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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state cabinet secretary and former economist to the Legislature has been selected to oversee New Mexico’s $49 billion…

DELANO, Calif. (AP) — “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson has been sent to a California state prison to serve his sentence for two rape…

NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) — A juvenile sperm whale that appeared to be in poor health has been euthanized after stranding on a North Carolina beach. The…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The family of a 16-year-old who was killed by Des Moines police in December 2022 has filed a lawsuit arguing that the teen…

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By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Pop star Shakira has been immortalized in her Colombian hometown of Barranquilla, where…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Five Boardwalk casinos and a hospital want a judge to prevent Atlantic City from…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Thank you, next! Ariana Grande will release a new album in 2024. On Wednesday, the two-time Grammy award winner…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Thousands of union members and activists are taking to the streets of…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The reputed last member of the famed World War II American jungle fighting unit nicknamed the Merrill’s Marauders has…

MIAMI (AP) — Emergency workers in South Florida rescued two people from a canal after their helicopter crashed. The helicopter was carrying two…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota Republican does not immediately plan to resign following a DUI traffic stop in…

By The Associated Press wo higher end models of the Apple Watch can go on sale again after a federal court temporarily lifted a sales halt ordered by…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly blocked entrance roads to airports in New York and Los…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Crews removed a Confederate monument from a Jacksonville, Florida, park following years of public controversy. Work began…

BERLIN Gaston Glock, the Austrian developer of the handgun that bears his name, has died. He was 94. The Austria Press Agency reports that the Glock…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge has ordered a woman who set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic…

Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued high surf warnings for much of the West Coast and parts of Hawaii.…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and HALELUYA HADERO AP Technology Writers A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in…

MOSCOW (AP) — India’s foreign minister has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said relations between the countries are progressing…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Police say the dead bodies that Texas investigators believe to have been a pregnant woman and her boyfriend were found with…

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Jacques Delors, who transformed Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the…

By RONITA CHOUDHURI-WADE of NerdWallet Semaglutide medications like Ozempic have been a breakthrough for health and diabetes management, but the…

Associated Press CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) — Six people are dead and three others critically injured after a head-on crash on a north Texas highway. The…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Kicking up a cloud of dust, the men riding bareback were in a rowdy scramble to be the…

By The Associated Press Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man has been charged with hate crimes following the Christmas Day stabbing of two teenage tourists from Paraguay at…

LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida woman holding her 11-month-old son in a baby carrier was fatally shot by her 14-year-old brother while…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A man charged with killing his parents and two of their friends days after being released from prison in Maine no longer…

PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — A 27-year-old man survived for six days on only rainwater while pinned tightly inside his crashed pickup truck beneath a…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Aigul Akhmetshina says she’s a fighter — and she’s had to be to make it to the…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer When it was introduced 75 years ago, the purpose of the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll was to…

GIBBSTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Two neighboring New Jersey towns may feel even closer next year when they’re governed by two brothers. Sixty-one-year-old…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith is asking a judge to bar Donald Trump’s lawyers from injecting…

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe Awards are back on the first Sunday in January with plenty of behind-the-scenes changes aimed at…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in more than two decades, the top three movies at the box office this year…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using its stories to train…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press Led by new solar power, the world added renewable energy at…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot. The court said…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Heat exhaustion is the cause of death of a Brazilian fan who attended a concert of…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says the former president of a top division soccer team who was jailed for punching a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has praised Japan’s contribution to their military…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It’s a festive old English drink that you can have fun experimenting with. Sloe gin can be used in…

PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — Police say a man who had been trapped for days in his crashed pickup truck has been rescued in northwest Indiana. State Police…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A main opposition candidate in Congo accused police of using live bullets to break up a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s political battle over state media continues as the president has filed a revised spending bill in defiance of the…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Health authorities say a Greek riot police officer who was shot with a flare during fan violence in Athens three weeks ago…

By CHRISTIAN WARDLAW Edmunds Ready to go the distance, or at least as far as a plug-in hybrid can take you on electricity before using a drop of gas?…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower was shut down to visitors Wednesday because of a strike over contract…

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ja Morant is quickly re-establishing himself as one of the NBA’s best players upon his…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s defense minister says the military has hit more than 70 sites linked to Kurdish groups in Syria and northern…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian politician calling for peace in Ukraine has lost her appeal against election officials’ refusal to accept her nomination…

LONDON (AP) — Bill Granger, the Australian chef, food writer and restaurant owner who brought Aussie-style food to international capitals from…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel launched heavy strikes across central and southern…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek air force training jet has crashed in the countryside outside an airbase near the southern town of Kalamata, leaving…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Najiah Knight is a 17-year-old bull rider with a big dream. She wants to be the first woman…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Najiah Knight is a 17-year-old bull rider with a big dream. She wants to be the first woman…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The death toll from a massive fire at a guesthouse in Romania has risen to seven people, including at least two children.…

By YAYAN ZAMZAMI Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Students in Indonesia’s Aceh province have rallied demanding the government drive…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has fired almost 50 Shahed drones at targets in Ukraine and shelled a train station…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have detained a man in connection with a reported threat to Cologne Cathedral over the holiday weekend.…

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. ecommerce company Zulily says it is closing down, surprising customers, after efforts to salvage the business failed. The…

By The Associated Press World shares advanced on Wednesday, tracking Wall Street gains as markets there reopened for what’s expected to be a quiet,…

BEIJING (AP) — China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese nuclear safety regulators are lifting an operational ban imposed on Tokyo Electric Power…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will seek a fourth term in office, his party says, noting he will be its…

By GENE JOHNSON, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, MARK THIESSEN and LINDSEY WASSON Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — A wildfire that tore through the…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — At his suburban St. Louis home, Brett Koenig can pull out his smartphone and open a…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN AND ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Venezuelan diaspora is one of the most vexing migration challenges facing the…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The blank canvass of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Much of how South Carolina has seen its civil rights history has been through the lens…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley is betting her 2024 candidacy on winning South Carolina. But the politics of…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With the GOP primary process just about to start, many Republicans…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act. The powerful…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A top U.S. delegation is to meet with Mexico’s president Wednesday in what many see as a bid to get him to do more to stem…