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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A cloud shot up vertically like a plume of smoke in a matter of seconds before a…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider what employers must do to…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Northern Railway Museum staff is mourning the death of their resident cat who became an unlikely internet sensation.…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department is announcing measures for migrant workers who witness or…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The family of a man who died from dehydration and malnutrition while being held at an…

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs wants to undo a massive expansion of a school voucher program passed last year by Republicans…

By LEA SKENE BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s new top prosecutor dropped all charges Friday against a Black man who stood trial four times for the…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — The home of the Miami Heat has yet another name: Miami-Dade Arena. That will be the temporary…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana nursing home owner is facing a new lawsuit over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane…

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Several dozen fans scored autographs from Jair Bolsonaro in central Florida on Friday. But the controversial former…

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged the wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor with 52 counts of voter fraud to help…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New U.S. government data suggests holiday gatherings didn’t spark surges in respiratory…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s governor says he does not think undersea preparations for offshore wind…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut officer who opened fire on a man stealing a police cruiser, wounding him the…

BEIRUT (AP) — Angry protesters in Syria’s rebel-held enclave have rallied against reconciliation attempts between Turkey and Syrian President…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Patty Braxton grimaced as a priest led a few dozen mourners in prayer on a gray, drizzly…

By DAVID BILLER and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has authorized adding former President…

MATTHEW BROWN BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who authorities say entered the U.S. Capitol with his juvenile son during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press A police informant raped twice during an undercover drug buy in Louisiana has filed a lawsuit alleging her law…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Robbie Knievel, an American stunt performer who set records with daredevil motorcycle jumps…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Questioned for a lawsuit, former President Donald Trump angrily hurled insults and threatened…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Financial authorities in Jamaica are investigating allegations of fraud at Stocks & Securities Ltd., a private…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Rapper Meek Mill, who spent most of his adult life on probation following a teenage arrest, celebrated the latest twist in…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lizzo and Ed Sheeran are among the headliners who will play this year’s New Orleans…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Officials say an explosion has occurred in a gas pipeline in central Lithuania. Baltic media reported that Friday’s…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to deliver his second State of the Union address on Feb. 7.…

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Zoo officials said Friday that a missing clouded leopard was found after a daylong search. Evidence was found that the fence…

By JANIE HAR and SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials are pleading with…

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Another delegation from the United States will travel to Cuba this month to discuss law…

LONDON (AP) — Chelsea has welcomed a decision from the English Football Association to make a homophobic chant aimed at its supporters a punishable…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The vast majority of U.N. Security Council members are urging Afghanistan’s Taliban…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three months after having her first baby and not long after she completed “PEN15,” Anna…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress on Friday that the U.S. is projected to…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Gucci returns to the Milan menswear runway with the brand’s first collection since Alessandro…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Apple CEO Tim Cook will take a more than 40% pay cut this year from a year earlier as the company adjusts how…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy says it plans to loan $700 million to an Australian mining company…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — 2022 NFL All-Pro Team…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Travis Kelce and Justin Jefferson are unanimous choices for The Associated Press 2022 NFL All-Pro Team, and…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley will be buried at Graceland, the famed home of Elvis Presley that on…

By The Associated Press A U.S. Navy destroyer is going to bear the name of a Medal of Honor recipient from Massachusetts who continued to direct his…

MONTREAL (AP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency says a Russian tribunal has found figure skater Kamila Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” in a…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — With its sales slowing and its stock price tumbling, Tesla Inc. slashed prices dramatically Friday on…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian investigators are using a photo of an opposition politician shaking hands…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Administrators at the Virginia school where a first-grader shot his teacher last week…

By WILSON RING Associated Press Actor Ezra Miller pleaded guilty Friday to a charge stemming from a break-in and theft of alcohol at a…

BANGKOK (AP) — Relief groups say airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on two villages inhabited largely by ethnic Karen have killed five civilians,…

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany will continue to “weigh every step carefully” and consult with its allies on further weapons…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man jailed in Arizona is facing a murder charge in connection with the disappearance of a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mega Millions players will have another chance Friday night to end months of losing and finally win a jackpot that has…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DENVER (AP) — A La Nina weather pattern, warm moist air coming from an unusually toasty Gulf of Mexico, likely…

By RAQUEL REDONDO and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — Like many of the 7 million Venezuelans who have abandoned their…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Hundreds of court documents from the 1692 Salem witch trials are being transferred from the Salem…

LONDON (AP) — Actor Kevin Spacey has pleaded innocent to seven further sex offenses in Britain, which bring the number of charges the Hollywood…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs have started voting for a new president, with populist billionaire Andrej Babis leading a field of eight candidates in an…

CHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one of sexual assault. Jurors…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — NATO plans to deploy three surveillance planes to Romania next week to perform reconnaissance missions and to “monitor…

KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — The European Union wants to bolster its capacity to launch small satellites into space with a new launchpad in Arctic Sweden.…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There are now two special counsels investigating the handling of classified documents by two…

By SUZAN FRASER and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has denounced a protest by Kurds in…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has received a warm and enthusiastic welcome in his return to Melbourne during an exhibition match…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers have voted to approve a new law on judicial accountability that…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s military says members of the Amhara region special forces have started leaving the country’s Tigray region two…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s center-right coalition government wants to cut red tape when it comes to dancing by abolishing a decade-old…

COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church wants the country’s former leader to be criminally prosecuted for negligence. Duthika Perera, an attorney…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister says talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia are continuing and could…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says the country will soon drop a mask mandate on long-distance trains and buses. The measures were…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed Friday that its forces captured the fiercely contested salt-mining town of…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to work constructively with Scotland’s leader despite tensions over her…

By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Virtually everything was going right for President Joe Biden as he opened the…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national statistics office says the country’s economy appears to have…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s border and coast guard agency says that the number of attempts by migrants to enter Europe without…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s big financial fraud and corruption trial is hearing from a public relations…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities say an ammonia leak in a town outside Serbia’s capital has sickened around a dozen people and forced the…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has now collected 510 reports of unidentified flying objects, many of which are flying in…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A police officer has died in Hungary’s capital after he and two other officers were stabbed while responding to a call.…

By The Associated Press As Russian troops wage a ferocious house-to-house fight for control of strongholds in eastern Ukraine, a parallel battle is…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Yousef Mesheh was sleeping in his bunk bed when Israeli forces stormed into…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday for a scheme in which the former…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister…

By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Friday to give the S&P 500 its best…

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer The CEO of the King Center in Atlanta says she hopes to spur progress during this year’s observances of…

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Stunned residents tried to salvage belongings, and rescue crews pulled…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as 7,000 nurses return to work at two of New York’s busiest hospitals after a three-day…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Japan sealed an agreement to bolster their cooperation on space. It’s the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated radioactive wastewater at…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s President Joe Biden’s refuge from Washington — a place that’s part home office,…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police are seeking criminal charges including involuntary manslaughter…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press SAN CARLOS, Bolivia (AP) — Trucks are snarled and people in the Santa Cruz region have to find ways to skirt…

By The Associated Press The death of Lisa Marie Presley at age 54 is being met with shock, tribute and mourning. Baz Luhrmann, director of…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has extended the mandate of the international tribunal that investigated the 2005…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s trade surplus swelled to a record $877.6 billion last year as exports rose despite…