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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four California men have been charged with running a drug ring that sent hundreds of pounds of cocaine and methamphetamine to…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge has blocked a law that took away the Board of Corrections’…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request from Oregon Republican state senators who boycotted…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A state commission selected a basic design concept Friday for a new state flag for Minnesota…

By PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An independent report conducted for a police agency clears the…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green says he he wants 3,000 condos and homes normally rented to Maui tourists…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Campaign finance reports show this fall’s fight over abortion…

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Solomon Thomas was lost, stuck in a dark place mentally while desperately…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Two wildlife conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against BNSF Railway over delays in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, a Republican presidential candidate; Gov. Chris…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors for misusing a state-issued vehicle for personal…

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The NCAA and a coalition of states have jointly asked a federal court to extend a small…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations peacekeeping chief says he was very satisfied with the strong support…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its ruling setting a deadline for the Louisiana Legislature to enact a new…

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man who told his estranged wife “If I can’t have them neither can you” has pleaded guilty but…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A military investigation report released Friday says a U.S. Army helicopter hit another…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods jokingly refers to the PNC Championship as his fifth major. Maybe he’s not…

SANTIAGO (AP) — Chile’s police  have arrested at least 55 people in a fiscal fraud case that could be one of the biggest in the history of the…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An Israeli strike killed a Palestinian cameraman for the TV network Al Jazeera and wounded its chief…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — U.S. diplomats have injected confusion into next year’s presidential election in…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has sat down with former late-night television host Conan O’Brien for an interview on the…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An autopsy report on “Friends” star Matthew Perry says he died from the acute…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Internet gambling and sports betting set new records in New Jersey in November as the…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is ordering the USS Gerald…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it is investigating the killing of two Palestinians in the West Bank…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court denied a request on Friday to delay a judge’s decision that North…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Treasury Department is spelling out the rules for tax credits designed to stimulate production of sustainable…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United States is returning to Greece 30 ancient artifacts, including marble statues, armor helmets and breastplates,…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Michigan man described by prosecutors as a self-professed militia leader has been…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial has offered fresh insight…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Health Department has ordered the temporary closure of a melon-packing plant implicated in salmonella infections…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Opponents of Connecticut’s policy letting transgender girls compete in girls high school…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that a law making it a felony to impersonate an elections…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press CENTREVILLE, Md. (AP) — The family of a woman who disappeared in 1969 after going Christmas shopping at a suburban…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hungary’s Viktor Orban’s veto of an aid package from Europe to war-torn Ukraine was…

By FREIDA FRISARO and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It’s beginning to look at lot like … hurricane season.…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — If $700 million wasn’t enough, Shohei Ohtani’s record-setting contract with the…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to China says the relationship between the two countries will be defined by…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut appeals court has upheld $75,000 in fines against conspiracy theorist Alex…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 16 ancient pieces of…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — One Kentucky family got a little something extra when they picked out their Christmas tree this year: a baby owl. Lexington…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A 27-year-old man who was living in a tent in the woods in New Hampshire has been…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness as soaring rents and a…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two-time All-Star Ja Morant said Friday being suspended by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A village council member in western Ukraine has critically injured himself and at least two dozen other people by detonating…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named a former senior staffer for former…

By SCOTT MCFETRIDGE and JIM SALTER Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Satanic Temple display inside the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines was…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man is believed to have killed three women and wounded a man before killing himself during a traffic…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s national carrier, Turkish Airlines, says it’s placing an order for 220 new planes from Airbus as it seeks to…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Melania Trump has welcomed new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives. It was a rare…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has inaugurated the first part of the pet project of his administration, a tourist train that runs in a…

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — The defense team for a man accused of killing four University of Idaho students has been given access to the off-campus home…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Trustees at Michigan State University have agreed to release documents related to the school’s investigations into…

BY ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthopy Chronicle of Philanthropy A donor-advised fund devoted to supporting the United Nations Sustainable…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania has returned 20 icons to neighboring North Macedonia, which were stolen a decade…

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a pair of former elite sprinters as part of a widening case alleging a conspiracy to supply banned…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says he’d still consider talking with his Russian…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Budget Office says it expects inflation to nearly hit the Federal…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump was uncharacteristically serious when he implored an…

BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand have indicted a member of the country’s Senate on six charges involving narcotics trafficking, money…

MADRID (AP) — A senior Spanish official says the deployment of two Spanish surveillance planes to watch for migrant boats heading on the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurors on Friday began their second day of deliberations to…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily…

NEW YORK (AP) — A small explosion at an electrical facility caused a momentary power outage in New York City. Lights flickered, a subway line was…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Moldova and Georgia celebrated after European Union leaders buoyed their aspirations to join the 27…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A court of the West African regional bloc has ordered the release and reinstatement of…

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry’s victory against Mirror Group Newspapers on Friday over what a British judge called…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press BREDA, Netherlands (AP) — A paradox at the heart of the Netherlands’ permissive pot policy has gone up in smoke…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press The wandering Jack Reacher, created by novelist Lee Child, returns in a second season of “Reacher” on Prime…

MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — Police in Mesquite, Texas, say an officer investigating a stolen vehicle fatally shot a 19-year-old man who was in another…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozens of migrants have crossed into Finland hours before the reclosure of two southern…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says a long-term agreement between the Baltimore Orioles and the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A number of European Union leaders are trying to use mounting concern about civilian deaths in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Maher has had a few second thoughts, or at least some variations on the first ones. Next June, Simon & Schuster will…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two private companies have announced a partnership to release mosquitoes across the Caribbean bred with a bacterium…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed on a western North Carolina highway and caught fire, but the two people on board…

Associated Press The United Methodist Church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country, one quarter of…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says he has discussed with Israeli officials the…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A quarter of U.S. congregations in the United Methodist Church have received permission to leave the denomination…

By GEROLD ROZENBLAD Associated Press PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Suriname’s former dictator will face a final verdict this month in the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved plans to raise the country’s levy on carbon dioxide emissions from fuel by more than…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested 14 workers at one of the country’s main tourist airports on suspicion of stealing items from…

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet As you plan your holiday giving, you may be thinking about adding service workers to your list of recipients. But…

ROME (AP) — Short-term rental platform Airbnb has agreed to pay 576 million euros ($621 million) to settle a years-long dispute over unpaid taxes…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Polish prime minister and a top EU leader say that the European Union will by year’s end transfer to Poland the first 5…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say there is continuing fighting in the northeastof the country between the…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has won his phone hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A prosecutor in Denmark says authorities are holding two people in custody and four…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says he will have plenty of opportunities in the future to…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has rejected a request by a group of human rights organizations to order a halt to the transfer to…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. police say they are “relieved and overjoyed” that a teenager found walking along a road in southwestern France is a…

BEIJING (AP) — China has defended controversial cash bounties offered for Hong Kong dissidents who have fled abroad that have been heavily…

PARIS (AP) — French maritime authorities say they rescued more than 60 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel overnight Friday but that…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Allies of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say penitentiary…

By KARIN LAUB, NAJIB JOBAIN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The United States national security adviser is set to meet…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Liberian-flagged cargo ship caught fire in the Red Sea on Friday after being…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares powered higher on Friday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to…

BEIJING (AP) — Two subway trains have collided in heavy snow in Beijing, sending 515 people to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones.…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian state TV says suspected members of a separatist group have killed 11 people and injured several others…