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By JOHN PYE and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic’s effort to play in the Australian Open despite being…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has begun a fourth round of vaccinations against the coronavirus in…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO, LISA MASCARO and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is all but conceding defeat for this…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — There is one tradition in the heavily patriarchal,…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will slightly ease its coronavirus gathering restrictions starting next…

By JOHN RABY, FATIMA HUSSEIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — For the first time in half a year, families on Friday are…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Around 75,000 New Mexico schoolchildren on Friday will miss school…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden nominated three people for the Federal Reserve’s Board of…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A late-afternoon recovery in technology stocks helped erase most of the market’s losses…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is known for his folksy demeanor, sprinkling his speeches with…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin court commissioner has ordered a Milwaukee man accused of plowing his SUV…

The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe announced Thursday that it has signed a deal to acquire the nonprofit fundraising company Classy. The move will…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged four people in connection with the robbery and killing of an…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s politically volatile global trade surplus surged to $676.4 billion in 2021, likely the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats have defeated a bill by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that would have…

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A judge has granted a North Carolina police chief’s request to release body camera video recorded moments after the…

DALLAS (AP) — A single page of artwork from a Spider-Man comic book sold at auction for a record $3.36 million. Mike Zeck’s artwork for page 25…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Police continue looking for who fatally shot a 16-year-old Houston girl as she walked her dog.…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will nominate three people for the Federal Reserve’s Board of…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has fired what appears to be two short-range ballistic missiles in its…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer For big companies across the country, it’s now up to them to decide whether to require employees to get…

QUINCY, Ill. (AP) — A judge in western Illinois who sparked outrage when he threw out the sexual assault conviction of an 18-year-old man is no…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A far-right social media personality who calls himself “Baked Alaska” was sentenced to 30 days in jail for…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s immigration agency says 105 of its agents have been reported to the internal affairs division for allegedly…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story published January 13, 2022, about a Virgin Orbit launch, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Richard…

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston-area school board member is facing calls to resign after he linked more Black teachers to lower school district…

By The Associated Press A Maryland hospital is defending its decision to transplant a pig’s heart into a dying man following reports that the…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people who took out student loans over the past 20 years could see their…

LE GRAND, Calif. (AP) — Officials say the mother of three children found dead inside a home in central California has been charged with murder. The…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas wants Planned Parenthood to return more than $10 million in payments for low-income patients. The lawsuit filed by…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he hopes Mexican investors buy the local subsidiary of Citigroup. The…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted Baltimore’s top prosecutor on charges of perjury and making false mortgage applications in the…

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan professor has been placed on leave after he told students in a profanity-laced video that he randomly assigns…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A  man once dubbed “King Perry” will spend more than 17 years in prison for his role in masterminding a long-running…

By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America The family of a mentally ill Black man who died after South Carolina jail employees repeatedly…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Paul Tash is retiring as CEO of the Tampa Bay Times, a media organization he joined 47 years ago as a summer intern.…

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — The ashes of Winter the dolphin have been returned to the sea, about two months after the beloved marine mammal of movie…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio prison system says it will deploy more than 5,000 body cameras by May in…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ahead of Michael Avenatti’s trial on charges he cheated porn star Stormy Daniels out of book…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elvis Costello’s new album sounds like a tight rock ‘n’ roll combo sweating…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities have arrested more than two dozen people for allegedly taking part in a multistate shoplifting ring involving more…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The federal government is moving forward with a plan to let teenagers drive big rigs from state to…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to Twitter,…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says his health is improving  two days after he was…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor said Thursday she’s considering seeking help from the…

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Federal work-safety investigators say another federal agency violated safe handling policies at a helium plant in the Texas…

MONTREAL (AP) — Quebec’s premier says the COVID-19 curfew he imposed across the French-speaking Canadian province in December will be lifted…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say they are investigating after a battery report was filed against Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Los…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In defending itself against a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, Fox News is…

UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — A man at the scene of a medical helicopter crash outside Philadelphia this week told a dispatcher he was most concerned…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Elected officials and activists are harshly critical of a suburban Philadelphia prosecutor over his handling of…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press An overturned conviction in Missouri is raising new questions about video testimony in…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A lawyer for ex-Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs’ girlfriend says he’ll appeal a Las Vegas…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A United Nations diplomat newly tasked with reviving stalled negotiations for a settlement to the decades-old Western Sahara…

CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island has opened an investigation into the North Kingstown School…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s recently elected mayor has unveiled a new police precinct in the city’s large…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have concluded that a meteorite from Mars contains no evidence of ancient…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering allowing the nation’s largest school district…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press People looking for health insurance in the grip of the omicron surge have through Saturday to sign up for…

BERLIN (AP) — A German report says East Germany’s secret police kept extensive records on Chancellor Olaf Scholz during his time as a senior…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer A new study offers stronger evidence that one of the world’s most common viruses may set some people on…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A proposed U.S. House map that carves up fast-growing, Democratic-leaning Nashville…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Teachers around the U.S. are confronting classrooms where as many as half of students are absent. That’s…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Outgoing Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has reversed more than 50 legal…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Clergy abuse victims are asking the European Court of Human Rights to make a definitive ruling on…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News is under fire for how it edited an interview that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky gave to…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Federal authorities say a South Dakota man charged this week with storming the U.S. Capitol last year performed…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy directed a sewage treatment facility to cancel a vote Thursday on a…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An Illinois appellate court has set aside a decision by state regulators that would…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security officials say at least four rockets targeted the U.S. Embassy inside…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Four inmates at a northwest Arkansas jail have filed a lawsuit after they said they…

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Andrew has been stripped of his honorary military roles as allegations of…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Navient, a major student loan servicing company, has settled allegations of abusive lending…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is forecasting lower global economic growth for 2022 and 2023. It…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Police are treating a fire at the home of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors chair and a prominent labor leader as…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An unprecedented, experimental attempt to feed manatees facing starvation in Florida has…

By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee says it is planning a rules change that would…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has sided with conservatives, ruling that absentee ballot drop boxes cannot…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Lael Brainard, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve’s No. 2 spot,…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — GOP Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says he has no regrets about his response…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have dispersed hundreds of Bedouin protesters who blocked a desert highway during a demonstration against a…

WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) — A swirling disk of ice on a Maine river is drawing onlookers in the heart of winter once again. The disk has formed in the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is prolonging economic sanctions against Russia for six months for failing to live up to its commitments to the…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Two U.S. science agencies say 2021 was the sixth hottest year on record globally, part of a long-term warming…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the…

BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Peace Prize, has issued a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An investigation has found that Utah police made “several unintentional mistakes”…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch king has ruled out using, for now at least, the royal family’s “Golden…

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been arrested after hundreds of pigs died at his farm last month after they went without adequate food and…