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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The mayor of a Texas border city declared a state of emergency Saturday over concerns about the community’s ability to…

By FRANKLIN BRICENO Associated Press QUINUA, Peru (AP) — This rural hamlet nestled high in the Peruvian Andes was the site of a major battle that…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Vote counting has finished in Fiji’s general election but there is no clear winner,…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea test-fired a pair of ballistic missiles with a potential range of striking…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek Parliament has approved the country’s first budget in 13 years not to be drafted under the supervision of the…

Police in Atlanta say two teenage boys have been shot dead and three more minors were wounded in a shootout at an apartment complex that originated…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State and federal officials are warning horse owners not to feed their animals Top of the Rockies brand alfalfa cubes after…

MORO, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas State Police say the body of a 6-year-old boy was found buried under the floor of a house in eastern Arkansas and his…

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials have closed some oystering grounds in Mobile Bay, prompting complaints from harvesters. The move by…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard reports that an infant has arrived dead to an island on a boat carrying 34 other migrants. It says…

By ABBY SEWELL BEIRUT (AP) — Morocco’s fans in the Arab world took the North African team’s 2-1 loss to Croatia in Saturday’s World Cup…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Around midnight in mid-November, Libyan militiamen in two Toyota pickup trucks arrived at a residential…

BOSTON (AP) — Utility crews raced Saturday to restore power to tens of thousands of customers across New England and New York after a powerful…

CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — P-22, the celebrated mountain lion that took up residence in the middle of Los Angeles and…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Negotiators at a United Nations biodiversity conference Saturday have still not resolved most of the key issues…

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — The Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees the state’s oil and gas industry, has sent investigators to west Texas…

CAIRO (AP) — Iranian authorities arrested one of the country’s most renowned actresses Saturday on charges of spreading falsehoods about…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of Robert…

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal safety agency said Saturday that four people who died when a small plane crashed north of Seattle last month were…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge in Virginia has declared a mistrial in a firearms-related case against a U.S. Naval reservist who is…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has formally declared that a Polish couple who were executed by German police during World War II for hiding Jews…

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A former Long Island high school teacher accused of injecting a teen with a COVID-19 vaccine at her home without his…

By MICHAEL TARM The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Saturday set bond at $50,000 for the father of an Illinois man charged with killing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army says the violent Jalisco drug cartel has kidnapped a colonel who commanded a detachment in the gang-dominated…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The deadliest year in at least three decades for Mexican journalists and media workers…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who supplied songs for Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne…

LONDON (AP) — A woman injured in a crush outside a London concert venue has died, police said Saturday. London resident Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, was…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press CHENNAI, India (AP) — Arjun Viswanathan stood on the street, his hands folded, eyes fixed on the idol of the…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Sports fans who view their favorite players as role models might think twice before taking their financial advice,…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities said Saturday that they have recovered a significant part of the 18th-century treasures stolen from…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press In the days after a gunman killed five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado last month, much of social media lit…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — In his quest to rise to House speaker, Kevin McCarthy is charging straight into…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has inaugurated Germany’s first liquefied natural gas terminal, declaring…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Leo Varadkar is returning for a second term as Ireland’s prime minister as part of a job-sharing…

By JUSTIN SPIKE and VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The leaders of Hungary, Romania, Georgia and Azerbaijan have finalized…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top police official has said that he accidentally set off an explosion of a grenade launcher that was a present…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s king and queen have tested positive for COVID-19, and so far have only mild symptoms. The royal palace in Bangkok says…

BERLIN (AP) — A U.S. company that helped build a huge aquarium in Berlin says it is sending a team to investigate the rupture of the tank, which…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Football Australia has vowed to take strong and swift action with harsh punishments after an A-League soccer match…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Fatima Garcia donned a headscarf and a black abaya — a long, loose-fitting robe — over…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and BARBARA SURK Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisians on Saturday voted to elect a new parliament, to the…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, whose armed wing has been waging one of…

CAIRO (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has approved a deal that will provide a $3 billion support package to cash-strapped Egypt over a…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and CRISTIAN JARDAN Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Authorities in Moldova say six television channels in the eastern…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Emergency crews pulled the body of a toddler from the rubble in a pre-dawn search Saturday…

By LORNE COOK and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — No one answers the door or the phone at the offices of the two campaign groups…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan this week adopted a new national security strategy that includes determination to possess…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Police say at least five people were killed in a gun battle with security forces outside…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump pledged to fix U.S. infrastructure as president. He vowed to take on China and bulk up…

BATANG KALI, Malaysia (AP) — Rescuers in Malaysia have found the bodies of a woman and two children, raising the death toll from a landslide on an…

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Officials now say that a Mississippi police officer shot and killed a woman even as the woman was fatally shooting the…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle man was sentenced Friday to two years in federal prison for threatening to shoot Black customers at…

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — One of the strongest earthquakes in Texas history struck Friday evening in a western region of the state that’s home to…

By JULIE WATSON and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California has reached an agreement with some 36,000…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge is promising to rule quickly on whether to grant public access to…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Reno mayor Hillary Schieve is suing a private investigator and his company…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia grand jury has indicted a now-retired Atlanta police officer on murder charges stemming from…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has taken action to end sentencing disparities that have…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s power company appears destined for an even longer bankruptcy than…

CHICAGO (AP) — Two students were killed and two other teens were wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon near a high school on Chicago’s West…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The Transportation Security Administration is raising the fine for people caught with a firearm in their…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agency tasked with airport security says so far this year officers have stopped a record number of guns going through…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas; Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.; Dr. Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 response…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Documents filed in a state lawsuit show that a former student who accused ex-LSU football coach Les Miles of sexual…