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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California sex offender who kidnapped, raped and killed four women, some of them while wearing a GPS tracker, has been…

By The Associated Press Five Louisiana law enforcement officers have been charged with state crimes for their roles in the 2019 arrest of Ronald…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council adopted a statement warning of increasing dangers of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A California woman pleaded guilty on Thursday in connection with her unwitting role in a foiled plot to kidnap a prominent Iranian…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed legislation to fund the government for an additional week as lawmakers…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of journalists who cover the social media platform and its new…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is warning that the threat of terrorism has increased and…

By JESSE BEDAYN, MATTHEW BROWN, BERNARD CONDON and MIKE BALSAMO Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Documents released in the 2021 dropped prosecution…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Key questions resurfaced Thursday at a conference of Colorado River water administrators and users…

By SYAWALLUDIN ZAIN and EILEEN NG Associated Press BATANG KALI, Malaysia (AP) — A thunderous crush of soil and debris has killed 21 people,…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged Thursday with state…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Panama’s government has ordered the local subsidiary of a Canadian mining company to cease operations at its huge open pit…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Democratic establishment is coalescing in support of state Sen. Jennifer…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Two people were injured when a single-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Lihue…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California toddler fatally struck by a stray bullet while sleeping in his car seat last year was the victim of a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Iowa have charged a man in the death of a 4-year-old boy who was killed when a car that was racing on a city…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who accused a former top adviser to New York Attorney General Letitia James of…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois House committee is conducting hearings on a wide-ranging gun…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in El Paso, Texas, are describing a humanitarian crisis as they grapple with the…

CINCINNATI (AP) — The E.W. Scripps Company has announced the launch of a sports division as it looks to acquire local and national rights for teams…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Officials say a pilot had safely ejected from a plane after a failed landing at a North Texas military base. Video that…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge handed guns rights advocates a victory Thursday and placed a new,…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border helped orchestrate the escape…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City’s ban on the sale of foie gras had already been delayed by a court challenge. Now it has been found in…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered a review of security standards at the nation’s far-flung…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday granted Spire Inc. a permanent certificate to operate a natural gas pipeline in Missouri and…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Residents of The Dalles, Oregon, are learning how much of their water Google’s data centers have been using…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge in Indiana has ruled that a Purdue University student charged with murder in the stabbing death of his dormitory…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky soon will operate three high-security juvenile detention…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Charlie Baker, the next leader of the largest college sports governing body in the country, is…

By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Several members of Congress want Amazon to explain why an Illinois warehouse that collapsed…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press A small town Iowa police chief has been indicted on federal charges that he abused his position to purchase more than…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers who eagerly accepted piles of cash from Samuel Bankman-Fried…

ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor says five people arrested on charges including domestic terrorism as authorities tried to remove the protesters from…

By The Associated Press By The Associated Press After beginning 2022 by hosting a Winter Olympics inside a COVID bubble, China faced a tough year. It…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — An engineering firm has settled a lawsuit with four families after being accused of not doing enough to stop lead contamination…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York has become the latest state to ban the sale of cats, dogs and…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Longtime St. Louis Cardinals television play-by-play announcer Dan McLaughlin will not return to the booth this year after being…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California air regulators voted unanimously Thursday to approve an…

MOSCOW (AP) — A coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station could have been caused by a micrometeorite, a…

By JAMIE STENGLE and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press A former Texas police officer was convicted of manslaughter Thursday for fatally shooting…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia regulators have granted a critical approval for Dominion Energy’s plans to…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has formally demanded that its security troops return to the breakaway former…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Seacrest will usher in 2023 on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” from Times Square,…

By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott says her donations have yielded more than $14 billion in funding for…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The founder of the Afro Fashion Association in Italy says she is launching awards recognizing the…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it has approved a new package of sanctions aimed at…

By BEN FINLEY and DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a University of Virginia football player killed in a…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government says it has asked world police agency Interpol to help it investigate the background of a Nigerian…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has named Claudine Gay as its next president, making her the first Black person…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man seeking freedom after nearly three decades in prison for a murder he denies…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The latest proposal to give Ohio’s governor more power…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol riot will hold its final meeting Monday,…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate says he opposes spending any state money to help…

By The Associated Press After decades of abortion rights, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and suddenly abortion was illegal in parts…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Since the pandemic began, the United States has been using a public health rule designed to…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 25-year veteran of the Kansas City police department has been chosen as the…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California utility regulators have approved major changes to the state’s…

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts State Police say a man wanted in connection with a 1991 stabbing death during a fight has been found, working on a…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, will pay Oregon $698 million to…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Govs. Brian Kemp of Georgia and Chris Sununu of New Hampshire have banned TikTok and  popular…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge has ordered ousted President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody for 18…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — As Lionel Messi approaches his second and likely last World Cup final, the stakes could hardly…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Revelations that the Vatican let a famous Jesuit priest off the hook twice for abusing his…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia’s coalition government has fallen after losing a parliamentary no-confidence vote. In…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal coach Fernando Santos has quit after eight years in the job and five days after Portugal’s exit from the World…

By SAM PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders have added Bosnia to the list of official candidates to join the…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed a new round of financial penalties on people and entities…

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — A man who was serving in the Air National Guard died after he fell while snowboarding at an indoor ski park inside a…

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he will visit sub-Saharan Africa next year,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ireland’s foreign minister says “the world is a crazy and tragic place at the…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Legislation requiring Ohioans to present photo ID to vote and giving them fewer days to…

By HILARY FOX Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Daryl McCormack is having a busy and rewarding year with appearances on TV in brutal period drama…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The burly, bearded men belting out holiday classics have made the night before Christmas more…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Unemployment didn’t last long for Trevor Noah — he’s hosting the Grammy Awards in early 2023.…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will be the next president of the NCAA, stepping in to lead an…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The operator of a pipeline with a large onshore crude oil spill has reopened all of it except…

By The Associated Press Was it real? Or staged? Very real, it turned out. Will Smith’s slapping of Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards after the…

By The Associated Press Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8 after a 70-year reign over the United Kingdom. She left behind generations of subjects —…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A 56-year-old Iowa woman who joined her son at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has pleaded guilty to a…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge is refusing to lower the $50,000 bail imposed on a 10-year-old Milwaukee boy accused of intentionally killing his mother…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Best new artist nominee Tobe Nwigwe didn’t expect to be considered when submitting his…

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police have begun serving dozens of search warrants targeting supporters…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A ship that will serve as one of Germany’s floating terminals for liquefied natural gas…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say family members who ran a sham ministry have been charged with defrauding the federal government of COVID-19…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German official who won a defamation case against Twitter this week has dedicated his legal…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Lenore Angey never imagined she’d have to go back to work at age 76. With an ailing husband and…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press A Massachusetts town has decided to become the first in the state to contract with the federal government to kill…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has passed legislation requiring the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul failing…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s attorney general has warned against a raft of legislation being proposed by…

Shares of Tesla are sliding before the market open on Thursday after news broke that CEO Elon Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of the electric…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two sailors who drifted hundreds of miles in the Atlantic Ocean for 10 days after a storm hit their sailboat off North Carolina…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Interior Ministry says a gift that the country’s top police commander received during a recent visit to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut back their retail spending last month as the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s parliament has voted to suspend work on all files involving Qatar. The…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Court officials say an Albanian court has convicted an Iranian man on terrorism-related charges and sentenced him to ten…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Four chimpanzees, one of which is wounded, are on the loose inside a building in a Swedish zoo, a day after they escaped from…