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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are among the 10 films that will receive an AFI Award in January, the American…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Kentucky child is dead and a Missouri infant has brain damage from the same kind of bacteria…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A college student of Palestinian descent who was shot and seriously injured in Vermont last month has been released from the…

By The Associated Press Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” will get a theatrical release in Japan after all. The Japanese distributor Bitters…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican presidential primary debates have been scheduled in Iowa and New Hampshire in…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is facing a $68 billion budget deficit. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge says an ex-Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers have completed a special session with the House voting 98-71 Thursday to give final…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A deputy U.S. Marshal was charged in the United Kingdom on Thursday with entering an…

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels is The Associated Press college football player of the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The stage musical “How to Dance in Ohio” opens on Broadway on Sunday, celebrating those…

A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison for murdering her two youngest children and another woman has pleaded not guilty to charges in Arizona…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing catastrophic rains in East…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say its military government has been freeing soldiers and police who had been…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed his unwavering support for the Jewish people as he…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Police say a 14-year-old is now facing a second-degree murder charge in the death of a 20-year-old during a Halloween weekend…

NEW YORK (AP) — Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In response to increasing attacks against ships in the southern Red Sea by Iranian-backed…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the years following the deadly 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack, relatives of those slain have…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in the Kremlin. That meetings continues a blitz round of…

By KEMO CHAM Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leone government spokesman says that a former president has been called in for…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump returned to his civil business fraud trial as…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The heads of state from South America’s Mercosur trade bloc are in Rio…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Puerto Rico say three men have been indicted as part of an ongoing federal investigation into…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will hold a vote on whether to censure Rep. Jamaal Bowman for triggering a fire…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After more than a half-century of making music together, Daryl Hall is suing John…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government is pouring resources into detecting what it suggests are “fake”…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan Seacrest will usher in 2024 on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” from Times Square, with…

By JACK DURA and JIM SALTER Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer crashed into a North Dakota…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s top court has rejected a request by Niger’s junta for a lifting of…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian melodrama’s official recognition as a global cultural treasure is getting trumpeted with…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A British hedge fund trader extradited from the United Arab Emirates to Denmark where he was wanted for allegedly…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A new law has been passed in Denmark’s parliament that makes it illegal to desecrate any holy text in the country. The…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged $4.5 billion to Ukraine, including $1 billion in…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Tennis pro Nick Kyrgios is setting up a free-to-access OnlyFans page. Kyrgios is a 28-year-old Australian who was…

By AMANDA SEITZ and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting pharmaceutical companies on notice.…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer U.S. applications for jobless benefits ticked up last week, but the overall number of people in the U.S. collecting…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE and SAM METZ Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The United Nations’ top peacekeeping official has defended its missions…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States has offered strong support to Israel in its war against the…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Two international human rights groups say two Israeli strikes that killed a Reuters videographer and…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — For months, Albanian opposition parties have used flares and noise to disrupt Parliament,…

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a pickup truck driver in a suburb of Boston is accused of crashing into a police officer and a…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says Russia’s intelligence services have targeted high-profile British politicians, civil servants and…

LONDON (AP) — Benjamin Zephaniah, a British dub poet and political activist who drew inspiration from his Caribbean roots, has died. He was 65. In…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska (AP) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday that it will donate $100…

BY ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s down to two candidates in the race to lead the nation’s fourth-largest city.…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Authorities in Seychelles have declared a state of emergency after a blast at an explosives store caused “massive…

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Olympic committee is pushing to send hundreds of athletes to a navy…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A court in the Netherlands says it will rule in two weeks on the sentence for a man convicted in Canada in a notorious…

LONDON (AP) — Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning for a second day of testimony before a COVID-19 public inquiry, facing…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Chinese naval vessels have become the first ships to dock at a new pier at a…

By The Associated Press President Ilham Aliyev has ordered Azerbaijan’s Central Election Commission to prepare for an early presidential…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces struck the southern Gaza town of Rafah twice…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is struggling to avert a leadership crisis. It erupted after his…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian state news agencies and authorities say a Russian schoolgirl has shot several of her classmates with a gun before killing…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Greece in an effort to mend strained relations and reset ties with Western…

BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of China and the European Union are holding wide-ranging talks that include their disputes over trade and a deep divide…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech Walesa, Poland’s 80-year-old former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, says he is improving after being…

By TIAN MACLEOD JI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow says she feels she’s still under the watch of…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers on Thursday set the date of the 2024 presidential election for March 17, moving Vladimir Putin closer to a fifth…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Twitch, a popular video service, will shut down its struggling business in South…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An internal Amazon memo has provided a stark look at the company’s carefully laid out plans…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has signed a security pact with its nearest neighbor Papua New…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — When Notre Dame went up in flames in 2019, people who worked in the cathedral felt orphaned. With…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Thursday in Asia after a retreat on Wall Street as crude oil prices slipped on…