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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say two Los Angeles County deputies won’t face criminal charges for fatally shooting a Black man they tried to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Costner can comfortably boast of being television’s biggest star right now. His…

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company is licensing its name to a golf resort in Oman in the first of what it…

VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) — Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rape allegations against actor Danny Masterson were so riddled with contradictions and…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of text messages sent from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s city-issued iPhone went missing from the public record.…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois voters have approved an amendment to their state constitution that…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Melbourne United starting center Isaac Humphries has announced that he is gay and says he hopes his decision to go…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday it was…

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — With all the big issues dominating this week’s meeting of leaders…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization’s longtime finance chief has testified at trial…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman says the team is considering several sites to build a replacement for the aging…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is making another attempt to launch its new moon rocket on its first test…

By NARDOS HAILE The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Beyoncé has been crowned the most Grammy-nominated person in history — tying her husband…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Frida, a yellow Labrador retriever rescue dog that gained fame in the days following Mexico’s Sept. 19, 2017, earthquake has…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it will receive deportation flights from the United States that had been stalled in the…

OLNEY, Md. (AP) — Virginia McLaurin, the centenarian who danced excitedly with President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during a 2016…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Ben & Jerry’s board of directors has rebuked the sale of products bearing any of the ice cream maker’s…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Tuesday it would back proposed federal…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Blake Masters called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly to concede in the Arizona Senate…

The Associated Press Estee Lauder is acquiring luxury powerhouse Tom Ford in a deal valued at $2.8 billion. As part of the deal, Ermenegildo Zegna…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Biden administration to lift Trump-era asylum…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government says it will provide Puerto Rico with temporary electric…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge says an agency previously led by Republican Josh Hawley broke public…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have seized plastic bags containing 2,000 fentanyl pills that were apparently baked into traditional bread…

By KEN SWEET and THALIA BEATY The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Just days after cryptocurrency’s third-largest exchange collapsed, the public…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is facing mounting pressure to extend a pause on…

By CURT ANDERSON and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has ruled that former national security adviser Michael…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court issued a temporary stay on a lower court judge’s order that pared back enforcement of New York’s new…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Rick Scott said Tuesday that he will mount a long-shot…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elton John’s audacious 1970 U.S. debut at a local nightclub moved a critic to declare that…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say an off-duty police officer in western New York state has shot a woman to death, wounded another woman and…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — European human rights experts are urging Switzerland to do more to protect women from violence both…

By The Associated Press World Cup host nation Qatar said Tuesday it will count emissions produced from daily flights ferrying fans during the…

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the police department in Massachusetts’ second largest city routinely uses excessive…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of California Gov. Gavin…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man accused in last month’s attack on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A police commander at the scene of the Uvalde massacre was informed that children were alive in a classroom with the gunman…

MONACA, Pa. (AP) — Years in the works, a massive petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania fed by the vast natural gas reservoir underneath…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials will begin assessing security protocols at federal prison…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — The offshore wind power energy has ambitious plans for generating electricity for millions…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has overturned Georgia’s ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy.…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has cleared the first major step…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s departing prime minister says Israel will not participate in an American investigation…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Republican challenger to Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada is conceding that he…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities say four people drowned and two are missing after the inflatable boat they were on sank off the coast of…

By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Black Friday deals are plentiful. So how do you know which ones are truly great and which ones you should avoid?…

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Separatist politician Milorad Dodik has been sworn in as president of Bosnia’s Serb-run part and he pledged…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A record 12 women will take their seats as their states’ highest-ranking elected…

CLEVELAND (AP) — The death of a concertgoer who fell to his death through a garbage chute at Progressive Field in Cleveland more than seven years…

By REBECCA BOONE and NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — The killer — or killers — who stabbed four University of Idaho…

SALYERSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Seven children and a driver injured when a Kentucky school bus crashed over an embankment and landed on its side remain…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Gas-electric hybrids were the most dependable vehicles sold in the U.S. in the past year, while big…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister says Britain is carrying out a “calculated attack” on his…

By HANK KURZ Jr. and BEN FINLEY Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Three University of Virginia football players killed in an on-campus…

By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors said they’ll seek a life sentence with no chance for parole for a…

By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova has reported “massive power outages across the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Italian director Luca Guadagnino says that often it’s films that find him, not the other…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Officials say South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol asked China to play a more active,…

Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Firefighters at Baghdad’s international airport have put out a fire that temporarily forced management to…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Midterm election results were certified Tuesday by at least two county commissions in New…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian shops in Tehran’s historic Grand Bazaar and elsewhere across the…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Cholera cases are overwhelming Haiti as experts warn the situation…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The superintendent of Florida’s second-largest school district has been fired after a late-night motion from a board…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One of Australia’s hottest exports is doing a walkabout through America. The first-ever…

HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s foreign minister says the Baltic country has changed its policy toward Israel and will no longer vote for U.N.…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Martin has this funny theory about artists and careers, spelled out with comic timing.…

BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian opposition war monitor and a local officials say the beheaded bodies of two Egyptian girls…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level rose 8% in October from a year ago, the fourth straight…

The Associated Press Amazon is stepping back into virtual care with a new service that uses secure messaging to connect patients with doctors for…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday, as investors got jittery over global risks after Poland…

TAICHUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has displayed its self-developed drone technology amid rising concerns over China’s threats to use force to assert…

LONDON (AP) — A French Holocaust denier who was convicted under France’s anti-Nazi laws has been arrested in Scotland after authorities searched…

By The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah said Tuesday they received a letter from him…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists in Austria have attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police say gunmen have shot dead a local chief and two of his aides during an attack in…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Walmart proposed a $3.1 billion legal settlement on Tuesday over the toll of powerful prescription opioids sold…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office is calling on Iran’s government to immediately release thousands of people who have been detained for…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan will lift a more than 2 1/2-year ban on international cruise ships that was imposed following…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — Luxury spending is growing faster than ever, fueled by pent-up pandemic demand and shifting…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s justice minister says the number of people in custody in connection with the deadly bomb attack on a bustling…

BEIJING (AP) — Police in eastern China say they shot dead a would-be bank robber and freed the hostage he had taken. A notice on the social media…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence blames Donald Trump for endangering his family “and all those…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — French oil giant Total says it will soon launch exploration activities in search for gas in the…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s information minister says Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has tested positive for the coronavirus and is feeling unwell…

By NINIEK KARMINI and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he raised with…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic is set to be granted a visa to play in next year’s Australian Open despite his high-profile…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says a convoy of trucks carrying medicine arrived in Tigray’s regional…

By VANESSA GERA, ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland said early Wednesday that a Russian-made missile…

By NINIEK KARMINI and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has signed deals with international lenders and major…

SYDNEY (AP) — Two genetic experts told an inquiry in Sydney on Tuesday that a rare genetic mutation probably caused the deaths of two daughters of…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate slammed world leaders Tuesday who persist…

By FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry indicated on Tuesday he’ll…

By DAN IKPOYI and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The world’s population will likely hit an estimated 8 billion people…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Officials say a Palestinian killed three Israelis and wounded three others in an attack in a…