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By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s intelligence minister says Syria cannot be allowed to obtain chemical…

MILAN (AP) — Italian women are having dramatically fewer babies than ever during the pandemic, accentuating one of the world’s lowest birth…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The banking industry appears to have overdone it on overdraft fees. After decades of raking in…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan survivors of an errant U.S. drone strike that killed 10 members of their…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An unvaccinated Greek commentator and publisher has died of respiratory failure and resulting complications from COVID-19.…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A Portuguese and a Swedish company are joining forces to build in Portugal what they say will be Europe’s largest lithium…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Health Secretary Sajid Javid says the omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading so rapidly…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia as traders await the outcome of the last Federal Reserve meeting of…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Members of a new expert panel advising the German government on the coronavirus pandemic are…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Health ministry says that a Polish teenager who flew from Warsaw to China last week is continental…

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA and EVENS SANON Associated Press CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — Authorities say at least 75 people were killed and dozens more…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet When you’re trying to stay accountable and motivated while paying down debt, visual aids can offer encouragement…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced the husband of the country’s opposition leader to 18…

BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he has applied to be the next governor of…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say several windows at a mosque in the eastern German city of Leipzig were broken after dozens of people set off fireworks,…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has withdrawn his candidacy for a Senate seat in next…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Serbia is taking a significant step toward joining the European Union. Belgrade opened talks Tuesday on a series of policies linked…

MADRID (AP) — A volcano that has been spewing lava in Spain’s Canary Islands for almost three months has fallen quiet. But scientists are warning…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency has certified a 38-degree Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) reading in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk last year as…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The omicron variant is offering more hints about what it may have in store as it spreads…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s big fraud and embezzlement trial has suffered another delay. The tribunal…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — This year’s inductees into the National Film Registry include an epic Star…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s jobs market appears to have brushed aside the ending of a salary support program that…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Toyota is beefing up its electric vehicle lineup, offering 30 new fully…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police in Hungary say seven migrants have been killed and three others injured when the vehicle they were traveling in…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s leader says no high-ranking politicians from his country will attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, but he says that is…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says Turkey and Armenia will appoint special representatives to discuss steps to normalize…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian military buildup has raised fears in Ukraine and the West that Moscow could invade…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong officials have distanced themselves from the screening of a 1937 Nanking massacre video in a…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO AP National Writer WINGO, Ky. (AP) — Victoria Byerly-Zuck is one of thousands made homeless by the tornado that tore through her…

By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A coroner says an autopsy shows unusually severe brain disease in the frontal lobe of the…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — An employee of the Kentucky candle factory where eight workers were killed by a tornado…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has discharged 27 people for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, making them…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin is signaling anew that he’s still not ready to back his party’s $2 trillion…

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — Administrators in a Michigan school district where four students were…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The former director of a South Dakota appraiser agency told lawmakers Tuesday that Gov.…

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A police official says the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and…

By MATÍAS DELACROIX and PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press COLCHANE, Chile (AP) — A merciless sun sears the migrants as they walk through one of the…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A key witness in the Navy’s case against a sailor accused of setting the fire that destroyed a…

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — “19 Kids and Counting” father Jim Bob Duggar has lost his bid for the Arkansas Legislature. Tuesday’s…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has marked its deadliest day of the pandemic as an unrelenting,…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority could come before the courts in Argentina at about the same time that…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Matthew Stafford threw for 287 yards and three touchdowns, Cooper Kupp and Odell Beckham…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has lifted a tsunami alert following a magnitude 7.3 undersea earthquake that…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police killed at least 11 people during protests that broke out in September of…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia says it plans to start making mRNA vaccines at home with a new plant that could produce up to 100 million…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States will expand its…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL is requiring coaches, front-office staff and team personnel to receive a COVID-19 booster by Dec. 27.…

TORONTO (AP) — Marineland has been charged for allegedly using dolphins and whales for entertainment purposes, an accusation the tourist attraction…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hard Rock International said Monday it wants to see how a guitar-shaped hotel will play at the…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Kids at Rio de Janeiro’s City of God favela are learning how to…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — It’s been 10 years since Kim Jong Un took power in North Korea after his father…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL is requiring players, coaches and other team personnel to receive a COVID-19 booster by Dec. 27. In a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that Moscow will insist on Western guarantees…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A group of lawmakers say proposed British rules aimed at cracking down on harmful online content…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The head of a teachers union says a fundraising event that featured teachers on their hands and knees fetching dollar…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York state judge has been convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making a false statement to a federal agent.…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Court authorities in northern Greece have jailed three people pending trial over an attack on a high school principal…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has heard testimony and watched a gruesome crime scene video during a…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Ronald Greene’s mother chastised Louisiana state lawmakers Monday for not acting quickly…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case have reached a tentative settlement…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — The English Premier League has reported its highest weekly coronavirus infections as Manchester…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is bringing back a statewide indoor mask mandate. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has discharged 27 people for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, making them…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama prison system, already understaffed and facing a federal court order to boost…

By MATT O’BRIEN and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press EDWARDSVILLE, Il. (AP) — The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration said…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishing industry managers are recommending the already-diminished U.S. cod fishery face another reduction in catch limits.…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO WINGO, Ky. (AP) — Victims of the deadly tornadoes in the Midwest and South scoured the debris of what was once their homes,…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian political and military leaders have apologized to victims of military sexual misconduct. Streamed online from…

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee have reached a $380 million settlement with hundreds of…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada boxing regulators have voted to close a legal loophole by giving themselves authority over…

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — State parks officials say a car that was stuck partly submerged near the brink of Niagara Falls after a daring rescue…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights body will hold a special session Friday to discuss the “grave human rights situation” in Ethiopia…

By SARAH RANKIN and ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The information technology agency that serves Virginia’s legislature has…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has rejected an attempt by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s attorneys…

LONDON (AP) — Virgin Atlantic has received 400 million pounds ($530 million) of new funding from its shareholders to help the airline ride out the…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago City Council is expected to approve a $2.9 million settlement to a woman who was…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Researchers who study the environment and public health say that thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has refused to halt a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin appears to be on the verge of pleading guilty to…

By DYLAN LOVAN and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A clearer picture is emerging of some of the dozens of victims killed by tornadoes that ripped through…

LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors say an American citizen who left Britain after being involved in a crash that killed a teenage motorcyclist is to…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Former NFL player Josh Bellamy has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining over…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Shatner is well-known for his “Star Trek” role as Capt. Kirk. But even the actor…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials say no U.S. troops involved in the August drone strike that killed…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin is signaling anew Monday that he’s still not ready to back his party’s $2…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press is seeking answers from the Department of Homeland Security on its use of…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has agreed to meet with the commission that published a ground-breaking report into…