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By JOHN PYE and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has acknowledged that his Australian travel declaration…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China have blocked the U.N. Security Council from supporting new sanctions on…

W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jack Eichel finally skated with the Vegas Golden Knights for the first time since being acquired…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, has made the reporting of rapid antigen test results mandatory as it experienced…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The children of a deceased man who said he was molested as a child by a priest have sued the…

By ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s foreign minister says the country’s consul in Haiti has received threats…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A conversation between a pair of Australian TV anchors criticizing Novak Djokovic and discussing his visa saga has gone…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A Missouri coroner’s inquest jury has found that the death of a Black man at the hands of a white neighbor in a…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s attorney general is urging the state Supreme Court to promptly decide if former New…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota attorney general’s office and the lawyer for billionaire banker and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer China is blocking more than a dozen U.S. airline flights to the country because some passengers on recent flights…

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators say a medical transport plane struck power lines in cloudy weather before it crashed last month near…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — In a story published January 11, 2022, about rapper Young Dolph’s death, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a successful flight test of a hypersonic…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A formal challenge of North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s qualifications to run for Congress has been delayed while…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has vacated three convictions in separate cases that involved video participation in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Judge Steve Harvey? At least for one week, it seems like an inspired idea. The comic’s…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An attorney hired by the Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ administration says a complaint…

DALLAS (AP) — A man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a two-year span is set to be retried in April after the first jury…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judicial panel has refused to throw out redistricting maps drawn by the…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — A judge is weighing whether a Georgia county can move ahead with buying land for a commercial…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare says it will limit coverage of a $28,000-a-year Alzheimer’s drug whose…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge says Baton Rouge officials must stop a court effort to punish an attorney who…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming has asked the federal government to remove protections from grizzly bears in and…

DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Though Novak Djokovic still faces the prospect of deportation from Australia, his father…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A northeast Arkansas site has been chosen for a $3 billion steel mill that’s expected to employ at least 900 people.…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld an Oklahoma appellate court decision that the high court’s landmark McGirt ruling on…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and PARKER PURIFOY AP Business Writer Shortages at U.S. grocery stores have grown more acute in recent weeks. New problems like the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection is demanding records and testimony from a former White House aide…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission’s revised antitrust suit against Meta,…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The man who received the first pig heart transplant is continuing to recover from the experimental surgery. David Bennett on…

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — A mayor in Maryland has resigned weeks after he was charged with distributing revenge porn online. The City of Cambridge…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — An audio recording shows that an off-duty North Carolina sheriff’s deputy had a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, angrily accused a senator Tuesday of making false…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man who was punched and kicked in the head by two Atlanta-area police officers during a traffic…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Clyde Bellecourt, a leader in the Native American struggle for civil rights and a founder of the American Indian Movement, has…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The twin sister of a slain Cleveland police officer says she knew her brother wanted to be a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — There was a prominent Atlanta resident missing Tuesday when President Joe Biden swung through the city…

By KATIE OYAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Native American communities have seen more robust news coverage in recent years, in part because of…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An swarm of earthquakes has been recorded off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, including the…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press As smoke poured through the halls a New York City high-rise on Sunday, killing 17 people, tenants were faced with a…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Investigators of a Philadelphia rowhouse fire that killed 12 family members say they are left with the words of “a…

By MARIA CHENG and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Sites associated with Black history in five Southern states will each receive grants of $50,000 from the Southern Poverty…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made clear in his State of the State speech that he likes…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Neo-Nazi who helped lead a campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Health Department is ordering all hospitals in the state to allow the transfer of critically ill patients.…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The presence of a senior Iranian official at the investiture of Nicaragua’s president has angered Argentina, which…

MONTREAL (AP) — The premier of the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec says adult residents who refuse to get vaccinated against the…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says people spreading fake news online should be held…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says there’s no need to panic over the…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Officials say the U.S. Navy will comply with Hawaii’s order to…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s president wants to add sections on climate change and environmental…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and THALIA BEATY Associated Press UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Authorities and witnesses say a pilot crash landed a medical helicopter…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Many top Nordic skiers and biathletes say crashes are becoming more common as climate change reduces the…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is bringing back an indoor mask mandate to fight the spread of COVID-19 while…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The judge handling the federal trial for three former Minneapolis police officers charged…

ROME (AP) — Police in Italy have arrested a nurse on charges he faked giving coronavirus vaccinations to at least 45 people so they could get a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has announced a second round of sales tax cuts as part of the right-wing government’s efforts…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — J. Cole, Tool and Stevie Nicks will headline this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The four-day festival in…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Relatives of Cubans arrested during the largest demonstrations in decades on the island say…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s president says the country will hold a parliamentary election on April 3. The…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s government says its vice president and six cabinet ministers have tested positive for the coronavirus and are in…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Many top Nordic skiers and biathletes say crashes are becoming more common as climate change reduces the…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Susanna Mälkki could become the first woman music director of the New York Philharmonic since the…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police on Tuesday displayed hundreds of pounds of drugs they say were seized in two separate operations last year…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An attorney for two men on Oklahoma’s death row says after a judge’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say the U.S. government will agree to drop pending perjury charges against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell if her…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Always remember to tip your server, if you know what’s good for you. A tourist left a bad impression in a Key West bar by…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left her home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Allegations that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s staff held a “bring your own booze” garden…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Grand Ole Opry, country music’s most historic and storied stage, is…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first major action to address toxic wastewater…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism.…

NEW YORK (AP) — A trilogy by award-winning children’s author Kwame Alexander that tells the saga of an African family begins this fall with…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Taiwan will set up a $1 billion credit program aimed at funding projects by Lithuanian and Taiwanese companies amid…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago-based addiction treatment center has filed a federal lawsuit to force one suburb…

KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a welfare fraud charge against the stepmother of a missing New…

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A series of fleeting choices and troubling circumstances fueled a staggering tragedy — the fire…

AURORA, Ind. (AP) — DNA testing has confirmed that a bone found in an SUV pulled last fall from the Ohio River in Indiana is from an Ohio woman who…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Foreign Ministry says the country has donated $500,000 to the United Nations for food, medical aid and other…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A veterinarian says that a brown bear cub found exhausted in snowy woods in southeastern Poland has been diagnosed with a…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man who helped take people to the hospital after a deadly New York City fire…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A family member says the Taliban have released a popular university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank is downgrading its outlook for the global economy. It blames continuing…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Democrats have taken their first step toward creating a universal health care…

ROME (AP) — The Catholic Church in Rome is strongly condemning a funeral procession outside a local church in which the casket was draped in a Nazi…

By SAM COWIE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — The scorching Amazon sun beats down as agents inspect the body of a black…

LONDON (AP) — One of Britain’s largest energy suppliers has apologized for advising customers to cuddle with pets or challenge children to hula…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A man accused of setting a fire that destroyed parts of South Africa’s…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Who will take your pet when you die? The question often doesn’t have an easy answer.…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America is slashing the amount it charges customers when they spend more than they have in…

KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it pulled 176 Haitians from an overloaded wooden sailing vessel as it approached the Florida Keys.…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Tuesday brought criminal charges against an author critical of…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The leader of the Portuguese Communist Party is temporarily dropping out of campaigning for his country’s Jan. 30 general…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish court has revealed that the man who has headed both of Denmark’s…

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet The holidays are a popular time to get engaged, and that means many couples are diving into 2022 by touring wedding…