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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia museum is proposing to melt down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the focus of a violent…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar is warning that the country is already facing “an…

By ALEX VEIGA and LYNN ELBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix employees walked out Wednesday in protest of Dave Chappelle’s special…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new report from the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights says a far-right…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jurors are scheduled to begin deliberations Friday in the murder trial of three former Georgia…

By JOSH BOAK and MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. financial regulators are acknowledging climate change to be a serious…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators say flight attendants should get more rest between shifts. The Federal Aviation Administration proposed…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say remains found in a Florida wilderness park are those of Brian…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A group representing Navajo communities is presenting its case to an international…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SOPHIA EPPOLITO Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal civil rights investigation found widespread racial…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II spent a night in a hospital after being advised by her…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police say a mural honoring Black tennis legend and Richmond, Virginia, native Arthur Ashe has been defaced with insignias…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press A man who pleaded guilty to writing threatening social media posts in connection with the riot at the U.S.…

By ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in his first official visit to South America, is…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A police superintendent in Jamaica has told The Associated Press that authorities…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican experts say they have detected the ruins of almost 2,500 pre-Hispanic structures and 80 burial sites on just one-sixth…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors have unveiled criminal charges against an alleged corruption ring accused of…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is facing more defections from the broad base of support she…

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The indictment of U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry could have a big impact on the Republican’s…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal authorities say a North Dakota man is charged with second-degree murder in the decapitation killing this month of…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Supreme Court won’t reconsider its decision to allow removing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that…

BUNN, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina town finds itself under siege by buzzards, and nothing local leaders do to scare them off seems to be working.…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican leaders in Oklahoma are expressing outrage after learning the State Department of…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — At least 30 students abducted in northwest Nigeria have regained their freedom, a…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A drug bust by federal agents and San Francisco police netted 12.5 pounds (5.7 kilograms) of the deadly narcotic fentanyl and…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has rejected British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to block the public and news…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook’s semi-independent oversight board says the company has fallen short of full…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s national police have arrested two leaders of the country’s top private business association, just one day…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency promoting gender equality  is warning that increasingly…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland woman charged along with her husband in a plot to sell submarine secrets to a foreign country must remain behind bars…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A memorial service for Colin L. Powell, the retired Army general and former secretary…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Chinese broadcaster and NBA partner Tencent has deleted all references to the Boston Celtics from its platforms,…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has awarded a prestigious prize in the study of science and technology to two physicists based in the United States.…

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A police sergeant in the Denver suburb of Aurora is under investigation after he was captured on body camera footage cursing…

By EMMA H. TOBIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Government forecasters say that they expect two-thirds of the U.S. to have a warmer winter than…

STOWE, Vt. (AP) — In an obituary published Oct. 21, 2021, about Eleonore “Lorli” von Trapp Campbell, The Associated Press erroneously reported…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia can quickly boost natural gas supplies to the…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers of a bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ social spending and climate change bill would put the United States…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans City Council member facing a drunk driving charge for the third time says he’ll finish out his term while…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is imposing a sweeping new set of restrictions on the investments…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is tying his legislative priorities on voting rights, police reform…

By JACK JEFFERY RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A prisoners group says a Palestinian held without charge by Israeli authorities is in “extremely…

WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California woman who refused to wear a mask or leave a grocery store has been convicted of trespassing and…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan in New Orleans is pregnant with twins. The Audubon Zoo’s announcement Thursday…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Salvadoran immigrant has agreed to plea guilty to all crimes in the killing of four Nevada…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Who was Jacques-Yves Cousteau, exactly? He was an oceanographer and explorer but held no scientific…

By EVENS SANON, MATÍAS DELACROIX and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that…

By DÁNICA COTO and ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs across Haiti’s capital and beyond are wielding power like…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer An international organization that monitors and sets guidelines to protect against money laundering and terrorism…

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — The 2-month-old California wildfire that threatened the Lake Tahoe resort region over the summer has been declared…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Public health departments across California are gearing up to administer coronavirus vaccines…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Tiny Cyprus aims to join the global space exploration drive by developing a compact, X-Ray instrument capable of dating…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordering Apple, Amazon, PayPal and other tech giants to…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Police say a 15-year-old who was injured in a shooting this month at a Texas high school has been released from the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Southern African nations have sent envoys to the tiny kingdom of Eswatini, formerly known…

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Two Iowa State University crew club members were participating in their first practice on the water when they drowned in March…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s oil regulator wants to ban new oil and gas drilling within 3,200…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas is urging the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and telling the justices there’s no reason…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has ordered a halt to imports of tomatoes from a Mexican farming company and its subsidiaries for what…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he will call state lawmakers back to work early to…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Greece has agreed to shelter a group of 35 Afghan human rights workers and their families following a short stay in…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor has told jurors at the trial of an associate of Rudy Giuliani that…

CLARE, Mich. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a woman whom they had been seeking in the deaths of four people in central Michigan. The Mount…

PARIS (AP) — The world’s biggest triceratops skeleton, known as “Big John,” has been sold for 6.6 million euros ($7.7 million) to a private…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors have ordered a man to face trial who appeared to steal a journalist’s phone while it was livestreaming outside…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — At least 16 people were killed and several others kidnapped by rebels in Congo’s…

By DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Tens of billions of dollars for U.S. environmental justice initiatives originally proposed by Democratic leaders in…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli leaders have recommended reopening the country to fully vaccinated tourists beginning on Nov. 1. The decision, which still…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are struggling to enact President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, and they’re…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A driver was behind the wheel when a Tesla electric car crashed and burned last April near Houston,…

PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A man who was charged by federal prosecutors with producing child pornography after former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin commuted…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Human rights experts working with the United Nations have asked Pakistan to quickly release a…

By JULIE WATSON, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is laying out the heightened…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes bounced back in September to their strongest pace since January as worries…

MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — A Kentucky woman is accused of threatening a Georgia judge and his family after he dismissed a lawsuit that sought to review…

BERLIN (AP) — A German report says elaborate tax evasion schemes have cost some of the world’s major treasuries a total of at least $175…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish media reports say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the ambassadors of 10 countries over their call for the…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say a salmonella outbreak tied to onions has sickened more than 650 people…

NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Sudan’s capital of Khartoum demanding a fully…

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta rapper Young Thug says that an apartment concierge let an unknown person take his Louis Vuitton bag holding jewelry, money…

DETROIT (AP) — Volvo is recalling another 195,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the front driver’s air bags could explode and send shrapnel into…

By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Six members of Niger’s national guard have been killed and several others were injured…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri-Columbia has suspended all fraternity activities after an alcohol-filled party ended with a…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s president has nominated a former army general to be prime minister in the…

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish lira has plunged to a record low against the U.S. dollar after a harsher-than-expected cut in interest rates. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Rosamund Pike is already starring in the Amazon Prime Video based on Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” books.…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The two men running to become New York City’s next mayor offered starkly different visions…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s Justice Ministry says authorities have executed 24 people for igniting deadly wildfires last year. The blazes…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to a new low…

PARIS (AP) — Facebook says it’s struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that are shared by…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya is hosting an international conference aimed at resolving the country’s thorniest issues…

ATHENS Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou says he will seek the leadership of the once-powerful Socialist party founded by his father, in…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Coronavirus infections and deaths in Ukraine have surged to all-time highs amid a laggard…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 25-year-old man with the murder of a Conservative…

MIAMI (AP) — The mask mandate for students in some South Florida schools could soon be eased as local rates of COVID-19 infections and…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a gas station attendant in Germany has been punched and kicked by a customer after an argument over the latter’s failure…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of environmental group Greenpeace has warned against efforts by countries and corporations…