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LONDON (AP) — Netflix says it has bought the works of Roald Dahl, the late British author of celebrated children’s books such as “Charlie and…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Netflix says it has bought the works of Roald Dahl, the late British author of celebrated children’s books such as “Charlie and…
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Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Nigeria-born designer Joy Meribe opened Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday with her debut runway…
Continue ReadingBy MARK TAKAHASHI Edmunds The fully redesigned 2022 Honda Civic will be of interest for many small-sedan shoppers. The Civic has been one of the most…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish Defense Ministry says one of its warships issued a warning to a Greek research vessel…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has ruled that border police can use ethnicity as one of the criteria…
Continue ReadingMANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says there has been an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 in the Pacific Ocean off…
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new energy ministry says it is raising the price of fuel by 16% percent. The Wednesday price hike is the second in five…
Continue ReadingBy ERIN HURD of NerdWallet Vacation home rentals are increasingly popular among travelers, especially during the pandemic. The problem for many savvy…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Seven female lawmakers from Afghanistan have arrived in Greece as part of the wider evacuation effort and are expected to…
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian police say the car of a top aide to the country’s president came under heavy gunfire, seriously wounding the…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A U.S.-based cybersecurity company says it has uncovered evidence that an Indian media…
Continue ReadingBy KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban’s newly appointed envoy to the United Nations is urging quick world…
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Continue ReadingBy WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GAUHATI, India (AP) — Indian officials have burned about 2,500 old rhino horns to spread awareness of the need…
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Milos Zeman has been released from the hospital. Zeman was admitted to Prague’s military hospital on Sept. 14 for…
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Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Facebook’s semi-independent oversight board says it will review the company’s “XCheck,” or cross check…
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Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — The eruption of a long-dormant volcano on a small Spanish island in the Atlantic Ocean forced the evacuation of more than 6,000…
Continue ReadingTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has reopened a crossing with the occupied West Bank for the first time since six prisoners tunneled out of a nearby…
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of immigrants are running in Germany’s national election on Sunday, raising the…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mostly higher after the Federal Reserve signaled it may begin easing its extraordinary…
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Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has ordered the last person seen with Kristin Smart before she vanished from…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Racism, climate change and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican official in Arizona resigned Tuesday from the board overseeing Maricopa County…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say an 87-year-old woman found dead inside a freezer in the garage of her Southern California home was a retired…
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Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER Associated Press President Joe Biden says the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world.…
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A sports association official says seven female taekwondo athletes who fled Taliban-controlled Afghanistan have…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer The Asian Development Bank has lowered its outlook for economic growth in developing Asia to reflect renewed…
Continue ReadingSAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government says its health minister has tested positive for the coronavirus in New York after Brazilian President Jair…
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A top Southern Baptist Convention committee agreed Tuesday to fund a third-party…
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — The popular mayor of the Philippine capital says he will run for president in next year’s elections, the latest…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER LOS ANGELES (AP) — The projectors are rolling. The ruby slippers are on. The shark is hanging and waiting.…
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has caused slight damage in suburban Melbourne in an unusually powerful temblor for…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Two suspects in an attack on Jewish men outside a Los Angeles restaurant last spring have been charged with a hate crime. Police…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Health care workers are exhausted and angry. Some of Idaho’s coronavirus vaccines are…
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Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ruling emir of Qatar has urged world leaders gathered at the United Nations…
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Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge in suburban Detroit threw out the murder conviction of a man who was blamed for a fire that…
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Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A second woman has accused billionaire Leon Black of rape in claims lawyers are seeking to add to a defamation lawsuit filed…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A British couple who sought justice for their 19-year-old son after he died in a vehicle crash say they have settled a civil lawsuit…
Continue ReadingBy MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the world needs to find a way to contend with its…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — Court officials say charges have been dropped in connection with the death of a spiritual leader whose mummified body was found in…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says the Taliban, Afghanistan’s new rulers since last month, have…
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN and CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writers Both China and the United States are starting new financial attacks on climate change.…
Continue ReadingPASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff’s department says it has identified the remains of a woman found nearly 44 years ago.…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Jury selection continues Wednesday in a case against a U.S. Air Force airman accused of…
Continue ReadingSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — San Jose State University has agreed to pay $1.6 million to female student athletes whose complaints about being sexually…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The electric company subsidiary that provides electricity to New Orleans is responding to calls…
Continue ReadingBy SALLY HO Associated Press South Korean President Moon Jae-in again pushed for peace and reconciliation with North Korea, amid recent missile…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Four members of Congress from New York demanded the release of inmates and the closure of New…
Continue ReadingBy PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dozens of migrants upset about being deported to Haiti from the U.S. have…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Justice Department is suing to stop American Airlines and JetBlue from coordinating their flights in the…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A federal investigation has found that the operator of a light rail train that struck the rear of another train in the Boston area in…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Increasingly under fire from its clients, the Nielsen company says it will soon incorporate homes…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top national security officials say the possibility of a 9/11-type attack has diminished over the…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A group of high school students in Massachusetts had to ride on a party bus complete with a stripper pole and neon lights during a…
Continue ReadingLAKE WORTH, Texas (AP) — One of the two pilots injured when their military training jet crashed into a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, over…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have climbed to an average of more than 1,900 a day for the first time since…
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A philanthropic organization led by rapper Jay-Z is seeking police files and other records related to officer misconduct…
Continue ReadingNEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia say they’ve charged a 15-year-old boy in a shooting that wounded two fellow students at their…
Continue ReadingBy TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping reiterated his nation’s longtime policy of multilateralism on…
Continue ReadingBy DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer AEW founder Tony Khan has put professional wrestling on notice that he has the hottest company in the business. The…
Continue ReadingSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The top US diplomat in El Salvador says she sees “a decline in democracy” the country, where President Nayib…
Continue ReadingTHREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — The ancient massive trees of Sequoia National Park’s famed Giant Forest are unscathed even though a wildfire has been…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats say they will vote on legislation this fall to curb the power of the…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is requiring all workers at San Francisco International Airport to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo…
Continue ReadingOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has lifted stays in two cases it overturned based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A section of highway in southern Germany was closed because of an incident involving an apparently armed passenger on board a bus.…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America Following reports of a positive COVID-19 case in the Oregon Capitol, legislators have been sent…
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has sought to boost struggling would-be successor Armin Laschet in…
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts mayor who was once a rising Democratic star after being elected at…
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s new president slammed U.S. sanctions imposed on his nation as a…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for R. Kelly has told a judge that the R&B singer is unlikely to take the witness stand at his sex-trafficking trial.…
Continue ReadingBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare says families and patients have a new online tool to compare COVID-19…
Continue ReadingBy CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Smoke and flames shot up the side of the Superdome’s roof after a pressure washer being…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus has forced Hollywood to adapt in countless ways to keep productions running through…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — NATO’s leader is suggesting that members need to focus on “the big picture” and…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press While there has been a decline in births in the U.S. during the pandemic, a new report suggests the drop may have…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain’s defense minister has apologized and his ministry has suspended an official after a “significant” data breach…
Continue ReadingPISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Two Rutgers players have been suspended from the football team after they were charged in an incident in which three people…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Filmmaker James DeMonaco remembers the day “Rocky III” hit theaters as if it were yesterday. On Staten Island in…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges against police who shot and killed an antifascist…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX SANZ Associated Press For weeks, the Afghanistan national girls soccer team had been waiting for word they could leave. On Sunday, the…
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