JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of the 22-year-old Shani's twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world and brought to light the sca...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday morning on his way to the PGA Championship, with stunning images showing him handcuffed as he was led to a police car. ESPN reported he failed to follow police orders during a pedestrian fatality investigation. Traffic was backed up for about...

ROUEN, France (AP) - France's Interior Minister said Friday that a man who was shot and killed by police after a suspected arson attack on a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen was an Algerian national who'd sought medical treatment in France and wasn't flagged as a suspected extremist. The minister, Gerald Darmani...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - Slovak prime minister has undergone another operation after he was shot on Wednesday and remains in serious condition, the country's defense minister said Friday. Fico, 59, was shot multiple times as he was greeting supporters after a government meeting in the former coal mining town of Hand...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow's offensive in Ukraine's Kharkiv region aims to create a buffer zone but has no plans to capture the city. Speaking to reporters Friday on a visit to Harbin, China, Putin said that Moscow launched attacks in the Kharkiv region in response to ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Russia and China are helping each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan's outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Associated Press. His comments came as Russia...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican on Friday radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena, insisting on having the final say in whether the events are worthy of popular devotion. The Vatican's doctrine office overhauled norms f...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast on Friday, South Korea's military said, a day after South Korea and the U.S. flew powerful fighter jets for a joint drill that the North views as a major security threat. A statement from South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff gave no furth...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. floating pier into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hinder food and other supplies reaching people there. The shipment is the first in an op...

HOUSTON (AP) - Severe thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking out power to nearly 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area. Mary Benton, chief of communications and ...