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By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Legal experts say the speedy selection process for jurors in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Legal experts say the speedy selection process for jurors in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in…
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — UNICEF is warning that schools in Haiti are increasingly at the mercy of gangs, with children becoming targets of…
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The iconic French label Chanel drew throngs of guests and some celebrities to…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A hearing examiner is recommending that New Mexico regulators reject a proposed merger involving the state’s largest…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police smashed their way into a suburban house and rescued a 4-year-old girl whose…
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after a man…
Continue ReadingMICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says suspects being held in connection with the Jan.…
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A top Russian security official has met with the visiting chief of the Central Intelligence…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Jean Rounds, the wife of Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, has died in…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press Two major U.S. cities have elected their first Asian American mayor and a third could join them. Boston’s next mayor…
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. congresswomen have renewed demands for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide…
Continue ReadingBENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators have delivered a tough report to a Michigan city where residents have been urged not to drink the…
Continue ReadingBy SARA BURNETT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press Republican Glenn Youngkin mobilized voters with concerns over race and education and made…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Spike” is a new photograph book to be published November 17. It’s filled with images Spike…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to top executives of…
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The trial has been delayed for a former Fort Worth police officer who was charged with murder after shooting a Black woman…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani’s legal team has asked a court-appointed monitor to block prosecutors from…
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The attorney for a Missouri man accused of killing his Chinese wife says the woman’s death in 2019 was a tragic…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from a Washington, D.C. hospital a day after falling and…
Continue ReadingGREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Jurors are deliberating in the trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged with murder in the death of a…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon-based youth climate activists say settlement talks with the U.S. Department of Justice have failed six years after…
Continue ReadingFAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Police say three people have been arrested in the killing of a 19-year-old woman who was last seen leaving a Halloween…
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press The spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians has given his formal blessing to a shrine that will…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Police have found the bullet-ridden bodies of 11 men in the western state of Michoacan, where several drug cartels have been…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Celebrity chef Mario Batali’s trial on a sexual misconduct charge in Boston has been set for April. The office of Suffolk County…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s seven-day total for deaths from COVID-19 has fallen to its…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says atomic power can play a key role in balancing…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press Josh Hawley is coming to the defense of the American male. The Republican senator from Missouri spoke Sunday night at…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior U.S. diplomat has urged Sudan’s top general to restore the country’s civilian-led…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — China’s climate envoy is defending his country’s pace of emissions cuts…
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The key witness against a Colombian police captain who leaked sensitive information about U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A reexamined autopsy ordered by the FBI in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has announced tougher restrictions on most activities for unvaccinated people, as the country registered a record high…
Continue ReadingBy EMILY HAYNES and MICHAEL THEIS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy In the wake of the most devastating public-health…
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Huma Abedin is ready to speak. And she’s doing it with gusto. The ever-loyal aide to…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press Maine voters have created the nation’s first constitutional right to grow and eat food.…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Raiders have released Henry Ruggs III just hours before the promising young receiver…
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster wants to spend the last $17 million of his COVID-19…
Continue ReadingBy JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The United Nations mission in Central African Republic says…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyrics from classic songs such as “California…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The lone survivor of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November 2015 is coming under public questioning for the first time…
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has declared a national state of emergency as rival Tigray forces…
Continue ReadingBy JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A conservative Christian university in Alabama has withdrawn an invitation for Pulitzer…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge has frozen the assets of prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh as he…
Continue ReadingBy TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The Justice Department is suing to block a $2.2 billion book publishing deal that would have reshaped the…
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The head of the U.N. food aid agency says the drought-stricken island nation of Madagascar…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge who presided over the trial of Derek Chauvin has made public the names of jurors who convicted the former Minneapolis…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A TV station says a Los Angeles police helicopter recorded images of what appeared to be a human-shaped inflatable toy floating…
