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By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s prospects for 2024 look uncertain, as a year that opened free of COVID-19 lockdowns…
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s prospects for 2024 look uncertain, as a year that opened free of COVID-19 lockdowns…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says it’s seeking to verify reports that Afghanistan’s…
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Electric scooter company Bird Global announced Wednesday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to stabilize its…
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The NHL and Diamond Sports Group, the largest owner of regional sports networks, have reached an agreement that will…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — It’s beginning to look a lot like New Year’s Eve in New York. The numerals “2024” were delivered Wednesday to Times Square…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Countertenor David Daniels is no longer a member of the union for singers following his guilty plea to a charge of sexual assault.…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A former NBA G League player allegedly admitted to fatally strangling a woman whose remains were found earlier this month near Las…
Continue ReadingBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A jury has dismissed a lawsuit accusing top Louisiana State University officials of retaliating against a former athletics…
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple for racial discrimination after they set…
Continue ReadingBy JOSÉ ANTONIO RIVERA Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is ebullient about the recovery of…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean state media is reporting that leader Kim Jong Un says his country has a…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge will consider arguments over racial discrimination,…
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A southwestern Wisconsin man has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for causing the creation and distribution of a…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City-area man has pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges accusing him of…
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer’s 42-year-old son is facing additional charges in connection with…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After years of research and DNA testing, historians have identified the remains of…
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The federal government has closed railroad crossings in two Texas border towns, raising…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has begun flying migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago. Gov. Greg Abbot’s office says the first flight…
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The early signing period in college football opened Wednesday with just a little five-star drama.…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lawmakers have passed a bill meant to ban solitary confinement in the city’s…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says security officers found 17 bullets concealed inside a disposable baby diaper at New…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Toyota Motor Co. said Wednesday it is recalling 1 million vehicles over a defect that could cause airbags not to deploy,…
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Legalized sports betting continued its expansion this year. Six states either passed legislation…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil companies have offered $382 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — A leading Mexican business group says the U.S. decision to close two railway border crossings into Texas is costing $100 million…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission, for a second time, has unanimously rejected a…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press AMES, Iowa (AP) — With less than a month to go before voting begins, Donald Trump’s…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio prosecutor says it’s not within his power to drop a criminal charge…
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer The Federal Trade Commission is proposing sweeping changes to a decades-old law that regulates how companies…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Fentanyl and methamphetamine drove a record number of homeless deaths last year in…
Continue ReadingWHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — A self-proclaimed white supremacist has been sentenced for making online threats toward the jury and witnesses at the trial…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has filed its first predatory mortgage lending case against a Texas…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are urging the U.S. Supreme…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say an Arizona man has been arrested for allegedly making online threats against federal agents and employees. FBI…
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Thousands of homeless people who died this year are being memorialized this week around the U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The British filmmaker Andrew Haigh is accustomed to strong responses from his films. But his latest,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The social media platform Parler, which caters to right-wing voices and was temporarily booted offline following…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Authorities have identified a teenage girl slain by the Green River serial killer in Washington state four decades ago. Lori Anne…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general has filed suit against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio service of making it intentionally…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Joe Biden says it’s “self-evident” that Donald Trump…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An Austin, Texas, police officer has been indicted for deadly conduct in the fatal shooting of a man standing on his own front…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR AND JULIE WATSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Convicted defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis is facing…
Continue ReadingBy GEROLD ROZENBLAD Associated Press PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Suriname’s former dictator Desi Bouterse has been sentenced to 20 years in…
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie is outlining his plan for addressing the…
Continue ReadingDALTON, Mass. (AP) — A U.S. Air Force staff sergeant from Massachusetts who was one of eight service members lost when a CV-22 Osprey crashed off…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — European Union finance ministers have sealed a deal to reform the 27-nation bloc’s fiscal rules after France and Germany finally…
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An investigation has found that the hospital that initially treated a man who later died while being admitted to a Virginia…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative law firm has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the State Bar of…
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Physicians and the former sole abortion provider in North Dakota are asking a state district…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Carey Mulligan recently realized that she’s spent much of her professional career holding back. But that changed in…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Zac Efron transformed himself into a mass of muscle and repressed emotion to play professional wrestler Kevin Von…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Challengers are telling a federal judge that Georgia Republican state lawmakers’ new voting…
Continue ReadingA Russian politician calling for peace in Ukraine has presented her documents to Russia’s Central Election Commission to register as a candidate…
Continue ReadingFLORENCE, Wis. (AP) — A federal agency wants to fine a northern Wisconsin sawmill more than $1 million after inspectors said they found…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An international astronaut will join U.S. astronauts on the moon by decade’s…
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHA (AP) — A man accused of slashing people with a large knife while riding a bicycle on a trail in Philadelphia in recent weeks has now…
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The leader of the main insurgent group in southwestern Pakistan has appeared before…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The three men who died in a small plane crash in Oregon over the weekend were Afghan Air…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A high-ranking member of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization has been charged in a New…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — She’s Barbie. He’s just Ken. And now, it’s Christmas. On Wednesday, Ryan Gosling — the Ken…
Continue ReadingDELTONA, Fla. (AP) — A deputy in Florida was grazed by a bullet during a gunfight with a suspect who fled after being suspected of shoplifting…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s bid to win back the White House is now endangered by two…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Forecasters are warning of potential flooding from excessive rainfall as a slow-moving Pacific storm blows into California.…
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, the…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A seventh person in Tennessee has died from injuries she suffered during a string of…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Closing arguments are scheduled Wednesday in the final trial of first responders charged in the…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican district attorney has appealed a court ruling that determined an 1849 Wisconsin…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A boy and a girl have been found guilty of murdering a transgender teenager in northwestern England…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A river that runs through Maine’s capital city has risen to levels not seen in…
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge is ordering Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania to turn over more than…
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