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By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military junta wants to extend its rule for five more years and put off the next…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Mask requirements are returning in some school districts that had dropped them. Some are planning to vastly ramp…

By RAF CASERT and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Draft European Union plans that would allow nuclear and gas energy to remain…

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Thousands of people in the capital of the Netherlands have defied a ban and…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An official in a Lebanese rescue group says a mother and her three children died in their sleep…

HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (AP) — A line of severe storms damaged homes, knocked out power and downed trees in parts of the southern United States late…

By ILAN BEN ZION and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Egyptian officials are pushing for Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus has veered off a mountain highway in Nepal, leaving at least seven dead and about a dozen injured. A government…

By ANDREW MELDRUM and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Firefighters are battling a major blaze at South Africa’s…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says an unidentified person has crossed the heavily fortified…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, COLLEEN LONG, JACQUES BILLEAUD and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many rioters who stormed the U.S.…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, COLLEEN LONG, JACQUES BILLEAUD and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many rioters who stormed the U.S.…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Experts say the winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s front range was rare. But similar events…

By THOMAS PEIPERT, BRITTANY PETERSON and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Search teams are looking for two missing people in…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is planning televised…

MONROE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana federal judge has ruled that President Joe Biden cannot require teachers in the Head Start early education program…

By PAUL DAVENPORT Associated Press Authorities in New Mexico say icing on a cable caused two tram cars to get stuck high up in the Sandia Mountains…

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Members of the Russian and Czech Republic world junior hockey teams were removed from a New Year’s Eve flight from…

Authorities say rapper Kodak Black has been arrested on a trespassing charge Saturday in South Florida. The Broward Sheriff’s Office says Black was…

DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky animal shelter is doing its part to help with recovery from last month’s tornadoes by reuniting pets lost…

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Brian “Red” Hamilton was in the middle of moving equipment on the Vancouver Canucks’ bench…

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency after a powerful powerful storm caused flash floods, power…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a New York City police officer’s skull was broken when he was shot New…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida are searching for two people who burned a part of Key West’s famous Southernmost Point buoy early New…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say arrests have been made in the shooting death of an off-duty Cleveland police officer during a carjacking.…

CHICAGO (AP) — The year 2021 ended as one of the deadliest on record in recent years in Chicago. According to statistics released by the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight march in the capital of Kyiv to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The new year is bringing more of the same old misery that air travelers in the United States have been enduring…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Investigators say three people were killed and four others wounded after several people at a Mississippi party started…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has rejected Prince Andrew’s attempt to block the progression of a lawsuit by…

BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — Police say a woman wanted in the fatal shooting of one police officer and the wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces and an armed criminal gang clashed in the restive southeastern…

CHICAGO (AP) — The winter that took its time getting to the Midwest has begun to finally arrive on the first day of the new year. The National…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Holocaust survivor Gertrude Pressburger has died at age 94. She became famous during…

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of empty, parked cars go up in flames in France each New Year’s Eve, set afire by young revelers. But that much lamented…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Former Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Reeves has died at the age of 77. His family…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press LOVETTSVILLE, Va. (AP) — A year after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, the United States is split in…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press LOVETTSVILLE, Va. (AP) — A year after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, the United States is split in…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Alabama has a chance to repeat. Georgia has a chance for revenge. The rematch is set,…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Amid a wave of COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant, dozens of colleges are making plans to move…

BERLIN (AP) — Exploding fireworks killed a man in Germany and another in Austria on New Year’s Eve. A 37-year-old man died in Hennef near…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of people chanting anti-American slogans have rallied in the Iraqi capital to mark the anniversary of the killing of a…

By ZARAR KHAN and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — South Asian archrivals India and Pakistan have exchanged lists of each other’s…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has used his New Year’s Day appearances to encourage people to…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An advertisement by a French automaker has stirred up controversy in Egypt after activists said it…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been remembered at his funeral for…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military says it launched strikes against militant targets in the Gaza Strip, a day after rockets were fired from the…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press The events from last Jan. 6 in Washington unfolded on live television and they’ve been the subject of…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — After tough talk between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin over the Russian troop…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Alvin Bragg has already notched one historic first, being sworn in Saturday as Manhattan’s…

