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By ARMANDO SOLÍS Associated Press NUEVO URECHO, Mexico (AP) — Extortion of avocado growers in western Mexico has gotten so bad that 500 vigilantes…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a shooting in a Tennessee apartment has left three people dead and four others wounded. A suspect was among…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America Residents in Washington are preparing for possible flooding as “atmospheric rivers” once again…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban prime minister is defending the group’s rule amid a worsening economic crisis. In his first…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police in Washington state are investigating a shooting at a shopping mall that left one person seriously wounded and sent…

DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A security guard has died after he was shot while protecting a San Francisco Bay Area…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than $1.4 million has been raised for a man who spent 43 years behind bars before a judge overturned his conviction in…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has ordered five people to remain in pre-trial detention for two months pending…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says he hopes that the sight of air force planes transferring patients across the country will act as a…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Miloš Zeman has been discharged from the capital’s military hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus.…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Bob Dylan has been telling stories through songs for 60 years. But recently America’s master…

By ALICIA LEON and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Tens of thousands of Spanish police officers and their supporters have marched in…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say they have arrested 15 people suspected of smuggling Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants into the country…

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city’s request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Skirmishes have erupted in Serbia between police and anti-government demonstrators who briefly blocked roads and bridges in…

Italy is reopening its slopes to recreational skiers after one season lost and another abbreviated by the pandemic. Here is a glance at how the…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press CASS LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Several members of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in northern Minnesota are…

By LORI HINNANT and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — Migrant smuggling networks organizing English Channel crossings have reaped…

By ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — California and Colorado this year banned state agencies from using the…

By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s Interior Ministry says a man who attempted to attack security officials in…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is soaring, businesses are struggling to hire and President Joe Biden’s poll numbers…

By COLLEEN BARRY and CHARLENE PELE Associated Press SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Italy (AP) — After a season of being restricted to watching snow…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Security forces have fired tear gas at protesters throwing rocks in Burkina…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal investigators say an oil tanker hit an oil platform at night off Louisiana…

By ELODIE SOUPAMA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — France’s government is offering to discuss greater autonomy…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been on a PR blitz promoting his new book. In…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs a year ago are…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s annual Golden Horse Awards kicked off Saturday with a Hong Kong drama receiving the most nominations for the Asian…

LONDON (AP) — At least three people have died in the U.K. after the year’s first winter storm battered parts of the countries with gusts of…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerians are voting Saturday to elect their mayors and regional leaders amid widespread worry and frustration over rising…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government has asked Starlink Internet Services of Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company to comply with the…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus has popped up in more European…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands police have found three bodies in a burned-out building and arrested more than 100 people in this…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s new law on working from home has grabbed attention around the world for the…

By COLLEEN LONG and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Demands by Democrats to fix the nation’s broken immigration system were…

BEIJING (AP) — Macao police have detained the head of Macao’s biggest casino junket organizer and others after Chinese authorities issued an…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread across the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, at his first troop review, has renewed his pledge to…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say shots were fired near a food court at a shopping mall in Tacoma, Washington. Pierce County Sheriff’s Sgt.…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The widow of South Korea’s last military dictator has issued a brief apology over…

HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu city worker has died after being trapped in a tank at a sewage treatment plant. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched airstrikes targeting the country’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The president of the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances says there is an “almost total, structural” lack of…

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

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden is back at his rental home on the Massachusetts island of…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from saxophone legend Kenny G, a documentary about the 12 young…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim had to endure a public fuss when a…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. and JONATHAN DREW Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A police chief says three people were shot and wounded Friday during an…

NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) — Authorities say a man eating Thanksgiving dinner inside a home in the Philadelphia suburbs was killed by a stray…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization is postponing its conference set to open Tuesday after Switzerland…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Police and media reports say an unknown gunman has opened fire on a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has designated the armed groups blamed for hundreds of abductions and killings in…

BOSTON (AP) — One of the first coins minted in Colonial New England has sold at auction for more than $350,000, more than it was expected to get.…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press The brother of a British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein exploit underage girls says her prosecution…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Golf, cricket and rugby have become the first major sports to be affected by the…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s government has launched measures to discourage foreign travel as a way to protect the country’s thin…

By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Minnesota’s Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is calling on House leaders to take “appropriate…

PARIS (AP) — The archbishop of Paris has offered to resign after admitting to having had an “ambiguous” relationship with a woman in 2012. The…

EDMAR BARROS, SILAS LAURENTINO and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press ON THE RIO MADEIRA, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of barges of illegal gold miners are…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nineteen people are dead and 32 more are injured after a bus apparently carrying pilgrims to a religious site in central Mexico…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials struggling to distribute federal funds to prevent evictions have outlined…

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Flood watches were issued for much of western Washington as storms associated with multiple “atmospheric rivers”…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer Bayern Munich’s annual general meeting ended in tumult with members yelling and booing the club’s directors for…

By MARIA CHENG and HALELUYA HADERO A coronavirus variant recently identified in South Africa is leading to a new round of travel restrictions just as…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union nations have agreed to impose a ban on travel from southern Africa to counter the spread of a new COVID-19…

By CHRISTIANA SCIAUDONE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A growing movement in Argentina is fighting the persistent myth that there…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has recommended an overhaul of the nation’s oil and gas leasing…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Appellate arguments over a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s abortion law have been…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you get a sense of déjà vu when you see actor Chris Diamantopoulos on screen, but…

HAYDEN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities are trying to figure out how hundreds of FedEx packages ended up dumped in the woods in Alabama. The Blount County…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The United States and six other nations are calling on the international community to suspend all…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian cargo craft carrying a new docking module has successfully hooked up with the International Space Station after a two-day…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Online videos show police firing tear gas and fighting protesters with batons in a central Iranian city that has…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans museum plans to launch an elaborate nighttime sound-and-light show next year to showcase individual stories of…

PARIS (AP) — French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says shots were fired overnight at security forces and journalists on the French Caribbean…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is warning Russia that any attempt to invade Ukraine would…

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Two Auburn University students have won the $1 million first-place prize in a fishing tournament. The event was the Bass Pro…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — For many Hondurans, Sunday’s election will be about…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A new pledge to match half the contributions for a $1 million expansion at a wildlife rescue…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland isn’t planning any new lockdowns or other restrictions despite skyrocketing…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A state-affiliated broadcaster has purported to show Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country star Miranda Lambert readily admits that she doesn’t really like…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer U.S. health officials say Merck’s experimental COVID-19 pill is effective but they raised questions about…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s defense ministry says 487 migrants, including 93 children, have been rescued off the North African country’s…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press CAMDEN, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina sees the upcoming 250th anniversary of the American Revolution as a chance…

By YURAS KARMANAU The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is alleging that his country’s intelligence…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it will ease its restrictions on exporting COVID-19 vaccines. The…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, has resumed exports of…

ANDREW WILKS ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court has extended the imprisonment of philanthropist Osman Kavala, whose case caused a diplomatic crisis…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan didn’t end with the departure of…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has issued a new order aiming to restrict media reporting of the…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says that Interpol’s new president, like all officials at the international law enforcement body, must act in…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic have jumped to a new record high in a surge that hit…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. envoy to Sudan says a deal struck to reinstate the country’s civilian prime minister…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for talks,…

By MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — Nations across Europe are taking new measures in an attempt to keep a COVID-19…

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi says a bilateral treaty signed with French President Emmanuel Macron to deepen bilateral cooperation will…