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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The State Department says it has added a key anti-Pakistan militant group and its al-Qaida branch…

LONDON (AP) — Elton John is scheduled to perform at the Glastonbury Festival in June, in what organizers say will be his farewell show in Britain.…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Worries about inflation are dragging on Wall Street Friday after a report showed wages for U.S.…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press MARTONVASAR, Hungary (AP) — Drivers in Hungary are increasingly running into gas and diesel shortages at filling…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — With Ukraine scrambling to keep communication lines open during the…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s professional basketball league has fined former NBA star Jeremy Lin for making…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Below the vaulted dome and dark wood beams of a church in Colorado Springs, a gay…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press SWEDESBORO, N.J. (AP) — A former coal-fired power plant in New Jersey will be imploded Friday morning, and its…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — When Willette Kalaokahaku Akima-Akau looks out at the the lava flowing from Mauna Loa…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has warned an Australian audience that a Russian…

Associated Press Twitter has suspended rapper Ye after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of David. It is the second time this…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian prosecutor on Friday dropped the rape charge of a woman who was allegedly…

By ZEKE MILLER, BILL BARROW and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hit the phones with fellow Democrats Friday for…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press CCONCHACCOTA, Peru (AP) — From her home under the baking sun of Peru’s southern Andes, Vilma Huamaní…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers kept hiring briskly in November despite high inflation and a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. team says evidence it collected in Iraq strengthens preliminary findings that…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has demanded neighboring Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers prevent terrorist attacks coming…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s economy secretary has proposed yet another round of talks with the United States on a dispute over Mexico’s…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Friday sanctioned eight people and seven organizations suspected of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has imposed sanctions on three members of North Korea’s ruling party central committee for their…

By ANDREW SELSKY, AUDREY McAVOY and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The spectacle of incandescent lava spewing from Hawaii’s…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Members of the United Auto Workers union appear to favor replacing many of their current leaders in an…

BEIJING (AP) — When it comes to ensuring the security of their regime, China’s Communist Party rulers don’t skimp. The extent of that…

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla has delivered its first electric semis to PepsiCo more than three years after Elon Musk said the company would start making…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — An ex-convict who led police on a chase around Las Vegas before officers found the severed head and…

By ZEKE MILLER, MEG KINNARD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has declared that Democrats should give up…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly approved followup…

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The 22-year-old man charged with first-degree murder in the case of a University of Mississippi student who has been missing…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The College Football Playoff will include 12 teams, starting with the 2024 season. An expansion plan…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Bexar County prosecutors say a former San Antonio police officer has been indicted by a grand jury for shooting and wounding a…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Tech billionaire Elon Musk said his Neuralink company is seeking permission to test its brain implant in people…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California water agencies that serve 27 million people will get just 5% of what they…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An attorney told a federal judge that Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wasn’t…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The last veteran of Mexico’s relatively small contingent of World War II veterans has died. Mexico’s Defense…

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Police alleged Thursday that a Canadian man previously charged with murdering an Indigenous woman also killed three other…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump “knew exactly what was going on” with top Trump Organization executives…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Efforts to restructure some $9 billion in debt held by Puerto Rico’s power company…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The nation’s first trial over a ban on gender-confirming care for children has…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is trying to allay concerns raised by French President Emmanuel Macron about…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous federal appeals court on Thursday ended an independent review of documents seized…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A rural Arizona county certified its midterm election results on Thursday, following the…

NEW YORK (AP) — A body found on a New York City sidewalk earlier this week has been identified as “Green Book” actor Frank Vallelonga Jr. The…

By MARK PRATT and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Prince and Princess of Wales on Thursday heard about solar-powered autonomous…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The Vermont Agency of Education and several school districts will pay school tuition and legal fees to five families…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Hundreds of people have attended a street protest in Bulgaria’s capital to oppose a revision of the Election Code that…

BERLIN (AP) — Intensive care doctors in Germany are warning that hospital pediatric units in the country are stretched to breaking point in part…

