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By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — An attorney for one of three white men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia…
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — An attorney for one of three white men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer Human Rights Watch is asking leading sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics to explain why they remain largely…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador says Moscow is never going to invade Ukraine unless it…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says people have a duty to get vaccinated against the…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Africa next week as the Biden administration…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The late stages of Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial in the shooting of three men highlighted the…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A jury has awarded $2.75 million to an Arizona legislative staffer who said she was fired…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The CEO of McDonald’s is facing increasing criticism, including calls for resignation, following…
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six U.S. oil executives detained in Venezuela for four years on corruption charges have…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press As jurors in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial settled into their courtroom seats, Judge Bruce Schroeder welcomed…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts has pulled up at the International Space…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Kimi Cole wants to become the country’s first openly transgender politician elected…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Two Native American tribes have failed again in their bid to persuade a federal judge in Nevada…
Continue ReadingOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Five Republican state lawmakers want Gov. Kevin Stitt to grant clemency to Julius Jones, who is scheduled for execution next…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the past week, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted a video showing a character with his face…
Continue ReadingBy CLAUDIA TORRENS, PHILIP MARCELO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly six months ago, U.S. immigration courts established a…
Continue ReadingColorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has defied federal guidance on COVID-19 booster shots by issuing an order allowing all residents 18 years…
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — A Texas jury has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 37 years in prison for strangling a transgender woman to death in 2019 and dumping…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Kellogg Co. has filed a lawsuit against its local union in Omaha. It’s complaining…
Continue ReadingBy MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Combined patrols of soldiers and police have fanned out across the capital of El…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Twitter says it’s permanently banned Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson for repeated violations of its…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Veterans Day Parade has returned to New York’s Fifth Avenue after being canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic last…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Douglas, who played handsome family patriarch John Abbott on “The Young and the Restless,” has died. A family spokesman…
Continue ReadingProsecutors have served notice that they’ll seek the death penalty for a Dallas man linked to 19 deaths. In court papers filed this week, Dallas…
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — In a story published July 24, 2019, about prosecutors saying they would seek the death penalty against Billy Chemirmir, The…
Continue ReadingPor JUAN LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Una estudiante universitaria de 22 años que resultó gravemente herida en el festival Astroworld…
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Lawsuits allege a Dallas man charged in the deaths of 12 elderly women also killed six other…
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — In a story published June 26, 2019, about lawsuits alleging that a man already charged in the deaths of 12 elderly women also killed…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Utah doctor is accused of lying about ill patients in his climbing party to get a…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID WARREN Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say a Dallas man previously arrested in the death of an 81-year-old woman has been…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press SPANISH LAKE, Mo. (AP) — A puzzling, broad-daylight shooting at a small-town trailer park is renewing concerns among…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities in Las Vegas believe the body of a woman who died unnoticed in 2018 remained in her home for more than two years until…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK Ark. (AP) — A report says that a crack in a steel beam that forced the closure of the Interstate 40…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The last three school districts in Florida that required at least some students to wear masks are…
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors in the trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s death are watching security camera videos from…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A U.S. Marine veteran has pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court to orchestrating a drug-trafficking operation that moved tons…
Continue ReadingBy LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Members of a union representing film and television crews begin voting Friday on a tentative…
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been found guilty of killing his wife, whose remains were not found for more than a year. A jury on…
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The contagious delta variant is driving up COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Mountain West and fueling…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government says California is ineligible for about $12 billion in public transit funding.…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The United Nations Climate Change Conference, which was postponed a year…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Henry Ruggs’ lawyers are telling a judge they found a witness who says firefighters were slow to…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial could ask the jury to consider less…
Continue ReadingBy DIARLEI RODRIGUES and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A rap battle at a local bar means good news for people in…
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press THORNTON, Colo. (AP) — A team comprised of mostly veterans is helping Afghan refugees settle in the United…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A 22-year-old college senior who was critically injured at the Astroworld festival in Houston has…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 1972, Big Bird lined up on `Sesame Street’ to receive a measles vaccine as…
