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By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — MTV says its Europe Music Awards will air next month in Hungary. A network executive says the…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese researcher says moon rocks brought back to Earth by a robotic spacecraft last year have provided new insights into ancient…

By KWASI GYAMFI ASIEDU Associated Press A school official told a new student in Ghana that he had to cut his dreadlocks. The 17-year-old boy and his…

By KOSTYA MANENKOV and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Facing a surge of seriously ill COVID-19 patients, the head of an…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Many scientists are pressing the British government to reimpose social restrictions and speed up…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An 80-year-old British army veteran has died while on trial for a shooting that occurred during…

By DAVID McHUGH, COLLEEN BARRY, JOE McDONALD and TATIANA POLLASTRI Associated Press The world’s facing an energy crunch. Europe is feeling it…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades because of climate change, a…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassadors of the United States and nine other countries to protest a statement…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Human rights activists have urged international governments, sponsors and athletes to…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top official has locked horns with Poland’s prime minister, arguing…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — After nearly seven years in China, LinkedIn says it will stop operating its localized version of the…

LONDON (AP) — Investment giant BlackRock says it is backing a new London-based research hub which will provide asset managers with information on…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland will be a focus of European attention this week, with Prime Minister Mateusz…

By ARNO PEDRAM Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — Young Sudanese men who escaped war in their country now spend their days in the French port…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban is turning to the financial managers of the former…

By RICHARD E. LAPCHICK For The Associated Press Richard E. Lapchick shares some of the backlash his family felt that was directed at his father for…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists say a scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country’s Mediterranean coast that experts…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli police say a man is dead after falling from a hot air balloon in mid-flight. Police say the man, in his 20s, was a…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s disaster management agency says a strong earthquake has struck off the Turkish Mediterranean coast. There was…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street rose for a fifth day on strong corporate…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says a net zero carbon emissions target by 2050…

By MATTHEW DALY and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s Washington’s enduring question: What does Joe Manchin want? But…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer Political leaders in Australia says tennis players who haven’t received a COVID-19 vaccination are unlikely to get a…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressional committee tasked with investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S.…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge has deemed eight jury pool members qualified to serve on the jury that will…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge in South Carolina has denied bond for a prominent South Carolina attorney who has…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Progressive prosecutors around the country are increasingly declaring they just…

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

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand counted its most new coronavirus cases of the pandemic as an outbreak in…

By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans have approved redrawn U.S. House maps that favor…

By DÁNICA COTO, PETER SMITH and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A gang that kidnapped 17 members of a U.S.-based…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, has had 67 homicides so far this year and the city has…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Derrick Henry scored his third touchdown with 3:05 left, and the Tennessee…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An independent U.N. investigator is warning that despite the Nobel Peace Prize to…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington State has fired football coach Nick Rolovich and four of his assistants…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The president of Ecuador has decreed a state of emergency to confront drug trafficking and other crimes, saying the military…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City prosecutors say they have brought criminal charges against 10 “individuals and companies” for construction…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A longtime Connecticut activist for people living with HIV and AIDS as well as those impacted by opioid addiction and…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG, HYUNG-JIN KIM and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press GWANGYANG, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of ethnic Chinese have lived in North Korea for generations. Though many…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kanye West is now known only as Ye. A Los Angeles judge on Monday approved the request of the rapper, producer and fashion…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs is gearing up to invest $3.5 billion into climate initiatives through her…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Central African Republic’s leader is calling his unilateral cease-fire…

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Authorities in Costa Rica say six people are dead, including a U.S. man, in what may have been a robbery at the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to help the U.S. government push for stronger action on climate…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Spirits producer Heaven Hill Distillery says its contract talks with striking union workers have reached an…

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Authorities in Costa Rica say six people are dead, including a U.S. man, in what may have been a robbery at the…

By CLAUDIA LAUER PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a man charged with raping a woman on a commuter train just outside of Philadelphia harassed…

By MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Data shows a massive cargo ship that was supposed to be at anchor repeatedly…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii is demanding reform and $500,000 in…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the country’s most competitive U.S. House races is unfolding in…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An 1833 statue of Thomas Jefferson will be removed from New York’s City Council chamber by the…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — One of the most prominent figures in the QAnon conspiracy movement says he’s running for…

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A women’s advocacy group is decrying the sentencing of an Oklahoma woman to prison…

By MATTHEW DALY and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s Washington’s enduring question: What does Joe Manchin want? But…

By TERRY SPENCER and DAVID FISCHER FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The families of those killed, wounded and scarred in the 2018 Florida high school…

By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans have approved redrawn U.S. House maps that favor…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan is stepping down following the chaotic American…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have recognized the 2021 and 2020 national…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Long before Denis Villeneuve decided to become a director, he was dreaming about making a movie of “Dune.” Frank…

By JILL COLVIN, COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit to block the…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department says that the economic and financial sanctions the United States…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft has confirmed that executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee but…

NEW YORK (AP) — It is still good to be the king. Forty years after the release of his beloved “History of the World, Part I,” Mel Brooks has a…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Last week, police in southern Oregon raided a site that had roughly two tons of processed…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market certainly shook when hundreds of thousands of regular people suddenly piled into…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been questioned in a deposition for a lawsuit brought against him by protesters. They say…

BOSTON (AP) — A street musician who performed a rendition of John Legend’s hit “All of Me” in Boston over the weekend had one particularly…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County is seeking to compel psychiatric evaluations for Kobe Bryant’s widow and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift will induct new members into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame next week, and actor Angela…

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Police have released the name of a third man wanted in a shooting that wounded two adults and three teenagers outside a high…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president says the United States should lift the sanctions on his country to prove it is serious about restarting…

By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reclassified a rare Colorado River Basin fish called the…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has declared for the first time that his powerful militant…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has outlawed a radical online group that has become infamous for its racist and sexist views. The regional court in…

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Two men have been arrested and police are looking for others in the drive-by shooting that killed a 13-year-old Alabama boy…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers have summoned two people who were present at a meeting Gov.…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Derek Chauvin has hired an attorney to represent him as he appeals his murder conviction in the…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans City Council member is facing a drunk driving charge for the third time. News outlets in New Orleans say jail…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut details in a new book how aid from top Republicans helped him win reelection…

Despite getting vaccinated against COVID-19, Colin Powell remained vulnerable to the virus because of his advanced age and history of cancer. The…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has declined to block an execution scheduled this week in Alabama.  U.S. Chief District Judge Emily Marks…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is poised to spend approximately $900 million of its…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back the release dates of many of its upcoming titles, including the untitled Indiana Jones movie…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s populist prime minister has blamed a rise in COVID-19 infections on protests in early October that erupted…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A businessman who prosecutors say was a major conduit for corruption by Nicolás Maduro’s inner…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — For many Iraqis, the name Colin Powell conjures up one image: the man who as…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s capital has returned to the lowest level on its COVID-19 pandemic warning system for the first time since June. In…

HELSINKI (AP) — The Chinese-controlled Swedish car maker Volvo Cars will make a return as a listed company after a hiatus of more than two decades…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s regional Metro system abruptly pulled more than half its fleet of trains from…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON, MARC LEVY and JILL COLVIN Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two longtime Democratic congressmen with a combined six…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it will allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Some college towns plan to challenge the results of the 2020 census. They claim they were shortchanged because the…

By SOPHIA TAREEN and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Roughly 65% of Chicago Police Department employees have complied with a requirement…

NEW YORK (AP) — “Soul Train” and New York City’s Apollo Theater are icons of Black culture, and this year they’ll be joining up.…

By MATT OTT and MARCY GORDON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House lawmakers are threatening to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon,…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Gonzaga is the preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll. The Bulldogs…