US, Taliban to hold first talks since Afghanistan withdrawal
By KATHY GANNON and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say senior Taliban members and U.S. representatives are to hold…
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Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York prosecutor will seek an indictment in the coming weeks against millionaire real…
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Continue ReadingOLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cruise ships are returning to San Francisco after a 19-month hiatus brought on by the pandemic in what the…
Continue ReadingBy BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer A report that Jon Gruden used a racist comment about NFL Players Association leader DeMaurice Smith in an…
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Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced plans to nominate George Tsunis to be his envoy to Greece.…
Continue ReadingFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — In a story published October 9, 2021, about a global minimum corporate tax, The Associated Press erroneously reported…
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil has topped 600,000 virus deaths as it bids to return to pre-pandemic normalcy. Relief…
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Continue ReadingBEN FINLEY Associated Press Negotiations have broken down between members of Virginia’s bipartisan redistricting commission. The impasse came…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they won’t file charges against a white police officer who…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say they have caught the replacement leader of a drug gang involved in a bloody turf battle in central Mexico. The…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — MLB Network broadcaster Jim Kaat has apologized during an AL Division Series game between the Astros and White Sox after saying…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Civil rights groups are trying to convince the Colorado Supreme Court to block the…
Continue ReadingTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal agent shot and killed while questioning a passenger on an Amtrak train in Arizona is being remembered as a venerated…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — September wasn’t exactly the robust month for hiring that many had expected and hoped for.…
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Continue ReadingBy JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The number of Americans getting COVID-19 vaccine shots is nearing an average of 1 million per day. That’s a…
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Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Only when Lashana Lynch was in the midst of stunt training did she finally learn just who she would be…
Continue ReadingTHREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Officials say four people injured when a tree fell on them as they were working inside a Northern California wildfire…
Continue ReadingPLANTERSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities are still searching for a 3-year-old boy who went missing in Texas on Wednesday afternoon. Christopher…
Continue ReadingDURANGO, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado father has been sentenced to 48 years in prison in the 2012 disappearance of his 13-year-old son. The Durango…
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police have acknowledged for the first time that their officers were involved in violent pushbacks of migrants,…
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Top science advisers to President Joe Biden are calling for a new “bill of rights” to guard against…
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Continue ReadingLAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Motorcycle gang members got into a shootout on a Florida interstate, leaving a woman riding with the instigator near death.…
Continue ReadingSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman has been convicted of manslaughter in the death of her newborn son whose body was discovered in a…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff says he will not enforce the county’s vaccine mandate in his agency. Sheriff Alex Villanueva…
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Continue ReadingWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ largest city is under a water boil order after a large water main break, leading Wichita-area schools to close and…
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African travel agencies are reporting a surge in reservations for travel to and from…
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Continue ReadingBy ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy says a submarine that collided with an unknown underwater object in the…
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Continue ReadingBy BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s company lost more than $70 million on his Washington, D.C.,…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of…
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Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian magistrate has rejected the release on bail of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son, who was arrested this week in…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nobel literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah has criticized the “lack of compassion” of…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a Christmas album from Norah Jones and the return of “Succession,”…
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV AND HRVOJE HRANJSKI Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Nobel Peace Prize sometimes recognizes groundbreaking efforts to…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Journalists, human rights groups and other activists enthusiastically welcomed the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace…
Continue ReadingSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The president of San Jose State University has announced her resignation after the California university last month agreed…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” with Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell…
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio told the director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons that he’s “deeply concerned” over the failure to protect…
Continue ReadingLISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s parliament has approved four bills that enshrine in law the country’s rules and procedures on blood…
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Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers U.S. stock indexes are closing lower Friday after a weak jobs report sparked…
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Continue ReadingCONYERS, Ga. (AP) — The state attorney general’s office says a former Georgia state lawmaker and university regent has pleaded guilty to…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the top Belarusian diplomat in the country after Polish authorities alleged that…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain says it it will offer new vaccinations to thousands of people who volunteered for trials of the Novavax coronavirus vaccine,…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The junior partner in Austria’s governing coalition is calling on Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s party to replace him with an…
Continue ReadingBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Years after a Kentucky lawyer orchestrated a $600 million fraud, his clients remain…
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges have decided to ask the United Nations Secretary-General for information on who…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Inflation has come roaring back in Brazil and surpassed 10% for the first…
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily coronavirus death toll has hit a new record amid the country’s sluggish…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE R. SMITH, SCOTT BAUER and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An investigation by The Associated Press has found…
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Colombian national police officer who was part of an elite unit that worked closely with U.S.…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The northern Italian city of Turin will host the next edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in the spring. Turin Mayor Chiara…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis won’t be attending the upcoming U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Francis said in a recent…
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — Tata Sons, India’s oldest and largest conglomerate, will be the new owner of the country’s debt-laden national…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French anti-racism activists have telephoned temporary employment agencies posing as a construction firm that wanted to hire only…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense ministry says a company of the military’s guard battalion has been suspended from official duty amid an…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The mayor of Hungary’s capital has announced he would withdraw from a primary contest…
Continue ReadingLJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s interior minister has rejected accusations that police used excessive force to curb anti-government…
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior officials from two founding members of the European Union have expressed fears that a…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer KAMINO KAWA, Japan (AP) — Nissan’s “intelligent factory” hardly has any human workers. The robots do the…
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — One worker died and others were trapped when a major rainstorm blew traditional bamboo scaffolding off the side of a building…
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Islamic State suicide bomber struck at a mosque packed with Shiite…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A spate of Chinese military flights off southwestern Taiwan in recent days has prompted alarm from…
Continue ReadingFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — In a story published October 8, 2021, about a global minimum corporate tax, The Associated Press erroneously reported…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Google will no longer allow digital ads promoting false climate change claims to appear next to the…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland has joined other Nordic countries in suspending or discouraging the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in…
Continue ReadingCOLLIER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — A federal official says a former neighbor of a U.S. Postal Service worker in Pennsylvania confessed that he fatally…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian police say that at least 187 people including babies have been freed in the…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Giant panda twins born at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo in June now have their names. The female is Lei Lei,…
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A court in Istanbul has again ruled to keep a leading philanthropist and civil rights…
Continue ReadingBy KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States and Pakistan have held difficult talks over the path forward in Taliban-ruled…
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s foreign minister says concerns about a “new Cold War” over science and…
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces are casting ballots, two days before the rest of the nation votes in…
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