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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union’s medicines agency says it has begun reviewing data on Merck’s COVID-19 treatment pill so that…

CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Leading scientific agencies say even if the world manages to stop producing harmful emissions,…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A trial is underway for a Kansas City, Missouri, police officer accused of involuntary manslaughter in a 2019 shooting.…

MOSCOW (AP) — Tens of thousands have rallied in Azerbaijan’s capital to mark the one year anniversary of the country’s victory in the six-week…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Eight years after he shot dead his girlfriend, Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is up…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Randal Quarles announced Monday that he will resign from the Federal Reserve’s Board…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Some banners were burned at a temporary memorial honoring the 49 victims who died in a massacre at a Florida gay nightclub…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s prime minister says that preliminary talks with the International Monetary Fund are moving forward as the small nation…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed concern that the pandemic recession has…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors in a Georgia courtroom have been shown graphic crime scene photos of the gunshot wounds…

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Santa may have fewer eyes in homes this Christmas season after a judge — jokingly — banned the Elf on the Shelf. Superior…

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Forty years ago, the programmers at PBS were eager to experiment, so they started a new series…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press AGUILILLA, Mexico (AP) — In western Mexico a small squad of soldiers with about a half-dozen trucks and sandbag…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say the “heroic actions” of a Tennessee pastor who tackled a man waving and pointing a gun during a service…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A senior U.S. diplomat says he’s received assurances from members of Bosnia’s presidency there will be…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say they are stepping up police checks to enforce new rules under which unvaccinated people who haven’t had…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — France is showcasing its military muscle with a tour of its new frigate Auvergne to…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A suspected Ukrainian hacker has been arrested and charged in the United States…

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a 16-year-old girl held captive by a 61-year-old man was rescued on an interstate highway in…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national railway on Monday resumed train service to a western valley that was devastated by flooding in mid-July after…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Police in Portugal are carrying out searches across the country following a tip-off that troops stationed with a United…

By LEE KEATH Associated Press KABUL (AP) — A growing number of near-starving children are brought every day to the main children’s hospital…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s Apostolic Library is opening its doors to the general public with a small new exhibition space aimed at…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The chairman of a foundation that represents families of people killed when a…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s top general has promised he won’t hold a government position after planned elections in July 2023. His comments…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russians have gone back to work after a nine-day break that was ordered by authorities to tame a…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s government has resigned for the second time this year, underscoring the political problems plaguing…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s military says that members of the M23 rebellion group…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Two Iraqi politicians say a top Iranian general visited Baghdad after the assassination…

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Officials say the prosthetic-tailed dolphin that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies may be fighting a…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Barack Obama is expressing confidence that the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Social Democrats, the country’s main center-left party, is set to make the manager of its successful election…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Some people can’t wait to retire. Others are pushed into retirement due to illness, job loss or other factors beyond…

PRAGUE (AP) — Two party coalitions that emerged as winners of the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election have signed a power-sharing deal to…

PARIS (AP) — France’s Catholic Church has announced its decision to financially compensate sex abuse victims by selling property assets and if…

By ANNABELLE LIANG Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore’s High Court has suspended the scheduled execution of a Malaysian man believed to…

By KAREL JANICEK Association Press PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia has expanded strict coronavirus restrictions to nearly half of the country amid a record…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A top Arab League official is in Beirut to explore ways to resolve an unprecedented diplomatic rift…

LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s health minister is suing Van Morrison after the singer called him “very dangerous” for his handling of…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — People fleeing Ethiopia say a new round of deadly attacks and forced conscription has begun…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported no daily deaths from COVID-19 for the first time in 15 months, as infections…

LONDON (AP) — A bus has been hijacked and set on fire in Northern Ireland, amid discontent over the trade deal struck as part of the U.K.’s…

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A court run by Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels has sentenced an actor and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to talk about climate change. But his opponents want to…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is encouraging local school districts to host clinics to provide…

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel has a positive verdict on the influx of migrants to Germany in 2015 and 2016 as she prepares to step down:…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s judicial authorities have reportedly banned a newspaper for publishing a front-page graphic that…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds if not thousands of migrants have sought to storm the border from Belarus into…

