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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A waiting and vetting period would be baked into gun purchases in Oregon if a measure on the…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors say a former Las Vegas-area politician won’t face the death penalty at trial in the…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego doctor was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a…

Associated Press Securities regulators wants to make sure publicly traded companies recover any executive compensation that’s awarded based on…

By DAVID BILLER and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — On Sunday,  Brazilians are choosing between two futures. There’s a…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarushas sentenced a prominent investigative journalist to eight years in…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With time running out before the election, President Joe Biden highlighted his…

TORONTO (AP) — Analysts say a multi-billion-dollar merger between two of Canada’s largest telecommunication companies,could still be completed…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s planet-warming emissions dropped by nearly 9% in 2020 compared to…

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The lawyer for a rapper arrested in Morocco earlier this week for incitement to drug…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed new sanctions on members of Iran’s intelligence agency,…

By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer Looking around Memorial Stadium before Game 1 of the 1983 World Series, Philadelphia Phillies star Gary Matthews saw…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man was convicted Wednesday of killing six people and injuring dozens of others…

By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — French painter Pierre Soulages, an icon of post-World War II European abstract art famed for his use of black, has…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An investigation into the theft this summer of several semitrailers loaded with frozen beef from Nebraska has led to arrests…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Three men accused of supporting terrorism in the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor were convicted of all charges…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish fillets during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate approved a bill Wednesday to eliminate daylight saving time, putting an end to the practice of changing clocks…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian investigators have raided the home of Ksenia Sobchak, the glamourous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge has sided with Richmond officials in a lawsuit over whether the Virginia city can remove a final Confederate monument…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Six schoolchildren in Uganda’s capital have tested positive for Ebola.…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers are holding a special meeting on Thursday to discuss ways to deal…

MILAN (AP) — Italian media reports say the new Italian government has prepared directives that could be used to once again prevent humanitarian…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio law does not permit voters to return absentee ballots at their precincts on…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed 25 lawsuits against President Joe…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Newspaper endorsements are fading away as prizes to be nabbed by political campaigns, the practice…

By ALI SWENSON Live vote counts sometimes go up or down on election night. That’s due to human error somewhere between the local election…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer For LGBTQ activists, the home stretch of the midterm election campaign is a good news, bad news phenomenon. A…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa will allow a $500 million superyacht linked to sanctioned Russian…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — About 30 members of a film crew who were trapped in a limestone cave in northern Malaysia during heavy rain Wednesday…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Who made the global warming mess the world is now in? More than half of the world’s heat-trapping gases comes…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Even by the standards of the important military officers who came and went in this tiny…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military targeted more than 40 villages around Ukraine over the past day,…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has monitored drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces involving multiple practice…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees, dating back to the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is seeking to toughen up pollution restrictions to ensure that harmful pollutants are…

By JAE BRATTON of NerdWallet Using the right credit cards for your purchases can help you save money and maximize your benefits. But there are many…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Gunmen attacked a major Shiite holy site in Iran on Wednesday, killing at least 15…

By MILES BRANMAN Edmunds The 2022 Rivian R1T was the first all-electric pickup on the market, but the Ford F-150 Lightning wasn’t far behind. Can a…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Witnesses tell The Associated Press that drone strikes in Ethiopia’s Oromia region killed…

LONDON (AP) — UK Treasury Chief Jeremy Hunt has delayed a statement on the country’s economic affairs until Nov. 17, only a day after the new…

By RAQUEL REDONDO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The family of a Spanish man trekking from Madrid to Doha for the 2022 FIFA World Cup says he is…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister has unveiled plans to decriminalize the possession of up to 30 grams…

BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. and European Union officials have set up a task force tasked with resolving a dispute over electric vehicle batteries that the…

By SYLVIE CORBET and JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — “At a certain level of fame, no French man has ever been convicted for sexual…

By IVANA BZGANOVIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia is seeing a sudden tourism boom from countries whose citizens…

By HARUKA NUGA and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Officials from the United States and its Asian allies Japan and South Korea suspect…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers A Texas mother of a toddler, scraping by on her husband’s income, was…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Police have detained the president of the Turkish Medical Association after she called for an independent investigation into…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak has faced the opposition in Parliament for the first time as…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean computer chipmaker SK Hynix says it might be forced to sell its…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The three main greenhouse gases hit record high levels in the atmosphere last year, the U.N. weather…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations says close to 1 million drought-affected people in Somalia are in areas…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s government has agreed on a compromise to allow a Chinese shipping group to take a smaller stake in the operator of…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday ahead of an update on the U.S. economy and a European…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe says it is on the brink of its biggest wheat harvest in history, thanks in large…

By The Associated Press The mobilized reservists that Russian President Vladimir Putin visited last week at a firing range southeast of Moscow looked…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to meet in Paris with German Chancellor Olaf…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Natural gas and electricity prices in Europe have plunged from summer peaks thanks to…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press A team of scientists started the process of re-exhuming human remains Wednesday in their effort to identify people…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press GARY, Ind. (AP) — After a lunchtime roundtable with Indiana Sen. Todd Young and Utah Rep. Burgess Owens,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar is warning that the political, human rights and…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even before Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters surged over New York City’s Rockaway…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman is warning North Korea against escalating its…