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This image released by Universal Pictures shows a scene from "Jurassic World Dominion." (Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment via AP)

With ‘Jurassic World 3,’ dinosaurs rule again at box office

“Jurassic World: Dominion” took a mighty bite out of the box office with $143.4 million in North American ticket sales according to studio estimates Sunday. Including earnings from international … more

By LINDSEY BAHR | 6/12/22

In this photo provided on Saturday, June 11, 2022 by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee held during June 8 - June 10, 2022 in Pyongyang, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Seoul: North Korea fires suspected artillery pieces into sea

South Korea says North Korea has test-fired suspected artillery pieces into the sea. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says it detected several flight trajectories believed to be North Korean … more

By HYUNG-JIN KIM | 6/12/22

Miracle Allen takes a call on her cellphone while waiting to meet with the midwife at Sisters in Birth, a Jackson, Miss., clinic that serves pregnant women, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Amid abortion debate, clinic asks: Who's caring for moms?

The founder of a midwifery clinic in Mississippi's capital is trying to open the state's first birth center. As state Republican officials are trying to ban abortion and await a ruling that could … more

By LEAH WILLINGHAM | 6/12/22

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, left, and Timur Suleimenov, Chair of the 12th Ministerial Conference attend a press conference before the opening of the 12th Ministerial Conference at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, June 12, 2022. For the first time in 4 1/2 years, after a pandemic pause, government ministers from WTO countries will gather for four days starting Sunday to tackle issues like overfishing of the seas, COVID-19 vaccines for the developing world and food security. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

WTO chief sees 'bumpy' road as ministers work to reach deals

The head of the World Trade Organization is predicting a “bumpy and rocky" road as the international trade body opens its highest-level meeting in 4-1/2 years. Director-General Ngozi said she hopes … more

By JAMEY KEATEN | 6/12/22

Ukraine supporters cheer on the stands during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Ukraine and Armenia, in Lodz, Poland, Saturday, June 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Ukraine's leader says his troops keep defying predictions

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says no one knows how long the war in his country will last but that Ukrainian forces are defying expectations by preventing Russian troops from overrunning … more

By DAVID KEYTON and JOHN LEICESTER | 6/12/22

A view of an election poster for the upcoming parliamentary election with the face of Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the far left opposition party, in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, June 9, 2022. French voters were choosing lawmakers in a parliamentary election Sunday, June 12, 2022 as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to secure his majority while under growing threat from a leftist coalition. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

France holds parliamentary election in vital test for Macron

French voters are choosing lawmakers in a parliamentary election as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to secure his majority while under growing threat from a leftist coalition. More than 6,000 … more

By SYLVIE CORBET | 6/12/22

New York Mets' Francisco Lindor rounds the bases after hitting a home run against the Seattle Mariners during the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 15, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Mic'd up during ESPN Sunday night games draws rave reviews

Major League Baseball has taken its fair share of criticism for changes trying to get younger fans interested in the game, but there has been one this season that has generated rave reviews. MLB has … more

By JOE REEDY | 6/11/22

Philadelphia Phillies' Zack Wheeler pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Saturday, June 11, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

9 straight! Phils match best win run in 11 years, top Dbacks

Zack Wheeler struck out eight over six sharp innings, Bryson Stott hit a two-run homer and the Philadelphia Phillies won their ninth straight game with a 4-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. … more

By DAN GELSTON | 6/11/22

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas speaks to media before the second day's session of an extraordinary meeting of EU leaders to discuss Ukraine, energy and food security at the Europa building in Brussels, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Estonia opposition party opts to start coalition talks

A small conservative opposition party whose support is seen crucial in attempts to form a majority government In Estonia following the break-up of the governing center-right coalition earlier this … more

6/11/22

FILE - Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference June 7, 2022, in New York. Giuliani, one of Donald Trump’s primary lawyers during the then-president's failed efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, must now answer to professional ethics charges, the latest career slap after law license suspensions in New York and the District of Columbia. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Rudy Giuliani faces ethics charges over Trump election role

Rudy Giuliani was one of Donald Trump’s primary lawyers during Trump's failed efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Now, a disciplinary branch of the District of … more

6/11/22

A Italian firefighter helicopter searches the site of a helicopter crash in central Italy, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Italian rescuers say they have located the scorched crash site of a helicopter carrying seven people that went down in north-central Italy during a storm. News reports say five bodies were located. Italy’s Alpine rescue service said ground crews were already on the scene on Mt. Cusna, after a hiker reportedly came across remnants of the chopper. (Vigili del Fuoco via AP)

