JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's presidential election campaign officially began Tuesday with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leading all polls against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro amid growing concern of political violence and threats t...

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Photo altered t...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended the elected state prosecutor of Tampa on Thursday for pledging not to enforce the state's new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender transition treatments for minors. The Republica...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Spencer Rattler smiled broadly and sat up his chair thinking about South Carolina's first game a month away. 'œI'm just ready to go,'ť the ex-Oklahoma quarterback said Thursday. 'œIt's been some time since I played football, l...

MADRID (AP) - When Karim Benzema went down in pain after getting hurt in a practice session during Real Madrid's preseason tour in the United States, it was understandable why his teammates and the coaching staff appeared concerned. Madrid can't aff...

For the eighth consecutive year, the Women in Business Advisory Forum (WIBAF), a networking group of the Palatine Area Chamber of Commerce, has awarded $1,000 scholarships to female high school seniors in the Palatine community. This year's deservin...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Marilyn Mosby, a high-profile prosecutor who aligned herself with criminal justice reformers but ended up with legal problems of her own, has lost the Democratic primary for Baltimore state's attorney to Ivan Bates, a defense a...

A Russian court on Friday sentenced a top opposition figure to a years-long prison term, the latest move in the Kremlin's multipronged crackdown on opposition activists, independent media and rights groups. Andrei Pivovarov, former head of the Open...

TOKYO (AP) - The body of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was returned to Tokyo on Saturday after he was fatally shot during a campaign speech in western Japan a day earlier. Abe was attacked in the city of Nara and airlifted to a local hosp...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month. The timing was not likely a coincidence. Whi...