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By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are trying to shore up their slipping dominance in…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are trying to shore up their slipping dominance in…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The two co-hosts of “The View” who were abruptly pulled off the air last week before a planned…
Continue ReadingBy ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s top diplomat says Syria’s doors are open for the safe return of refugees to their…
Continue ReadingBy LUIS ANDRES HENAO and PETER SMITH Associated Press Faith-based groups are scrambling to keep up with fast-paced developments in the Haitian…
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press The Biden administration is proposing a new rule that would shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Senate’s Republican leader have now had three COVID-19 shots…
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Court records show a Tennessee state senator charged with stealing $600,000 in federal grant money from a health care school…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar Airways says it suffered a more than $4 billion loss in revenues over the…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A high-ranking Roman Catholic cardinal who was placed on a ventilator after contracting…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — The guitar played by Johnny Ramone on all 15 Ramones albums and at nearly 2,000 live performances by the rock band sold at auction…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The dispute between Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers and its former government over…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Poland has convicted a man of instigating a murder in 2002 and participating in subsequent cannibalism and handed…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are getting into the fast-growing market for plant-based chicken. Beyond Meat…
Continue ReadingBy TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B superstar R. Kelly faces the possibility of decades in prison after being…
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer America had yet to really learn about sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Macron was hit at the shoulder by an egg thrown at him by a man during an international food trade fair in the French…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — After hovering for years at lows sometimes near $1 per pound, coffee futures — the price…
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s new prime minister has appealed to the international community to stand together…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Law enforcement agencies from eight European countries have pounced on a Balkan crime organization allegedly running the…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The Council of Europe has awarded its human rights prize to jailed Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova. She was arrested…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Some hospitals and nursing homes in New York began removing workers Monday for failing to meet…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has among the lowest rates of death nationally among pregnant women and…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Timbaland paved his own way as a hit-making producer for elite acts like Justin…
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say representatives from Iran and Saudi Arabia have held a new round of talks…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren said Monday that he will retire on…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Azerbaijan and Armenia are marking the first anniversary of the start of their six-week war in which more than 6,600 people died and…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Instagram is putting a hold on the development of Instagram kids, geared towards children under 13, so it can…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With a donation of $1.5 million from author James Patterson, Scholastic Book Clubs has launched…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Tuesday finally meet with members of the COVID-19 Bereaved…
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The lead judge investigating last year’s massive blast in Beirut’s port…
Continue ReadingBy MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Many of the 38 members recognized by the United Nations as small island developing states are known…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCESCO FEDELI Associated Press SAN MARINO (AP) — Pope Francis has repeated the Catholic stance that abortion is…
Continue ReadingBy LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Millions of U.S. workers have changed jobs or are looking, often in pursuit of flexible hours, remote work and other…
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry says two Canadians detained in late 2019 who were allowed to…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has sought urgent clearance…
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Wildlife campaigners have called on the Albanian government to stop the construction of…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says two of its members died from injuries they suffered in an…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Aboriginal man is taking Australia’s government to court to argue that Indigenous…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Princess Mako’s fiancé has returned to Japan for their marriage, which was suspended…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has put dozens of soldiers on standby to help easy fuel supply problems…
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Voters in Berlin have backed a proposal for the Berlin city government to take over about…
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s voters have delivered their verdict. Now it’s up to party leaders to thrash out who…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan is traveling to Saudi Arabia.…
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL ROCA and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — A Spanish island volcano that has buried more than 500…
Continue ReadingBy RISHI LEKHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of Indian farmers are blocking major roads and railway tracks outside the capital of New…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Global shoppers face possible shortages of smartphones and other goods ahead of…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Seasonal monsoon rains may worsen flooding that has already badly affected about a third of Thailand. A tropical storm swept through…
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A strong earthquake has struck the Greek island of Crete. One person…
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The party that narrowly beat outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc is pushing for a…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly lower as concerns about China chip away at investor optimism after a mixed…
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Electricity is a potent symbol of endemic corruption in Iraq, rooted in the country’s sectarian…
