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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora have protested at the state capital against persistent pollution from an almost…

FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — The family of a 46-year-old Florida man has filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against a restaurant chain,…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is recommending Florida eliminate more than 1,000 state jobs in a spending proposal that cuts…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE and MELISSA PEREZ WINDER Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration has canceled…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he sees football becoming a global sport within the next…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s constitutional court ordered an immediate humanitarian release Tuesday for imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori,…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Did you watch “Beef” yet? What about “The Bear”? It seems there’s always a show or two that maybe…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Election security experts and computer scientists say an effort to access voting system…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will lie in repose at the court on Dec. 18. A funeral service at the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press Former President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial has turned to one of the topics that has vexed him…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Security filings show the Federal Trade Commission is investigating ExxonMobil’s $60 billion…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators have concluded that a 2021 rupture of an undersea oil pipeline…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Prosecution of violent crime in St. Louis is up sharply since a new circuit attorney was appointed…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Republican Party of Florida chairman is facing mounting pressure to resign as…

By TERESA WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani met with the Los Angeles Dodgers a few days ago at Dodger Stadium, manager…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says its made a new and significant offer aimed at securing the release of American detainees Paul…

By The Associated Press The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has seen fierce Israeli bombardment that has flattened broad swaths of the…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Majors’ former girlfriend told a Manhattan jury that the actor was prone to fits of…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An atmospheric river has brought heavy rain, flooding and warm winter temperatures to the Pacific Northwest, closing roadways…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Hamas officials have joined members of Nelson Mandela’s family in laying wreaths…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension Tuesday for refusing to change his…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An aide says that Poland’s former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 80-year-old Lech Walesa has been hospitalized…

MADRID (AP) — Lawyers for the woman accusing Dani Alves of sexual assault are asking for the maximum sentence of 12 years in prison for the…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore grand jury has indicted a teenager and his parents on allegations they brought a gun to a high school campus and beat…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill that spends half-a-billion in taxpayer dollars to…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A judge has again issued an arrest warrant for the owner of a former Vermont firearms training center, ruling that he failed…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It has been two weeks since David Schultz’s semi-truck was found on a rural highway…

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson tells fellow Republicans that sweeping changes to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama says he is ending his blockade of hundreds of military promotions, clearing the way for…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a Belgian involved in procuring electronics for the Russian…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Two of three people charged with arson in the burning of the Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta where…

By TARA COPP and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command said Tuesday it has identified the eight…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for casting…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare punitive move against Israel, the State Department said Tuesday it will impose…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state senators are advancing a new congressional map that would maintain a 9-5 GOP edge in the…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry won’t seek reelection to the U.S. House next…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of several Athens…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The major philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, said Tuesday it will commit $50 million to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tom Hanks is a lifelong space buff. The two-time Academy Award-winning actor has channeled his…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray is making a fresh pitch for the reauthorization of a U.S.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say six people have been detained in connection with an investigation into suspected exports of “sensitive”…

By AHMED MOHAMED and SAM METZ Associated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Attorneys for Mauritania’s former President Mohamed Ould Abdel…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a German man accused of forming an armed group to oppose government measures against the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021…

By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As leaders, officials and activists descend on Dubai for United Nations climate…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” Todd Haynes’ “May December” and Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” got…

The Associated Press CVS Health is introducing changes to how its prescription drug pricing model works, and that could lead to some savings for…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Volunteers and city workers have removed mementos, signs and other items that accumulated at…

NEW YORK (AP) — The highly-anticipated trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI arrived a little early after a copy was leaked online. Rockstar Games…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — NCAA President Charlie Baker wants to create a new tier of Division I where athlete can…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted 8.7 million job openings in October, the fewest since March 2021, in a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has dismissed a case involving a Maine hotel that could have made it harder for people with disabilities to…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The late Gerry Fraley has been honored with the BBWAA Career Excellence Award. The honor was announced Tuesday by the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Hugh Grant learned some years ago that if a filmmaker doesn’t make something from the heart, it shows. The films…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Like the “Paddington” movies, “Wonka” was dreamt up by Paul King, a lifetime Roald Dahl fan and a writer and…

