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By SAM COWIE Associated Press RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — Relentless pressure from the rapid growth of illegal gold…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A lawyer for Baltimore’s top prosecutor has outlined her defense against federal criminal charges stemming from her purchase of…

BEIRUT (AP) — An investigating judge in Lebanon has ordered the freezing of some assets belonging to the country’s central bank governor.…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is capping off a controversial first year in office, creating…

By MATTHEW BROWN and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration says it will significantly expand efforts…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Data show it’s rare for police officers to be convicted of on-duty killings. But three…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former Attorney General William P. Barr has a memoir coming out in March. It’s titled…

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of mourners in Ireland have turned out for the funeral Mass of a 23-year-old elementary school teacher whose killing has…

By KIM COOK Associated Press Houseplants have been keeping a lot of us company during the pandemic. The good news is there’s a plant for any home,…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The new prime ministers of North Macedonia and Bulgaria have agreed to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has successfully tested a system designed to intercept ballistic missiles outside the earth’s atmosphere. The…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say Moscow is sending an unspecified number of troops from the country’s…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft is paying the enormous sum of nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of Candy…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers are calling for a parliamentary inquiry into the police’s alleged use of…

The Associated Press The airline industry is raising the stakes in a showdown with AT&T and Verizon over plans to launch new 5G wireless service…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “This Is Us,” “black-ish” and “Better Call Saul” are among the shows to be…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ex-Ohio House Democratic Leader Emilia Sykes says she’s running for Congress. The…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will not run for governor. On Tuesday, he ended…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied misleading Parliament about lockdown-breaching…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan’s influential former leader has released a short video in which he talked about the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer AT&T and Verizon say they will delay some new 5G wireless service after the airline industry raised alarms…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Border Guard authorities say that almost 600 attempts by migrants at illegally crossing from Belarus have been…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott has a memoir out this summer that he says will explain the two words that have shaped his life: hope and redemption.…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album of rootsy rock from John Mellencamp, the return of puppet…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have broken up a human trafficking ring that forced Chinese women into prostitution in Spain. Police said…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is shortening the required isolation period for people infected with COVID-19 from 14 to…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Money is pouring fast into the Texas governor’s race headlined by Republican Gov. Greg…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s arms exports reached record levels in 2021, largely due to significant sales of maritime and air defense weapons to…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican press office says that Cardinal Pietro Parolin and  Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra have both tested positive for the…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations has raised the death toll from twin earthquakes in western Afghanistan the day before to 26. It says…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Rome villa containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio is going back on a…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with his Russian counterpart in Switzerland this…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s health officials say that the country has entered a new, fifth wave, in the coronavirus pandemic, predicting that…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet With multiple debts, it’s easy to lose track of buy now, pay later plans and potentially take on more than you…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s environment minister says the country will gradually phase out coal plants over the next…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief says Sudan’s military rulers have shown an unwillingness…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government has suffered a setback in Parliament in its attempt to give authorities stronger powers to curb…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Christian Democrat Roberta Metsola of Malta has been elected president of the European Union’s…

GENEVA (AP) — Four people have gone on trial in the Swiss capital over a protest four years ago where some demonstrators hoisted a banner showing a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for multiple overnight gun attacks on police in the capital of Islamabad and the…

By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A delegation led by South Korea’s president visiting Saudi…

By DAVID KEYTON and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press SKIEN, Norway (AP) — Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is appearing at a parole…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s leader has promised human rights reforms and justice for people missing…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates’ government health app says that Abu Dhabi is requiring people entering the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have fallen in cautious trading after stocks on Wall Street sank to a new low for the…

By JULIUS ERVING For The Associated Press Hall of Famer Julius Erving says the commercial success he and other NBA players enjoyed in the 1980s…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press appear to show the aftermath…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say parcels mailed from overseas may have spread the coronavirus in Beijing and elsewhere, despite doubts among…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, JAKE BLEIBERG and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A White House spokeswoman says an armed British man who took four…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Guatemala has hired for $900,000 a major supporter of former President Donald Trump to seek…

