUSSIA-HUNGARY — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Moscow on Friday for a rare meeting by a European leader with Putin. SENT: 1,050 words, photos, video.
FRANCE-ELECTION-DEFENSE-POLICY — The second round of the high-stakes legislative election on Sunday will almost certainly impact how much say France’s president has in the fields of defense and foreign affairs. French analysts say the result could diminish Emmanuel Macron’s role as an energetic and influential figure in European and world affairs and as one of Ukraine’s primary backers in the war against Russia. One of the only certainties is that Macron can’t emerge strengthened. By John Leicester. SENT: 1,110 words, photos. WITH: FRANCE-ELECTION-MACRON — How Macron went from a successful political newcomer to a weakened leader. SENT: 890 words, photos; FRANCE-ELECTION — Voters in France’s overseas territories and living abroad started casting ballots Saturday. SENT: 280 words, photos; FRANCE-ELECTION-WHAT’S NEXT — How the snap elections work and what comes next. SENT: 880 words, photos, video; GERMANY-FRANCE-ELECTION — The German government expressed concern about a possible victory for France’s far-right National Rally. SENT: 930 words, photos.
TROPICAL-WEATHER — Hurricane Beryl moved back into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where it is expected to strengthen after weakening to a tropical storm as it moved across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The U.S. National Hurricane Center expects Beryl to regain hurricane strength and forecasts predicted it would head toward northeastern Mexico and the Texas coast. Officials urged coastal residents to be prepared for possible storm surge flooding, heavy rain and high winds. By Martín Silva and Jim Vertuno. SENT: 710 words, photos, videos, audio. WITH: UNITED-NATIONS-CARIBBEAN-HURRICANE-BERYL — The minister for the two Grenada islands that Hurricane Beryl first slammed into asked the U.N. and humanitarian officials for “anything that would allow a human being to survive.” SENT: 680 words, photo; HURRICANE-BERYL-MAYREAU — Survival story as Hurricane Beryl razes smallest inhabited island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. SENT: 590 words, photo.
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ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-STADIUM-SHELTER — Thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza have sought refuge in one of the territory’s largest soccer arenas. SENT: 370 words, photos, video. WITH: PALESTINIANS-HOME-GAMES — The Palestinian soccer team is determined to host a game. The football association has proposed playing games in the third stage of its Asian qualification campaign in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. SENT: 540 words, photo.
ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS — Separate Israeli airstrikes killed at least six people Friday in central Gaza, including two children at a home and at least one United Nations worker, even as stalled cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas show signs of renewed momentum. SENT: 1,010 words, photos, video. WITH: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-SETTLEMENTS — Israel has approved the largest land seizure in the occupied West Bank in over three decades with plans to build thousands of new settlement homes. The AP has mapped settlement and outpost expansion since 1967. SENT: Interactive map, graphics, 200 words.
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HEAT WAVE — Records tumble as dangerous heat wave scorches the U.S. West and beyond, with the worst yet to come. SENT: 850 words, photos, audio.
NEPAL-CLEANING-EVEREST — Mount Everest’s highest camp is littered with frozen garbage and cleanup is likely to take years. SENT: 560 words, photos.
NIGERIA-BOKO-HARAM — Nigeria claims it has degraded Islamic extremists, but new suicide bombings suggest they remain potent. SENT: 670 words, photos.
INDIA-AMBANI-WEDDING-EXPLAINER — Asia’s richest man. Mukesh Ambani, is set to throw a grand wedding for his son in India this month. SENT: 720 words, photos.
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CONGRESS-SPENDING-EXPLAINER — House Republicans are off to a quicker, more united start in funding the federal government, passing four of 12 annual appropriations bills before the end of June compared with zero at this time last year. But there is no denying the spending fights to come. SENT: 1,140 words, photos.
ELECTION-2024-CALIFORNIA-BALLOT-INITIATIVES — Forced labor, same-sex marriage and shoplifting are among the 10 statewide ballot measures California voters will consider in November. SENT: 840 words, photos.
ELECTION-2024-WISCONSIN-DROP-BOXES — The Wisconsin Supreme Court is changing course and will allow officials to place ballot drop boxes around their communities in this fall’s elections in the presidential swing state. SENT: 720 words, photos.
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MIGRANT-SHELTERS-THINGS-TO-KNOW — Texas is widening investigations into aid organizations along the U.S.-Mexico border over claims that nonprofits are helping migrants illegally enter the country. A judge in El Paso accused the state of harassment after Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tried to shutter a shelter. SENT: 790 words, photos.
MISSING WIFE ARREST-ARIZONA — An Arizona man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Friday in his wife’s death, less than a week after he reported her missing to Flagstaff police. SENT: 520 words, photos.
US-CONEY-ISLAND-DROWNING — Police in New York said two teenagers died while swimming at Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn on Friday evening. SENT: 130 words, photo.
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BRITAIN-NEW-GOVERNMENT-LIST — Who’s who in Britain’s Labour government led by new Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Labour has spent 14 years in opposition, so few have held government office before. SENT: 220 words, photos.
