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By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto urged lawmakers not to remove presidential terms limits…

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — A passenger ferry carrying 271 people has caught fire off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali but there are no immediate…

BERLIN (AP) — A senior German opposition official has lobbied the European Union to block the government’s plans to decriminalize the possession…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — World Cup organizers insist the atmosphere in Doha days before the games start is genuine and being created by authentic fans.…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet If you want to save money and avoid the airport crowds during the holiday season, you’ll want to fly on the holiday…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Among the bitter lessons that Ukrainians have had to learn in the nearly nine months since…

BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin court has ordered a rerun of the German capital’s 2021 state election because of severe election-day glitches at many…

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. Navy says U.S., Japanese, Australian and Canadian warships are staging extensive joint drills in Japanese and international…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service says actor Kevin Spacey will be charged with seven further sex offenses, all against one…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer 90% of counties in the United States suffered a weather-related disaster between 2011-2021, according to a report…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Jimmy Johnson won two Super Bowls as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys and a national championship at Miami.…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait has put to death seven prisoners in a rare mass execution in the small,…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Qatar’s decision to launch itself into hosting the 2022 World Cup was a head-scratcher from the start. Why, some…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatari World Cup organizers have apologized to a Danish television station whose live broadcast from a street in Doha was…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by an…

By FRANK JORDANS, SAMY MAGDY and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — With an end-of-the-week deadline rushing at them…

By ADAM SCHRECK and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Members of the Group of 20 leading economies have firmly condemned the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a blast in Poland that killed two people probably…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say one more body has been recovered following the shipwreck earlier this month of an overloaded migrant…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space capsule hurtled toward the moon Wednesday for the first time in 50 years,…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press AL-AROUB REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — In two volatile spots in the occupied West Bank, Israel has installed…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday amid concerns about the impact of China’s…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s inflation rate rose to a 41-year high in October, fueling demands for the government to…

By The Associated Press Qatar will be the home of the FIFA World Cup beginning Nov. 20, marking the first time the Mideast has hosted the…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday that…

By YURI KAGEYAMA and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers TOKYO (AP) — The new Toyota gas-electric Prius hybrid not only comes with more power,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a man stabbed and critically injured two people inside a Target store in downtown Los Angeles before he…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan says armed militants ambushed a routine police patrol in the country’s northwest, killing all six…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig did not have a criminal attorney with him and felt compromised partly because of his…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama says it helps to focus on what you can control when you feel out of…

By YAYAN ZAMZAMI Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Over 100 Rohingya Muslims traveling in a wooden boat have landed on an Indonesian…

By BOB CHRISTIE and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted of murdering two people in 1980 was put to…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ballot measures in the U.S. to build more affordable housing and protect tenants from soaring…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge is preparing to sentence a Chinese national convicted of trying to…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages crossed a major Senate hurdle…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Rose Prophete thought the second mortgage loan on her Brooklyn home was resolved about a decade ago — until she…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities locked down a major university in Beijing on Wednesday after finding one…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Senate investigation has found that U.S. immigration authorities didn’t do enough to…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — At 97, two-time former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is back in the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say two Los Angeles County deputies won’t face criminal charges for fatally shooting a Black man they tried to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Costner can comfortably boast of being television’s biggest star right now. His…

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company is licensing its name to a golf resort in Oman in the first of what it…

VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) — Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rape allegations against actor Danny Masterson were so riddled with contradictions and…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of text messages sent from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s city-issued iPhone went missing from the public record.…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois voters have approved an amendment to their state constitution that…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Melbourne United starting center Isaac Humphries has announced that he is gay and says he hopes his decision to go…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday it was…

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — With all the big issues dominating this week’s meeting of leaders…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization’s longtime finance chief has testified at trial…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman says the team is considering several sites to build a replacement for the aging…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is making another attempt to launch its new moon rocket on its first test…

By NARDOS HAILE The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Beyoncé has been crowned the most Grammy-nominated person in history — tying her husband…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Frida, a yellow Labrador retriever rescue dog that gained fame in the days following Mexico’s Sept. 19, 2017, earthquake has…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it will receive deportation flights from the United States that had been stalled in the…

OLNEY, Md. (AP) — Virginia McLaurin, the centenarian who danced excitedly with President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during a 2016…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Ben & Jerry’s board of directors has rebuked the sale of products bearing any of the ice cream maker’s…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Tuesday it would back proposed federal…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Blake Masters called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly to concede in the Arizona Senate…

The Associated Press Estee Lauder is acquiring luxury powerhouse Tom Ford in a deal valued at $2.8 billion. As part of the deal, Ermenegildo Zegna…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Biden administration to lift Trump-era asylum…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government says it will provide Puerto Rico with temporary electric…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge says an agency previously led by Republican Josh Hawley broke public…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have seized plastic bags containing 2,000 fentanyl pills that were apparently baked into traditional bread…

By KEN SWEET and THALIA BEATY The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Just days after cryptocurrency’s third-largest exchange collapsed, the public…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is facing mounting pressure to extend a pause on…

By CURT ANDERSON and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has ruled that former national security adviser Michael…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court issued a temporary stay on a lower court judge’s order that pared back enforcement of New York’s new…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Rick Scott said Tuesday that he will mount a long-shot…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elton John’s audacious 1970 U.S. debut at a local nightclub moved a critic to declare that…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say an off-duty police officer in western New York state has shot a woman to death, wounded another woman and…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — European human rights experts are urging Switzerland to do more to protect women from violence both…

By The Associated Press World Cup host nation Qatar said Tuesday it will count emissions produced from daily flights ferrying fans during the…

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the police department in Massachusetts’ second largest city routinely uses excessive…