By FRANK BAJAK and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Security researchers say spyware from the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — SoftBank Group says it sank into red ink for the July-September period, hit by losses on its…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s leader Xi Jinping appears to be laying the foundation for a third term in power as top officials from the all-powerful…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police say a rider on a Japanese super-express train started a fire that was quickly put out by…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s coronavirus infection rate has climbed to its highest recorded level yet as what…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The capital of the United Arab Emirates has issued new rules governing divorce, inheritance and child custody…

BEIJING (AP) — Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of U.S. warships in its northwestern desert, possibly to practice for a future naval…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian activist has denounced a delay in the release of her…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press QAFFIN, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian farmers in dozens of villages in the occupied West Bank must show permits to…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s interior ministry has lifted a ban on a radical Islamist party behind a violent…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press SREENAGAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is holding a series of local elections to choose representatives at the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street rose to a record for an eighth day. Tokyo and…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The lockdown of New Zealand’s largest city is likely to end later this month, with…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is struggling with whether to allow a lawsuit by Muslim men claiming…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A day after questioned elections, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government has set about painting as a historic…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new mandate in the city of Los Angeles now requires people visiting…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is facing a familiar challenge as he promotes his new $1 trillion…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Parents held children born while they were stuck abroad. Long-separated…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Kevin Byard returned an interception 24 yards for a touchdown, and Tennessee’s defense…

By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A protester and volunteer medic wounded on the streets of…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man who has been jailed for more than 40 years for a triple murder is…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities in Houston have released the names of eight concertgoers who died…

BEIJING (AP) — Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space…

By RANDALL CHASE and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press A 9-year-old Dallas boy has died from injuries during a crowd surge at Astroworld, bringing the…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new book on the Carpenters takes a look back at nearly every rainy day and Monday of…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A lawyer for the gunman who killed 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques says his…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mostly lower after Wall Street hit a new high and China reported a…

By RANDALL CHASE and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press Clearer pictures began to emerge Sunday of some of the eight young people who died when fans at a…

Ithaca, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say multiple bomb threats made over the weekend at Ivy League campuses were not credible. Cornell, Columbia and Brown…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An 83-year-old hiker who is known as Nimblewill Nomad has become the oldest person to…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republicans this weekend projected newfound confidence about their chances of retaking control of…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Eternals,” one of Marvel’s most ambitious efforts to expand its superhero universe, arrived in…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered 42 migrants packed in a…

KITTANNING, Pa. (AP) — A female high school hockey goalie in Pennsylvania is returning to the ice Monday for her first school game since she was…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Officials say a strong storm off the Southeast coast combined with periodic higher tides to cause coastal flooding that…

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped by 5 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.49 per gallon. The price…

By FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s activists say security forces have dispersed demonstrators and…

VIENNA (AP) — A 57-year-old man stabbed a 10-year-old boy with a kitchen knife in a department store in Munich Saturday evening, police told the…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Starting Monday, anyone going to a shopping mall, theater, gym or nail…

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers Mark Zuckerberg promises that the virtual-reality “metaverse” he’s planning to…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors trying to convict Kyle Rittenhouse of murder are trying to paint the Illinois…

SYDNEY (AP) — Police in western Australia have called off a search for a swimmer who was attacked by a shark. The wife of 57-year-old Paul…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Many elementary schools around the U.S. are preparing to offer COVID-19 shots that educators see as key to keeping…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Health Ministry has issued instructions to doctors confirming that it is legal to end a pregnancy when the…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An ambitious program to replace thousands of residential lead water lines in New…

VIENNA (AP) — Police in Germany say a 27-year-old man who stabbed four people on a German high-speed train apparently attacked his victims “at…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are increasingly optimistic about flipping governor’s offices…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — High wind off the Florida coast has prompted SpaceX to delay the return of four…

By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About 4 million federal workers, from FBI agents to Bureau of Prisons…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has decried the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia and is pressing for dialogue to prevail over…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A German humanitarian ship with more than 800 rescued migrants aboard has steamed into a…