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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.…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tiger Woods painted an uncertain picture about how much golf he can play, saying Tuesday…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he recently told U.S. President Joe…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s security minister has warned that the city’s protests against China’s anti-virus…

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer UAB has hired former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer as its next head coach. UAB athletic director Mark Ingram announced…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s oldest and largest conglomerate, Tata Sons, will merge its Air India with Vistara, a carrier it jointly runs with…

By JACK B. JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The debate over who owns ancient artifacts has been an increasing challenge to museums across…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced in Asia on Thursday after a rally on Wall Street spurred by the Federal…

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber has killed a police officers and three civilians from the…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, Jackie Young had been searching. Orphaned as an infant, he spent the first few years…

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — In a picturesque corner of western Wisconsin, a growing right-wing conservative movement has…

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — A word — “Hope” — is stitched onto a throw pillow in the little hilltop…

By KEVIN FREKING and JOSH FUNK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House moved urgently to head off the looming nationwide rail strike on…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Only scattered challenges to certification of the midterm election have been reported in the United States, and…

By GUILLERMO GARAT Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Two months into an investigation of alleged passport forgery involving the former…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has vowed to “resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces,”…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley says she would take the Christmas holiday to mull a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has listed his achievements in…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — In a crowded brewery, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis embraced Richard…

By MANUEL RUEDA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia wants the Biden administration to grant temporary legal status…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Syria warns that the military escalation in Syria is…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Christian Pulisic kicked the ball, scored the goal and crashed into the goalkeeper, a collision…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Southern California man has admitted to firing BB guns at a Planned Parenthood clinic at least 11…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s inaugural address clocked in at just 16 minutes. Closing…

BOSTON (AP) — The family of a man who was badly hurt when an SUV crashed into an Apple store in Massachusetts have sued the company, the driver and…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday lifted a temporary restraining order that limited wolf hunting and…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer An experimental Alzheimer’s drug modestly slowed the brain disease’s inevitable worsening, researchers…

By SARAH RANKIN and GARY FIELDS Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia NAACP says it has received “scant” information of substance…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Kardashian and Ye have reached a settlement in their divorce, averting a trial that had been set for next month. Court…