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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Courts in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, have…

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has stressed the “essential importance” of Italy’s Jewish community for the nation and Europe. She…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who was among the first people to illegally enter the U.S. Capitol while Congress was certifying the results of…

By MICHAEL TARM and LARRY LAGE Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Seven Michigan State football players have been charged for their actions…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — For scores of foreign soccer fans, the road to the World Cup in Doha starts every morning at…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A teen shot by a San Antonio police officer as he put his car in reverse while eating a hamburger has been released from the…

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi-based company that had become one of the largest furniture businesses in the country has laid off nearly its…

By TED SHAFFREY and DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who got a new lease on life after a ground-breaking heart transplant…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped…

PHOENIX (AP) — The widow of an unarmed Texas man fatally shot by police outside his suburban Phoenix hotel room in 2016 has settled her wrongful…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Voters deciding to split their tickets or buck their party altogether may have…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles police officer violated policy when he fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store last year, killing a…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia counties will be allowed to hold early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after roughly…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Pope Francis has named a Catholic priest from New York to succeed Rhode Island Bishop…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and PETER SMITH Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An investigation of a centuries-old monastic complex in Ukraine’s capital…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions against three more Iranian security officials in…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A banker charged with helping disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh take money from the legal settlements of clients has been…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — Facial recognition technology is mostly associated with uses such as surveillance and…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government, which has cracked down hard on independent media since seizing power…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Another World Cup day, another World Cup shock. Substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano scored…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Officials say the European Parliament website has been affected because of a hacking attack. European Parliament spokesman Jaume…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A U.N. agency says Dominican authorities have expelled at least 1,800 unaccompanied Haitian…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and CORA LEWIS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers holding out for big deals — and some much-needed relief…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is sending an additional $400 million in ammunition and generators to Ukraine.…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — One year after Rams owner Stan Kroenke and the NFL agreed to pay $790 million to settle a lawsuit…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Federal courts in Brazil have ordered a New Jersey-based fishing tour compay operating in the Amazon to…

By AMY FORLITI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Election wins for abortion rights and Democrats could translate into…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian media say a local court has sentenced a 34-year-old Russian to 90 days in prison for flying a drone in breach…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Germany’s players covered their mouths for the team photo before their opening World Cup…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government announced Wednesday that it will detain all imports of sugar and…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is linking the suffering of Ukrainians now to the 1930s “genocide” by…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It was the wee hours of the morning, and the docks at New York’s largest produce…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A cholera outbreak sweeping through Haiti is claiming a growing…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers have given crucial second-reading approval to a bill that significantly expands…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has rejected former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim it initially wanted Ukraine to quickly “fold”…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban lashed three women and nine men in front of hundreds of spectators in a provincial…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa has delivered a State of the Nation address at…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Wilko Johnson, the guitarist with British blues-rock band Dr. Feelgood who had an unexpected career…

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds The Federal Reserve issued its latest interest rate hike in early November. It marks the sixth increase this year and has…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Pandemic rebooking issues drove many air passengers to book directly with airlines instead of third-party travel sites.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed a resolution calling Russia a state sponsor of terrorism for its invasion of and…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Thieves who broke into a southern German museum and stole hundreds of ancient gold coins got in and…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent evening in early November shoppers at the Bryant Park holiday market in New York…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis gave the World Cup a shout-out on Wednesday and prayed that the Qatar tournament may be an occasion for harmony…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has teased a third presidential campaign from the moment he left the White House. But…

BERLIN (AP) — The first of several ships that will serve as floating terminals to receive liquefied natural gas imports in Germany have arrived off…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The European Space Agency has made history by selecting an amputee who lost his leg in a motorcycle…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli rights group says the Israeli military has demolished a school in the occupied West Bank, part of a long-standing…

By JOHN LEICESTER and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a new missile onslaught on Ukraine’s battered energy…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s government says it is ready to appoint a new army chief for the country as…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As millions of people travel the interstates this Thanksgiving, many will encounter…

By SUMETH PANPETCH Associated Press HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — Police are trying to identify the suspect in a bombing of police housing that killed…

By HOGIR AL ABDO and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Turkey’s president says he will carry out a land invasion into…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Scotland does not have the power to hold a new…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says an explosion in Syria has killed one of its officers.…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — This weekend’s Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish fighters in northern Syria also threaten…

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Surrounded by a slew of players with their arms draped over shoulders, West…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press CHIBAYISH, Iraq (AP) — Abbas Hashem fixed his worried gaze on the horizon — the day was almost gone and still,…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares gained Thursday, although optimism about the Federal Reserve holding back on…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Firefighters in Alaska got an unusual request for assistance last weekend from the…