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By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Louisiana-native Lainey Wilson is no overnight success as she heads into the…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Election officials have confirmed that more than 430 Nashville…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An attack by unknown hackers has idled the website of the Polish government office regulating public investment. The Public…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say at least seven people have been killed after a bus they were riding in slammed into two trucks and…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s navy says about 300 suspected migrants have been rescued by Singapore authorities after their boat started…

BERLIN (AP) — BioNTech, which teamed with Pfizer to develop a powerful COVID-19 vaccine, has reported that third-quarter earnings are close to half…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Millions of lottery players around the country will try their luck again Monday night…

By GARY FIELDS, GILLIAN FLACCUS and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press American voters are fractured politically and culturally ahead of Election Day,…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Qatar has said the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup soccer tournament it’s hosting will be the…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s military says some 3,000 people have stepped forward to join the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion, a short dissent Monday in support of a death row…

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A judge has agreed to extend the deadline to return absentee ballots for voters in a suburban Atlanta county who didn’t…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has refused to order that military absentee ballots be pulled aside and…

By The Associated Press Kremlin-connected entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted Monday that he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — An official says firefighters are making progress battling a fire burning at a chemical plant…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer French construction group Vinci says one of its units has been summoned by an investigating judge to answer…

BERLIN (AP) — German customs officials say they have seized 635 kilograms of cocaine among bananas shipped from Ecuador. The customs office in…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Clara Wu Tsai, co-owner of the Brooklyn Nets, launched the largest business accelerator for…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For more than three decades, members of the Anchorage Zen Community have gathered in…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Rihanna knew that if she was going to return to the stage less than a year after…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s ruling party leader has hinted that the right-wing government may ease off its controversial overhaul of the…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the 12-year run-up to hosting the 2022 men’s World Cup soccer tournament, Qatar has…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jimmy Kimmel is ready to host the Oscars again. The show’s producers announced Monday that the late-night talk…

By FRIEDA FRISARO and JULIE WALKER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Subtropical Storm Nicole is now expected to become a hurricane…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has lifted a ban on the deployment of workers, including maids and construction workers, to Saudi Arabia…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Given higher prices and economic uncertainty, consumers face a lot of pressure this year when it comes to Black…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A women’s rights group in Poland on Monday urged people to demonstrate after the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s official news agency says the gunman who killed 13 people at a major Shiite shrine last month was a…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian-appointed authorities in the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson say power is being…

BEIJING (AP) — China has lashed out over a visit to Taiwan by British Trade Policy Minister Greg Hands, the latest foreign official to defy…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new round of talks has begun between Ethiopia’s government and Tigray representatives to…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker Paul Haggis choked up and wiped away tears while finishing his defense from the…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Voters in Germany’s main financial center, Frankfurt, have removed the city’s mayor who is on trial in a corruption…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Coy Gibbs, the vice chairman of Joe Gibbs Racing for his NFL and NASCAR Hall of Fame…

By RAQUEL REDONDO and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press QUESADA, Spain (AP) — An extremely hot, dry summer that shrank reservoirs and sparked forest…

SYDNEY (AP) — A Sri Lankan cricketer charged with sexually assaulting a woman in Australia remained in jail Monday after a court declined his bid…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press SUKKUR, Pakistan (AP) — On the sandy banks of the Indus River, which flows top to toe through Pakistan and into its…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine authorities have filed murder complaints against the country’s top prisons…

By SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — With the world on “a highway to climate hell with our foot on the…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — It was a total loss — the type that is usually glossed over in big impersonal…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Archbishop Chrysostomos II, the outspoken leader of Cyprus’ Greek Orthodox…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When “The Crown” returns Wednesday after a two-year absence, the splintering marriage of…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — All 50 states are hosting midterm elections that will determine the balance of…

By WILL WEISSERT and MARC LEVY Associated Press COATESVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Coast to coast, candidates and big-name backers made final appeals to…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes was probably having flashbacks Sunday night to his days at Texas Tech,…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says an F-15S fighter jet crashed after suffering a technical fault, though its two pilots safely…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday ahead of the U.S. midterm elections with trading likely to…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s trade shrank in October as global demand weakened and anti-virus controls weighed on…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong journalist has lost the appeal against her conviction over making false statements in…

BEIJING (AP) — Apple Inc. is warning customers they’ll have to wait longer to get its latest iPhone models after anti-virus restrictions were…

BY HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s military said Monday its recent barrage of missile tests were practices…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fire broke out early Monday at a 35-story high-rise in downtown Dubai near…

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that Twitter will permanently suspend any account on the social media…

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities are investigating an envelope that reportedly contained suspicious white powder that was opened at the Phoenix campaign…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Home Depot workers in Philadelphia voted against forming the first store-wide labor union at the world’s largest home…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in Mexico say a fireworks explosion at a Day of the Dead celebration injured 17 people. The accident occurred Saturday…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City prosecutors say an autopsy on a local woman found dead in the neighboring state of Morelos shows she was killed by…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Better catch the moon’s disappearing act Tuesday — there won’t be another like…

BARRE, Mass. (AP) — A two hour ceremony was held in Massachusetts on Saturday to mark the symbolic return of about 150 items considered sacred by…

WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — A federal trial for a Virginia Civil War reenactor accused of planting a pipe bomb at a Virginia battlefield and threatening…

HANOVER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say they still don’t know what caused several dozen children and adults to fall ill at an eastern Pennsylvania…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say more than two dozen people were injured when a commercial building in the capital caught fire and collapsed.…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful gang leader says he is lifting a blockade at a key fuel terminal that has…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Georgia tightened its hold on No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, with TCU…

DENVER (AP) — A man convicted of using an AK-47 to kill a woman and wound her boyfriend as they walked their dog has been sentenced to life in…

NEW YORK (AP) — The day after 34-year-old singer Aaron Carter was found dead at his home in Southern California, Nick Carter, the Backstreet Boys…

PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Arizona are holding two suspects in the death of an 80-year-old Air Force veteran whose decomposing body was found…

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities are investigating a New York City high-rise fire that injured over three dozen people and was traced to a faulty…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — On a quiet weekend in movie theaters before the upcoming release of “Black Panther: Wakanda…

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man has been charged with a federal hate crime after he allegedly verbally and physically assaulted an Asian American…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped…

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis appealed Sunday for Lebanon’s politicians to put their personal interests aside and agree on a path to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis called female genital mutilation a “crime” on Sunday and said…

By ELEANOR REICH Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s outgoing prime minister has issued a plea for national unity, days after he was…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kenyans Evans Chebet and Sharon Lokedi made huge splashes in their New York City Marathon debuts…