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By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In this world, there’s a book for everybody. Take advantage of that sentiment during the…
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In this world, there’s a book for everybody. Take advantage of that sentiment during the…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German pharmaceutical company BioNTech says its earnings grew again in the third quarter. The company partnered with Pfizer to…
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Brothers Osborne have a message for fans at this year’s CMA Awards:…
Continue ReadingTARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida have determined the fatal shooting of a teenager who pointed what turned out to be an air rifle…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer Music-related gifts are an easy choice this holiday season. Everyone likes music, right? The Associated Press…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Big cannabis companies are backing a new, celebrity-infused campaign to enlist marijuana users…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The morgue in Romania’s main hospital has no space for the dead any more. Bodies…
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has marked the 83rd anniversary of the anti-Jewish…
Continue ReadingBy DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have named a prominent LGBT rights group and several lawyers as “foreign…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The chairman of Dubai-based real estate developer Union Properties has been dismissed from his position on the…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Lawyers and the family of a former U.S. Marine who is imprisoned for assaulting police officers in Moscow says he has begun a hunger…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has ordered 12 men to be held without bail on suspicion they faked a medical emergency to make a plane land in…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has kicked off a four-day visit to Paris and charm offensive aimed at shoring up relations with…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hospitals in the southern Dutch province of Limburg are warning the national…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer General Electric, the storied American manufacturer that struggled under its own weight after growing to…
Continue ReadingBy DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Coronavirus deaths in Russia have hit a new record two days after a nine-day work stoppage…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Pope Francis is condemning the assassination attempt against Iraq’s prime minister as a “vile act of terrorism.” The Vatican…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The chief of Germany’s navy says its dispatch of a warship to the Indo-Pacific underscores his…
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AND FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Time is running out on the two-week United Nations…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics maker Sony and TSMC of Taiwan say they are jointly building a computer chip…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man reportedly armed with a knife has threatened passers-by on the streets of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, before…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is warning that the virtual reality world at…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark wants to again consider COVID-19 as “a socially critical disease,” the Danish government said Monday, months…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan has reported a $479 million profit for the last quarter, a reversal from the loss it racked…
Continue ReadingBy MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot police have formally charged an Azeri man on suspicion that he planned to…
Continue ReadingBy DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s government says more than 20 children were killed and dozens more were…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast…
Continue ReadingBy ANNABELLE LIANG Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore’s top court has postponed the appeal hearing for a Malaysian man on death row…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says China is seeking to take control of the island by wearing down its military capabilities and influencing public…
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland reinforced its border with Belarus with more riot police, a day…
Continue ReadingBy FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Two leading international rights groups have urged Sudan’s military to release…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press POPERINGE, Belgium (AP) — The pandemic has crippled remembrance tourism in Belgium, the scene of some of the…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Former U.S. President Barack Obama has dropped in on U.N. climate talks to urge young…
Continue ReadingBy TANYA TITOVA and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A large Russian island north of Japan will be a testing ground for Moscow’s…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The bulldozers have come for one of the last bastions of “old” Dubai, an…
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Chris Boswell’s 40-yard field goal with 26 seconds left lifted the Pittsburgh Steelers past…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID R. MARTIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An attraction opening Tuesday gives thrill-seekers a unique perspective on New York City from…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares have tracked Wall Street’s retreat, with Chinese benchmarks leading the decline after the…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar is facing criticism after he tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep.…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will have a rare…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Rarely have the leaders of Congress been asked to do so much with so little in…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to six…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer A global trade union body has joined a long list of human-rights advocates in challenging the propriety of China…
Continue ReadingBy HOPE YEN and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has created a new requirement for automakers: Find a high-tech way to keep…
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices are expressing skepticism about saying that Texas must…
Continue ReadingBy VINEETA DEEPAK Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood director Ram Madhvani’s internet series “Aarya” has already received plenty of…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top anti-money laundering official has resigned, following a scandal over his wedding party held in Guatemala.…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston police and fire departments were deeply involved in safety…
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Officials say a fire in a newborn care unit in a hospital in central India has killed four infants. The chief minister in Madhya…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO and ROBERT BUMSTED Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A 56-page event operations plan for the Astroworld music festival includes…
