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By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Family members of Brazilian soccer great Pelé are gathering at the Albert Einstein hospital…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily banned San Francisco from clearing homeless encampments, saying the city is violating its own…

The Associated Press A blizzard warning was in effect until the middle of Christmas Day in western Montana along the eastern side of the Rocky…

EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s President William Ruto has expressed concern over the fighting in neighboring…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Trumpets and snares will play Brazil’s national anthem at Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A third case of a defendant who was arrested by an elections police unit created by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a…

By TERRY CHEA Associated Press The U.S. military agency known for tracking Santa Claus as he delivers presents on Christmas Eve doesn’t expect…

By MORGAN LEE and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — After fleeing violence in their Guatemalan town, but with…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Federal proposals that would have significantly boosted security funding for election…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Josh Shapiro will be taking office as Pennsylvania’s next governor in January after running…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — For Miguel Zadquiel, the secret to staying in step as he dances at the front of the…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban government on Saturday ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A truck carrying liquified petroleum gas has exploded in the South African town of…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shells pummeled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 55 in the…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader says China has agreed to a reopening of the city’s border with the mainland, which has been largely closed…

By MAYA ALLERUZZO, JALAL BWAITEL and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The biblical town of Bethlehem marked a merry…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Members of France’s Kurdish community and anti-racism activists joined…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani president’s office has announced that the country’s criminal law has been amended to repeal a colonial-era…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ Orthodox Church has elected Paphos Bishop Georgios as its new leader.…

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — Tunisia’s increasingly authoritarian president appears determined to upend the country’s…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Members of India’s main opposition Congress party and thousands of…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Just a year ago, Sophia Square in Kyiv was all about the big Christmas tree and thousands…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say 22 people died in a fire at a private shelter in the Siberian city of Kemerovo that was operating illegally.…

By SEBABATSO MOSAMO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Christmas lights twinkle, holiday music plays and Johannesburg’s…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Confessed serial killer Charles Sobhraj has arrived in France after being…

BEIJING (AP) — China has blasted an annual U.S. defense spending bill for hyping up the “China threat” while Taiwan welcomed the legislation,…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A frigid winter storm killed at least 18 people as it swept across the…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BAZHOU, China (AP) — As China grapples with its first-ever national COVID-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BAZHOU, China (AP) — Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities say iIlegal border crossings by Cubans and Nicaraguans rose sharply in November…

By ABBIE PARR and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — A teenager was killed during a shooting at the Mall of America on…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Striking graduate students at the University of California have approved a bargaining agreement, ending a 40-day strike that…

NEW YORK (AP) — It took less than a day for the Jan. 6 report to go from public unveiling to the bestseller list on Amazon.com. By late Friday,…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Sitiveni Rabuka has been sworn in as Fiji’s prime minister, capping a tense week in a fragile Pacific democracy where…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has granted 10 pardons, including for several people convicted of drug crimes more than 20…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The federal government will put $600 million toward repairing the troubled water…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A judge has ordered Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to take a paternity test as part of a legal…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The son of a renowned American painter has been convicted of four counts of participating in the…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will overhaul packaging labels for the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive final report released by the House Jan. 6 committee late Thursday places the…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino giant Caesars Entertainment is offering what may be the most extravagant guest package for next year’s highly anticipated…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a courtroom that turned chaotic after a trial that seethed with tension, a Los…

NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple people have been fatally poisoned with narcotics in what investigators say were schemes by criminal crews to incapacitate…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, visited Children’s National…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Thousands of travelers have been stranded at airports or stuck on hold trying to rebook flights this week as a…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami on Friday rejected attempts by a close ally of Venezuelan President…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Supreme Court has reinstated two aggravated murder convictions for a man in the 1987 killings of a young…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal agents took a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol into…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say in a new report that they found “substantial evidence” of Rwandan…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Access to health care for Native Americans across the U.S. will be bolstered with…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is expanding the state’s National Guard mission to…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Congress on Friday gave final passage to legislation changing the arcane law that governs the certification of…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has thrown out Republican Abraham Hamadeh’s challenge of election results in his race…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. federal lawmakers have changed 19th-century maritime liability rules for accident…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The pope’s vicar for Rome called Friday for the full truth to come out about a famous Jesuit…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The operator of a pipeline that spilled about 14,000 barrels of heavy crude oil into a…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Flu is decreasing in many parts of the country after an alarmingly early and strong start to the…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press President Joe Biden signed a large defense bill on Friday that includes a water bill that directs the Army Corps…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska judge has ruled that a state lawmaker with ties to the far-right Oath Keepers group is eligible to hold office.…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The seemingly limitless range of Hong Chau is on display in three films this year, in roles so…

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A trial has been delayed for the former leader of a Mississippi grain storage and processing company who is accused of tens…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight U.S. military bases that housed tens of thousands of Afghan refugees after they were…

TORONTO (AP) — A major winter storm hitting Ontario and Quebec has caused widespread flight cancellations and school closures, and has knocked out…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — As Belkis Fajardo, 69, walks through the dense streets of downtown Havana with a small bag of…

By NARDOS HAILE and KARENA PHAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Megan Thee Stallion is a three-time Grammy winner and hip-hop superstar, but…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An artist has devoted a sweeping new street mural to the memory of one of Los Angeles’ most famous residents. The subject?…

By TERRY CHEA Associated Press The U.S. military agency known for tracking Santa Claus doesn’t expect COVID-19 or the “bomb cyclone” hitting…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge kept secret that two of Sam Bankman-Fried’s closest associates had turned against…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An underground fire has been raging at an environmental landfill near Birmingham for almost a month, covering Alabama’s…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Supporters of the Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahda have demonstrated in front of…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government has expelled the top U.N. official in the country and asked her…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Online poker players in New Jersey and Michigan will be able to compete against each…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The drawn-out saga of Title 42, the set of emergency powers that allows border officials to…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A $1.7 trillion spending bill financing federal agencies through September and providing more…