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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Thanksgiving weekend wasn’t just big for turkey, family visits and the Macy’s…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The spokesman for the Islamic State group says its leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a new TV drama on the way about the exploits of a stylish, privileged and…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A district attorney says a grand jury has declined to indict police officers after an…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats ushered in a new generation of leaders on Wednesday with Rep.…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a man who has been accused of illegally having a gun at the time that rapper…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Retired NFL star Terrell Owens said a fight caught on camera in which he punched a man in a CVS parking lot was the result…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Christine McVie, the British-born Fleetwood Mac vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player whose…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — It’s the middle of the afternoon and Jada Williams begins a live stream on Instagram. In a…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano has temporarily knocked off power to the world’s premier…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Yale University is being accused of discriminating against students with mental health…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it was not aggressive actions by officials that caused a boat of migrants and the Cuban…

SANDSTONE, Minn. (AP) — Four lion cubs that were orphaned during the war in Ukraine have arrived safely at a Minnesota animal sanctuary that has…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath…

PARIS (AP) — French financial prosecutors say a Paris court has approved an agreement with Airbus that will see the planemaker pay a 15.8-…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will push rates higher than previously expected and keep them…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Maria Kolesnikova, a prominent member of the Belarusian opposition serving an 11-year…

By AMY TAXIN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff’s deputy posed as a 17-year-old boy online and asked…

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Tempe City Council has unanimously approved a proposal for a new Arizona Coyotes arena and entertainment district, clearing…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge says Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer can’t share lawyers with 10…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit brought by a former University of Connecticut women’s soccer…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has temporarily removed a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers out of the occupied West Bank following the…

By CALEB JONES, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — The world’s largest volcano is oozing…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a federal investigation of U.S. Rep.…

PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) — Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura, the son of Japanese immigrants who was awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor for actions in the…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Wednesday it had its biggest ever Thanksgiving holiday shopping weekend, aided by…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Staffers at Bread for the City, a venerable charity in the nation’s capital, thought they…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slowed slightly last year, a year after a…

By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked the state…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings dropped in October but remained high, a sign that businesses became…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s asylum agency says the number of people seeking asylum in Europe has hit a six-year high, with Syrian…

MADRID (AP) — Spain said Wednesday it’s enacting a new ethics code to discourage toy manufacturers from using sexist stereotypes such as…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A massive immersive experience celebrating Bob Marley is heading for its U.S. premiere…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — More than a thousand people have protested outside a prison in South Africa…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Term-limited Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has held fundraisers and launched a political action…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Interior Ministry says police are investigating reports of a small blast at the Ukrainian…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says it is considering taking a stake in Dutch grid operator TenneT, which has a large footprint in Germany.…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LORNE COOK BUCHAREST (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is condemning Russia’s weekslong assault on…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israeli troops have shot and killed a Palestinian man during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank as…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite high interest rates and chronic inflation, the U.S. economy grew at a 2.9% annual…

BUCHAREST (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says Sweden and Finland have made some progress in meeting Turkey’s security concerns but still…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s interior minister has flatly rejected new media reports of possible deaths on…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says that at least 10 students were killed when a bomb blast hit a religious…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew McConaughey, Mila Kunis, Jennifer Hudson and “Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson have been named…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones plan to release what they’re calling their “ultimate live greatest hits…

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — Tornadoes damaged numerous homes, destroyed a fire station, briefly trapped…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany say police have searched homes and questioned suspects as part of an annual nationwide crackdown against…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — State media say former Chinese President Jiang Zemin has died at age 96. Jiang led China out of…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian prosecutors have asked for the house arrest of five public employees they blame for not protecting the country from…

By ALEX NISHIMOTO Edmunds A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle or PHEV is a great starting point for those looking to dip their toes into the electric…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive branch has recommended that billions of euros in EU funds be…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in Europe has eased for the first time in more than a year as energy prices…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai broke into the media industry about 30 years ago armed with the…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved a resolution recognizing as genocide Ukraine’s 1930s…

By FELICIA FONSECA and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged to give Native Americans a…

BERLIN (AP) — A court in western Germany convicted a 39-year-old man of murder Wednesday in the shooting deaths of two police officers who had…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union wants to set up a U.N.-backed specialized court to investigate possible war…

Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Soccer fans in Iran’s Kurdish majority region have cheered the U.S. win over Iran in a politically charged…

By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats gathering to consider shaking up the order of their 2024 presidential…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States isn’t seeking to sever economic ties with China — even as it takes…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian and Chinese strategic bombers have flown a joint patrol over the western Pacific in a show of increasingly close defense ties…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A campaign to vaccinate older Chinese has sparked hopes Beijing might roll back severe anti-virus…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A court in Tokyo says Japan’s lack of law to protect the rights of same-sex couples to marry and…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria has received two million doses of cholera vaccines, the first to reach the war-torn…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Low-cost fashion brand H&M says it will be reducing its global workforce by around 1,500 positions as part of a plan to reduce…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — One day after Iran and Wales were eliminated at the World Cup, FIFA has given a public assurance that rainbow items and banners…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press IRPIN, Ukraine (AP) — For soccer lovers in Ukraine, Russia’s invasion and the devastation it has wrought…

By DANICA KIRKA and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Prince and Princess of Wales embarked Wednesday on their first overseas trip…

LORNE COOK, STEPHEN McGRATH and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press BUCHAREST (AP) — NATO turned its attention on Wednesday to three countries shaken…

HONOLULU (AP) — The Navy says there is no evidence of drinking water contamination after a spill of fire suppressant at a fuel facility in Hawaii.…