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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A former member of the Islamic State group has been convicted by a German court of genocide and…

By LEE KEATH Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Human Rights Watch says that Afghanistan’s Taliban fighters have killed or forcibly…

By RAF CASERT and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press Brazil and Japan joined the rapidly widening circle of countries to report cases of the omicron…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish officials say a fire in part of a building occupied by squatters in central Barcelona has…

By SYLVIE CORBET and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has inducted U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis is heading back to the Greek island of Lesbos to meet…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Olivia Rodrigo, H.E.R and The Weeknd have all won honors at a revamped Apple Music Awards,…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid nervous trading due to worries over the newest coronavirus variant.…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran is striking a hard line after just one day of restarted talks in Vienna over its…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has confirmed its first case of the new omicron coronavirus variant, a Namibian diplomat who…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Crown Prince Akishino, the emperor’s younger brother, has complained about harsh…

By ISABEL DEBRE and MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai has spent over $7 billion as the first host of the…

By ISABEL DEBRE and MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai has spent over $7 billion as the first host of the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — City Council member Andre Dickens has won the runoff to become Atlanta’s next mayor. Dickens on…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California corrections officials have begun limiting medical parole only to inmates so…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MARTHA IRVINE Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Next to a North Texas day care center is a site where Total Energies…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Elena Ferrante adaptation “The Lost Daughter” won four Gotham Awards…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MARTHA IRVINE Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Next to a North Texas day care center is a site where Total Energies…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles County coroner has identified the victims in the brutal slaying of a…

By DON BABWIN and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A lead investigator of an alleged attack on Jussie Smollett says two brothers…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers will try to persuade a federal appeals court to…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is imploring House Republican leaders to do more to tamp…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Barbados has stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II as it shed another…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — If Xiomara Castro’s wide lead in Honduras’ presidential election holds,…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney for the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico say gunmen pulled up in a boat and shot a man to death on a popular beach in the Pacific coast resort of…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have searched the home of rocker Marilyn Manson after allegations of…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s conservative opposition party has chosen former businessman and…

BEIJING (AP) — A survey shows China’s manufacturing activity rebounded in November as orders improved and power shortages eased. An industry…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has postponed its verdict in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer LSU is hiring Brian Kelly away from Notre Dame. It is a stunning move by one of the most accomplished…

BEIJING (AP) — China has pledged to donate 600 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccines to Africa as the world grapples with the unequal distribution…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Enforcement began in Los Angeles for one of the strictest vaccine mandates in the country.…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tiger Woods is hopeful of playing again. Just not very much. And he says reaching the top of…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes on Monday cast herself as the abused puppet…

By EDMAR BARROS and DEBORA ALVARES Associated Press BORBA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian police say they have burned 131 boats used by gold miners in the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, is taking a four-week sabbatical…

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations has expressed concerns over the forced closure of a Libya appeals court that is meant to decide whether the son of…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative congresswoman Lauren Boebert has spoken by phone with congresswoman Ilhan Omar…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arlene Dahl, the actor whose charm and striking red hair shone in such Technicolor…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The legal saga surrounding Jussie Smollett’s claim in 2019 that he was the target of a…

LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency says U.K. spies must give up some of their deep-rooted secrecy and seek help…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The Treasury Department says several states and cities have exhausted their federal rental assistance in a sign…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (PUH-rag AH-gur-wahl) has emerged from behind the scenes to take over…

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police say a pizza delivery driver died after a porch collapsed while he was making a delivery in eastern Indiana.…

By JULIET WILLIAMS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she wants to reverse planned cuts to police funding and…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have added a sixth homicide count against a Wisconsin man accused of driving his SUV through a Christmas parade…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man accused of raping a woman on a commuter train outside Philadelphia while other passengers were present has been ordered…

HALLSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Investigators say a hunter accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old daughter while they were hunting near their East…

