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By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Designated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a rare rebuke of his new coalition…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A section of the new $1.7 trillion spending bill from Congress has been billed as a dramatic…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The leader of former communist rebels has become Nepal’s new prime minister with…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is coming to grips with the full extent of the destruction and deaths caused by…

By LAURA UNGAR and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world? Scientists…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis used his Christmas message Sunday to lament the “icy winds of…

A Christmas Eve shooting at a pub in northwest England killed a young woman and wounded three men, police said Sunday. The Merseyside Police force…

NEW YORK (AP) — Emergency responders evacuated a JetBlue flight at JFK International Airport in New York City as a result of a small fire in a…

By RENATA BRITO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press BOBRYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians usually celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, as do the Russians.…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces have killed a militant in a shootout near the border with…

By YAYAN ZAMZAMI Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Dozens of hungry and weak Rohingya Muslims have been found on a beach in…

RIAZAT BUTT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Four major international aid groups say they will suspend their operations in Afghanistan following a…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Millions of people hunkered down against a deep freeze Sunday to ride…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended what he said was his country’s position of impartiality on the war in Ukraine on Sunday…

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Five people were arrested in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man at the Mall of America that sent the sprawling…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former child star Orlando Brown has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault charges stemming from an alleged altercation in Lima,…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those “ravenous” for…

COCOA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — For the surfing Santas off Florida’s central coast, the Atlantic Ocean felt more like the North Pole than the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Maxi Jazz, a DJ and singer who fronted the eclectic British dance band Faithless known for such hits as “Insomnia” and “We…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has thrown out Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the Arizona…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The founder of a California-based porn empire that coerced young women into filming adult videos has been arrested in Spain, three…

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…