BERLIN (AP) — A German auction house says the recent sale of a watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky has been put on hold in response to the Polish…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Austan Goolsbee, who was a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, has been…

By KEVIN FREKING and JOSH FUNK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to avert what could have been an economically ruinous freight rail…

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press Known for her feminist themes and often brutally frank, highly personal and self-critical work, American…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The ACLU of Arizona says it is suing the city of Phoenix in order to block resumed sweeps of a huge…

By RAF CASERT and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union was edging closer to setting a $60-per-barrel price cap on…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hate rats? Are you a “somewhat bloodthirsty” New Yorker with excellent communication skills and “a general aura of…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether the Biden administration can broadly cancel…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A Michigan city agreed to pay $1,000 to a car owner to settle a lawsuit about marking tires to catch parking violators.…

MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Court of Justice says it had little to rule on in a long-running dispute over the…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — German soccer great Jurgen Klinsmann is part of a FIFA team sharing tactical and strategic…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first White House state dinner of President Joe Biden’s…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man imprisoned for the past 28 years for a New Haven shooting that killed a…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The death of a pilot who fell from a small airplane in flight in North Carolina in July has been ruled an accident, according…

AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — French referee Stéphanie Frappart became the first woman to take charge of a men’s World Cup game on Thursday as she blew…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have released body camera video…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The judge who oversaw the trial of a man convicted of killing six people when he drove his SUV…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s government has pledged to invest 350 million euros ($368 million) in the…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown is wanted on a battery charge stemming from a domestic incident, Tampa police said…

By INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling cut off power in much of the recently liberated Ukrainian city of…

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi say an argument over a game led one golfer to bit the nose off another in the parking lot of a…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain spent months learning the songs that George…

MILAN (AP) — Search teams on Thursday recovered three more bodies buried under mud and debris from a weekend landslide on the Italian resort island…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s designated prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a coalition deal with a hardline pro-settler party.…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — In a story published December 1, 2022, about prosecutors filing responses in a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s abortion…

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man has been sentenced to serve nearly three years in federal prison for sending a letter threatening to kill President…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Believe it or not, an iconic part of the Atlantic City Boardwalk is closing soon. The…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The College Football Playoff announced Thursday it will expand to a 12-team event starting in 2024,…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The interior minister of ethnically divided Cyprus says the country ranks first among European Union member nations in the…

RAMAPO, N.Y. (AP) — Multiple injuries were reported Thursday when a school bus crashed into a house and another vehicle in a suburb north of New…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press It’s December and pretty much every network and streaming service seemingly has a show aimed at spreading…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists and state media apparently did not know that an Iraqi militant who was…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian media are reporting that the government has named a staunchly pro-Russian politician as the Balkan state’s new…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday approved a nearly $700 million plan to remove all lead water…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new production of “The Wiz” is heading out on a national tour next year before…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Footage of an upcoming documentary about Harry and Meghan released Thursday shows the couple is once again prepared to tackle…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Jacob Harold believes philanthropy needs more “strategic promiscuity” – battling the world’s problems…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A massive fire broke out at a San Antonio truck stop early Thursday, engulfing the convenience store in flames and sending a…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia says a joint committee from the federal government and Tigray forces has convened inside the Tigray region to…

BERLIN (AP) — A 72-year-old woman has been arrested after she allegedly switched off a hospital roommate’s ventilator – twice –…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve eased but remained at…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Danish forward Nadia Nadim was in the midst of a World Cup match as a television…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia is keeping its bee buzz on a roll. After clinching United Nations support for its proposal to establish a World…

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have approved a free-trade deal between the European Union and Canada, moving the accord a step closer to taking…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Scream Queen” Jamie Lee Curtis will be this year’s recipient of AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Awards…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a federal probe into U.S. Rep. Matt…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say two people were killed after a mini-bus collided with a truck in southern Egypt. The authorities said one of…

By LLAZAR SEMINI ASSOCIATED PRESS TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The German president has hailed Albania’s pro-European stand and urged its authorities…