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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to empower private citizens to enforce a ban on…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to empower private citizens to enforce a ban on…
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alabama’s Bryce Young won the Heisman Trophy, beating out Michigan defensive end…
Continue ReadingCOSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — A woman has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing more than $300,000 in merchandise from retail stores in…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, a civil rights activist in Alabama and New York City, has died. He was 96. His daughter, Patrice…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky residents affected by a monstrous twister are grappling with its force and…
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed remained with his family in northern…
Continue ReadingBy SALLY HO Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An avalanche has swept through a ski area in Washington state, killing a 60-year-old man and…
Continue ReadingBy MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ruled that all travelers arriving in Brazil…
Continue ReadingNORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Grammy-winning musician Pharrell Williams told the newest graduates of Norfolk State University to act like “the emerging…
Continue ReadingCANTON, Mass. (AP) — Artifacts once owned by Paul Revere’s family are up for auction. The items were found in the attic of a home in Canton,…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A special federal Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases…
Continue ReadingCLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida have arrested a 29-year-old man on manslaughter charges in connection to the death of an older man whose…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge has decided that the assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin a prop gun that killed a cinematographer on a New…
Continue ReadingOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The adjutant general of the Oklahoma National Guard is warning members that refusing to receive the coronavirus vaccine could…
Continue ReadingSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatís Jr. suffered scrapes on a knee and his hands in a fall in the…
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA SURK and CHRISTOPHE ENA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — In her first address as a French conservative presidential candidate, Valérie…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — The family of a 14-year-old boy fatally shot by a Chicago police officer more than seven years ago has reached a $1.2 million…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British police say a man has been shot dead during a confrontation with firearms officers near the Kensington Palace royal residence…
Continue ReadingCHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) — Party delegates from Germany’s center-left Social Democrats, the senior partner in the country’s new coalition…
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government declared a state of emergency in almost 50 cities in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais due to heavy…
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Alicia Keys hasn’t felt completely free for much of her career. And while that may sound…
Continue ReadingSKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia have discovered 41 migrants, including five children, in a routine police check on a main…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is drawing attention to a problem that the Vatican has long sought to downplay: the…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden is returning to South Carolina, the state that played a pivotal role in…
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty…
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty…
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — A fire-ravaged German-owned cargo vessel has been towed to port in the western Swedish city of Goteborg after a week-long blaze…
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Environmental protesters have blocked roads in Serbia for a third consecutive weekend to oppose plans for lithium mining.…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — First, a steady crawl. Then a short clumsy slide across the slick stone floor at their home at the Beauval Zoo south of Paris. Then…
Continue ReadingBy TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An aspiring musician, a young British model, a struggling middle school dropout…
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians are finally taking part in municipal elections across the occupied West Bank following…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British scientists are warning that the government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the omicron…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s decision to forego a third term has sparked a scramble among…
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Police in Croatia say they found the body of a 10-year-old Turkish girl who was swept away while her family tried to cross a…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press For many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, self-incriminating messages, photos and videos that…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After prosecutors spent nearly a day reconstructing the moments after a…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italy’s La Scala has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks. At least one of the four…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Authorities in France want to accelerate vaccinations against the coronavirus before Christmas as infections surge and more people…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described social media as one of the main threats to democracy. Erdogan discussed the…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A consortium of Catholic women’s groups is calling on the Holy See to join the Council of Europe…
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Palestinian Hamas group says that explosions that shook a refugee camp in southern Lebanon were…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people have lined up in the English city of Bristol to get the latest work by elusive street artist Banksy. It’s a…
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president has given a mandate to form a new government to the prime minister-designate of a centrist party that…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer NFL great Michael Strahan has rocketed into space on a Jeff Bezos rocket. The Amazon founder’s space company…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Health officials say Taiwan has recorded its first case of the omicron variant in a passenger who recently traveled to the…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven nations were meeting in Liverpool…
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC Associated Press LAJKOVAC, Serbia (AP) — A Cuban couple and their daughter have resettled in a small Serbian town after fleeing Cuba…
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen attacked two police providing security for polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan, shooting…
Continue ReadingBy RISHI LEKHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are clearing protest sites along the capital’s fringes and…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Health experts still don’t know if the omicron variant is causing milder COVID-19, but…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fellow Kansans have celebrated Bob Dole as a tough but compassionate patriot shaped by…