By BRADY McCOMBS and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press KEMMERER, Wyoming (AP) — A tiny Wyoming town faces transformation when a company started by Bill…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Many states in the U.S. are coming to the conclusion that solar, wind and other…

BANGKOK (AP) — Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor says it plans to sell its stake in the Myanmar fintech company Wave Money to its main…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Many states in the U.S. are coming to the conclusion that solar, wind and other…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A year-old report by Washington’s Afghanistan watchdog has now been declassified…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting legislation that is a cornerstone of the Democratic agenda and a top…

By The Associated Press Joe Biden’s long arc in public life has always had one final ambition: to sit behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office.…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing will allow China to show the world “a…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Matthew Stafford passed for 202 yards and two touchdowns in his first playoff victory and…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia has reported a record high of COVID-19 deaths, and its second-largest state…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher in the absence of big market-moving news following a national…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities say they will kill about 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, after several…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Despite sitting almost on top of the volcano that erupted so violently, the Pacific…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it conducted a test-firing of “tactical guided missiles” in its…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has dealt opponents of Texas’ strict abortion law another defeat.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governor of Mexico’s Morelos state is claiming his predecessor and the previous police chief negotiated with a drug gang.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief says over 12,000 detainees are held officially in 27 prisons…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — For decades renowned Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez kept the public from…

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revisit part of its decision not to…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the Amazon warehouse in central Illinois…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A news photographer was killed in the Mexican border city of Tijuana Monday, the same day press groups said a reporter was…

Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Unusually high waves attributed to the eruption of an undersea volcano in Tonga have caused an oil spill on the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Crews are making railroad repair in Los Angeles after a train derailed near the location where thieves have been raiding cargo…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Singer and music producer Pharrell Williams is challenging corporate America to “do more” by supporting…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Winsome Earle-Sears has taken her seat for the first day presiding over the…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s police say two gunmen opened fire at police officers manning a roadside checkpoint in the capital, Islamabad,…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli hospital says preliminary research indicates a fourth dose of the coronavirus…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A local Afghan official says two earthquakes have rattled western Badghis province along the border with Turkmenistan,…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Justice has resumed his weekly briefings on the coronavirus, six days after he tested positive for…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — K-way, the Franco-Italian brand synonymous with windbreakers, is stepping into luxury fashion with…

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s health regulator has approved a pill by Pfizer that treats the effects of COVID-19.  Health Canada authorized Paxlovid…

By KATE BRUMBACK The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man whose toddler son died after he left him in a hot car for hours is asking Georgia’s…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish Senate commission has opened an investigation into the use of powerful spyware…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The coronavirus’ omicron variant is barreling across South…

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — California authorities say three teenage boys were killed when the car they were in hit a curb, collided with a fence and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Joint Chiefs of Staff says Chairman Gen. Mark Milley has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing very minor…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Witnesses in the Guinean capital say former President Alpha Conde has…

NEW YORK (AP) — A prize-winning photographer whose indelible images ranged from civil rights marches to the set of “The Godfather” and other…

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old is in critical condition Monday after being shot in the neck by a police officer following a car chase…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have met in Madrid to plan…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is fighting for his career and he has one constant refrain:…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Auction house Sotheby’s Dubai has unveiled a diamond that’s literally from out of this world. Sotheby’s…

By KRISTEN GRIFFITH of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Dakota and Navajo actor Dallas Goldtooth joins other influencers —…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Eurogroup finance chiefs are engaged in a high-wire political balancing act prompted by conflicting economic forces: a weaker…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese activists say security forces have killed at least seven people and wounded around 100 others…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has canceled her in-person appointments at the European Parliament this week…

Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian police and anti-terrorism forces are searching for a suspected people smuggler who allegedly…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Funeral services were held Monday for nine children and three adults who died in a Philadelphia fire five days into the new…