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ARDMORE, Okla. (AP) — Two former Oklahoma police officers face up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of murder for using their stun guns…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has extended the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A detective says one of three teens accused of setting a house fire in Denver that killed five…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift’s short film of “All Too Well,” set to the tune of her expanded and…

HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — State police say a man who traveled to space with William Shatner last month was killed along with another person…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two southeast Iowa teenagers have been formally charged with first-degree murder and…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. envoy says Lebanon is a failing state that has also failed its people, leaving them…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful Haitian gang leader says he is easing a chokehold on fuel deliveries that has caused a growing crisis for…

By BRYAN ANDERSON AND GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Rep. Madison Cawthorn says he’ll run in a…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ANNIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the frantic last hours of U.N. climate…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — Making an Olympic team is hard enough. This winter, those who earn their spots on the U.S. squad…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The label “date movie” hasn’t traditionally been applied much to documentaries but filmmakers…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Court records show that a man killed by Virginia State Police had been mentally ill for…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman is suing the manufacturer of a popular online slots game.…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A man is scheduled to go on trial next week in the death of one of 18 women he’s charged with…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” a black-and-white, heartfelt memory piece told largely from the…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court says a Minnesota woman seeking more than $360,000 in child support from the estate of one-time…

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan and local officials have been targeted in a lawsuit over high levels of lead in Benton Harbor’s drinking…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal court is allowing a team of environmental groups to continue with a lawsuit…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say they’ve arrested an 18-year-old man in this week’s shooting death of a Chinese student near the…

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Detected deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has risen for a second straight…

By RASHID YAHYA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of people from Middle Eastern nations devastated by conflict have…

LAURENS, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who killed a 2-year-old child found with bruises and bite marks all over his body and signs of sexual…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping will hold their…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers are readying to issue a subpoena on Gov. Kristi Noem’s…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on the military and ruling party of Eritrea over their…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A police officer says he would have given Ahmaud Arbery a warning for trespassing inside the…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government attorneys have asked a federal judge to uphold a decision from the waning…

By JESSICA MUNDIE Religion News Service For many Christians, the relationship between birds and faith does not stray farther than seeing a dove…

WHEELING, Ill. (AP) — Police have arrested a man in the strangulation death of an Illinois woman whose 1-year-old daughter was found dead in an…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Gulf nation of Qatar has agreed to represent U.S. interests in Afghanistan following the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for the second straight month in September,…

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — More than 40 women have filed a complaint against Opus Dei to the Vatican for…

By FAY ABUELGASIM and NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The United States, Britain and the European Union have slammed the…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A court in Lithuania has found two Lithuanian men guilty of spying for Russia by passing information to a Russian…

LAKE RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a Long Island man has been arrested for making a death threat against a Republican congressman from New…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada is temporarily withdrawing nonessential staff from its embassy in Haiti. The move comes in response to a spike in…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says she didn’t discuss the secret submarine deal that sent…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating former Food and Drug Administration…

BOSTON (AP) — Members of the union that represents about 200 workers at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have voted to hold a one-day strike next…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary could face fines from the European Union for failing to comply with a ruling by…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new rocket designed to launch humans to the moon, Mars and beyond will launch next year…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State Sen. Hugh Leatherman, South Carolina’s oldest and most powerful state lawmaker, has…

By PIA SARKAR Associated Press HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Since the start of the pandemic, Associated Press editor Pia Sarkar tried to play it safe.…

VIENNA (AP) — Austria is implementing a lockdown for unvaccinated people in two hard-hit regions next week and looks poised to move forward with…

By THOMAS ADAMSON and SYVLIE CORBET PARIS (AP) — French authorities are investigating an alleged rape that occurred earlier this year in the…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa says it has repaid all the aid it received from the German government last year to help the airline through the coronavirus…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin has rebuffed allegations that a buildup of Russian troops near Ukraine reflects…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and TOM MURPHY The Associated Press Johnson & Johnson is splitting into two companies, separating the division that sells…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Everyone over the age of 18 in Norway will be offered a booster shot of a vaccination against coronavirus, the…

