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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Prince Andrew say a lawsuit by an American who claims he sexually abused her when…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The attorney representing the private company that oversaw the Arizona Senate’s partisan review…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s new puppy, Commander, has gotten his moment under the…

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Dallas-area police have released a 14-year-old boy whom they had suspected in a weekend shooting that left three teenagers…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Twenty people were injured when a Greyhound bus headed to Las Vegas veered off a highway and rolled over in central Utah late…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general says a retired priest who once oversaw children’s safety in a Catholic diocese in the…

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says it is investigating the fiery crash of a small business jet near San Diego.…

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s public lands agency is warning people that they face arrest if found burning Christmas trees at an oceanic sandbar. The…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has paid a rare visit to Israel for talks with Israel’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Ballet has canceled its remaining performances of “The Nutcracker.” The famed ballet by George Balanchine was…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says it will allow cruise ships carrying people infected with the coronavirus to dock. The announcement…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s parole commission has canceled the scheduled 2024 parole for one of two men convicted in the 1993…

By DAVID PORTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won’t face criminal charges stemming from…

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police officer has been suspended with pay after a video showed the officer pressing his knee into the back…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group to stay…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 22-year-old white supremacist has been sentenced to life in federal prison for killing a woman…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The county attorney prosecuting the case of two southeast Iowa teens charged with murder in…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A prosecutor in Las Vegas says a 57-year-old man jailed after police found the severed head and…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California became the first state to record more than 5 million known coronavirus infections. The state dashboard…

By ZEKE MILLER and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials’ decision to shorten the recommended COVID-19…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A federal judge has refused to throw out an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the far-right Proud…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A total of 116 cities in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia were in a state of…

WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities have found the car that plowed into a group of children in Florida, killing two and injuring four. But…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese authorities said at least 38 people were killed when a defunct gold mine collapsed in West…

By GERMAN DE LOS SANTOS and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) — Evangelical pastors have become increasingly influential inside…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers are meeting behind closed doors as they launch an impeachment…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani did things during 2021 that almost nobody alive had ever seen in sports.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — An advisory body in Belgium has suspended a government-ordered closure of part of the cultural sector. The Council of State said…

By FAZLUR PHILLIPS Associated Press CAPE TOWN (AP) — Desmond Tutu’s family members have gathered at his Cape Town home in preparation for his…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor must soon decide whether to free one of America’s most…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown and his ex-wife have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Officials say firefighters have contained a blaze that raged for hours in Syria’s port of…

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a mama black bear and her three cubs clambered up a tree and napped in the middle of a Virginia…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital pulled books, money, ammunition, documents and…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s main opposition party is calling for the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The jury weighing the fate Ghislaine Maxwell’s fate has told a judge it is…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has agreed to defer its…

By HASSAN AMMAR Associated Press TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s energy minister has launched two projects in the country’s north to…

MIAMI (AP) — Federal regulators say the owner of a Miami-based payday loan company bilked hundreds of investors out of millions of dollars and…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Supreme Court has thrown out the 2016 conviction of a Florida woman…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s ruling emir has announced the formation of a new Cabinet. The move…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes left…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s left-wing ruling coalition is securing its hold on power with the approval of a landmark…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have found 53 people crammed into a truck, and have arrested the vehicle’s…

BANGKOK (AP) — The humanitarian group Save the Children says it has confirmed that two of its staff were among at least 35 people who were killed…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices surged again in October as the housing market continues to boom in the wake…

By WILSON RING Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — An expected decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming year to severely restrict…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish media reports say police have detained a man who wounded one person during a knife attack on a branch of a…

By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Some cities and states are targeting remote workers as a way to boost the local tax base and combat decades of brain…

BEIJING (AP) — Advertisements featuring some Chinese models have sparked feuding in China over whether their appearance and makeup are perpetuating…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The multibillion-dollar world’s fair in Dubai has warned that some venues on…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s prime minister says talks with the International Monetary Fund are inching closer to a…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s highest court has shut down one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have charged two Afghan brothers with murder over the killing in July of their sister, whom they…

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say they have arrested five people suspected of smuggling 29 kilograms…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has ruled that officials must draw up rules to protect disabled people if hospitals end up having to triage…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels say they’re temporarily allowing U.N. humanitarian flights to…

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press Desmond Tutu was, for many around the world, an icon. A spiritual compass. A champion of the anti-apartheid…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says he doesn’t oppose a “good” nuclear deal…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer New York nurse Sandra Lindsay became a vaccine activist after being hailed as the first person in the United…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press CHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) — Lutheran pastors across Germany’s Saxony state have used their sermons and…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer From South African undertakers to ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbis, an unconventional cadre of people has joined…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews have yet to receive their…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly lower amid lingering worries about the omicron coronavirus variant’s…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. infectious disease expert says the nation should consider a vaccination mandate for…

By GERMAN DE LOS SANTOS and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) — Evangelical pastors have become increasingly influential inside…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Authorities say a gunman who went on a deadly shooting rampage in several locations in the Denver…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area health clinic founded four decades ago to screen refugees from…

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rookie sensation Jaylen Waddle returned from the COVID-19 list to catch 10 passes for 92 yards…

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Snow, ice and unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest and the Sierra Nevada are continuing to…

By STEFANIE DAZIO, CHRISTOPHER WEBER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was killed by Los…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — A man convicted of killing four people in what authorities say was one of the most…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Keri Hulme, the New Zealander whose 1984 debut novel The Bone People won the Man Booker Prize, has died. She was 74.…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party is pressing entrepreneurs to make the country a…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria media are reporting that Israeli missiles fired from the Mediterranean struck the port of Latakia, igniting a fire in…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s Victoria and Queensland states have reported record levels of new daily coronavirus infections as pressure on testing…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has opened a key political conference to review past projects and…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A college student who authorities say was killed by a handyman at an apartment complex where they both worked died by…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a murder charge against a man suspected of killing a good Samaritan who tried to detain him after an…

CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney says a lawsuit filed against the Chicago Blackhawks by a former Michigan high school student who said he was sexually…

Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the state’s death toll from devastating tornadoes earlier this month…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO says its fighter jets were scrambled hundreds of times this year to intercept aircraft flying too close to its borders. Most…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A referendum allowing Mexicans to vote midterm on whether the president should remain in…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, authorizing…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An autopsy report says that a Black youth’s death following a physical struggle with staff at…

WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — Two children were killed and another four children were hospitalized with injuries when a car plowed into them and fled…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The U.S. flu season has arrived on schedule after taking a year off. Flu hospitalizations are rising and the…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video released Monday shows Los Angeles police firing at a man…

TROY, Mich. (AP) — Police say they believe a 23-year-old man fatally shot his twin brother and shot and wounded their father before apparently…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are cutting isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who test…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — The wingtip of a plane loaded with passengers clipped the auxiliary power unit of a parked empty aircraft nearby as it…

PARIS (AP) — The French government has announced new COVID-19 measures in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. But authorities stopped short…

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Officials in Virginia have closed a road in one neighborhood after a mother bear and three cubs were spotted napping in a…

HONOLULU (AP) — Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has purchased more land in Hawaii, including most of a reservoir that unleashed a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Artist Wayne Thiebaud, who was known for his colorful and luscious paintings of cakes, gum ball machines and other everyday…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s president has called for an end to an 11-week deadlock that has prevented the government from convening, further…

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Police say three teenagers were killed and a fourth was critically wounded when another teen opened fire inside a Dallas-area…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy warship remains in port at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, with about two…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. infectious disease expert says the nation should consider a vaccination mandate for…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan in New Orleans has given birth to a healthy male baby, but his twin brother died in…