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OMAR AKOUR Associated Press DEAD SEA, Jordan (AP) — Leaders from the Middle East and Europe have gathered in Jordan on bolstering security and…

By COLLEEN BARRY and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — An Italian court had delayed until next month a hearing into whether to hand…

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Tens of thousands of jubilant Moroccans have welcomed home their national soccer team…

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has called the refusal of Sweden’s top court to extradite a…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Show up at a border crossing with Mexico and ask a U.S. official for asylum? Sign up online? Go…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus’s midwife is being excavated anew by archaeologists in the hills southwest…

Associated Press Amazon has agreed to make major changes to its business practices to settle antitrust investigations that found the ecommerce giant…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has ruled that a 45-year-old nuclear reactor can continue to operate, rejecting…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will not offer more money to nurses and ambulance crews to end…

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet Meal kit subscriptions shot up in popularity in 2020, but many customers don’t stay past the initial promotional…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sitiveni Rabuka has won a close election in Fiji and is promising change as the South…

By ADAM BEAM and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press RIO DELL, Calif. (AP) — Tens of thousands of homes and businesses along the Northern California…

By LISA MASCARO, NOMAAN MERCHANT, E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Rescuers found a survivor and recovered five bodies from a…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s top court has handed down a ruling preventing the upper house of Parliament from voting…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Democrats in a Richmond-based congressional district are voting to select a nominee for the seat held by the late…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk and Donald Trump share bestride-the-colossus egos, an incessant desire to be the…

By RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Security officials say Pakistani special forces raided a police center in a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Musician Terry Hall, who helped create some of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as lead…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens of masked gunmen firing into the air, took to the streets and stores…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have unveiled a $1.7 trillion bill to fund the government. The measure…

By NAT CASTAÑEDA Associated Press VOSS, Norway (AP) — Chunks of ice float in milky blue waters. Clouds drift and hide imposing mountaintops. The…

By MORGAN LEE, GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Texas dispatched National Guard troops to the…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Several Holocaust survivors are marking the third day of Hanukkah together with a virtual…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On the streets of Kyiv, Fyodor Dostoevsky is on the way out. Andy Warhol is on the way in.…

By DANIEL POLITI and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A parade to celebrate the Argentine World Cup champions was…

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — When Kevin Erickson fires up his 1972 Plymouth Satellite, a faint hum replaces what is normally…

By DAVID PEREDA Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress tentatively endorsed a plan on Tuesday to hold early elections in an attempt…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Wang Yu, hailed by the U.S. as an International Woman of Courage, has already been arrested,…

By DAKE KANG and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Several local governments in China encouraged people with mild cases of COVID-19 to…

By RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — After a pair of Islamist bombings rocked the south-central Indian city of Hyderabad in…

By GARANCE BURKE, JOSEF FEDERMAN, HUIZHONG WU, KRUTIKA PATHI and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Biker boss Nick Martin’s murder at a speedway in Perth, Australia, left police a trove…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a modestly higher close on Wall Street as…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by the defeated Republican candidate for…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its allies have clashed with Iran and its ally Russia over Western…

By GARANCE BURKE, JOSEF FEDERMAN, HUIZHONG WU, KRUTIKA PATHI and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published Dec. 20, 2022, about Donald Trump’s taxes, The Associated Press erroneously quoted Rep. Steven…

By STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican Party quickly and forcefully rallied behind Donald Trump in the hours after…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is threatening to take “a resolute and decisive military step”…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The first visit by an Australian foreign minister to China in four years is raising hopes that Australia will make…

FALLS RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say Los Angeles Chargers cornerback J.C. Jackson has been arrested in connection with a “nonviolent family…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader John Lee said he will meet China’s President Xi Jinping to report on the…

BEIJING (AP) — China says Chinese-Russian naval drills beginning Wednesday aim to “further deepen” cooperation between the sides whose…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been chosen as the nation’s next ambassador to the United States.…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has blocked the state pardons board from considering a request from Gov. Steve…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new operator, Hard Rock International, is now running the iconic Mirage resort on the Las Vegas…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who threatened to kill Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has pleaded…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn preacher known for his close friendship with New York City’s mayor and a previous…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Organizers say the International African American Museum won’t open in January as planned because of humidity and…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report criticizes the Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to oversee the tobacco…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey lawmakers have given final approval to legislation overhauling rules to get a…

