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By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The next World Cup will be the biggest ever after world soccer body FIFA took the leap from a…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Two passenger trains taking commuters to the city of Barcelona collided early Wednesday, injuring more than 150 people,…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal has finished counting the votes that were cast in the Nov. 20 parliamentary elections. The results will ultimately…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street futures edged lower Wednesday ahead of new employment and wholesale price data with…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Cameroon soccer federation president Samuel Eto’o was filmed apparently kicking a man to the…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German police have rounded up dozens of people including a self-styled prince, a retired…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s ties to the Jewish American community, one of its closest and most important allies,…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer DETROIT (AP) — In a bustling metro area of 4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Officials say South Korea’s economy is recovering from the initial shock of a…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor joined about 2,500…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At least six Supreme Court justices sound skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Expedited drug approvals slowed this year as the Food and Drug Administration’s…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — “Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa explained the significance of the Chicxulub impact crater…

By ADI MARSIELA and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Police in Indonesia say a Muslim militant and convicted bomb-maker…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s imports and exports shrank in November under pressure from weakening global demand and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press There weren’t enough uncounted votes in Republican-leaning areas for Republican challenger Herschel Walker to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has signed off on two new significant arms sales to Taiwan in approvals that are sure to rankle China.…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping is attending a pair of regional summits in Saudi Arabia this week amid efforts to kick-start economic…

NEW YORK (AP) — The American Museum of Natural History has chosen college president Sean Decatur to become its next president, making him the first…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A ruling by a state court judge placed Oregon’s tough new voter-approved gun law on…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is expected to remain leader of the eastern Caribbean island after…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Coast Guard investigation into the grounding in March of a cargo ship in the Chesapeake Bay…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A legal fight has erupted over a Washington D.C. police officer who was communicating with Proud Boys leader…

CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who watched her former boyfriend kill six members of his family in their Chicago home, then helped him steal their property…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York jury convicted Donald Trump’s company of tax fraud Tuesday, a verdict that could damage the…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Several hours after firefighters extinguished a warehouse fire in southwest Baltimore early Sunday,…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press A Texas police officer who fatally shot a Black woman through a rear window of her home three years ago didn’t…

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Citizen trapping of northern giant hornets in northwest Washington ended Nov. 30 without any confirmed sightings of the…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The House Ethics Committee has told departing U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would have let police use robots for…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge ordered a Wisconsin company that cleans hundreds of slaughterhouses nationwide…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than two decades after a tiny Greek Orthodox church in lower Manhattan was destroyed by the…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Duke Energy said it expects to restore power ahead of schedule to…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The head of New Orleans’s police department is retiring. Superintendent Shaun Ferguson…

NEW YORK (AP) — More than three dozen women have filed a lawsuit in New York against writer and director James Toback, accusing him of sexual…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press Two Kansas high schools are investigating after students at one school reportedly yelled racist and offensive…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Continuing state investigations have found at least 35 instances where Connecticut Department of Correction employees…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The elections director in the largest county in one of the nation’s most…

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — A report on the crash of a small plane into a Maryland transmission tower last month states that the plane was flying…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Five women who accuse Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them decades ago have filed a new…

MIKE SCHNEIDER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. (AP) — Severe beach erosion from two late-season hurricanes has…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Indiana Department of Correction worker faces a potential sentence of 100 years in prison under a deal in which she…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Hockey has Indigenous roots but has become a predominantly white sport in North America, Europe and elsewhere. Some…

RIALTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a Southern California police officer shot and wounded a man who entered a secure parking lot of a police…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has delivered another rebuke of Donald…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is under pressure to explain why it didn’t prosecute a famous Jesuit artist…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Cabinet ministers from the Greek and British governments have discussed Greece’s bid to get the Parthenon Sculptures back…

LONDON (AP) — Spain’s former king has won the latest stage of a London court battle with an ex-lover who accused him of harassment after they…

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education says an Iowa school district failed to protect a Black student from pervasive racial…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An opposition legislator in Turkey has been hospitalized following a brawl that broke out in the country’s parliament…

TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Exuberant Moroccans poured into the streets of their capital and in cities across Europe on…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — Shareholders of dismantled Russian oil company Yukos were low in spirits after the top bid in an…

By The Associated Press Facebook parent Meta Platforms says it will be forced to consider removing news content from its platform if Congress passes…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A panel is calling for changes at the federal agency that oversees most of the nation’s food supply, saying…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will make criminal…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister says his country will accept a Patriot missile defense system which Germany offered to deploy to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel will have to wait to deport a Palestinian lawyer and activist to France for at least several weeks. Saleh Hammouri appeared…

By SCOTT BAUER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed local election officials in…

By JIM MUSTIAN, COLLEEN SLEVIN and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Anderson Lee Aldrich loaded bullets into a Glock…

By JENNA FRYER AP National Writer LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo was a solitary figure as he walked off the field following a World Cup…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian soccer great Pelé is improving, doctors said Tuesday. The 82-year-old Pelé has been hospitalized for a week to treat a…

By JANIE McCAULEY and ALI SWENSON Associated Press Stephen Curry is known for scoring deep 3-point shots and buzzer-beaters from half-court but even…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature will meet next week for a special session on property…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott has tapped a longtime Republican lawmaker to be Texas’ new elections chief, a pick who could enjoy a…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández was convicted and sentenced…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was convicted of tax fraud Tuesday for helping executives dodge taxes…

MILAN (AP) — After 11 days of digging, search teams recovered the final victim from the debris of an enormous landslide on the Italian resort…

BERLIN (AP) — Lawyers for a 97-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of Nazi Germany’s Stutthof concentration camp have asked for…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The deadline for obtaining the Real ID needed to board a domestic flight has been pushed back again, with the…