BOSTON (AP) — Closing arguments are about to get underway in the government’s case to block JetBlue from buying Spirit Airlines. The trial in…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Jon Rahm all but locked up the Masters with an 8-iron he carved around the trees. What made him feel just as good was…

NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming biography of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis will draw upon hundreds of interviews, along with the civil rights…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Her book is called ‘My Name is Barbra’ and it runs nearly 1,000 pages. You expected less…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The father of a young woman whose murder galvanized Italian outrage against violence targeting women…

By THANASSIS STAVRAKIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Acropolis Museum has launched an exhibition that…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Hours before a massive explosion destroyed a duplex and shook a Virginia suburb of…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The United States will work with other governments to speed up efforts to make nuclear fusion a new source of…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s government and two large opposition parties have agreed to allow seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic.…

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet The Social Security Administration adjusts its benefits payments each year to reflect changes in the cost of living.…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s emergency services agency says more than 80 people are confirmed dead after…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Credit rating agency Moody’s has downgraded its outlook for Chinese sovereign bonds to negative,…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Local officials say Russian artillery fire has struck the southern Ukrainian city of…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The conflict against Tesla in Sweden is spreading to neighboring Denmark. Transport…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Students around the world suffered historic setbacks in reading and math during the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Eropean Union’s Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson is warning that Europe faces “a huge risk of terrorist…

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says that Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a one-day trip to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia focused…

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — British Home Secretary James Cleverly has flown to Rwanda to try to revive a stalled plan to send asylum-seekers to the East…

PARIS (AP) — France’s National Assembly has unanimously approved a bill to ban single-use, disposable electronic cigarettes, in an attempt to…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says he will sign a bilateral security pact with Australia during a visit…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Aid groups and the United Nations say an estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two…

BERLIN (AP) — Munich Airport has temporarily suspended flight operations due to freezing rain as cold weather continues to affect the region. All…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel intensified its bombardment in and around Gaza’s second…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares declined Tuesday on heavy selling of property and technology shares. U.S. futures…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from…

By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The bid-rigging trial around the Tokyo Olympics is playing out in a Japanese…

By FU TING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Xi Diao says he knows he should avoid talking politics on stage, but sharing a family name…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is challenging the British government’s decision to strip him of his security…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a…

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A magnitude 5.1 earthquake on the Big Island of Hawaii was felt widely but there have been no reports of damage or injury. The…

BANGKOK (AP) — A bus has crashed in western Thailand, killing 14 people and injuring more than 30 others. Officials said the accident occurred…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities say a roadside bomb went off near a school in the country’s northwest on Tuesday, wounding at…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re…

By LORI HINNANT and SAM McNEIL Associated Press NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — The Hamas attack on the kibbutz of Nir Oz started a little after 6:30 a.m. on…

By SIBI ARASU and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Activists had a series of events and actions lined up Tuesday at…

By LORI HINNANT and SAM McNEIL Associated Press NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — The engineer and his family cowered in the safe room, dark except for a red…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The owners of a Colorado funeral home where 190 sets of…

By JOVANA GEC, SABINA NIKSIC and ZANA CIMILI Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A man in Bosnia killed his wife and streamed the murder live…

By ANNIE MA of The Associated Press and MEREDITH KOLODNER of The Hechinger Report SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Three times a week, on average, a police…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is spending most of this week raising money for his reelection…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up a case over a Washington couple’s $15,000 tax bill that is…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans are scheduled for their fourth presidential debate this week, again minus Donald Trump.…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press KHAVDA, India (AP) — Shifting to renewable energy is a key issue at the ongoing COP28 climate summit. Some leaders…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer UConn fell to its worst ranking in 30 years when the Huskies dropped to 17th in The Associated Press women’s…