SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader is on the path to a second term following Sunday's general elections, with his top competitors conceding early in the night as he took a big lead in early vote tallies. The ballot came amid his government's crackdown along the country's...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Rescuers on Monday found a helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials that had apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran the day before. As the sun rose Monday, rescuers saw the helicopter from...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan has inaugurated Lai Ching-te as its a new president. It took place in a ceremony Monday after he won an election earlier this year. He is a relative moderate who will continue the self-governing island democracy's policy of de facto independence while seeking to bolster its defenses against...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Xander Schauffele cashed in at just the right time Sunday by making a six-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the PGA Championship for his first major with the lowest score in major championship history. The Olympic gold medallist got something even more valuable in silver - that enormous W...

ATLANTA (AP) - President Joe Biden on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College that he heard their voices of protest over the Israel-Hamas war, and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza have been heartbreaking. "I support peaceful nonviolent protest," he told students, some who wore keffiyeh scar...

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) - Slovakia's populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European Union nation, the defense...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a "hard landing" on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on th...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's army says it "foiled a coup" early Sunday morning and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following a shootout between armed men in military uniform and guards of a close ally of Congo's president that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa. At firs...

Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel's three-member War Cabinet, threatened on Saturday to resign from the government if it doesn't adopt a new plan in three weeks' time for the war in Gaza, a move that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more reliant on his far-right allies.His announcement escalates a d...

Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid. The grey colt took advantage of the muddy track just like Lukas hoped he would, pulling off the upset in a second conse...