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By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has no intention to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Speaking on Thursday at a…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Agriculture Department has announced $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Shell’s earnings have more than doubled in the third quarter. That has fueled the debate over…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak — the glamorous daughter of Russian President…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces attacked Russia’s hold on the southern city of Kherson on Thursday…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Exactly 100 years ago Friday, the Black Shirt March on Rome triggered events that brought Italian…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BRIG, Switzerland (AP) — A battle is brewing around Europe’s rooftop over the planet’s most precious…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two Hong Kong residents, including a pastor, have been found guilty of sedition and sentenced to…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss bank Credit Suisse has unveiled a “radical strategy” meant to overcome recent troubles…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola of Alaska in a televised debate called partisanship a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Here is a look at the 10 largest U.S. jackpots that have been won and the states where the winning tickets were…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is holding its fifth national election in under four years, and once again the race is…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — No one won an estimated $700 million Powerball jackpot, meaning the big prize will grow to an estimated $800 million for…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Spiraling energy costs caused by various economic factors and the Ukraine war could be a…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics has officially appointed third-generation heir Lee Jae-yong as…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A South Los Angeles man whose cache of illegal fireworks blew up a neighborhood in a bungled police bomb squad detonation,…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a better-than-expected 2.6% annual rate from July through September,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Lawmakers in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have voted to legalize same-sex marriages, becoming the last of Mexico’s…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was hospitalized…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday lambasted Democrats’ leadership on inflation, crime…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A judge on Thursday discharged a jury in the high-profile trial of a former government…

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was escorted out of the California-based headquarters of athletic shoemaker…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many U.N. Security Council members led by the U.S. and its Western allies insist…

By DENNIS PASSA AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The Australian men’s soccer team has issued a three-minute video highlighting…

By EDGAR H CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Chiapas (AP) — Three migrants are dead and seven are injured after the vehicle they were riding in…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man who livestreamed the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket has been…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge in Arizona said he hopes to decide by Friday whether to order members of a group to…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron vowed Wednesday to implement a pension reform that would eventually push up the retirement age by…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council formally rebuked two members and its former president…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say Israeli airstrikes have targeted sites in the vicinity of Damascus, marking the third such strikes in…

KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say one construction worker died and two others were injured when a bridge under construction collapsed in a rural…

MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Tuesday that the country has too many “takers” instead of workers and suggested that…

JACKSON, Miss (AP) — A federal judge has lifted a decade-long federal consent decree governing a youth jail in Mississippi’s capital city. U.S.…

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A woman who was arrested for feeding homeless people in northwest Arizona is suing over a local ordinance that…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mike Davis, an author, activist and self-defined “Marxist environmentalist” whose greatest fears drove him to anticipate…

By BILL BARROW and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman is accusing Herschel Walker, the anti-abortion Republican running for…

LAUREL, Neb. (AP) — A man charged with killing four people in a small northeast Nebraska town in August has been released from a hospital and moved…

The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is reportedly the subject of a new federal investigation.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A raging fire destroyed a vacant commercial building in Los Angeles and numerous other small fires broke out in the same area,…

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal jury has returned a guilty verdict on six of seven charges against a suspended Georgia sheriff accused of violating the…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and ousted the CEO, chief financial…

HOUSTON (AP) — A man has received a death sentence for the fatal 2019 shooting of a law enforcement officer who was the first Sikh deputy in his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan is temporarily blocking the turnover of phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The European Union is expanding the presence of its…

By BOB SMIETANA Religion News Service BRANSON, Mo. (RNS) — A night at the Dolly Parton Stampede is a microcosm of life in these polarized United…

OTTAWA, Canada (AP) — The Canadian government says that France has denied an extradition request for Johannes Rivoire, a former priest accused of…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s new far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni has easily won the second of two required confidence votes in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, lost another court battle in his effort to push back against the…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors said Wednesday that it has secured all of the renewable energy it needs to power its U.S. facilities by 2025, well…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s cultural and satellite agencies have joined forces to more systematically track the…

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A delivery driver charged with killing a Google employee from New York who went missing while out for a run near her…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A waiting and vetting period would be baked into gun purchases in Oregon if a measure on the…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors say a former Las Vegas-area politician won’t face the death penalty at trial in the…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego doctor was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a…

Associated Press Securities regulators wants to make sure publicly traded companies recover any executive compensation that’s awarded based on…

By DAVID BILLER and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — On Sunday,  Brazilians are choosing between two futures. There’s a…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarushas sentenced a prominent investigative journalist to eight years in…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With time running out before the election, President Joe Biden highlighted his…

TORONTO (AP) — Analysts say a multi-billion-dollar merger between two of Canada’s largest telecommunication companies,could still be completed…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s planet-warming emissions dropped by nearly 9% in 2020 compared to…

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The lawyer for a rapper arrested in Morocco earlier this week for incitement to drug…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed new sanctions on members of Iran’s intelligence agency,…

By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer Looking around Memorial Stadium before Game 1 of the 1983 World Series, Philadelphia Phillies star Gary Matthews saw…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man was convicted Wednesday of killing six people and injuring dozens of others…

By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — French painter Pierre Soulages, an icon of post-World War II European abstract art famed for his use of black, has…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An investigation into the theft this summer of several semitrailers loaded with frozen beef from Nebraska has led to arrests…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Three men accused of supporting terrorism in the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor were convicted of all charges…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish fillets during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate approved a bill Wednesday to eliminate daylight saving time, putting an end to the practice of changing clocks…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian investigators have raided the home of Ksenia Sobchak, the glamourous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge has sided with Richmond officials in a lawsuit over whether the Virginia city can remove a final Confederate monument…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Six schoolchildren in Uganda’s capital have tested positive for Ebola.…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers are holding a special meeting on Thursday to discuss ways to deal…

MILAN (AP) — Italian media reports say the new Italian government has prepared directives that could be used to once again prevent humanitarian…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio law does not permit voters to return absentee ballots at their precincts on…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed 25 lawsuits against President Joe…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Newspaper endorsements are fading away as prizes to be nabbed by political campaigns, the practice…

By ALI SWENSON Live vote counts sometimes go up or down on election night. That’s due to human error somewhere between the local election…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer For LGBTQ activists, the home stretch of the midterm election campaign is a good news, bad news phenomenon. A…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa will allow a $500 million superyacht linked to sanctioned Russian…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — About 30 members of a film crew who were trapped in a limestone cave in northern Malaysia during heavy rain Wednesday…