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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…

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court has sentenced the mayor of Istanbul to two years and seven months…

NEW YORK (AP) — World Cup quarterfinal audiences in the United States ranged from 13.5 million to 7.4 million. Defending champion France’s…

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say two police officers in coastal Mississippi were shot and killed by a woman who they had talked to for…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the U.S. “should have societal guilt” for…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Two state employees and a public school media clerk are suing the state of Georgia. They say in a…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — New Vanderbilt University polling has found that most registered voters in Tennessee…

By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s top elections official is urging lawmakers to end general election…

NEW YORK (AP) — Grant Wahl died of a ruptured blood vessel when he was stricken while covering a World Cup match last weekend, according to an…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — With countless auditions, constant rejection and a calendar that’s often in flux, acting…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Judicial officials have told The Associated Press that a Greek European…

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an…

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden told dozens of African leaders gathered in Washington that…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has banned the popular social media app TikTok from…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dressed as Elvis and nonchalantly walking a pig on a leash, Stephanie Hsu made a memorable…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press The Scripps National Spelling Bee has its third executive director in the past two years. Scripps announced Wednesday…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer More than half of U.S. adults say it’s harder to afford holiday gifts this year. According to a new poll from…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer A new Netflix docuseries about professional tennis called “Break Point” is scheduled to debut on Jan. 13.…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press British banking giant HSBC announced Wednesday it will no longer finance new oil and gas fields as part of its…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s foreign secretary says China’s government has removed a Chinese consul general and five of his staff from the U.K.…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure in a Swedish zoo and roamed freely before being captured and euthanized on…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A security guard died after suffering a fall at a World Cup stadium in Qatar, tournament organizers said on Wednesday. The…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Whitebark pine trees can live more than 1,000 years, but in just two decades more than a…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Crowds in Paris and other French cities erupted in shouts of joy as France advanced to the World Cup…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s military chief of staff has suggested that Israel was behind a strike on a…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s national carrier says seven flights that were meant to take soccer fans to Qatar for Morocco’s World Cup…

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The people of Ukraine and their representatives have been handed the European Union’s top human rights prize for their…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union and southeast Asian countries are commemorating 45 years of diplomatic ties with a summit overshadowed by political…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Acting Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has outlined her agreement for a new…

LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara (AP) — The Moroccan soccer team’s history-making successes at the World Cup are stirring mixed emotions in the…

By The Associated Press Two men and a pet dog were rescued from a sailboat without power or fuel more than 200 miles off Delaware, 10 days after…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Say goodbye to virtual wine tastings, and bust out the karaoke. Love them or hate them,…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet “Buy now, pay later” services like Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna can sometimes provide a cheaper, more accessible…

By ERION XHABAFTI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s leaders on Wednesday signed a formal application seeking…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s parliament has failed to elect a government proposed by the center-right GERB party to resolve a political…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two Ethiopians have filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, over hate speech…

RAHIM FAIEZ ISLAMABAD (AP) — An Afghan official says 20 people have been lashed in public in the Taliban-ruled country as punishment for alleged…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Meek Mill played football inside the Philadelphia Eagles’ practice facility with 35 area…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Marta Suarez stepped in front of the white backdrop, rotated the basketball to…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court on Wednesday upheld the Netherlands’ ban on assisted suicide, a…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer They’ll have what she’s having. The 1989 rom-com “When Harry Met Sally” is one of 25 films chosen this…

HELSINKI (AP) — Three Latvian parties have signed a deal to form a coalition government more than two months after a general election in the Baltic…