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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks workers around the U.S. are planning a three-day strike starting Friday as part of their effort to…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is about to jet off to Qatar for the second time in a week, despite…

BEIJING (AP) — A squadron of Chinese Navy ships sailed through straits near Japan into the Western Pacific this week, while Beijing blasted…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Elections, coups, disease outbreaks and extreme weather are some of the main events that…

LONDON (AP) — Four people have been hospitalized in critical condition after a suspected crush at a London concert venue. Police say eight people…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The Ugandan health official was so sure Argentina would win its World…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A huge aquarium in Berlin burst, spilling debris, water and hundreds of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s strict self-defense-only postwar principle is being loosened. Japan on Friday adopted…

BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — To the outside world, Saturday’s elections in Tunisia raise several red flags: Many…

By Mae Anderson AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In some ways, the bustling holiday shopping season feels like a return to pre-pandemic days:…

By HANNA ARHIROVA, VASILISA STEPANENKO and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s capital came under one of the biggest…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An international group that monitored Fiji’s general election this week says it…

By HELENA ALVES and LUJAIN JO Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Coming from Brazil for the World Cup in Qatar, Daniela Crawford had been worried…

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Economic turmoil driven by inflation of 85% has plunged Turkey into one of its…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At a gas station outside New York City, retired probation officer Karen Stowe…

By The Associated Press With the war in Ukraine grinding through its 10th month, both sides are locked in a stalemated battle of attrition, which…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan has imposed a “temporary ban” on the social media platform TikTok, a day after a police officer was killed during…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — Restrictions that have prevented hundreds of thousands of…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Government officials say a remote-controlled bomb has exploded on a highway in Turkey as a van carrying police officers drove…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Phil Metzger promises to arrange entry to the United States for Russian-speaking…

By TERRY TANG and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Welcome to the new Lone Star State, where cricket matches, a Hindu temple…

By TERRY TANG and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press FRISCO, Texas (AP) — With the ornate spires of the Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple anchoring the…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, JAE HONG and AMY TAXIN Associated Press RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) — The November elections saw Californians continue to…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street racked up more losses Friday, as worries mounted that the Federal Reserve and…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Public support and use of the death penalty in 2022 continued its more than two-decade decline in…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Outgoing Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is expected to be appointed to the state’s U.S.…

By PAUL WISEMAN and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — After scaling 40-year highs, inflation in the United States has been slowly…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s departing Secretary of State was served a subpoena as part of a…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A 48-year-old Washington state man was arrested and charged in federal court for allegedly making threats against members of…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California sex offender who kidnapped, raped and killed four women, some of them while wearing a GPS tracker, has been…

By The Associated Press Five Louisiana law enforcement officers have been charged with state crimes for their roles in the 2019 arrest of Ronald…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council adopted a statement warning of increasing dangers of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A California woman pleaded guilty on Thursday in connection with her unwitting role in a foiled plot to kidnap a prominent Iranian…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed legislation to fund the government for an additional week as lawmakers…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of journalists who cover the social media platform and its new…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is warning that the threat of terrorism has increased and…

By JESSE BEDAYN, MATTHEW BROWN, BERNARD CONDON and MIKE BALSAMO Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Documents released in the 2021 dropped prosecution…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Key questions resurfaced Thursday at a conference of Colorado River water administrators and users…

By SYAWALLUDIN ZAIN and EILEEN NG Associated Press BATANG KALI, Malaysia (AP) — A thunderous crush of soil and debris has killed 21 people,…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged Thursday with state…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Panama’s government has ordered the local subsidiary of a Canadian mining company to cease operations at its huge open pit…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Democratic establishment is coalescing in support of state Sen. Jennifer…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Two people were injured when a single-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Lihue…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California toddler fatally struck by a stray bullet while sleeping in his car seat last year was the victim of a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Iowa have charged a man in the death of a 4-year-old boy who was killed when a car that was racing on a city…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who accused a former top adviser to New York Attorney General Letitia James of…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois House committee is conducting hearings on a wide-ranging gun…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in El Paso, Texas, are describing a humanitarian crisis as they grapple with the…

CINCINNATI (AP) — The E.W. Scripps Company has announced the launch of a sports division as it looks to acquire local and national rights for teams…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Officials say a pilot had safely ejected from a plane after a failed landing at a North Texas military base. Video that…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge handed guns rights advocates a victory Thursday and placed a new,…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border helped orchestrate the escape…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City’s ban on the sale of foie gras had already been delayed by a court challenge. Now it has been found in…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered a review of security standards at the nation’s far-flung…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday granted Spire Inc. a permanent certificate to operate a natural gas pipeline in Missouri and…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Residents of The Dalles, Oregon, are learning how much of their water Google’s data centers have been using…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge in Indiana has ruled that a Purdue University student charged with murder in the stabbing death of his dormitory…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky soon will operate three high-security juvenile detention…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Charlie Baker, the next leader of the largest college sports governing body in the country, is…

By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Several members of Congress want Amazon to explain why an Illinois warehouse that collapsed…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press A small town Iowa police chief has been indicted on federal charges that he abused his position to purchase more than…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers who eagerly accepted piles of cash from Samuel Bankman-Fried…

ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor says five people arrested on charges including domestic terrorism as authorities tried to remove the protesters from…

By The Associated Press By The Associated Press After beginning 2022 by hosting a Winter Olympics inside a COVID bubble, China faced a tough year. It…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — An engineering firm has settled a lawsuit with four families after being accused of not doing enough to stop lead contamination…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York has become the latest state to ban the sale of cats, dogs and…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Longtime St. Louis Cardinals television play-by-play announcer Dan McLaughlin will not return to the booth this year after being…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California air regulators voted unanimously Thursday to approve an…

MOSCOW (AP) — A coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station could have been caused by a micrometeorite, a…

By JAMIE STENGLE and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press A former Texas police officer was convicted of manslaughter Thursday for fatally shooting…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia regulators have granted a critical approval for Dominion Energy’s plans to…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has formally demanded that its security troops return to the breakaway former…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Seacrest will usher in 2023 on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” from Times Square,…

By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott says her donations have yielded more than $14 billion in funding for…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The founder of the Afro Fashion Association in Italy says she is launching awards recognizing the…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it has approved a new package of sanctions aimed at…

By BEN FINLEY and DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a University of Virginia football player killed in a…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government says it has asked world police agency Interpol to help it investigate the background of a Nigerian…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has named Claudine Gay as its next president, making her the first Black person…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man seeking freedom after nearly three decades in prison for a murder he denies…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The latest proposal to give Ohio’s governor more power…