Italy locates 7 bodies at scorched crash site of helicopter

Italian rescuers say they have located bodies of seven people who died when their helicopter crashed in north-central Italy during a storm. The head of the air force rescue coordination unit said … more

6/11/22

Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez, left, speaks at a news conference along with Cuban exiles, of their concern of the sale of two local Spanish language radio stations, Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at the Bay of Pigs Museum and Brigade 2506 headquarters in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. Cuban exiles describe it as a clear attempt by Democrats to stifle conservative and anti-Communist voices in a Hispanic community where they've lost ground. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Miami Cubans oppose Democrat-backed Spanish radio deal

Democratic Party fundraisers are backing a $60 million purchase of Spanish-language radio stations in ten U.S. cities. The markets are diverse. Their audiences have roots all over Latin America. But … more

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON | 6/11/22

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz walks past the honor guard accompanied by North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski, during a welcome ceremony at the government building in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Saturday, June 11, 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived Saturday in Skopje, as a part of his Balkan's tour in a bid to unblock the North Macedonia's strive to start the EU membership talks, burdened by Bulgarian veto. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Germany's Scholz tries to unblock North Macedonia's EU bid

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has visited North Macedonia and Bulgaria in a bid to resolve the dispute between both countries that has seen European Union membership talks with both North Macedonia … more

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES and VESELIN TOSHKOV | 6/11/22

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during the opening plenary session of the Summit of the Americas, June 9, 2022, in Los Angeles. This past week as Biden played host at the Summit of the Americas his decision to exclude leaders he considers dictators generated considerable drama and prompted a number of other world leaders to boycott the event. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden juggles principles, pragmatism in stance on autocrats

When Joe Biden was running for president, he wasn't shy about calling out dictators and authoritarian leaders. And he anchored his foreign policy in the idea that the world is in a battle between … more

By AAMER MADHANI | 6/11/22

FILE - President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, back, help Herman Shaw, 94, a Tuskegee Syphilis Study victim, during a news conference on May 16, 1997. Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public in 1972 and halted, Manhattan-based philanthropy organization Milbank Memorial Fund is publicly apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)

New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis study

A New York-based philanthropy is publicly apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. The Manhattan-based Milbank Memorial Fund covered funeral expenses starting in the 1930s … more

By JAY REEVES | 6/11/22

North Korean leader reaffirms arms buildup in party meeting

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has doubled down on his arms buildup in the face of what he describes as an aggravating security environment. Meanwhile, he concluded a major political conference that … more

By KIM TONG-HYUNG | 6/11/22

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), attends an event on World Ocean Day with Finley the fish, made of ice, on place des Nations before of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC12) where a deal to end harmful fisheries subsidies could be reached in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

WTO looks to reach trade deals with its fate on the line

Government ministers from World Trade Organization member countries are gathering for four days to tackle key issues like overfishing of the seas, COVID-19 vaccines for the developing world and food … more

By JAMEY KEATEN | 6/11/22

This undated photo provided by Joo-Rei Mathieson shows herself when she was in childhood taken in South Korea. A Brothers Home intake document describes Mathieson as a lost street kid brought in by police. It notes, chillingly for a government-sponsored vagrants' facility that survivors have told The Associated Press often worked children to death, that she's "capable of labor." She spoke no words for days, the document says, after entering Brothers, a now-destroyed facility in the southern port city of Busan where thousands of children and adults, most of whom were grabbed off the streets, were enslaved and often killed, raped and beaten in the 1970s and 1980s. (Courtesy of Joo-Rei Mathieson via AP)

Survivor of abusive facility searches for lost Korean roots

Joo-Rei Mathieson was one of the lucky kids, escaping a brutal South Korean facility where thousands of children and adults — mostly grabbed off the streets — were enslaved and often killed, … more

By KIM TONG-HYUNG | 6/10/22

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a ceremony where Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of bills to strengthen gun laws, Monday, June 6, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

New York's lawsuit against NRA can move forward, judge rules

A New York judge says the state attorney general’s lawsuit against the National Rifle Association is no mere “witch hunt.” A decision issued Friday dismisses the gun rights advocacy group’s … more

6/10/22

FILE -This April 22, 2021, photo shows a Tesla Supercharger station in Buford, Ga. Tesla proposed a three-for-one split of its stock on Friday, June 10, 2022, a move that will make a single share of the electric car maker more accessible to investors but not affect the company's overall market value.(AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Tesla proposes a 3-for-1 stock split; Ellison to leave Board

Tesla has proposed a three-for-one split of its stock. The split will make a single share of the electric car maker more accessible to investors but not affect the company’s overall market value. … more

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