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By JOSEPH HAMMOND Religion News Service Halal Restaurant, East London’s oldest halal eatery, opened in 1939 to serve the needs of Muslims in the…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says all nine justices have received COVID-19 booster…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer A forecast of better weather means that the worst may finally be over for tens of thousands of air travelers who…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging concern but not alarm as the U.S. sets new records for daily…

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — An attorney for a man accused of driving his son to a Dallas-area gas station store where the 14-year-old is accused of…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has five new members. Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday…

PARIS (AP) — France reported a record-smashing 271,686 daily COVID-19 cases Tuesday as omicron infections race across the country. The surge is…

By ALAN FRAM and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he remains opposed to President Joe Biden’s…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press Winter weather is playing havoc not only with road travel but also passenger trains in Virginia and other states.…

By ALEJANDRA ZÚÑIGA Associated Press LA PAZ, Mexico (AP) — COVID-19 infections are rising across Mexico, especially in two states home to major…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — This week’s remaining episodes of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” have been scrapped after the host…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The explosive increase in U.S. coronavirus case counts is raising alarm, but some experts believe the focus…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s currency has hit a new low, reaching 20 times its value on the black market since the economic meltdown began in late…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Brightline higher-speed train fatally struck a pedestrian who walked into its path…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the first part of a report on…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for over 140 days to protest being imprisoned without charge will end his…

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Sen. Tim Kaine left his home in Richmond for his usual two-hour commute to the U.S. Capitol after Monday’s snowstorm,…

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. government says it charged one of the main suspects in the killing of…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida have removed a handful of community activists from a news conference with Gov. Ron DeSantis after the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge appears mostly dismissive of arguments by a lawyer for Prince Andrew who wants to win…

By MICHAEL HILL and MARINA VILLENEUVE ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won’t face criminal prosecution over an allegation…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The conservative candidate in France’s presidential race says she will adapt her campaign…

BOSTON (AP) — A woman is taking over as the U.S.S. Constitution’s commanding officer for the first time in the legendary warship’s 224-year…

By ANGELA CHARLTON and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY PARIS (AP) — Three women in France were found dead on New Year’s Day, allegedly killed by their…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Navy from…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he hopes to “ride out” the pandemic without further…

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Someone had a warning for New Yorkers visiting former President Donald Trump’s new hometown — leave if you are…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Growth in U.S. manufacturing slowed in December to an 11-month low as companies…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A record 4.5 million American workers quit their jobs in November, a sign of confidence and…

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The wife of an Ohio man who was fatally shot by police just minutes into the new year says he had been firing a gun to…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing restrictions on the inks that tattoo artists can use as of Wednesday.…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Current and former Black state lawmakers in Detroit have announced a pending lawsuit to…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Washington’s NFL team says it will unveil its new name on Feb. 2. Team president Jason Wright confirmed that…

HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish public prosecutors say they have charged a 49-year-old woman from Sweden with war crimes for allegedly assisting in getting…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Miners employed by Poland’s largest coal company are blocking deliveries of the fossil fuel to power plants to demand…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors that a 23-year-old Wisconsin man charged with killing and dismembering his parents committed the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An athletic Hungarian farm dog and a tiny pet of bygone Russian aristocrats are the latest…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is imposing new measures to fight a surge in COVID-19 cases that has overwhelmed medical staff in the U.S.…

LONDON (AP) — At least 28,300 people packed into small boats crossed the Channel from France to England’s south coast in 2021. The annual record…

NEW YORK (AP) — The extensive catalog of David Bowie, stretching from the late 1960s to just before his death in 2016, has been sold to Warner…

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pivotal songs and albums from David Bowie’s rich and renowned catalog include “Space Oddity,”…

Doctors say Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t require surgery for an intestinal obstruction. The medical team caring for him at a Sao…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The NATO alliance will hold a virtual meeting of foreign ministers from the 30 member nations on Friday to assess the situation in…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Public records reveal the backward Wright Flyer at the center of an embarrassing license…

By SARAH RANKIN and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The waiting is over for the last of the drivers who got stranded…

BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has agreed with India to jointly develop a strategic oil terminal…