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host Alex Jones is trying to get his free speech defense and other claims before a jury to argue that he is not…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer In the past 10 years, charities have made splashy fundraising appeals and raked in billions in donations on…

CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was asked to leave a college football watch party in Oklahoma after making unwanted sexual…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Finding the fossils of a large duck-billed dinosaur in southern Missouri is exciting enough, but a paleontologist who…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell took a sharp and unexpected turn Tuesday toward…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A lawyer for an Atlanta-area sheriff argued that the sheriff’s use of a restraint chair…

HAYDEN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say they have questioned a FedEx driver after hundreds of packages were recently found in a wooded area north of…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys are set to begin sifting through potential jurors for the trial of a suburban…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away an emergency appeal from employees at the largest hospital system in Massachusetts who object…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press An actor charged with storming the Capitol as a member of the Oath Keepers nearly talked his way into remaining…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, will be held based on…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii couple accused of killing their 6-year-old adoptive daughter a month before…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has rejected a request by Oklahoma Gov.…

By MARLON GONZALEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the wife of ousted former president Mel Zelaya, has…

By KELLI KENNEDY and CODY JACKSON Associated Press MIAMI BEACH (AP) — As the tourism industry bounces back from COVID-19, Miami is one of the top…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am says politics don’t dictate his actions, with pressure from…

PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says France will double the number of officers in charge of fighting smugglers after 27 people died…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria has hosted the first international basketball tournament on its soil in at least two…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say that after months of study, the Pentagon has decided no immediate major…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection will vote Wednesday to…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Regional authorities in Portugal’s Madeira Islands have expanded a protected marine area to create what they said is the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Transcripts released Monday shed new light on how CNN anchor Chris Cuomo…

BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a former University of Alabama track star and Olympian was killed in a shootout with another man. AL.com…

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Localized flooding in Washington state from another in a series of rainstorms doesn’t appear to be as severe as when…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean island of Barbados is preparing to wave goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — Opinions are flying about a cardboard Christmas tree display on the boardwalk of a Jersey…

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have detected a rare species of whale southeast of New York City, and the federal government is using a voluntary…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The FBI says Dayton mass shooter Connor Betts fantasized about mass…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Carrie Meek is being remembered as a trailblazer, a descendent of a slave who became…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer Golf pioneer Lee Elder has died at the age of 87. Elder broke down racial barriers as the first Black golfer to…

FAIRFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Two southeastern Iowa teenagers have pleaded not guilty to killing their high school Spanish teacher. Sixteen-year-olds…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Bryan Adams took a break Monday from his coronavirus quarantine in Milan to virtually unveil the…

DETROIT (AP) — An American journalist who was recently freed after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar helped light one of…

MOSCOW (AP) — The developer of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine says it will work on adapting it to the new omicron COVID-19 variant. The Gamaleya…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are spending freely and going back to store shopping, knocking out some of…

By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world’s desperate and likely…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks with the governors of Germany’s 16 states amid growing…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African doctors say the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases attributed to the new omicron…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s leader says she will renew her push for independence from the United Kingdom next year…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate whose execution by lethal injection was halted nearly four years ago has died after a long fight with…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say four children including an infant and their grandmother have been found…

CAIRO (AP) — A leading Egyptian human rights activist has been convicted of insulting a judicial election commission and fined about $640.…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, MICHELLE CHAPMAN and TALI ARBEL AP Business Writers Jack Dorsey is leaving his post as Twitter’s chief executive. It’s…

By ARNO PEDRAM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France’s Pantheon. That…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most acclaimed Indigenous actor, David Gulpilil, has died of lung cancer,…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling in the bitter custody battle surrounding a 6-year-old boy who survived a…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has accused Lithuanian authorities of dumping the…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 21-year-old Kansas lawmaker has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving — his second arrest in less than a month.…

ISTANBUL (AP) — A powerful storm has pounded Istanbul and other parts of Turkey, killing at least four people and causing havoc in the city of 15…