Tension rises in Iraq after failed bid to assassinate PM
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Troops and patrols have deployed around Baghdad following the failed assassination attempt…
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Troops and patrols have deployed around Baghdad following the failed assassination attempt…
Continue ReadingBy RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban-run Afghan public health ministry has announced the start of a four-day nationwide…
Continue ReadingBy TALI ARBEL Associated Press More than a year and a half after the U.S. to closed its borders to international travelers, restrictions are shifting…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s government has rejected a decision by the country’s presidential council to suspend the…
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Palestinians have slammed Israel for rejecting the promised reopening of the U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Glasgow, Scotland (AP) — The overarching phrase that dominates Glasgow climate talks is simply a number: 1.5.…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The United States is about to reopen to fully vaccinated foreign travelers. And citizens…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — John Kerry is everywhere and on the move at a fateful U.N. climate summit. Kerry is…
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — State TV says Iran’s military has begun its annual war games in a coastal area of the Gulf of Oman, less than a month before…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Travis Scott’s high-energy performances are known for being chaotic and…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN LOZANO, RYAN PEARSON and SALLY HO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Screaming. Suffocating. Panicked. Unconscious. The concertgoers at a…
Continue ReadingMANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is seeking a fourth consecutive term as voting begins in elections against a field of…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Mourners began building a memorial to those lost at a Texas concert as…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s exports remained strong in October, a positive sign for an economy trying to weather power shortages and COVID-19…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — An early-season snowstorm has blanketed much of northern China including the capital Beijing, prompting highway closures and flight…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has conducted artillery firing exercises to bolster its defense…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Travis Scott’s high-energy performances are known for being fun-filled but…
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi government says Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has survived an assassination…
Continue ReadingWINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The leader of the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. signed legislation Saturday to ban smoking in many…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking on Twitter whether he should sell 10% of his stock in the electric-vehicle company…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana appeal court has thrown out the 90-year prison sentence for a drunken driver who…
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Libya’s ruling presidential council says it has suspended the county’s chief diplomat, accusing her of not coordinating foreign…
Continue ReadingBy ERALDO PERES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press GOIANIA, BRAZIL (AP) — Tens of thousands of fans of Brazilian country music singer Marília…
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The crowd deaths at a Houston music festival have added to the long list of people who have been…
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more…
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ interior minister says his French counterpart has agreed to help initiate talks with French-speaking African…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A Navy ship named for slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk has been launched in San Diego Bay. The replenishment oiler USNS Harvey…
Continue ReadingCOEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Two missing Oregon women were found in an Idaho forest Friday, the mother dead from the elements and the disabled…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — As this year’s U.N. climate talks go into their second week, negotiations on key…
Continue ReadingPULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is disputing Nick Rolovich’s statements that the Democrat targeted the former Washington State…
Continue ReadingRUSTAVI, Georgia (AP) — Hundreds of protesters are rallying outside a prison in Georgia to demand that the country’s incarcerated former…
Continue ReadingSKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The leader of North Macedonia’s center-right opposition VMRO-DPMNE party says he has secured a majority in…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Crowds have gathered in Warsaw any in many other Polish cities Saturday to protest restrictive abortion law that critics say…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — School board candidates opposing mask mandates and lessons about…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says families of children separated from their parents at…
Continue ReadingPALMA, Balearic Islands (AP) — Spanish authorities are investigating the unauthorized disembarkment of 21 people from a plane that made an…
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — A humanitarian rescue boat stuck in the Mediterranean Sea carrying 800 migrants has received a delivery of food and blankets while it…
Continue ReadingMACON, Ga. (AP) — An autopsy finds that a 15-year-old Georgia high school football player died from an “abnormal heart rhythm” and not…
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States is ordering non-emergency government employees and their families to leave Ethiopia and urging other U.S.…
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s health ministry has reported a one-day record of 793 deaths from COVID-19. Ukraine has been inundated by…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The first major election day following a year of relentless attacks on voting rights and…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys spent the first week of Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial sparring over who…
Continue ReadingBy TRAVIS LOLLER Travel restrictions that have separated couples and relatives living in different countries are about to end. New rules go into…
Continue ReadingBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A group of former coal company officials are going on trial in Kentucky next week. Federal…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Rice says that he hopes his vote this year to impeach President Donald Trump…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will miss Sunday’s game at Kansas City after being placed in the NFL’s…
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN, CAMILLE FASSETT and KATI PERRY Associated Press As world leaders meet in Glasgow, Scotland, to try to ramp up efforts to curb…
Continue ReadingHANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A 9-foot-tall video game joystick made of wood, rubber and steel has made it into the Guinness World Records 2022. Dartmouth…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Archeologists in Pompeii have discovered a room that officials say offers “a very rare insight…
