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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows cannot move…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The U.S. and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect…

BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) — A mother who shot and killed her 5-year-old son in an Ohio hotel after taking him there for a special day of fun has been…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco prosecutors have begun charging 80 protesters who last month snarled…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike believed to have been carried out by Jordan’s air force hit a southern province in…

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — If two of the latest Apple Watches are on your holiday shopping list, don’t dawdle for much longer because the devices…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Wright has played Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Luther King Jr. and Muddy Waters. Across an…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. food inspectors found “extremely high” lead levels in cinnamon at a plant in Ecuador that made applesauce…

By JIM SALTER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The largest nursing home in St. Louis has closed suddenly, forcing about…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and PAUL J. WEBER McALLEN, Texas The U.S. government has shut down railroad crossing operations in two busy Texas border towns.…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors has been convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend during a…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to review a gag…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The attorney for a former Florida sheriff’s deputy is arguing that his client had…

By MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it is conducting more on-site…

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — College athletes who have transferred multiple times but were denied the chance to compete…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Nikola Corp. has been sentenced to four years in prison for his conviction for…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities say a boarding school building partially collapsed in central Romania on Monday, leaving one person dead and…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A deadly outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe continues to grow.…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — France’s foreign minister is urging Lebanese leaders to work on reducing tensions along the border…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision by state regulators to grant a major…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department has created a database to track records of misconduct by…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America A 5-year-old boy who had been living at a temporary shelter for migrants in Chicago has died.…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a trial in North Dakota’s lawsuit for the federal…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial…

By DAVID CRARY Associated Press The Catholic church, in its doctrine, still rejects same-sex marriage and condemns any sexual relations between gay…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote on an Arab-sponsored resolution calling…

By KATIE WORKMAN Associated Press If you’re looking to make pretty Christmas cookies without any fuss or fancy decorating, drop cookies are a…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching a new program to cover Indigenous…

LONDON (AP) — British media report that comedian Russell Brand has been questioned for a second time by police investigating allegations of sexual…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has called for the resignation of the state prosecutor in Guanajuato in light of the state’s high…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities have arrested a player on the Sacramento Kings’ G League affiliate and his girlfriend in the killing of a woman…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press A Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice via a once-popular YouTube channel called “8 Passengers,”…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for how such blessings can…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s winners of the I Love My Librarian Award took on a lot more than selecting books…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to deliver a speech by Pakistan’s…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — The Maryland Stadium Authority has approved a lease extension for the Baltimore Orioles at…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Attorneys for a Kentucky woman who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion have…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing sanctions on Russia over its war against of Ukraine, targeting the lucrative diamonds industry as…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Leonard Bernstein was a towering figure on Broadway. So it seems only fitting that the new…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Aleksandar Vucic likes nothing more than to win. Critics say he cheats, but Serbia’s…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson.…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sebastian Siemiatkowski is a co-founder and CEO of Klarna, the Sweden-based company that’s one of…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities added popular detective novelist and dissident Grigory Chkhartishvili, known under the pen name Boris Akunin, to…

PARIS (AP) — The wax figure of actor Gerard Depardieu has been removed from Paris’ most famous wax museum, following negative reactions from…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The holidays can be a challenging time if you’re on a budget. This year, millions of people…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press The longtime president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Larry Kramer, will step down from his role at…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The commissioners from three of the remaining power conferences in college sports appeared together in a…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples. The Vatican issued a new document explaining a radical…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has won reelection to a third, six-year term in office. The National Election Authority said…

DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh’s capital has denied a bail request from a top opposition leader who was jailed after an October…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said Monday he is “very concerned” about increased…

By COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Oil and natural gas giant BP has joined the growing list of companies that have halted their…

NEW YORK (AP) — Heavy rain and high winds swept through the Northeast on Monday for the second time in a week, spurring flood warnings, electricity…

By REZA SAIFULLAH and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press SABANG, Indonesia (AP) — More than 200 people have protested against the continued arrival of…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s central bank says the country’s economy is likely to shrink again slightly in the current fourth quarter. Also…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military chief says a covert listening device was found in one of the offices…

LONDON (AP) — European Union authorities are looking into whether Elon Musk’s online platform X breached tough new social media regulations, in…

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s Supreme Court has rejected a special appeal by the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer U.S. Steel, the Pittsburgh steel producer that played a key role in the nation’s industrialization, is being…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Making returns will be more difficult this holiday season because more retailers are charging return fees, but there…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Supporters of Albania’s opposition Democratic Party are protesting while a parliamentary…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has announced plans to charge a carbon levy on imported raw materials such as…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Baghdad’s streets are nearly empty on Monday, the main day of polling in the country’s…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Allies of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say they are searching for him for a 13th day…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he has tested positive for COVID-19. The government says a visit by Slovakia’s prime…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — An explosion and inferno at Guinea’s main fuel depot in the capital of Conakry has…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — An early official vote count of Serbia’s weekend election has confirmed the triumph of the…