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By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators have voted to increase the capacity of a Los Angeles-area natural gas…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says it has made the biggest seizure of pure fentanyl in its history, after five suspected drug traffickers were arrested…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan initially expressed support in a private message to his former…

By CARA ANNA and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tigray forces have joined with other armed and opposition groups in an…

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was declared the winner in his reelection campaign after…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A person traveling with President Joe Biden to Europe this past week received a positive test result for the coronavirus. The…

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A teenager with a lengthy arrest record has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of a South…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is contradicting her own labor secretary about a meeting…

FAIRFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Two 16-year-old students are charged in the death of a high school Spanish teacher in southeast Iowa. Jefferson County…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says a new project trumpeted by U.S. President Joe Biden in which…

DENVER (AP) — A North Dakota-based organization representing Native Americans has sued Colorado for a measure banning American Indian school…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors conducting a criminal investigation into former President Donald…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration is suing Texas over new voting rules that outlasted a summer of…

By ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Pew Research Center has found that skin tone impacts the everyday lives and the long-term…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Ruth Ann Minner, the only woman to serve as Delaware’s governor, has died. She was 86.…

By WILSON RING Associated Press A Montreal man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge that he was part of an effort to smuggle 1,500 kilos of cocaine…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican attorney general and U.S. Senate candidate Eric Schmitt is…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An indictment says two guards and a jail secretary smuggled drugs, booze and cellphones to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say they have referred more than three dozen airline passengers for possible criminal prosecution this year, as…

By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta City Council member Andre Dickens has clinched the second spot in a Nov. 30…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of immigrants working on illegal marijuana farms in southern Oregon that authorities…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil is holding its much-anticipated auction for build-out of the nation’s…

By SETH BORENSTEIN GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Scientists say recent pledges by nations at the Glasgow climate talks will pay off but only just a bit.…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A top Tunisian court says Tunisia issued an international arrest warrant for former president Moncef Marzouki over…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two vacant Ohio congressional seats have been filled after Republican Mike Carey, a coal…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Costs to clean up a massive nuclear weapons complex in Washington state are usually…

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Two former Colorado sheriff’s deputies have been sentenced to prison for causing the death of an intoxicated man by placing…

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — The trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged in the killing a 12-year-old Colorado girl has ended…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy says it fired the two senior officers of a nuclear-powered attack submarine that was damaged in an underwater collision…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s state news agency says the country’s top general has ordered the release of four…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Just weeks before Honduras holds presidential elections, an independent candidate…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the next four Oklahoma inmates scheduled to be executed have filed an appeal of a federal judge’s ruling…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Three people are suing Oklahoma County jail employees who investigators found forced them to stand handcuffed for hours and…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is rescinding a policy that would have simplified the process of changing the gender listing on a driver’s…

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A woman has been charged with child endangerment in the August fire deaths of her five young children, who she…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The family of a Las Vegas woman who died in a fiery crash that authorities say former Raiders…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A group of migrants trying to walk across southern Mexico have pelted officers of…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s next astronaut flight is off until at least next week as more bad…

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska attorney general’s office investigation has identified 258 victims who made…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The water system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has tested for elevated levels of lead…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The trial hasn’t even started and yet issues of race are at the forefront of the case in…

By ED WHITE Associated Press The filing of U.S. charges against a Chicago woman convicted of killed her wealthy mother during an overseas vacation is…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two civil rights groups have filed a federal court challenge against a Tennessee law…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The Senate has confirmed Robert Santos as the next U.S. Census Bureau director. As a third-generation Mexican…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — News agencies report that the body of a Louisiana man who wanted it donated for science was dissected before paying viewers…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has marked the national Unity Day holiday with a trip to Crimea, declaring the region will always be…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s voters have delivered a significant rebuke to the governing African…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church is urging members of its congregations to attend services with vaccination or test…

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric has reached a $125 million settlement agreement with California regulators over the destructive…

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) — Skeletal remains found in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park are believed to be those of a…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling that Baltimore city officials cannot ban a conservative…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s capital city says it will no longer serve meat at seminars, staff meetings, receptions…

MOSCOW (AP) — The presidents of Russia and Belarus have signed an array of measures to deepen the integration of the two countries but stop short…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is questioning Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold documents from…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The water system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has tested for elevated levels of lead…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Texas real estate agent who bragged she wasn’t going to jail for storming the U.S.…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin and outgoing Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam are…

PARIS (AP) — British and French negotiators looking to untangle a post-Brexit spat over fishing licenses have met in Paris and expect to talk again…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Back in May, the chances of Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega’s reelection to a fourth consecutive term were looking…

By MARIAM FAM and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press As a wary world watches to see the Taliban’s policies for women, many girls and young women in…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A federal lawsuit accuses the National Rifle Association of violating campaign finance…

By ANDREW DeMILLO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general are forming a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A senior official with Hungary’s ruling party has acknowledged for the first time that…

By FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese family that lost a brother and son in recent protests against the coup says…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police accountability activists are vowing to keep…

By SEBABATSO MOSAMO Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The fossil remains of an early hominid child have been discovered in a cave in South…

COLLIER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former neighbor of a U.S. Postal Service worker has been indicted on a murder charge after…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor says the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians is recovering well in a New York hospital after…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. survey of astronomers puts the search for extraterrestrial life at the top of…

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A group of independent researchers is warning of a rise in torture and enforced…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The weekslong process of selecting a jury for the federal sex trafficking trial of financier…

PARIS (AP) — A French astronaut has used a video call from space to sound the alarm about worsening repercussions from climate change that he can…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press The juror dismissed from Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial apparently was trying to be funny when he cracked to a…

By MIKE CATALINI TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s longtime state Senate president, Democrat Steve Sweeney lost reelection, falling to a…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson has left Myanmar after finishing a private…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — At least 11 people are missing after torrential rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia’s main island of Java. The…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The man known as “Tiger King,” who gained fame in a Netflix documentary following his conviction for trying to hire…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is calling on all those who work with children, starting from the Catholic church, to join together in a…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian analyst who provided information for a dossier of research used during the Trump-Russia…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, it’s been one of Hollywood’s darkest rumors: A teen-age Natalie Wood was…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The average long-term mortgage rate in the U.S. ticked back down this week following…

ROME (AP) — The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization says world food prices are the highest since July 2011, reflecting reduced…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Food banks have ramped up their output during the coronavirus pandemic to meet an explosion of…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is to hold a snap election for a new parliament and government on Jan. 30.…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say law enforcement agencies in nine countries helped break up a network that smuggled hundreds of Pakistanis into the…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is expanding its COVID-19 vaccination booster shot drive to everyone 50 and over as well as to those who have been…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has reported another record high number of new coronavirus infections, part of an…

LONDON (AP) — Dozens of climate change activists have blocked roads outside the Parliament in London. Some glued themselves to the ground as part…

KINGSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A southern Texas police officer has died three days after being shot while responding to a reported domestic disturbance.…

By The Associated Press Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine. The federal government on Thursday announced new…

GENEVA (AP) — A diamond bracelet that once belonged to France’s Marie Antoinette and jewels that dangled from a Russian grand duchess are among…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A top executive of Myanmar’s military-linked telecommunications company has been fatally shot near…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a fresh pandemic low last…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit hit an all-time high of $80.9 billion in September as American…

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Central and Eastern Europe is seeing spiraling coronavirus cases. Several countries in the…

By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be vaccinated against…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch newspaper reporter has been expelled from Russia, a move denounced as…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government has backed down on plans to overhaul lobbying rules for…