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A year after New Year’s Day passed without a Rose Parade due to the coronavirus pandemic, the floral spectacle…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s new mayor has pledged to steer the nation’s largest city out of the…

By BRITTANY PETERSON and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press SUPERIOR, Colo. (AP) — Colorado officials say nearly 1,000 homes and other structures were…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A crowd surge at a popular Hindu shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir has killed at least…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Stetson Bennett threw three touchdown passes, Nakobe Dean led an angry…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scientists and medical chiefs who have led Britain’s response to the pandemic have been awarded…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to further bolster his military capability,…

W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press HENDERSON (AP) — Josh Jacobs couldn’t have produced the best game of his three-year-old career for a better time.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito is offering prayers for those who died during the pandemic, taking to…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The enormous pedestal where the Robert E. Lee monument in Virginia’s capital resided for over 130 years until September has…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two people have been shot and wounded following an apparent altercation at the Mall of America, sending New Year’s Eve…

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Top-ranked Alabama is headed to another national championship game. Brian Robinson ran…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Body camera footage released by authorities showed a man screaming in pain and pleading for help just before a sheriff’s…

By LYNN ELBER and FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America LAS VEGAS (AP) — Organizers of the CES tech convention in Las Vegas say it will run from…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says the federal judiciary needs to do more to ensure…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — China has opened an embassy in Nicaragua for the first time since 1990, acting just over three weeks after President…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — After tough talk between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin over the Russian troop…

LONDON (AP) — U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu has been honored by Queen Elizabeth II in the British monarch’s annual New Year’s list following…

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A western Colorado woman has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder after her children,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The airline industry is trying to delay next week’s scheduled rollout of 5G wireless service near dozens of major U.S.…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s navy has seized two semi-submersible boats carrying 4.1 metric tons of cocaine off the…

By FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press Betty White was America’s naughty sweetheart. With a wholesome smile and a dirty joke she charmed millions of…

By The Associated Press Tributes from fellow actors and comedians poured in on social media Friday in reaction to the death of Betty White. The…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Beaches along the south Los Angeles County coast have been closed due to a spill of untreated sewage. Authorities say a…

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The Rose Parade and Rose Bowl college football game between Ohio State and Utah are set to go forward on New Year’s Day…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and tribal leaders are suing the U.S. government to try to block construction…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has dropped plans to give the country’s highest honor to an Israeli historian amid criticism of his work on…

By LYNN ELBER and FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television…

By DARKO VOJINOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Boisterous New Year’s Eve celebrations have kicked off in Serbia’s capital of…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press A New York resident and “Jeopardy” contestant who was stumped this week by a clue about his state’s governor…

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio high school football player who says coaches forced him to eat a pizza covered with pepperoni grease in violation of…

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected in the shooting of one police officer and wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel has been…

By MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy It was a healthy year for big gifts to charitable causes in 2021, a year…

By ACACIA CORONADO and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Sarah Weddington is being remembered this week as a champion…

By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This time last year, the Republican Party was hitting bottom. The GOP had…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Flight cancellations surged again on the last day of 2021, with airlines blaming it on crew shortages related to…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES, MAURICIO SAVARESE and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Leaders around the world are relying on…

LONDON (AP) — New post-Brexit custom rules for goods arriving from the European Union to Britain are taking effect on Saturday. A leading food…

By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This time last year, the Republican Party was hitting bottom. The GOP had…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Denis O’Dell, a British film producer and director who worked with The Beatles on the movie “A Hard Day’s Night,”…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from drag queen titan RuPaul, the sixth and final season of…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say six people were shot as six gunmen fired dozens of shots on a street full of businesses late Thursday.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Winnie the Pooh” and “The Sun Also Rises” are going public. A.A. Milne’s children’s book and Ernest Hemingway’s…

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The judges of a Michigan university’s cheeky annual “Banished Word List” have a message for texting and…

AVENTURA, Fla. (AP) — Police say two people died when a higher speed commuter train hit their car as the driver tried to make it around the…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials have warned revellers in Scotland and Wales to think twice before travelling to England to…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni military officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has mistakenly hit a…