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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The race for city attorney in heavily liberal Seattle is offering voters a stark choice: A…

By AMY TAXIN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Records show the Coast Guard received multiple reports of a possible…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company is under criminal investigation by a district attorney in a New York City suburb into…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A $650 million plan would give the Los Angeles Zoo a theme park-style transformation over the next 20 years. The Los Angeles…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Hugo Chávez’s former bodyguard is scheduled to be released from prison in the coming months…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The NFL is kicking off a $6.2 million campaign for problem gambling programs across the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Biden administration has dealt a serious blow to the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The only Michigan official fired in the Flint water disaster likely was a “public scapegoat” who…

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Amherst College says it will no longer give admissions preference to the children of alumni. The liberal arts college…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Maldives’ environment minister says a failure to limit…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — More than half of the European Union member states have formally opposed soccer’s Super League…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament says it’s preparing legal action against the EU’s executive arm…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will spend $120 million to boost access to generic versions of…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University is short of help and pleading with staff to volunteer in campus dining halls. The Lansing…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer A new Alzheimer’s drug from Biogen brought in only $300,000 in sales during its first full quarter on the market. It…

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has ordered R&B superstar R. Kelly to stand trial in Chicago on child pornography and obstruction of justice…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An associate of Rudy Giuliani has told a federal judge that he will not testify at his own trial.…

ROME (AP) — Dozens of former flight attendants from defunct Italian airline Alitalia have stripped off their uniforms, wearing only undergarments…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has introduced COVID passes for indoor venues in late evening hours following weeks of surging infections and…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bitcoin stormed above $66,000 for the first time on Wednesday, riding a wave of excitement about…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Companies are confronting demands by hourly workers on terms that often used to be…

COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) — Officials in Georgia say one worker was killed and two seriously injured when part of a bridge collapsed into a river during…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A military veteran best known as the helicopter pilot who was shot down and held prisoner…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state news agency reports the government has raised the price of fuel by about 25%.…

By BABACAR DIONE and CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s navy seized more than 2 tons of cocaine from a ship…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The few mortal remains of a World War II British air gunner have been formally buried in a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A think tank says Australia is the worst climate performer among comparable developed…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu of Canada has been named as the winner of the 40,000-euro ($45,000)…

By JOHN MARSHALL Associated Press NEKOOSA, Wis. (AP) — A classic golf course — the Lido — is being resurrected 1,000 miles from the original…

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A teenager held in the killing of a South Florida police officer has a lengthy criminal record. His arrest report says…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s competition watchdog fined Facebook 50.5 million pounds ($69.4 million) on Wednesday for violating rules during the UK…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been awarded the European Union’s top…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press More than a dozen Senate Democrats are imploring President Joe Biden and congressional leaders to keep a…

By ZEKE MILLER and LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kids aged 5 to 11 will soon be able to get a COVID-19 shot at their…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says it will increase the number of Palestinian workers it permits to enter its territory from the Gaza Strip.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — With coronavirus cases rising in Britain, the government is urging millions of people to get booster…

By BRYNN ANDERSON and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Police in Atlanta say a woman is dead and a suspected gunman has been killed…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will require police officers, firefighters and other…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Travel in the COVID-19 era is anything but predictable. Don’t get caught off guard by flight cancellations,…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian police officers have fired tear gas at protesters in Lagos, the country’s…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Three people were killed and two others critically wounded in a shooting at a home in a southeastern Wisconsin city, and…

ROME (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes to soon join a beloved professor friend in “the afterlife.” Benedict penned an Oct. 2…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany say police have searched 14 premises across the country in connection with a suspected far-right extremist…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s prime minister-designate has failed to win parliamentary support from…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for a few…