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say former NFL linebacker Willie McGinest Jr. was arrested in connection with an assault at a Southern…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee has urged the Justice Department to consider prosecuting Donald Trump…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Pennsylvania’s former top law enforcement officer, who once served jail time for leaking secret investigative…

ROME (AP) — A German charity says its rescue ship is bringing 108 migrants to a port in northern Italy after rescuing them from unseaworthy vessels…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a month-long trial and nine days of deliberations, Los Angeles jurors on Monday…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and others are suing the city of…

Syria’s military says two soldiers were wounded in Israeli airstrikes that hit near Damascus, the Syrian capital. A military statement reported…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three suicides by sailors assigned to a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier were not connected, but…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Caring for sick children has become extra stressful recently for many U.S. parents due to shortages of Children’s…

Officials say eight people have been killed and three injured in an attack by gunmen on an Iraqi village previously held by the Islamic State…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Shirley Ann Watts, a former art student and prominent breeder of Arabian horses who met drummer Charlie Watts…

By TED SHAFFREY and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At a small patch of Central Park flanking New York’s Harlem…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions…

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A man has been arrested after Nazi symbols were carved into a menorah in Southern California. A Beverly Hills police…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly’s onetime manager has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for calling in a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Officials of the Jehovah’s Witnesses say four Russian members of the religious denomination have been sentenced to prison terms…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack has referred Republican Leader Kevin…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several of Indiana’s major employers want their local utilities to make it easier for them to buy power generated by wind and…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A jury began deliberating the sentence Monday for a former Texas police officer who was convicted of manslaughter last…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of B-2 stealth bombers following an emergency landing…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost says he laments any pain he caused by suggesting in a…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ energy minister says a pipeline conveying Israeli natural gas to the…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6 committee set out to compile a public record for history of the 2021…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To get a sense of Janelle Monáe’s powers of transformation, look no further than her Instagram…

By AAMER MADHANI and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the U.S. is looking to expand and strengthen its…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Iowa say they’ve arrested a second man in the death of a 4-year-old boy killed when a car racing on a city…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Vatican-appointed investigator who helped bring to light decades-old allegations of sexual and…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president has paid tribute to Jewish communities in Poland and worldwide for the…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A white Kansas City charter school teacher has been fired after students recorded him using a racial slur several times.…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has named former Rep. Joe Kennedy III as America’s special…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Russia’s war in Ukraine and anti-regime protests in Iran limited both Moscow and…

Since Elon Musk took control of Twitter in late October, confusion over what is, and what is not allowed on the platform, even what a verified…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Naomi Ackie, who plays Whitney Houston in the new biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” is the first to admit she…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Medical examiners say the death of Cincinnati Bengals analyst Adam Zimmer was caused by chronic alcohol use. The Hennepin County…

By PETER SMITH and JESSIE WARDARSKI Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — And it came to pass — actually, quarterback Terry Bradshaw came to pass,…

ATLANTA (AP) — The father of a man who was fatally shot by an Atlanta police officer said he is grateful for the indictment of the now-retired…

NEW YORK (AP) — A suspected serial burglar was caught Monday while attempting to poach Christmas presents from actor Robert De Niro’s Manhattan…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before the bobbleheads and the “Fauci ouchie,” Dr. Anthony Fauci was a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI sounded the alarm Monday about an explosive increase in teenage boys being…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have settled their defamation lawsuits following a…

By RAMI MUSA BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s top prosecutor says a court has sentenced 17 former members of the Islamic State group to death.…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that allowing doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have uncovered new clues about a curious fossil site in Nevada, a graveyard for…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany and France on Monday backed calls to boost Europe’s own green industries in a bid to counter financial aid that the United…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The seed for one of the best musicals on Broadway this season sprang from an off-hand…