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By HARRIET MORRIS Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his end-of-year news conference Thursday — and this year,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The defense ministers of Japan, Britain and Italy have signed an agreement to establish a joint…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Siberian Battalion is unique in many ways. It’s soldiers are Russians who…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The inflation plaguing European shoppers has fallen faster than expected. The economy…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England is set to join its peers in the U.S. and Europe in keeping borrowing rates…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia batter Usman Khawaja has worn a black armband because he wasn’t allowed to wear shoes branded with a “all…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The renowned chief from the Amazon rainforest and the Belgian filmmaker appeared to be…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — As the age-old adage goes, don’t mess with success. The Grammy Awards aren’t,…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. James Comer, who is leading the House Republicans’ impeachment investigation of Joe…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press TOMPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Rep. James Comer, who is leading the House Republicans’ impeachment…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines are facing uncertainty and concerns after President Javier…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatively few Americans are excited about a potential rematch of the 2020…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge in Wyoming will decide as soon as Thursday whether to strike down, affirm or hold a…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mickey Mouse is about to belong to you and me. The earliest version of Disney’s…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It was considered to be among the world’s most productive partnerships between an…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela are scheduled to meet face-to-face as regional partners urgently seek to defuse a…

BOGOTA.Colombia (AP) — A Colombian congressional committee has ordered a preliminary investigation into President Gustavo Petro over allegations of…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by lawyers for a spiritual adviser to an Alabama inmate scheduled to be…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County prosecutors say two men who spent decades in prison for crimes they didn’t commit have been exonerated and…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two leading international human rights groups are accusing Greek authorities of failing…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Senate has approved the appointment of Justice Minister Flávio Dino to take a…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was suspended indefinitely by the NBA on…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Lawyers for three Washington state officers charged in the death of a Black man who was…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas high school Black student who has been disciplined and kept away…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a defense policy bill that authorizes the biggest pay bump for troops in…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — She’s Time magazine’s person of the year. She’s the…

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian appeals court has overturned all convictions against a woman 20 years after a jury found her guilty of killing her four…

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas woman who cut off her ankle monitor and fled the country while awaiting trial last year has been found guilty of murder in…

MONACA, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police officer has been indicted on involuntary manslaughter and other charges after prosecutors say he pushed…

By BETH HARRIS and RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani can opt out of his $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge says Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will not be allowed to use…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Country singer Luke Combs is making amends to a disabled Florida woman who sells tumblers online after she was ordered to pay…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Dick Nunis, who helped expand The Walt Disney Company’s in-person entertainment ambitions from a single theme park in…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man has been arrested for setting fire to papers inside the New York City courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico say a Canadian man with a criminal record in his home country has been killed in a shooting at a mall in…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Even with two lanes each way, the main road through Atlantic City can be choked with…

By CLAIRE RUSH and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Oregon and Washington authorities say they are making the war on fentanyl a top…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Somalia’s president says his son didn’t flee Turkey after he was involved in a fatal…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard is being questioned by some…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional commission is asking the Justice Department to investigate the role of Beijing…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The first tropical cyclone to hit Australia in the current season has weakened to a low…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Georgia election worker suing Rudy Giuliani over false…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former professor at Harvard Medical School and founder of one of the nation’s largest…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Authorities have filed a murder charge in the October slaying of a Detroit synagogue leader, saying she…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Dozens of student protesters at Brown University were arrested, and a weeklong sit-in at Haverford College ended…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida mother tearfully testified that her family could be torn apart if the…

By ASTRID SUAREZ and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities are investigating the alleged kidnapping and…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit brought by Democrats seeking to end…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN & OMAR FARUK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Somalia has secured a $4.5 billion debt relief deal from its international…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors say a man accused of engaging in a shootout with Philadelphia police that left him and two officers wounded is now…

NEW YORK (AP) — “Barbie” may soon be joined by another Mattel doll on the big screen. The toy company announced Wednesday that it’s…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Noah Gragson has spent the last five months working on personal growth and maturity…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple is now requiring that U.S. law enforcement agencies obtain a court order for information on its customers’ push…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An NCAA survey of student-athletes suggests they are experiencing fewer mental health concerns than they did at the height of…

Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — One U.S. Marine has died and 14 others were taken to hospitals after an amphibious combat vehicle they were in…

IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to at least 70 years in prison for causing the deaths of two bicyclists taking part in a charity…

WASHINGTON (AP) — It seemed only fitting that Oprah Winfrey chose to wear a flowing, full-length purple dress for her portrait unveiled Wednesday…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Just months after filing for bankruptcy, SmileDirectClub announced it was shutting…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general is again accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they intend to retry former Louisville officer Brett Hankison. Last…