Continue ReadingHUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A month after a Southern California offshore oil spill, environmental advocates say they plan to sue the federal…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Moderate candidates were leading in early Seattle election returns following a months-long debate…
Continue ReadingNICEVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A sheriff’s investigation refutes allegations that a Florida Panhandle teacher subjected her students to pornography by…
Continue ReadingBy EMILIO MORENATTI and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LAS MANCHAS DE ABAJO, Canary Islands (AP) — Antonio Álvarez lost his home and two business.…
Continue ReadingBy AMER COHADZIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The chief international representative in Bosnia is warning that the…
Continue ReadingBy FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on the Indonesian island…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain has urged its citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately as a diplomatic crisis escalates between Gulf…
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — It’s hard to overstate the importance that the video of Ahmaud Arbery’s slaying…
Continue ReadingMONUMENT, Colo. (AP) — Colorado authorities say they believe a man killed his wife and two of his children last weekend in an affluent community…
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s moving to cut out Ethiopia from a U.S. trade…
Continue ReadingENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — The bloom of a giant and stinky Sumatran flower nicknamed a “corpse plant” because it smells like a dead body is huge…
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been charged with fraud and other…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a German woman with membership in two foreign terrorist groups, violating weapons law and committing…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is rolling out a new initiative aimed at reducing suicides by gun…
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers US health officials have given the final OK to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as…
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish hospital says doctors and midwives did everything they could to save the lives of a…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — .A “people’s tribunal” has opened in the Netherlands to highlight the number of…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson, on a humanitarian mission to strife-torn Myanmar,…
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian families in a tense neighborhood of Jerusalem have rejected an…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cardi B has won five American Music Awards and performed on the telecast during her career so far. Next…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former police captain Eric Adams easily won the race for New York mayor, and Boston elected…
Continue ReadingGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The University of Florida has been asked by its accrediting body to explain how denying a request by three professors to…
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania has reported a record daily number of 591 COVID-19 deaths amid a persistently low vaccination rate. Only 37% of…
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s prime minister-designate has relinquished his mandate to try to form a new government after it appeared he…
Continue ReadingBy KRISTI EATON Associated Press One hotel in Mexico has an “Instagram concierge” to help guests with their selfie game. A hotel in Aruba has a…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s government says Sabah Fakhri, one of the Arab world’s most famous singers, has died…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla has issued a recall that automatically sent a software update fixing a safety problem in its…
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper has folded following a years-long financial struggle. It was one of the leading English-language…
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Yahoo Inc. says it has pulled out of China, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal…
Continue ReadingBy DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Coronavirus deaths in Russia hit another daily record several days after a nationwide order for…
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s energy minister has been able to attend the global climate summit after…
Continue ReadingBy SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Cryptocurrency is managed a bit differently than traditional investment accounts, which can make estate planning a…
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s police say 13 people were wounded by roadside bomb that exploded near a vehicle carrying security forces…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say gunmen in Nigeria’s capital abducted six people from the staff quarters…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China is accusing the U.S. of a “lack of transparency and responsibility” regarding an accident in the South China Sea…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN (AP) — The world’s biggest shipping company, Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk, has reported a sharp rise in earnings amid strong…
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say they are reopening the case of a local woman allegedly killed by a British soldier years ago. The…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Rights groups are urging Cambodian authorities to release an…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Several high-profile school board candidates who fought…
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An official from the Taliban-run Defense Ministry in Kabul says six suicide bombers set off an explosion at the entrance…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — BP reported soaring profits Tuesday on the back of surging oil and gas prices as the global economy…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — World leaders are promising to protect Earth’s forests, cut…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The 2020 U.S. census missed an estimated 1.6 million people, but given hurdles posed by the pandemic and natural…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press GRANVILLE, France (AP) — French trawler owners in Normandy have reacted with confusion and consternation after…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The mayors of Seattle and Freetown in Sierra Leone greeted each other like long lost…
Continue ReadingBy LUIS ANDRES HENAO and JESSIE WARDARSKI Associated Press POINTE-AUX-CHENES, Louisiana (AP) — Faith leaders and activists across the world are…
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The findings of the only human rights investigation allowed in Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are mostly lower in Asia, weighed down by concerns over disrupted supply chains and shipping, despite…
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Late innings means late nights in the World Series, with many fans struggling to stay awake as the…
Continue ReadingBy MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Last year’s pandemic style saw people put on pajamas and their hair up in a…
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