Qatar at World Cup pinnacle after years of Mideast turmoil
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hosting the World Cup marks a pinnacle in Qatar’s efforts to rise out of…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hosting the World Cup marks a pinnacle in Qatar’s efforts to rise out of…
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By YAYAN ZAMZAMI Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — More than 100 Rohingya Muslims traveling in a boat for more than a month have been…
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By PHILIPP JENNE and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press ST. GEORGEN, Austria (AP) — In a standoff over the rising number of asylum-seekers in…
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thirugnanam Sureshan maneuvers his wheelchair into the tiny kitchen of his one-bedroom apartment,…
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani official says the prime minister has ordered a review of the ban on the country’s Oscar entry, the movie…
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By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The world is getting hotter and more crowded and the two issues are connected,…
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By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TSENTRALNE, Ukraine (AP) — Relatives embraced in the middle of the road. They squeezed hands and choked back tears.…
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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press For decades, Doha has flung open its doors to Taliban warlords, Islamist dissidents, African rebel commanders and…
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By DANA BELTAJI and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN Associated Press BRIDGWATER, England (AP) — Wedged between the southwestern town of Bridgwater and the…
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MALE, Maldives (AP) — Police in Maldives have arrested 14 people allegedly working with foreign Islamic extremists to carry out a bombing in the…
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A group of South Korean adoptees in Europe have rallied in Seoul with their local…
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By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is affected by both extreme floods and water shortages, exacerbated by climate change.…
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By AMY FORLITI and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Victims and their family members unleashed their anger and raw emotion at sentencing proceedings…
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By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Supreme Court has heard arguments over the…
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BY SARAH RANKIN and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Students huddled inside laboratory closets and darkened dorm rooms…
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By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s outgoing coalition has been the most diverse in the country’s history,…
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Two new U.S. studies show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile…
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé has propelled herself into the highest Grammy echelon: The star singer…
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese consumer spending contracted in October and factory activity weakened as anti-virus…
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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two threatened U.S. House Republicans in California have triumphed over Democratic…
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By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro will take office with a decisive mandate from Pennsylvania…
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By JILL COLVIN Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched his third campaign for the White House…
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The midterm elections were a vindication for Senate Majority Leader…
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling party has called for strict adherence to the hard-line “zero-COVID” policy in an apparent attempt to…
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has extended the nearly 17,500-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in the troubled Central African…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy says it found 70 tons of a missile fuel component hidden among…
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By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Republican tech entrepreneur Brandon Williams has been elected to Congress in a race in…
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By GAVIN GOOD Associated Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Terrence Shannon Jr. had a career-high 30 points and eight rebounds to lead No. 19 Illinois…
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By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Brandon Graham took a knee at midfield as most of his Eagles teammates trudged off the field in…
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By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans were on the cusp of retaking control of the House late Monday, just one victory shy…
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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters have approved an initiative to extend cheaper in-state college tuition to some…
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By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democrat Katie Hobbs was elected Arizona governor on Monday, defeating an ally of Donald…
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democrat Andrea Salinas has won the U.S. House seat in Oregon’s newly created 6th…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy has contracted at an annual rate of 1.2% in the July-September quarter, as…
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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats have lost a second U.S. House seat in Arizona after a former aide to Republican Gov. Doug…
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The Associated Press called the Arizona governor’s race for Democrat Katie Hobbs on Monday after the latest round…
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By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — With a battle cry of “We Can,” Malaysia’s reformist opposition leader Anwar…
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By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — The European Council president urged global powers Tuesday to intensify pressure on…
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By REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a school bus crashed over an embankment and landed on its side in rural…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Major League Baseball outfielder Yasiel Puig will plead guilty to lying to federal agents investigating an illegal…
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By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday he has COVID-19 and is leaving the Group…
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By SEUNG MIN KIM, ZEKE MILLER and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Leaders of most of the world’s economic…
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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A volcano is likely erupting deep beneath the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. Commonwealth of…
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a California woman and her boyfriend were charged Monday with the murder of her 18-year-old sister and…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay Leno suffered “serious burns” but said Monday that he was doing OK, according to reports. “I got some serious burns…
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Joe Biden and other leaders of the Group of 20 top economies will have…
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By MATTHEW LEE and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Cuban officials plan to meet in Havana on Tuesday to discuss…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An executive at Donald Trump’s company testified Monday he was afraid he’d hear those…
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By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and lawyers for Donald Trump are at odds over whether the former president…
