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By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The leaders of Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia have met in Tirana to discuss and agree…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Tradition dictates that Venezuelans wear brand new clothes on Christmas and New…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has launched a load of Christmas gifts and supplies to the International…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Denzel Washington the actor has some 60 films under his belt, plus two Oscars, and at 66 is universally regarded…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African judge has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can appeal a court…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL’s decision to reduce COVID-19 testing for asymptomatic, vaccinated players could signal a trend for…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain has announced $1.3 billion in grants and other aid to help the hospitality industry survive…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian president has reiterated the demand for guarantees from the U.S. and its allies that…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Hundreds of far-right protesters have gathered in Romania’s capital to oppose a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The ruler of Dubai has been ordered to pay his ex-wife and their children close to 550 million…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has recorded its biggest jump in daily coronavirus…

By COLIN BERESFORD of NerdWallet Building credit from scratch when you’re young can feel overwhelming; it’s no wonder that nearly 40% of…

By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON and PATRICK QUINN Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Thailand has decided to immediately reimpose a mandatory…

BERLIN (AP) — Franziska Giffey has become Berlin’s new mayor as the leader of a three-party left-wing governing coalition. She is a former…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A United Nations official says more than 160 migrants drowned in two separate shipwrecks off Libya over…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant says it has applied for approval from safety…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military has tested a home-grown Babur cruise missile that has a range of more than 900 kilometers (560 miles),…

PARIS (AP) — The French army says it has “neutralized” a regional Islamic State group leader wanted in connection with the killing of seven aid…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s former military intelligence chief says that Israel was involved in the American airstrike that killed Iranian Gen.…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has hanged three death-row inmates amid growing criticism from human rights groups of its use…

BEIJING (AP) — China has announced sanctions on four members of the U.S. government’s Commission on International Religious Freedom in…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has fired cruise missiles during a major military exercise across the country’s…

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish lira is making significant gains after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have marched through the streets of the Afghan capital toward the shuttered U.S. Embassy, calling…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The high-profile trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes boils down to a…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has announced new restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the new omicron variant of COVID-19. The new rules, which go…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press MONTGENEVRE, France (AP) — As Europe erects ever more fearsome barriers against migration, volunteers along the…

By SARAH EL DEEB and CHRISTOPH NOELTING Associated Press GIESSEN, Germany (AP) — Syrians are fleeing their country in growing numbers, driven not…

By FRANCISCO UBILLA Associated Press PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — When the Polish Olympic athlete Jolanta Ogar-Hill and her wife decided to have…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets hvae followed Wall Street higher after President Joe Biden reassured…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand will shorten the gap between second COVID-19 vaccine doses and boosters and push back the phased…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The suspect in a deadly fire at a mental health clinic in Osaka last week might have studied a…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is reporting that its top diplomat to Yemen has died after contracting the…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The governor of a central Philippine province devastated last week by Typhoon Rai has…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden appears determined to return to the negotiating table…

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer ROTTERDAM JUNCTION, N.Y. (AP) — After nursing homes filled up with COVID cases and shut out visitors, some…

By JOSH BOAK, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced plans to deliver 500…

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer ROTTERDAM JUNCTION, N.Y. (AP) — After nursing homes filled up with COVID cases and shut out visitors, some…

By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota jury has ended its second day of deliberations without reaching a…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott isn’t saying whether he will posthumously pardon George Floyd for a…

SYDNEY (AP) — New COVID-19 cases in Australia’s most populous state have surged past 3,000 for the first time, adding pressure on Prime Minister…

By DAVID dos SANTOS GUSMAO Associated Press OECUSSE, East Timor (AP) — A defrocked American priest accused of sexually abusing orphaned and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A New Jersey man who posed as a former New England Patriots player in order to buy and sell Super Bowl rings that he claimed…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long-serving California Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard — the first Mexican-American woman elected to Congress — will not seek…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — State regulators who three years ago issued an air quality permit for a proposed copper-nickel mine in northwestern…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor has received a complaint seeking the removal of Milwaukee County’s district attorney because one his…

The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are warning mortgage servicers and landlords to heed rules meant to protect…

PHOENIX (AP) — A month after his acquittal on murder charges, Kyle Rittenhouse was given a standing ovation at a conservative group’s conference…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Noth will no longer be part of the CBS series “The Equalizer” in the wake of sexual assault allegations against the…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s DA has pushed back on the mayor’s call for increased policing to battle…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A bill that would give tax relief to Atlantic City’s casinos is being considered by New…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge in Missouri has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting a COVID-19…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania has rebuffed a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick,…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has introduced a new member of the family. It’s a purebred…

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A worker injured in the destruction of a Kentucky candle factory hit by a tornado has died. That brings the total killed in…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in…

PETROLIA, Calif. (AP) — A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has struck a rural stretch of Northern California’s coast. The U.S. Geological Survey says…

KINGSLAND, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency on Monday granted a license for a launchpad that would fly commercial rockets from coastal Georgia. The…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California prosecutors say retail giant Walmart illegally dumps more 1 million…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writers The new omicron variant took only a few weeks to live up to dire predictions about how…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Just a couple of weeks ago, New York City seemed like a relative bright spot in…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer At the start of the pandemic, the need for the food Jaron Barganier’s nonprofit, Be a Champion, provides to kids…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say one of five Russian nationals accused of making tens of millions of dollars by…

SANTA CATARINA IXTAHUACAN, Guatemala (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators laid coffins on a platform to block a highway in Guatemala to protest the…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Premier League clubs have decided against pausing the season despite 10 fixtures being…

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jurors deliberating at former Minnesota police officer Kim…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen says it has launched “precision…

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor is facing felony charges in South Florida after failing to…

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has decided not to spend Christmas at the royal Sandringham estate in eastern England amid concerns about the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Leonardo DiCaprio has been an outspoken environmental advocate for as long as he’s been famous but the topic has…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy says she will not seek reelection next year. The Florida Democrat is a leader of the centrist Blue…

By The Associated Press China was one of the biggest stories of 2021. Top stories included its plans to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in the face of…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s governor-elect announced his first Cabinet secretary pick, the state’s next education secretary. Gov.-elect…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors have tried to prove that a white suburban Minneapolis police officer, Kim…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — U.S. moguls skier Kai Owens was abandoned at a town square in a province of China as an infant. Taken…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a 58-foot-long (18-meter) pedestrian bridge stolen from an Ohio city last month has been found and a man is…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is advising American citizens not to travel to Ukraine, citing “increased threats” from Russia amid its…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The $10 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is about to take flight.…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has revealed he received a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine,…

By LAETITIA BEZAIN Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A cargo ship illegally carrying 130 passengers sank off Madagascar’s…

The Associated Press The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center says tornadoes and thunderstorms that struck the Great Plains and upper…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A newly released report finds prosecutors’ handling of the initial case against former…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show seven people whose bodies were discovered…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the upcoming hate crimes trial of the three white men…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning that extremism in the ranks is increasing, Pentagon officials are issuing detailed…

ATLANTA (AP) — A senator from Georgia is welcoming his first child. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff said on social media Monday that his wife, Dr. Alisha…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A line of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes that swept across the north-central U.S.…

By The Associated Press After 2020 became a year of racial reckoning with the public killing of George Floyd and the protests of injustices against…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó should be recognized…

By JUSTIN KATUMWA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Authorities say at least four people are dead after a protest turned violent in Goma, the…

By The Associated Press Myanmar had another rough year in 2021. The government was unseated by the army on Feb. 1, the day Aung San Suu Kyi’s…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump sued New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, seeking…