SLOVAKIA-PRIME-MINISTER — Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico made his first public appearance since a May assassination attempt. SENT: 260 words, photos.
FRANCE-MOULIN-ROUGE — Paris’ famed Moulin Rouge cabaret got its red windmill back Friday during a special ceremony that featured can-can dancing outside. The mill’s huge sails inexplicably collapsed after a show earlier this year. SENT: 160 words, photos.
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AIRLINES-COMPLAINTS — Air travel is getting more miserable, based on the number of travelers who filed complaints with the U.S. government last year. SENT: 350 words, photos, audio.
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PRINCE-ESTATE-LAWSUIT — Delaware judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit in a battle over the estate of the late pop icon Prince. SENT: 460 words.
SAVING-SMALL-THEATERS — How an Oscar-winning filmmaker helped a small-town art theater in Ohio land a big grant. SENT: 650 words, photos, video.
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GIANT-GREENHOUSE-TRIBAL-NATION — A Native American tribe in North Dakota is planning a sprawling greenhouse complex on its reservation. SENT: 780 words, photos.
PONGAMIA TREE-WHAT TO KNOW — An ancient tree from India is thriving in Florida groves where citrus trees once flourished and could help provide the nation with renewable energy. SENT: 1,050 words, photos, video.
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SOC--EURO 2024-PORTUGAL-FRANCE — France beat Portugal 5-3 in a penalty shootout to reach the European Championship semifinals and end Cristiano Ronaldo’s bid to win the title in his last appearance at the tournament. SENT: 620 words, photos.
SOC-COPA-AMERICA-CANADA-VENEZUELA — Ismael Koné scored in the sixth round of the shootout after a third save by Maxime Crépeau and Canada advanced to the semifinals of its first Copa America with a victory over Venezuela. SENT: 700 words, photos.
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Theo Hernandez of France, right, celebrates with goalkeeper Mike Maignan after scores the winning goal to defeat Portugal during a quarter final match at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Hamburg, Germany, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Canada midfielder Ismael Kone (8) celebrates with teammates after making the winning penalty kick against Venezuela a Copa America quarterfinal soccer match in Arlington, Texas, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Rodriguez)
Elisabeth Beagle, Terviva's director of tree operations, places a newly grafted pongamia tree in a high- humidity greenhouse at the company's nursery, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Fort Pierce, Fla. The tree produces a legume that is now being used to produce several products, including Panova table oil, Kona protein bars and protein flour. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
This photo shows the interior of the first greenhouse of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation's Native Green Grow complex, taken April 3, 2024, near Parshall, N.D. The greenhouse is part of the first of four phases MHA Nation has planned for the growing operation. (RML Architects via AP)
Dancers perform in front of the Moulin Rouge cabaret during the inauguration of the theatre's windmill in Paris, Friday, July 5, 2024. The mill's huge sails inexplicably collapsed after a show last month at the iconic venue, an emblem of the surrounding Montmartre neighborhood and bohemian Paris lifestyle. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Workers segregate the garbage collected en route Mount Everest, at a facility operated by Agni Ventures, an agency that manages recyclable waste, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, June 24, 2024. The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tons (24,000 pounds) of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during this year's climbing season. (AP Photo/Sanjog Manandhar)
FILE - Nita Ambani, left, wife of Mukesh Ambani along with his son Anant Ambani, center right, and his fiancée Radhika Merchant, second left, greet guests during their pre-wedding ceremony at their residence in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 3, 2024.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk next a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Sherri Thompson, with her chihuahua 14-year-old Kiwahi, waits in her vehicle for the Cook Plaza cooling center to open on Friday, July 5, 2024, in Gresham, Ore. Thompson has lived in her car for three years, and can only run its air conditioning for about 20 minutes at a time as it causes the engine to overheat. A heat wave is spreading across Wester U.S., the national Weather Service said, sending many residents in search of a cool haven from the dangerously high temperatures. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
People line up to receive food at an army-provided soup kitchen for those affected by Hurricane Beryl in Tulum, Mexico, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron reacts as he delivers a speech, Wednesday, June 12, 2024 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron's expected political failure in decisive parliamentary elections Sunday may paralyze the country, weaken him abroad and overshadow his legacy, just as France is about to be in the global spotlight as host of the Paris Olympics. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
FILE - Far-right National Rally party president Jordan Bardella, right, leaves with far-right leader Marine Le Pen after a press conference, Monday, June 24, 2024 in Paris. Both Le Pen and Bardella have made clear that, in power, they would seek to rein-in Macron and exert themselves in defense, European and foreign affairs decision-making. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
FILE - In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 1, 2024, a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired from a launch pad in northwestern Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
First lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Douglass Emhoff watch as President Joe Biden raises the hand of Vice President Kamala Harris as they view the Independence Day firework display over the National Mall from the balcony of the White House, Thursday, July 4, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Joe Biden, right, greets supporters at a campaign rally at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wis., Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Reformist candidate for the Iran's presidential election Masoud Pezeshkian, right, leaves a polling station after casting his vote, in Shahr-e-Qods near Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 5, 2024. Iranians are voting in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country’s northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