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — Egyptian-Canadian author and journalist Omar El Akkad, has won Canada’s richest literary award. El Akkad won the Scotiabank Giller…
Continue ReadingTAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — The leader of an effort by Central American migrants to walk across southern Mexico says the group will now head to the…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced plans to encourage people to buy…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is launching his sales pitch for his recently passed $1…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois governor has signed into law a change to the Illinois Health Care…
Continue ReadingBOONE, N.C. (AP) — A spokesman for Franklin Graham says the evangelist underwent a specialized heart surgery to treat a condition which had…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Five European countries are expressing “serious concern” at Israel’s designation…
Continue ReadingGLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Unlike some of her European colleagues, Leonore Gewessler arrived at the U.N. climate conference with a clean conscience.…
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis County man is charged with two separate killings, and police are trying to determine if he was involved in at least…
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A toddler was killed by a stray bullet on an Oakland freeway while he slept in his car seat, the latest victim of a recent…
Continue ReadingCHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two California couples gave birth to each others’ babies after a mix-up at a fertility…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors say they have arrested a businessman on charges he used the Pegasus spyware…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Rarely have the leaders of Congress been asked to do so much with so little in…
Continue ReadingBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A criminal fraud trial in Kentucky aims to determine whether four officials of the…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A metallurgist in Washington state has pleaded guilty to fraud after she spent decades faking the…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The African Union’s envoy for the Horn of Africa is warning that there is a short…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER and DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The release of communications related to Benton Harbor’s water crisis…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper and fashion mogul Ye’s high-end clothing company Yeezy has agreed to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit over slow…
Continue ReadingBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing threatened status for alligator snapping…
Continue ReadingFAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a gunman who killed a man outside of an Alaska grocery store over the weekend didn’t break stride as he…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press From the soils underground to eyes in the sky, officials say the federal probe into the deadly collapse of a…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has welcomed the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks to the White House. The…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Republican Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign denies that there was fraud in this…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston police and fire departments were deeply involved in safety…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent New York City lawyer who married a Hollywood star and spent the last eight years…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marvel’s new film “Eternals” broke the mold in an area the studio has…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Crafts vendors are returning to Havana’s streets. Transport between provinces is…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Only five shows into his rookie season at “Saturday Night Live,” comic James Austin Johnson has…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Gun maker Remington Firearms will move its headquarters from upstate New York to Georgia, with plans to…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to six…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Consumer advocates are asking the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to reopen one of…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega holds a commanding lead in preliminary results…
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Biden administration is framing its vaccine mandate for private employers in life-and-death terms in a legal…
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Thousands of protesters are rallying in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi to demand the release of the country’s jailed…
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A woman who was pushed to safety as a car slammed into counterprotesters at a…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts are back on Earth after a 200-day space station mission. They rode…
Continue ReadingPOMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a Brightline commuter train hit a car carrying a woman and her grandchild on the higher-speed line’s…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Egypt are putting a brave face on strains in their relationship as…
Continue ReadingDAMSCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israel has carried out airstrikes on central and western provinces wounding two soldiers and causing…
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have announced a month-long cease-fire with a key militant group behind…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is pitching in on the White House charm offensive aimed at French…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The British government says it will launch an independent inquiry into how a hospital electrician was able to sexually abuse at least…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another major railroad has gone to court to determine whether it has the authority to require…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is urging Myanmar’s military leaders to provide…
Continue ReadingMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Instead of a message in a bottle, it was the decals on a trash can that tell the story of a 3,500-mile voyage, from South…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has reported a new record high for daily COVID-19 infections, and dozens of deaths. But health officials also say…
Continue ReadingBy JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker and an organizer of rally to oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates is…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press WILBER, Neb. (AP) — A woman convicted of murder for her role in the death and dismemberment of a Nebraska…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson acknowledges criticism of his humanitarian visit…
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