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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s central bank has raised its key interest rate increase again but toned down the pace as…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is again making some free COVID-19 tests available to all…

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss National Bank has raised its key interest rate. It comes as other central banks in Europe are starting to follow the U.S.…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has slowed its record pace of interest rate increases. But…

By KOSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of mourners have gathered in a Roma settlement in northern Greece for the…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The president of South Africa is fighting for his political future amid an unfolding scandal…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Hymns echo through the spacious, blue-walled church. The congregants listen to the Gospel and the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has presented a three-party majority coalition crossing the left-right divide…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The leaders of four political parties contesting Fiji’s general election called for…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Self-proclaimed free speech warrior Elon Musk’s more unfettered version of Twitter could collide…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When 25-year-old Anastasia Mokhina donned fatigues and rushed off…

By SYLVIA HUI and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, vent their grievances against the British monarchy…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its trade deficit surged to over 2 trillion yen ($15 billion) in November as higher costs for oil and a weak yen…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares followed Wall Street and Europe lower on Friday, with markets jittery over the…

By SAM MCNEIL Associated Press BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Business is bouncing back in Bethlehem after two years in the doldrums during the…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE Associated Press JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A judge on Thursday handed down the longest prison terms so far in the plot…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A report by environmental group Oceana has found that plastic waste from Amazon packages went…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Patriot missile systems have long been a hot ticket item for the U.S. and allies…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was not invited to a summit of Western Hemisphere…

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A 6.2 magnitude earthquake originating in the waters off Taiwan’s eastern coast shook the island…

DETROIT (AP) — Elon Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of Tesla stock this week, but it wasn’t clear where the proceeds were being spent. The…

NASA and Russia’s space agency canceled a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts just as they were preparing to exit the International Space Station.…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a roadside bomb killed a soldier and a civilian and wounded at least 14 others in Pakistan’s northwest…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada wildflower was declared endangered at the only place it’s known to exist — on a…

By INDRAJIT SINGH Associated Press PATNA, India (AP) — A top elected official says at least 31 people have died and 20 others are hospitalized in…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The average profile of a missing child in Hawaii: 15 years old, female, from the island…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security says more migrants may be released into…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed bipartisan legislation that would empower law enforcement agencies to…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-led House has passed a short-term spending bill to keep government agencies…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA has cleared a major hurdle toward joining the Big Ten Conference in 2024, getting approval…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The bust of a U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote an infamous decision on slavery could soon…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key U.N. committee has again blocked Myanmar’s military junta from taking the…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Twitter on Wednesday suspended an account that used publicly available flight data to track Elon…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s portrait was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, a…

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Eastern Michigan basketball star Emoni Bates has been sentenced to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to a…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has named a new El Paso district attorney after the previous one resigned under mounting pressure over…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators and shippers are questioning Union Pacific’s decision to temporarily limit…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JOHN D. HANNA Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Records obtained by The Washington Post show the office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this summer sought…

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to killing two women in Pennsylvania has been extradited to Michigan to face a first-degree…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of a 15-year-old girl who died of a suspected fentanyl overdose in a high school restroom has filed a negligence and…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer A California law that prohibits new oil and gas wells from being drilled near homes, schools and hospitals could…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The head of Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order admitted Wednesday that a famous Jesuit priest…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — A hacker claims to have posed as the CEO of a financial institution to obtain access to the more…

BOSTON (AP) — A Berklee College of Music student and citizen of China has been arrested for allegedly threatening an individual who posted a flyer…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A $3 million settlement has been reached between Virginia Beach and the family of a Black man who was shot by police…

NEW YORK (AP) — Eddie Murphy will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 80th Golden Globes. The honorary award for the comedian and actor adds…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Attorney General has lambasted a state commission that is investigating a 2019 mass…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president made a public request Wednesday to Puerto Rican reggaeton star Bad Bunny to play a free concert in Mexico…

NEW YORK (AP) — The archives of Thomas Pynchon, including correspondence, handwritten notes and the typescripts for such classic novels as…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government sued Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the state Wednesday over the placement of…

By MARK SCOLFORO and BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Five weeks after Election Day, winning candidates in Pennsylvania from…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Kylian Mbappé vs. Lionel Messi. Soccer’s latest superstar against perhaps the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer It was the eyes that did it. Filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski had decided some years ago that his next film was going to be…

CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Police say a person with a gun shot and wounded a contract worker outside an Amazon delivery station in Arizona before a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Economic and Social Council has voted to immediately oust Iran from the…

CHICAGO (AP) — An Indiana man who pleaded guilty to making an illegal “straw” purchase of a handgun later used to kill a Chicago police officer…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is putting on hold plans to apply by 2025 a controversial method for protecting the privacy…

By TERRY TANG and KARENA PHAN The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When it hit theaters in 1991, Walt Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”…

By KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An appeals court panel’s decision that revived unsettled federal lawsuits against…

By RAMI MUSA BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s chief prosecutor says that he is opening an investigation into the extradition of a Libyan national…

AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to Qatar to attend the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco.…

By The Associated Press They worked hard, with the rewards coming slowly but surely. Then something came along — often a key role or sometimes a…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government on Wednesday charged eight men of earning more than $100 million in illicit stock…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. deaths has dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before…

NEW YORK (AP) — Ten years after receiving it, New York University publicized a $100 million gift from the hedge fund leader John Paulson. The gift…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of attacking the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Boston City Council has voted to form a new commission to study how it can provide reparations…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the number of people killed by widespread floods and…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker withdrew his request Wednesday seeking pardons for two individuals…

By LOU KESTEN Associated Press It’s been a bumpy year for video games, in part thanks to the ongoing repercussions of the pandemic. Some major…

A jury began deliberations Wednesday in the murder case against a former Texas police officer charged with fatally shooting a Black woman through a…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s new government declared a national emergency Wednesday as it struggled to calm…