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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has moved closer to pushing through an unprecedented tax on foreign companies that want to import products that…

By SYLVIE CORBET, INNA VARENYTSIA and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Dozens of countries and organizations have pledged more than 1…

BERLIN (AP) — German security officials say a convicted far-right murderer temporarily took two prison guards hostage during an attempted jailbreak…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Most small SUVs flunked the latest frontal crash tests done by the insurance industry, but oddly…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — No menu. No delivery. No walk-ins. Advance orders only. Explanations and instructions while…

By VICTORIA MILKO and ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press JATILUWIH, Indonesia (AP) — The tropical tourist destination of Bali, Indonesia, is facing a…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was caught on a hot mic Tuesday using a…

By MATTHEW DALY, MICHAEL PHILLIS, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MADDIE BURAKOFF Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists announced Tuesday that they…

By JAMIE STENGLE and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A massive storm blowing across the country Tuesday spawned several tornadoes…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks rose Wednesday in Asia after a rally on Wall Street spurred by news that inflation in…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For Alexandra Pelosi, the brutal attack on her father earlier this year was a culmination of…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus returning from a party crashed near the Nepalese capital killing at least 17 and injuring 22 more. Police official…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States slowed again last month in the latest sign that price…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The national security trial of a Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher has been further postponed to…

By JORGE RUEDA AND ASTRÍD SUAREZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Colombian government and the nation’s largest remaining rebel…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press KHARNAK, India (AP) — Nomad Tsering Angchuk vows to stay put in his remote village in India’s Ladakh region.…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Mississippi State coach Mike Leach was hospitalized in critical condition Monday, the day after what the…

BEIJING (AP) — Some Chinese universities say they will allow students to finish the semester from home in hopes of reducing the potential for a…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JUWON PARK Associated Press YEONCHEON, South Korea (AP) — Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, began his 18 months…

By The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An automatic recount confirmed Monday that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert won her reelection bid against…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro clashed with police Monday, setting fire…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The House Financial Services Committee plans to hold a hearing into the collapse of crypto exchange…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday announced his intention to fully open the border crossings with Colombia…

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory…

CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles’ most famous mountain lion, known for roaming across freeways and making a…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to question the director of the…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from rapper Ab-Soul, the irreverent shoot-’em-up video game…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida jury has sided with a white Florida police officer accused of shoving a kneeling Black woman to the…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been arrested in the…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is naming a gate in Central Park in honor of the five men who, as teenagers, were wrongfully convicted of the 1989…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thirteen years after the original “Avatar” and five years after production started on its sequel,…

By DOUG GLASS and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The major advance in fusion research announced in Washington on Tuesday was decades in coming,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison on charges of assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers…

By AAMER MADHANI and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With dozens of African leaders descending on Washington this week, the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief is warning that the already dire humanitarian situation in Syria is…

By LISSETTE ROMERO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s largest religious pilgrimage for its Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe returned…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has reached a deal in principle to send an 18 billion euro ($18.93 billion)…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state judge has blocked an effort to ban most abortions in Iowa by upholding a court decision made three years ago. Judge…

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation launched a new relief fund Monday aimed at Black college…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Four new cases of bird flu at Iowa turkey farms in the past few days will push the number of…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press One of Pennsylvania’s largest drillers will be allowed to extract natural gas from underneath a rural…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The International Olympic Committee says it will allow American gold-medal sprinter Vince Matthews back at the…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A massive winter storm blew toward the center of the U.S. on Monday, threatening…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — An incident involving the Cuban coast guard in plain sight of the U.S. embassy in Havana had…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress will likely have to fund the government for one week to avoid a partial government…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Four Native American tribes in Michigan have agreed with the state and federal…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid a surge in hateful rhetoric and violence, President Joe Biden on Monday formed a…

DETROIT (AP) — A government report says fuel economy for 2021 model year vehicles in the U.S. stayed flat with 2020 as people continued to buy…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Family members of Poland’s only cosmonaut, who circled Earth in a Soviet spaceship in 1978, say he has died. Gen.…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police in Wisconsin are seeking tips to help them solve the case of a bald eagle that was shot and injured. The adult male bird…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has beaten a contempt order and avoided jail in an…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The boyfriend of Breonna Taylor who fired a shot at police as they burst through…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has sympathized with the caravans of Latin Americans “seeking freedom and…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An environmental group is petitioning federal officials to help reintroduce the jaguar to the…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — University of California postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers are back at work at all 10 of the university…

WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — Two Alabama women are preparing to stand trial in a city court where they’re accused of committing misdemeanor…

By GISELA SALOMON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A judge has declined to grant a new trial to Mexican telenovela star Pablo Lyle after he was…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The police chief of San Diego, California, says one of his officers was shot repeatedly by a fleeing crime suspect and may have…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associatated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran New York City politician whose 2021 campaign for mayor was derailed by a decades-old…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Crews have removed the plywood box that had been placed over a Philadelphia statue of Christopher Columbus that saw tense…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is slapping corruption sanctions on the son of Zimbabwe’s president as the U.S. prepares to host a…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press CVS and Walgreens have finalized more than $10 billion in settlements of lawsuits nationwide over the toll of the…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press The former superintendent of a northern Virginia school system has been indicted on three misdemeanor charges by…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Nevada’s most populous county and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger have received…

By BERNARD McGHEE Associated Press One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II. In her…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has set a special election for Feb. 21 to fill the 4th…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting Tuesday in Paris an international conference meant to…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers have imposed new sanctions on clerics, senior officials and top…