By LAURA MCMULLEN of NerdWallet This year, dedicate a financial account to goods, services and activities that bring you joy. Perhaps this fund would…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic will get a chance to defend his Australian Open title after receiving a…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany have reported sporadic violence at demonstrations against the country’s pandemic restrictions. Authorities said…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries have decided to pump more oil to the world…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy has set Jan. 24 as the start date to begin voting for a new Italian president. The…

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian security forces have killed a suspected militant accused of beheadings in a…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows that a year after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, only…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean journalists are praising Iden Wetherell, one of the country’s most…

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford says it will nearly double the annual production of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck based on a high number of…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The man suspected of starting the fire that gutted South Africa’s parliament buildings has…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say an Albanian man who disappeared after serving part of a sentence for his role in the killing of a high-ranking…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s health minister says same-sex couples will be able to have children through surrogate mothers in Israel as…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s environmentalist Greens have come out in favor of a second term for President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. That leaves the…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese have flooded the streets in the capital of Khartoum and other cities in anti-coup protests as…

BEIJING (AP) — A landslide at a construction site in southwestern China has killed 14 people and injured three others. Official reports say the…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S.-led coalition official in Iraq says two explosives-laden drones that targeted a…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Residents of the Chinese city of Xi’an are enduring a strict coronavirus lockdown, with business…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in Canada has ruled that Iran should pay 107 million Canadian dollars — about $84 million — in…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The fraud conviction of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes could do more than…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks have slipped after technology shares in the region echoed a similar drop in the…

By ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press SALAMANCA, Spain (AP) — The Catholic church has been the dominant religious force in Spain for centuries. It’s…

BURTONSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland say two women and a man were killed and another person is in serious condition after an SUV crashed…

By ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press SALAMANCA, Spain (AP) — The Catholic church has been the dominant religious force in Spain for centuries.…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India have detained a man and a woman alleged to be involved in the offering for sale…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A senior Chinese arms control official has denied that his government is rapidly expanding its…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A refugee who survived the Khmer Rouge’s brutal regime has become the first Cambodian American…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s new government had offered early indications that it would press ahead on an…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says the recent closure of two media outlets in the city does not indicate…

BEIJING (AP) — In a story published January 4, 2022, about Chinese real estate developer Evergrande Group, The Associated Press erroneously…

BEIJING (AP) — American activists are appealing to Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police were ill-prepared for the thousands of protesters who…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Teachers have found themselves on the front lines of the culture wars as the…

By HAVEN DALEY Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes has been boxed in by firefighters to…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Indiana congressman Greg Pence watched the Jan. 6 insurrection unfold from an extraordinary…

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A Marine Corps panel is convening to decide if an officer should be discharged over the sinking of an amphibious…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately? A couple of factors are at play, starting with the…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and JERRY HARMER Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian security forces have briefly detained a…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is sounding a skeptical note about the…

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger threw for 123 yards and a touchdown in likely his final start at Heinz Field…

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Nurses at a Massachusetts hospital have voted to ratify a new four-year contract with management that ends what their union…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The volunteer activists who search for the bodies of their missing relatives have long been under threat in Mexico. But this…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Department of Health is upholding the governor’s order requiring the Navy to drain…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Longtime U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois won’t seek reelection after 15 terms in office. The…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The director of a South Dakota agency has resigned amid scrutiny over Gov. Kristi…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Former New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof has told Oregon’s top election official…

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) — The body of a 75-year-old man has been found in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park after he apparently…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A powerful state lawmaker in California has resigned from the Legislature. Lorena Gonzalez…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press Cruise ship activity has been temporarily suspended along Brazil’s shores until Jan. 21 due to the spread of the…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Conservative firebrand state Sen. Amanda Chase says she is ending her bid for Congress, citing the impact of redistricting on…

COLORADO CITY, Texas (AP) — A West Texas grand jury has indicted a man in the death of his ex-girlfriend’s 13-year-old daughter reported…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a Florida city’s incoming mayor will take office in a virtual inauguration ceremony after testing…

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says he’ll ask the Justice Department to review the case of two people charged in the shootings of two police…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has ordered charges dropped against two Bureau of Prisons guards who admitted…

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are moving on from Antonio Brown, whose NFL career is on hold again…