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PEREZ D. and MANUEL DE LA CRUZ Associated Press CHEPOL, Guatemala (AP) — Anxiety is high in Guatemala amid uncertainty about loved ones…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Masayuki Uemura, a Japanese home computer game pioneer whose Nintendo consoles sold millions of…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A Southern California man who sold $1.1 million in forged art has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. Prosecutors say…
Continue ReadingMAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — In a story published December 11, 2021, about deadly tornadoes hitting several states, The Associated Press erroneously…
Continue ReadingBy CHARLOTTE ANTOINE-PERRON Associated Press NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — Voters in the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia are set to…
Continue ReadingSEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Sequoia National Park is reopening its Giant Forest area, three months after extraordinary efforts saved the…
Continue ReadingAURORA, Colo. (AP) — For at least two days, residents of a Denver suburb worried a black cat named Panther who somehow got himself stranded atop a…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say a U.S. Navy commander has been fired from his job as the executive officer of…
Continue ReadingDESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A California man has been arrested on suspicion of rear-ending a school bus and then plowing his Cadillac into a…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University police have arrested a 38-year-old homeless man they say is…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…
Continue ReadingALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Canadian citizen who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group nearly a decade ago has pleaded guilty to serving…
Continue ReadingPLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A father and son charged with starting a massive California wildfire earlier this year pleaded not guilty in court…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Sudan says the country’s military leaders who seized…
Continue ReadingONEONTA, Ala. (AP) — A sheriff says the man who dumped hundreds of FedEx packages in a roadside ditch in Alabama told investigators he was dealing…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor next week to three U.S. soldiers who fought…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Computer security experts around the world are racing to patch one of the worst software…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Two artists are facing federal charges that they faked Native American heritage to sell works at…
Continue ReadingCOVINGTON, La. (AP) — Authorities in Louisiana say jurors heard a 911 recording of a man’s threats and a woman’s pleas for her life,…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — First Lady Jill Biden read excerpts from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” on Friday as part of a charity event that provides…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says there are “active discussions” within the department about making…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah national park famed for its otherworldly sandstone arches will require visitors…
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — Investigators have long concluded that a Georgia man who disappeared…
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president says more opportunities for talks with Russia may arise thanks to the U.S. diplomatic effort to help…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says it will no longer give out commercial…
Continue ReadingMIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — Ten geese drowned in a South Florida lake after a homeowners association’s attempt to trap, sedate and euthanize them went…
Continue ReadingKENSINGTON, N.H. (AP) — Police in a New Hampshire town say an accidental shooting led them to a house that was overrun with more than 70 cats and…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former San Diego-area police officer who pushed a Black man during an arrest last year has been…
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says that weapons stored for the Palestinian Hamas group exploded in a refugee camp in…
Continue ReadingWAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) — Federal authorities say they’ve broken up a criminal enterprise that illegally brought migrant workers into the U.S.,…
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that a senior U.S. diplomat quietly traveled to…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pop superstar Alicia Keys has debuted her new album live in front of a packed…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is subpoenaing six more…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A far-right extremist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his violent actions during August 2020 protests against…
Continue ReadingBy BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican actress Carmen Salinas, known for movies like “Danzón”, “Man on Fire” and…
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press More U.S. states desperate to defend against COVID-19 are calling on the National Guard and other military personnel to…
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the appointment of an assistant to U.S. President Joe Biden as the next…
Continue ReadingDAVISON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who was convicted of killing his wife by spiking her cereal with heroin was sentenced Friday to life in…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A court appearance is set for next week for a man accused of driving a limousine onto aircraft ramps at Las Vegas’ international…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ROGERS and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Nesmith, the wool-hatted, guitar-strumming member of the 1960s,…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and MARK THIESSEN HONOLULU (AP) — Navy officials say they believe that contaminated tap water that went to Hawaii…
Continue ReadingBy MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A former inmate at a Kansas jail alleges in a federal lawsuit that deputies fired a flash grenade and nonlethal…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorney General Herbert Slatery says he wouldn’t appeal the resentencing of a…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A federal panel has approved naming a Colorado peak after a Cheyenne woman who facilitated relations between white settlers and…
Continue ReadingBy SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The jury’s guilty verdict that Jussie Smollett faked a racist and homophobic attack isn’t…
Continue ReadingBy MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. budget deficit totaled $356.4 billion in the first two months of the budget…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The UK Health Security Agency says the omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading rapidly throughout Britain and is likely to become…
Continue ReadingBy BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and ex-Rep. Mark Walker are…
Continue ReadingBy KHADIJA KOTHIA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Families of four young gay men slain by a sex predator have demanded that the Metropolitan Police…
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