LONDON (AP) — More than 1,000 people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Thursday to reach the U.K. from France, a new record for migrant…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S.…

LONDON (AP) — A former top aide to Prince Charles has quit as chief executive of the heir to the throne’s charitable foundation after…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has sent paratroopers to Belarus, in a show of support for its ally amid the tensions…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Turkey has halted airline ticket sales to Iraqi, Syrian and Yemeni citizens wanting to…

PARIS (AP) — The Paris Mosque is marking the sixth anniversary of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall that killed 90 people in the French…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s main opposition presidential candidate says he will strengthen military…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban provincial spokesman says a bomb exploded in a mosque during Friday prayers, wounding at least 15 people in…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Catholic Church in Portugal is setting up a national committee to coordinate the work of local church groups looking…

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given permission to marry his partner, lawyer Stella Moris, in prison. Assange has been…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish artist who is seeking to retrieve his sculpture in Hong Kong commemorating the victims of China’s 1989…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca says it will start to book a modest profit from its…

By ALESSANDRA TARANTINO and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis is visiting the hilltop town of his namesake for the…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The college football coaching carousel is spinning faster than ever. It is being pushed by the early…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Concerns are growing that China’s men’s hockey team could get embarrassed on home ice in Beijing at the…

By NICK PERRY and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Pacific Rim leaders have agreed to do all they can to improve access to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Top U.K. and European Union officials are meeting Friday to try to resolve their intractable…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Embattled Japanese technology conglomerate Toshiba is restructuring to improve its…

By LAETITIA BEZAIN Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — International agencies warn that more than 1.1 million people in southern…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has reintroduced its digital pass and is once again considering COVID-19 to be “a socially critical disease”…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says she’s running for reelection next year.…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Caretaker Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced a three-week partial lockdown…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A former German environment minister and outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff have…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping emerges from a party conclave this week not only more firmly ensconced in power than ever, but also with a…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand says it would delay the reopening of nightlife entertainment venues to Jan. 15 despite pleas from the industry to make it…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A jury has recommended up to 28 years in prison for a Missouri man found guilty of killing his wife. The jury returned the…

By SAM MAGDY and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Libyan leaders have reaffirmed in Paris their commitment to ensure the success of the…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — No country will see energy needs grow faster in coming decades than India, and even…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Voters go to the polls in Bulgaria for the third time in seven months this weekend after…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s disease control center is calling for people to cancel or avoid large events and to…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s preparations for the next coronavirus surge include adding thousands more hospital beds…

By FRANK JORDANS, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Going into overtime, negotiators at U.N. climate…

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing Olympic officials say two foreign athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 in ongoing test events for February’s Winter…

By DREW COSTLEY and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — In some parts of the U.S., the risks from climate change have…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Nearly two years into a global health crisis that has killed more than 5 million…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The outgoing Honduran president has started a three-day surprise visit to Taiwan amid worries by the self-ruled island that…

By DAVID RISING and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court has released 18 activists, including a prominent…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli appeals court says a 6-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy must be returned to his relatives…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian doctor living in Canada is back in Israel, seeking justice for his three…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Graeme Edge, a drummer and co-founder of The Moody Blues, has died. He was 80. The band’s frontman Justin Hayward confirmed…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the past week, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted a video showing a character with his face…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A little girl who lost a teddy bear she’d had since being adopted from an Ethiopian…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears is free. A Los Angeles judge on Friday ended the conservatorship that…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies…

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer Police continue to investigate a concert last week in Houston that left nine in the audience dead. A clearer…

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The jury that will decide Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate will be…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks closed higher on Wall Street on Friday, but still marked their first weekly loss in six weeks.…

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say the bodies of an Ohio couple missing since 2018 are believed to have been found in a car submerged in…

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood is recovering after surgery to remove uterine fibroids. Her office says surgery for the second-term…