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By STAN CHOE and CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Inflation is painfully high, but this hopefully is close to as bad as it gets.…

BOSTON (AP) — Artifacts once owned by Paul Revere’s family have been sold at auction for $20,000. The Boston Globe reports that the items were…

PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says the country has opened 400 investigations into networks providing fake COVID-19 health passes.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that Britain faces a “tidal wave” of infections from the…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Search efforts at an Amazon facility in Illinois where at least six people were killed in a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Despite critical acclaim and two years-worth of anticipation, Steven Spielberg’s lavish “West Side…

PRAGUE (AP) — Several thousand people have marched through the Czech capital to protest a vaccination mandate for certain groups including people…

MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich midfielder Joshua Kimmich has told German TV that he will get vaccinated against the coronavirus after his earlier…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A photo from a tornado-damaged home in Kentucky landed almost 130 miles away in Indiana. Katie Posten lives in New…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Heavy snowfall has covered Serbian capital Belgrade and much of the Balkans. The bad weather has hampered traffic and…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state news agency says two Palestinians died when gunfire broke out during the funeral of a Hamas member killed in…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran anchor Chris Wallace has left Fox News after 18 years for CNN. His announcement Sunday…

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A spike in violence has deepened hunger and poverty in Haiti while…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has offered prayers for Ukraine and he urged dialogue and not weapons as Russia masses tens of thousands of troops…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The investigation into the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi nearly 70…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press ELLIOTT, Iowa (AP) — A coalition of California restaurants and grocery stores has filed a lawsuit to block…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers are preparing to hear from a former state employee at the center…

MADRID (AP) — A volcanic eruption in Spain’s Canary Islands shows no sign of ending after 85 days. It became the island of La Palma’s longest…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In Florida, for the first time in modern history, registered Republican voters…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli parliamentary committee has voted to stop providing personal security details to former prime minister Benjamin…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — The Group of Seven economic powers have told Russia  to “de-escalate” its military…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austria has ended lockdown restrictions for vaccinated people across most of the country.…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stressed that Europe won’t tolerate attempts at…

MILAN (AP) — Firefighters in Sicily are digging through rubble in the search for missing people after an explosion apparently caused by a gas leak…

By CHARLOTTE ANTOINE-PERRON Associated Press NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — Voters in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia voted…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gothic novelist Anne Rice has died due to complications from a stroke. Rice’s son Christopher…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has made a historic trip to the United Arab Emirates,…

By KATIE TAM and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — More than a thousand men and women plunged into the cool water of Hong Kong’s…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Event organizers say the Foo Fighters rock band has called off its concert at the Formula One race in Abu Dhabi…

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — As most European nations impose new restrictions to curb the omicron variant,…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Eight people are confirmed dead at a Kentucky candle factory that was hit…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press The Western U.S. is bracing for the brunt of a major winter storm expected to hit Monday, bringing travel…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Unusually warm temperatures and a storm system moving east linked to the…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to empower private citizens to enforce a ban on…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alabama’s Bryce Young won the Heisman Trophy, beating out Michigan defensive end…

COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — A woman has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing more than $300,000 in merchandise from retail stores in…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, a civil rights activist in Alabama and New York City, has died. He was 96. His daughter, Patrice…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky residents affected by a monstrous twister are grappling with its force and…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed remained with his family in northern…

By SALLY HO Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An avalanche has swept through a ski area in Washington state, killing a 60-year-old man and…

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ruled that all travelers arriving in Brazil…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Grammy-winning musician Pharrell Williams told the newest graduates of Norfolk State University to act like “the emerging…

CANTON, Mass. (AP) — Artifacts once owned by Paul Revere’s family are up for auction. The items were found in the attic of a home in Canton,…

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida have arrested a 29-year-old man on manslaughter charges in connection to the death of an older man whose…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge has decided that the assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin a prop gun that killed a cinematographer on a New…

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatís Jr. suffered scrapes on a knee and his hands in a fall in the…

By BARBARA SURK and CHRISTOPHE ENA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — In her first address as a French conservative presidential candidate, Valérie…

CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a 14-year-old boy fatally shot by a Chicago police officer more than seven years ago has reached a $1.2 million…

LONDON (AP) — British police say a man has been shot dead during a confrontation with firearms officers near the Kensington Palace royal residence…

CHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) — Party delegates from Germany’s center-left Social Democrats, the senior partner in the country’s new coalition…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Alicia Keys hasn’t felt completely free for much of her career. And while that may sound…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia have discovered 41 migrants, including five children, in a routine police check on a main…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is drawing attention to a problem that the Vatican has long sought to downplay: the…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty…

HELSINKI (AP) — A fire-ravaged German-owned cargo vessel has been towed to port in the western Swedish city of Goteborg after a week-long blaze…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Environmental protesters have blocked roads in Serbia for a third consecutive weekend to oppose plans for lithium mining.…

PARIS (AP) — First, a steady crawl. Then a short clumsy slide across the slick stone floor at their home at the Beauval Zoo south of Paris. Then…

By JACK JEFFERY RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians are finally taking part in municipal elections across the occupied West Bank following…

LONDON (AP) — British scientists are warning that the government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the omicron…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s decision to forego a third term has sparked a scramble among…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Police in Croatia say they found the body of a 10-year-old Turkish girl who was swept away while her family tried to cross a…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press For many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, self-incriminating messages, photos and videos that…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After prosecutors spent nearly a day reconstructing the moments after a…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s La Scala has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks. At least one of the four…

PARIS (AP) — Authorities in France want to accelerate vaccinations against the coronavirus before Christmas as infections surge and more people…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Palestinian Hamas group says that explosions that shook a refugee camp in southern Lebanon were…

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people have lined up in the English city of Bristol to get the latest work by elusive street artist Banksy. It’s a…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president has given a mandate to form a new government to the prime minister-designate of a centrist party that…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer NFL great Michael Strahan has rocketed into space on a Jeff Bezos rocket. The Amazon founder’s space company…

By JILL LAWLESS and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven nations were meeting in Liverpool…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press LAJKOVAC, Serbia (AP) — A Cuban couple and their daughter have resettled in a small Serbian town after fleeing Cuba…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen attacked two police providing security for polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan, shooting…

By RISHI LEKHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are clearing protest sites along the capital’s fringes and…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Health experts still don’t know if the omicron variant is causing milder COVID-19, but…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fellow Kansans have celebrated Bob Dole as a tough but compassionate patriot shaped by…

By SONIA PEREZ D. and MANUEL DE LA CRUZ Associated Press CHEPOL, Guatemala (AP) — Anxiety is high in Guatemala amid uncertainty about loved ones…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Masayuki Uemura, a Japanese home computer game pioneer whose Nintendo consoles sold millions of…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Southern California man who sold $1.1 million in forged art has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. Prosecutors say…

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — In a story published December 11, 2021, about deadly tornadoes hitting several states, The Associated Press erroneously…

By CHARLOTTE ANTOINE-PERRON Associated Press NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — Voters in the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia are set to…

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Sequoia National Park is reopening its Giant Forest area, three months after extraordinary efforts saved the…

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — For at least two days, residents of a Denver suburb worried a black cat named Panther who somehow got himself stranded atop a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say a U.S. Navy commander has been fired from his job as the executive officer of…

DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A California man has been arrested on suspicion of rear-ending a school bus and then plowing his Cadillac into a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…