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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers E-commerce giant Amazon and business software maker Salesforce are the latest U.S.…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Mexican man who was arrested by U.S. immigration agents in 2017 despite his participation in a…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press A man accused of chewing off the ear of a 78-year-old man on a light-rail train platform near Portland, Oregon, told…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans squabble over who will be the next speaker, there are essentially no…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has told a statewide audience that Kentucky’s future is brighter…

By JAMES BROOKS, ADRIANA MORGA and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia announced Thursday it will boost its defense capabilities by buying advanced missile and rocket systems,…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As a huge storm approached California, officials began asking people to evacuate in high-risk coastal areas, including where…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former mixed martial arts fighter Phil Baroni has been arrested in Mexico for allegedly killing his girlfriend. The…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden will undergo a medical procedure next week to remove a small lesion from above…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A former Bolivian interior minister has been sentenced in the United States to nearly six years in…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Shortages of computer chips and other parts continued to hobble the U.S. auto industry last year,…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Spanish lawmaker says he was formally kicked out of Bolivia as he was getting ready to leave the South American country…

The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — CES is not allowing Russian exhibitors to display their products at the annual tech show because of the…

By ALI SWENSON, DAVID KLEPPER and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Unfounded claims about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines…

By MEG KINNARD and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — As Republicans struggled for a second day to elect a House speaker, Rep. Byron…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The name of a teenager killed in a shooting outside an Indianapolis shopping mall has been released. The Marion County…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of handicraft vendors in southern Mexico have blocked access roads to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza. The vendors are…

By CODY JACKSON and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — More than 500 Cuban immigrants have come ashore in the Florida Keys since…

By AAMER MADHANI and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that’s he’s weighing sending Bradley Fighting…

By ERIC TUCKER and GABE STERN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nevada’s most populous county has provided the U.S. Justice Department special…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey will award $15 million in zero-interest loans and grants to health care…

SPARTA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man convicted of killing his step-grandfather and badly injuring two other relatives with an ax has been sentenced…

DALLAS (AP) — James “Buster” Corley, a co-founder of the restaurant and entertainment chain Dave & Buster’s, has died. He was 72. Corley…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has slashed millions of dollars from the damages a jury ordered white…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian soccer stars past and present are under fire from fans for skipping Pelé’s…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — If ever there was an heir to the intellectual legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI,…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is launching an investigation into one of the…

MONTARA, Calif. (AP) — The California Highway Patrol says a man remains hospitalized with serious injuries after he plunged a vehicle off a…

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — The daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte has been found guilty of fatally stabbing a 24-year-old man…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has summoned the French ambassador to condemn the publication of offensive caricatures of Supreme Leader…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Officials in California ordered evacuations in a high-risk coastal area where mudslides…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI held one of the world’s highest-profile positions but in his…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown asked for a moment of silence on New Year’s Eve to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials suggested at their most recent meeting that a continuing…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times…

By ISABEL DEBRE and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s justice minister on Wednesday…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Central Banks says the pound has seen its largest single-day slide since the government agreed to a $3 billion…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — More than 50 people were convicted in the sprawling college admissions bribery scheme that…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kelly Craft has set a fast pace for raising and spending campaign cash in her bid to…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is plowing ahead with plans to open a U.S. embassy in the Solomon…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press The Nebraska Legislature began its new session Wednesday with several new members, a new incoming Republican…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has entered into four new settlements with opioid makers and distributors totaling…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Some of the last survivors in France from a colonial-era infantry corps that recruited tens of…

LONDON (AP) — British author Fay Weldon, known for novels including “The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil”, has died. She was 91. Weldon was a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The seditious conspiracy trial of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York has announced a $100 million settlement with Coinbase over what state officials called significant failures in the…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s defense minister says Turkish and Russian troops could “expand” their joint patrols in northern Syria as part…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — As a sedated Damar Hamlin lay before him in a Cincinnati hospital bed surrounded by…

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says the agency is “concerned about the risk to life in China” amid the coronavirus’…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The suspect in the November slayings of four University of Idaho students has arrived in…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — More than 30 graves at a historic Christian cemetery in Jerusalem have been found toppled and…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was feast or famine at the Broadway box office as 2022 wound down, with eye-popping…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says House Republicans’ inability to unify behind a speaker…

LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for online privacy violations and banned…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings slipped in November but remained at high suggesting businesses are…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major speech of 2023, has pledged to halve inflation,…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government has approved a bill aimed at bringing defense spending at the required NATO goal of 2% of gross domestic product…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A violent prison break in which 30 inmates escaped and 17 people — mostly guards — were…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Many of the conservative prelates who dominate the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister has signed a deal to buy a second batch of U.S Abrams main battle tanks as Warsaw beefs up…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Residents and activists say the Israeli military has demolished homes, water tanks and olive…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says natural gas storage levels are high despite Russian attempts to choke off supplies to Europe amid the war…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A little known Biden administration initiative to reduce gun violence that was funded by…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has “strongly encouraged” its member states to impose pre-departure COVID-19…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet The Walt Disney Company is whipping up new attractions to mark turning 100 years old. Celebrations at Disney’s…

BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military says two rockets have struck a base housing American troops in eastern Syria without causing any casualties or…

By The Associated Press Twitter says it will ease up on its 3-year-old ban on political advertising, the latest change by Elon Musk as he tries to…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds The supply chain shortage has crushed automotive production and sales, but that hasn’t stopped automakers from introducing…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press COVINGTON, Kentucky (AP) — President Joe Biden is in Kentucky visiting a dilapidated bridge…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Authorities in Pakistan have ordered shopping malls and markets to close by 8:30 p.m. as part of a…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Police say a man was killed and three people including an 8-year-old child were wounded in a Tuesday night shooting in…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Police in Somalia say two suicide car bombers killed at least 10 people early Wednesday…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged to deepen his country’s alliance with the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis praised Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s “acute and gentle thought” during a…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines’ interior secretary has asked all police generals and full colonels to submit their courtesy…

BEIJING (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has cited stable ties with China during a visit to Beijing that has sought to downplay the…

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Unauthorized use of cellphones by Russian soldiers led to a deadly Ukrainian rocket attack on…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing near a checkpoint at the Afghan…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — UFC President Dana White was seen on video released by TMZ slapping his wife, Anne, while the…

By ADRIANA MORGA, HALELUYA HADERO and CARA RUBINSKY Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s ruling military leader has pardoned over 7,000 prisoners, including some political…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is particularly beloved in the hilltop town of Castel…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese regulators have said e-commerce giant Alibaba’s finance affiliate Ant Group can raise $1.5…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans flailed through a long second day of fruitless balloting…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials want to pay reparations for government-forced or coerced…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The mastermind of the nationwide college admissions bribery scheme that ensnared…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher following a rally on Wall Street as investors assessed minutes from…

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home operator accused of illegally selling body parts and giving clients fake ashes has been…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — What was expected to be a day of triumph for House Republicans coming into the majority turned…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Grappling with the biggest flood of Cuban migrants in decades, the United States reopened their…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot increased to an estimated $940 million after another drawing resulted in plenty of losers but not…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s Hard Rock casino on Tuesday hired a new management team as the…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a juvenile male has been killed and a man has been wounded in a shooting outside an Indianapolis shopping mall. The…

By MARK SCOLFORO and BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Democrat who promised to govern as an independent was elected speaker…