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By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump hotel in Washington took in more than $750,000 from six foreign governments at…
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A Purdue University student charged with murder in the stabbing death of his dormitory roommate has filed notice in court…
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By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Plans to execute an Arizona man for two killings in 1980 remain on track after a judge denied…
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DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Two attorneys have been appointed to represent the man accused of killing two teenage girls in northern Indiana. Online court…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. banking regulator at the Federal Reserve is urging Congress to pass…
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Frontier Airlines and five foreign carriers are paying more than $600 million in refunds to consumers whose…
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By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prison inmate who was able to obtain a firearm at a prison…
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Globe named Nancy Barnes as its next editor Monday, elevating a woman to serve in the top job for the first time in the…
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By LISA RATHKE Associated Press A fired Vermont sheriff’s deputy who was charged with simple assault for kicking a shackled prisoner has been…
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By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court denied an emergency writ from two voting rights groups…
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By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Security video from a Georgia jail shows a detainee being repeatedly punched in the head and…
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was ordered Monday to pay an additional $2.5 million in…
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State officials in California are preparing to build a monument to the state’s Native…
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By JIM MUSTIAN and SARA CLINE Associated Press FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana grand jury began hearing evidence Monday in the deadly 2019…
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A federal appeals court in St. Louis has created another roadblock for President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to…
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FRUITLAND, Idaho (AP) — Police in southwestern Idaho have arrested a woman in connection with the disappearance of a 5-year-old boy who went…
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER, TOM HAYS and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will not face criminal…
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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Defense Minister says the United States government has started an investigation…
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By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Officials in Guatemala say they’ve arrested a U.S. woman who was caught trying to…
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By MARGARET STAFFORD and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A former Kansas police detective and three other men have been charged in a federal…
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By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Megadonor and novelist MacKenzie Scott announced almost $2 billion in donations in a short blog…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California house where Steve Jobs co-founded Apple is a historical site, and now the sandals he wore while pacing its floors…
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GUNTERSVILLE, Ala (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a 7-year-old boy and two women has been sentenced to death. A judge handed down the…
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By JOCELYN GECKER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 48,000 unionized academic workers at all 10 University of California campuses…
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of California Gov. Gavin…
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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A teacher says a Nebraska public district that shuttered a student newspaper following an LGBTQ-focused edition has…
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By HANK KURZ Jr. and BEN FINLEY Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Three University of Virginia football players killed in an on-campus…
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A group of anti-abortion doctors in Mississippi say the validity of…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution calling for Russia to be held…
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By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America The movement for “parents’ rights” saw many of its candidates come up short in this…
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers was handed…
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By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — The attack on a central avenue in Istanbul over the weekend was a stark reminder of bombings…
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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has determined that Iranian threats against former Secretary of…
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance is proposing the creation of a rescue fund that would save…
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BERLIN (AP) — Poland and Germany have announced separate takeovers of natural gas companies that had links to Russian energy giant Gazprom. The…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to…
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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in Arizona’s most populous county have aggressively batted down rumors and slanted and…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Five people died of Legionnaires’ disease over the summer at a New York City nursing home. The outbreak at Amsterdam Nursing Home…
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By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court has convicted and sentenced to death two Islamic militants over a suicide…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said she was encouraged by last week’s U.S.…
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By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Testimony is under way in a shareholder lawsuit challenging approval by Tesla’s board…
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Union’s border agency says that the number of illegal entries by migrants spiked to more than 275,000 in the…
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NEW YORK (AP) — A representative for Roberta Flack announced Monday that the Grammy-winning musician has ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s…
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By DAVE COLLINS and MARCY GORDON Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40…
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By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Zambia’s government has announced that a Zambian student who was serving a prison…
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By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA remained on track for Wednesday’s planned liftoff of its new moon rocket,…
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bryan Adams, R.E.M., Blondie, Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan, Heart and The Doobie Brothers are…
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By JUAN A. LOZANO, JIM SALTER and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press While the cause of a deadly collision between two vintage military aircraft at a…
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Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Two suspected people smugglers fired shots at Hungarian police from a van carrying migrants on Monday…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced that 100 Canadians have been added to the list of people banned from entering the country…
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By SEUNG MIN-KIM and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Joe Biden says he doubts there are enough votes in…
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