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WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; Reps. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and Andy Barr, R-Ky.; U.S.…

By BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Avocados can be tricky. Their ripeness window is so narrow that a slew of memes poke fun at…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say 11 people across the country have been charged with tax evasion and other crimes in connection to…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. NASA said Friday…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As the cast of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” celebrated the new season, they credited the…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is kicking off its annual Carnival season. City officials marked the pre-Lenten…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin added an element of drama to the governor’s race on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say the mother of Ashli Babbitt, the woman fatally shot by police inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot,…

By AUDREY McAVOY and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Lava from Kilauea spurted high into the air and spread out across…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A yearslong saga that ensnared the publishing world has culminated in a New York courtroom…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Negotiations to keep about 10,000 nurses from walking off the job are heading into a final…

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut youth hockey assistant coach has been fired after grabbing an opposing player and causing him to fall to…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is set to vote Monday on a resolution that would continue…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Orthodox Christians packed churches on Friday evening for Christmas Eve services, a holiday darkened…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two agriculture businesses in the Mississippi Delta and some Black farm workers have…

By BEN FINLEY and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers say they will move to increase state control of Walt Disney…

BOSTON (AP) — A former University of Southern California athletics department official who accepted bribes from the ringleader of the nationwide…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s newly minted state House speaker is moving to make his major policy goal…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities in Las Vegas say a 16-year-old high school student-athlete died after suffering a medical emergency and collapsing…

By GISELA SALOMON, ELLIOT SPAGAT and AMY TAXIN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Migrants and asylum seekers fleeing violence and persecution in their…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday approved a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug that’s been…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s border barrier of shipping containers has been largely…

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Army hockey coach Brian Riley is crediting a team trainer with potentially saving the life of forward Eric Huss, who…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Vince McMahon is rejoining the board of WWE several months after he retired from the sports entertainment…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A nearly 20-year fight to hold the French government criminally responsible for using…

By MARTHA MENDOZA, BRIAN MELLEY and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press CAPITOLA, Calif. (AP) — California weather calmed Friday but the lull was…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Flying cars and self-driving vehicles always get attention at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas, but this…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan attorney general says there’s “clear evidence” to pursue charges against pro-Donald…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have named two dozen people to examine safety practices at Boeing, and one of them is a man whose sister died…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police in Tulsa say a 9-year-old boy has been stabbed to death by his 12-year-old sister. Police said in a statement Friday…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Four more luxury vehicles have been seized in the investigation into Andrew Tate, a divisive social media personality who…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia lawmaker who served three months in prison for his participation in…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The palm trees lining the desert roads leading out of Riyadh’s King Khalid…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Lee says Tennessee’s Supreme Court will likely wait until the state…

By JAMES POLLARD and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal judges ordered South Carolina lawmakers to…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A journalists’ union in South Sudan has asserted that six staffers with the national…

By SARAH BRUMFIELD and BEN FINLEY NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Colonial Pipeline says a diesel fuel leak in Virginia has shut down part of the…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man with felony burglary after he allegedly stole memorabilia and other items from the Milwaukee…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from practicing law in…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s defense ministry says a conscript has been killed and an officer hurt during a scuffle at a military barracks that…

ROME (AP) — Global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oils were the highest on record last year even after falling for nine…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two years to the day since U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s now-famous raised-fist salute to rioters at…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing tougher standards for a deadly air pollutant, saying that…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — It was uplifting enough for the Buffalo Bills staff and players to see Damar Hamlin…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has announced an overhaul of France’s struggling health system, including new funding methods for…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Bereaved boy, troubled teen, wartime soldier, unhappy royal — many facets of Prince Harry are…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery players whose numbers didn’t hit or who forgot to even buy a ticket will have another shot at a nearly $1…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chad’s government says it has foiled an attempt to destabilize the country and undermine…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — With a cheerful “soy Marcos” – “I’m Mark,” in Spanish – Bishop…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeks celebrated Epiphany Friday with blessing of the waters ceremonies across the country. The holiday is known as Three…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in New Mexico say the three homes of elected Democratic officials in Albuquerque…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A top foreign ministry official says India will host a virtual summit of over 120 developing…

BERLIN (AP) — Daniel Barenboim has announced his resignation as the general music director of Berlin’s Staatsoper, saying that his health has…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Shah, a tearful member of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” who insisted…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has announced a new $3.75 billion military assistance…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Southwest Airlines is anticipating a money losing quarter after a holiday debacle led to nearly 17,000…

By The Associated Press Former Italy striker Gianluca Vialli has died. Vialli helped both Sampdoria and Juventus win Serie A and European trophies…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A construction crane crashed onto a shopping mall in central Norway on Friday amid strong winds, injuring at least two…

By ZEKE MILLER, MARY CLARE JALONICK and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden conferred high honors on those who…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Europe ended a bad year for inflation with some relief as price gains eased again. While the cost…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli police have arrested two teenagers who they said vandalized over two dozen Christian graves in a historic Jerusalem…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of young men are plunging into rivers and lakes across Bulgaria to retrieve crucifixes, in an old ritual marking…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Police say a building under construction has collapsed in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, killing three people and injuring nine…

By TAIJING WU Associated Press CHIAYI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen visited a military base to observe drills while rival China…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An uneasy quiet settled over Kyiv on Friday despite air-raid sirens that blared there and…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya are investigating the death of a local LGBTQ activist whose body was…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks rallied after a shaky start and closed with broad gains Friday as some mixed readings on the…

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian woman charged with willingly entering part of Syria that was under control of the Islamic State group has been freed on…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and the United States will hold security talks between their foreign and defense ministers in…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE AND SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has kicked off his second term by…

By HUIZHONG WU and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As COVID-19 rips through China, other countries and the World Health…

By GENE JOHNSON and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — The white sedan cruised past the gray, three-story rental home on a…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It was a tragically high price to pay for catching a suspected car thief: two innocent…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is trying to keep his bid for speaker…

By FARES AKRAM and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Khaled Shurrab had been waiting more than half his life to get out of Gaza. The…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rest easy, America … we got this. What others see as dysfunction and chaos, many of Rep.…

By ADRIANA MORGA, JAMES BROOKS and CARA RUBINSKY Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies are showing off their latest products this week…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic…

By TERRY SPENCER and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Multiple people were wounded in a shooting after an altercation…

BEIJING (AP) — China is seeking to minimize the possibility of a major new COVID-19 outbreak during this month’s Lunar New Year travel rush…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a solid 223,000 jobs in December, evidence that the…

By MARK STEVENSON and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The operation to detain Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea began erupting inside its summit crater Thursday, the U.S. Geological…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Russell Pearce, a Republican lawmaker who was the driving force behind Arizona’s landmark 2010…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Acclaimed choreographer Alexei Ratmansky won’t be going far when he leaves American Ballet…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares says his company has to work to cut costs globally in order to keep…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Federal authorities say a Border Patrol agent in body armor was struck by gunfire but not seriously hurt while confronting…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — For the first time ever, Oregon had the highest voter turnout rate in the nation for last November’s elections. Former Oregon…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than a thousand startups are showcasing their products at the annual CES tech show in…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Idaho’s Constitution does not implicitly enshrine abortion as a fundamental right, the state Supreme Court…