LONDON (AP) — Oscar-winning British songwriter Leslie Bricusse, whose work includes James Bond themes and Willy Wonka’s signature tune, has died.…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has hosted talks on Afghanistan involving senior representatives of the Taliban and…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has ordered many of Russia’s workers to stay off work for a…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top official is exhorting the bloc’s 27 nations to wean themselves off…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s central bank has announced that he will step down after a decade at the…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has been hit by a steep rise in coronavirus infections that have reached levels unseen since late April. In…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official has proposed introducing joint German-Polish patrols on the two countries’ border to help clamp…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says there has been a 7% rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week. It’s the only…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Residents say new airstrikes have hit the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region as exclusive…

By KWASI GYAMFI ASIEDU, CHINEDU ASADU, RODNEY MUHUMUZA and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press In the United States, Western Europe and various other…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong mother whose daughter was killed in Taiwan in 2018 has lambasted authorities in the…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 46 people have died and several are missing after floods triggered by heavy…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press ZURICH (AP) — Credit Suisse has announced settlements totaling nearly $700 million with British, Swiss and U.S.…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have detained two former soldiers who are alleged to have tried to form a mercenary group that would have…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice saw a record five exceptional floods over six weeks in late 2019 that triggered fears…

Dozens of survivors from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris have testified for more than two weeks in a specially designed courtroom about the…

By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Dozens of survivors from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris have testified in a specially designed…

BEIJING (AP) — The Olympic flame has arrived in Beijing amid calls from critics for a boycott of the Winter Games which are set to be staged in…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The shootout on the streets of Beirut between rival Christian and Muslim groups last week revived…

By HELEN WIEFFERING, COLLEEN LONG and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An Associated Press investigation into police use of force…

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian military official says two bombs attached to a bus carrying troops…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer Asian shares are mixed after major Chinese property developer Evergrande said a plan to sell its property…

By HELEN WIEFFERING, COLLEEN LONG and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An Associated Press investigation into police use of force…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A spate of recent killings has rattled Indian-controlled Kashmir, with violence targeting…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The thousands of drivers who use a Rhode Island highway on their way to work every day probably have no idea…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2018 massacre that left 17 dead at…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.N.-backed study has found that the world needs to cut by more than half its production of coal,…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he did nothing improper but still fell short in his…

The In-N-Out hamburger chain is sizzling mad after San Francisco shut down its indoor dining for refusing to check customers’ vaccination status.…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Navy leaders say they’re making changes and increasing oversight to correct widespread…

By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALAN FRAM Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — The White House is floating new plans for ways to pay for…

By DÁNICA COTO and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Efforts to win the return of 17 members of a U.S.-based…

TOKYO (AP) — A volcano in southern Japan is erupting with a massive column of gray smoke billowing into the sky. The Japan Meteorological Agency…

By IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America CASCADE, Mont. (AP) — For the first time in 30 years, the Census has awarded Montana a second…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian Senate report has recommended pursuing crimes against…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has…

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A boast by the leader of Hezbollah that he commands 100,000 fighters has come as a…

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife nine months ago, and her family is pleading…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Scientists have temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work. The feat is…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The case against a rural Alaska man who federal authorities say threatened to kill the…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific and its labor unions are suing each other to determine whether the railroad has…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An emergency call made by a 4-year-old New Zealand boy asking for police to come over…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say a man who fell to his death from the upper level of a basketball arena is believed to have “leapt…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian senators are discussing details of an investigative…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s governor says COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations have declined to the point…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is backing away from a plan to put unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave. A…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Texas congressmen are complaining about the Mexican government’s attempts to limit competition in the electrical power sector.…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge refused to reduce the 30-year prison sentence for an Arizona man convicted of helping…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Former soldiers who are demanding a war-time bonus  for serving in Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war have burst onto the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty top business leaders are seeking to encourage private investment to help the U.N.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto tested positive for COVID-19, which he says is surprising but made him grateful that he was…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — No bull: Tucson police had to respond Tuesday morning to reports of a bull roaming a neighborhood near an elementary school.…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration is threatening to revoke the authority for three…