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Lawmakers in Slovakia have narrowly rejected proposed legislation that would have tightened access to abortion in the…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II will attend a national service of remembrance for Britain’s war dead this weekend. The…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have turned the legal screws on one of the country’s most prominent human rights groups. This is the latest…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In an impassioned speech to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Ugandan activist Vanessa…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Austria’s chancellor has stepped up threats of lockdown measures for unvaccinated people as new coronavirus cases in the Alpine…
Continue ReadingSCOTLAND, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been charged with murder and other counts for allegedly gunning down his ex-girlfriend, her father and…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rising stage star Emilie Kouatchou came close to quitting musical theater during…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A pilot program to help reduce bison at Grand Canyon National Park by shooting them has…
Continue ReadingLYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Liberty University is responding to a former spokesman’s lawsuit alleging he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns…
Continue ReadingBy NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of White House records sought by…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The hunger-striking husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained for more than five…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was 2015 when Congress last approved a major renewal of federal highway and other transportation…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A French man has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor to death in an antisemitic attack.…
Continue ReadingDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria says the government has signed a contract with a group of companies from the United Arab Emirates to build a solar…
Continue ReadingAMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two new medicines against the coronavirus for people at risk of…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for rigging computers to win lottery jackpots…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies…
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. government is urging U.S. citizens to leave Haiti because of the country’s…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has issued a press statement expressing deep concern about ongoing violence…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kristen Stewart knows a thing or two about being extremely famous. Her latest film in which she…
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Opposition campaign group Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation says freestyle skiing world champion Aliaksandra Ramanouskaya…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The movies are clawing their way back in theaters, but, so far, not everyone is showing up like they…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The German government’s tax income over the next few years is expected to be considerably higher than previously forecast as…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The speaker of Sweden’s parliament tasked the leader of the Social Democratic Party with trying to form a new…
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The skeptics of Wall Street have gone missing. As the stock market surges to record after record,…
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch public health institute has announced the highest daily tally of new COVID-19 cases since the pandemic…
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Daniel Lee is leaving his job as creative director at Bottega Veneta after three years and creating the brand’s distinctive…
Continue ReadingBy FAY ABUELGASIM and NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s top general has reappointed himself as head of the army-run…
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A new report is shedding light on what types of organizations are receiving the most donations from charitable…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union parliament has condemned Poland’s recent near-total ban on abortions and called on the Polish government to…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are looking to give U.S. automakers with union…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — A new study shows that the personal luxury market of high-end accessories, leather goods and…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — The Spanish Navy has started helping farmers on the volcanic island of La Palma to reach their lava-surrounded banana plantations by…
Continue ReadingBy DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say they are preparing new restrictions to counter the unrelenting surge of…
Continue ReadingBy DREW COSTLEY and NICKY FORSTER Associated Press An Associated Press analysis of temperature and population data shows that exposure to extreme…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ charter school will relocate to a larger campus in New…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Internet giants, including social media apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, joined…
Continue ReadingBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarians will soon have some relief at the pumps after the government announced it will limit the price of gasoline and…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Pope Francis is renewing his call for Europe to welcome and show solidarity with migrants. He says the diversity they’re bringing…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Carnival revelers in the western Germany city of Cologne were lining up to show proof of their COVID-19 vaccinations before they…
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH of The Associated Press and KALYN BELSHA of Chalkbeat Chalkbeat and Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) —…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and VIRGINIA MAYO Associated Press YPRES, Belgium (AP) — Armistice Day remembrances have been observed around the world after the…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — More than 400 migrants have arrived by sea to Spain’s Canary Islands over a 24-hour period. The latest arrivals came talks between…
Continue ReadingTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Investigators are asking Uber for records as they investigate the theft of more than $700,000 from an 82-year-old Florida woman…
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Naval forces from the United States, Israel and two Gulf Arab states are taking…
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — American and British citizens have been swept up in Ethiopia’s mass detentions of ethnic…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has saluted the nation’s military veterans as “the…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says the number of people worldwide forced to abandon their homes likely increased to more than 84 million in…
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden has charged two executives of a Swedish oil exploration and production company…
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Foreign Ministry says it has detected spyware developed by the Israeli…
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish lira again has slid to a record low against the U.S. dollar after a surge in U.S. consumer prices inflamed…
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Senior U.S. and South Korean diplomats have discussed how to restart stalled talks with North Korea, days after the North…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The outgoing Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is on his way to Taiwan at the invitation of the island’s leader…
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