Continue ReadingVIENNA (AP) — Unvaccinated people in Austria who also haven’t had COVID-19 will no longer be allowed to enter restaurants, hotels, hairdressers…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER, SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Tens of thousands of climate activists are…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s COVID-19 cases have hit another one-day record as the country struggles to contain a wave of infections that has…
Continue ReadingBy TAMEEM AKHGHAR Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A Taliban security official says two suspects have been arrested in connection with…
Continue ReadingBy FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s protest movement has rejected internationally backed initiatives…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The Bavarian Red Cross says a knife attack on a high-speed train in Germany left three people severely wounded. Bavarian state police…
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Police in western India say 11 patients have died after a fire broke out in a hospital’s COVID-19 ward. There were 17 patients…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Rescue services in western Australia are searching for a man who was attacked by multiple sharks. Two teenagers on a boat saw what…
Continue ReadingBy CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Authorities say at least 98 people are dead and 30 others…
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the Earth and it’s on the knife edge of…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Houston officials say they will ask tough questions in their investigation of a crowd surge at a…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. body investigating the most serious crimes in Myanmar says…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hailing Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy was supposed to help President Joe Biden and Democrats, but as of late it’s been…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW HOPE, Pa. (AP) — Democrats in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, felt the Republican wave building over…
Continue ReadingSANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man charged with killing four people in a shooting at a Southern California real estate office has been ruled…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT JABLON Associated Press DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (AP) — Southern California air regulators have approved new restrictions on area oil…
Continue ReadingBy KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston College quarterback Phil Jurkovec started Friday night’s game against Virginia Tech, a…
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say police have fatally shot an armed man who reportedly pointed a gun at a worker at a Walmart store in North…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Election officials in northern Virginia say a juvenile son of Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin tried…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government is offering $5 million rewards for information leading to the capture of four Mexican drug lords. Those…
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic leaders in Virginia have conceded that Republicans have won control of the House…
Continue ReadingJUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Interior Department says the first federal land allotments to Alaska Native Vietnam War-era veterans have been finalized.…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A state attorney asked a federal judge for a quick hearing and ruling about the constitutionality…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Current and former Boeing directors have settled a shareholder lawsuit that accuses the directors of poor oversight before two of…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A lawsuit over new voting laws in Texas is bringing the state into court once again with the…
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Two hyenas at the Denver Zoo have tested positive for the coronavirus, marking the first confirmed…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The former head of New York City’s police sergeants union has been punished by his own department with a loss of 70 vacation…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A former athletics official at the University of Southern California has pleaded guilty to her role in the college admissions bribery…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A proposed U.N. resolution would “unequivocally” condemn all attacks, reprisals…
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — One of Brazil’s most popular singers and a Latin Grammy winner died on Friday in an…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A prosecutor says a woman charged in connection with the death of her 8-year-old son, whose…
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — NASCAR has denounced its association with the “Let’s go, Brandon” political cry…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals from two doctors who were convicted of illegally distributing pain medication after…
Continue ReadingBy BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he sought alternative treatments instead of the NFL-endorsed…
Continue ReadingCATSKILL, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say an upstate New York man is in grave condition at a hospital after police used a Taser to subdue him and he…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts who will depart the International Space Station on Sunday will be…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The company that runs a for-profit immigration jail in Washington state has suspended its detainee…
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten are publicly celebrating their…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Court hearings have been set for Nov. 12 for two Iowa teens charged with murder in the death…
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press The long-standing practice of allowing attorneys to dismiss prospective jurors without giving a reason has come…
Continue ReadingBy AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An effort by prosecutors at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial to portray one of the men he shot…
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government says it will raise the national flag again all federal buildings after the…
Continue ReadingBy DAN CHRISTIAN ROJAS Associated Press PUERTO MORELOS, Mexico (AP) — The shooting of two suspected drug dealers at a resort on Mexico’s…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A stabbing death in Florida is fueling criticism of the federal government’s handling of…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Federal agents searched the New York homes of people tied to the conservative group Project Veritas months after the group received…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has called for an end to the intensifying and expanding…
Continue ReadingFORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana congressman has regained control of his office Twitter account after deleting a post about a transgender Biden…
Continue ReadingJUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter has rescued seven people who had been iced in since last week at a…
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida’s ban on coronavirus mask mandates in schools will stay in…
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