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press A federal judge says the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan four decades ago can be released…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON, MARTHA BELLISLE and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press JOPLIN, Mont. (AP) — An Amtrak train that derailed in rural Montana over the…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gen. Mark Milley has been the target of more political intrigue in two…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are promising historic investments across all levels of education…
Continue ReadingBy OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A cyclone flooded parts of India’s eastern coast with heavy rains and uprooted thousands…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators have blocked a bill to keep the U.S. government funded and…
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Sam is a powerful Category 3 storm in the Atlantic but it poses no threat to land as it loops northward in the Atlantic. The…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian share are mostly higher, but skepticism about the regional economic outlook tempered the…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Rolling Stones are touring again, this time without their heartbeat, or at least their…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Two women are among candidates for Japan’s governing party leadership for the first time in 13…
Continue ReadingLANSING, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities say three people have died in the crash of a small plane in southern West Virginia. The Federal Aviation…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney tells CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that she was wrong to have…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army says it found a 43-acre (17.4-hectare) marijuana farm in the northern border state of Chihuahua. The army said…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Several thousand students and political activists have marched through downtown Mexico City to demand authorities find out what…
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A hospital spokeswoman says six people who were wounded in a mass shooting at a Tennessee supermarket are no longer in…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The Austrian Communist Party unexpectedly won a municipal election in the Alpine country’s second biggest city Sunday, according to…
Continue ReadingROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Fire officials in Rochester are investigating a fire that damaged the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. Firefighters…
Continue ReadingJACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A north Florida sheriff’s deputy who was recently shot twice during a traffic stop has died. Nassau County Sheriff Bill…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The deadly Amtrak derailment in north-central Montana of the Empire Builder, traveling from Chicago to Seattle, is being…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen have released 10 students in Nigeria’s north nearly three months after they…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police officers shot and killed an armed man in front of dozens of witnesses, many of whom had…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Thousands of British gas stations have run dry, as motorists scrambled to fill up amid a supply disruption due to a shortage of truck…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline went up by a penny over the past two weeks, to $3.25 per…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are gaining the upper hand on a forest fire that displaced thousands of people near Shasta…
Continue ReadingUtah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe has died in a shooting at house party less than a year after teammate Ty Jordan was killed in an accidental…
Continue ReadingMAKOTI, N.D. (AP) — The first car jumping attempt in five years by North Dakota’s version of Evil Knievel ended in disaster when the car driven…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A former Northwestern University professor is set to stand trial in the stabbing death of his boyfriend as part of what prosecutors…
Continue ReadingPIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Legislature will consider whether to try to impeach Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg for a car crash last year…
Continue ReadingWOODSON TERRACE, Mo. (AP) — The FBI has opened an investigation into the arrest of a Black man in Missouri during which cellphone video shows three…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Dear Evan Hansen” may have been a hit on Broadway, but the filmed adaptation of the Tony-winning show is off to a…
Continue ReadingBy ARIJETA LAJKA Associated Press HOLBROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Mourners are paying their respects to Gabby Petito, whose death on a cross-country trip has…
Continue ReadingBy IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel regarded as the architect of the 1994…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA VERZA Associated Press CIUDAD ACUÑA, México (AP) — Some of the thousands of Haitian migrants who briefly formed a camp in the Texas…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — On this rainy Sunday morning, the fashion crowd filed into a richly upholstered movie theater for a…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — They spent weeks in the captivity of gunmen in forests ringing Nigeria’s troubled…
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in two Indian coastal states are on high alert with evacuations and preparations underway as a cyclone hit the eastern…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The deputy leader of Britain’s main opposition party is refusing to apologize for calling the…
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press The Taliban want a seat at the United Nations and international recognition of their rule over Afghanistan. The group…
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As political muscle goes, big doesn’t automatically translate to power. That’s the…
Continue ReadingBy ALBERTO ARCE and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — This is the Port-au-Prince that awaits Haitian deportees: An…
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — Police in Norway have reported dozens of disturbances and violent clashes including mass brawls in the Nordic country’s big…
Continue ReadingBy CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Many of the law enforcement changes enacted by states after George Floyd’s death have…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — What will it cost to enact President Joe Biden’s massive expansion of social programs? Congress…
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists and pro-government media say warplanes have attacked Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria,…
Continue ReadingLA PALMA, Canary Islands (AP) — A massive ash cloud from an erupting volcano has prevented flights in and out of the Spanish island of La Palma.…
Continue ReadingBy EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland briefly celebrated electing a female-majority parliament Sunday — before a…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCESCO FEDELI Associated Press SAN MARINO (AP) — Residents in the tiny republic of San Marino have voted overwhelmingly…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is urging North Korea to restore dormant communication hotlines, a day…
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