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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market remains…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press A former CIA officer who spied on Qatar’s rivals to help the tiny Arab country land this year’s World Cup is…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus Museum of Art has opened a comprehensive exhibit on artist and…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has dismantled four communist-era monuments honoring Red Army soldiers, in a renewed drive to remove symbols of…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Friday after a mixed session on Wall Street, where tech sector losses…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says he is ready to “extend a hand of friendship” to…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — China has reportedly established dozens of “overseas police stations” in nations…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and HAJARAH NALWADDA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s Ebola outbreak is under control, a top public health…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers have given preliminary approval to a bill that imposes tough new restrictions on activities to promote LGBTQ rights…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry’s memoir, an object of obsessive anticipation worldwide since it was first…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The carnage left by Russian soldiers on the road to Kyiv wasn’t random. It was…

BEIJING (AP) — Seagate Technology says the U.S. Department of Commerce has warned it may charge the computer hard-drive maker with violating…

BEIJING (AP) — Figures reported by Chinese tech giant Huawei indicate its revenue rose in the latest quarter as infrastructure sales helped to…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Northern Ireland Assembly has failed to elect a speaker, setting the stage for…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — President Joe Biden is focusing on economic issues as he fine-tunes his closing argument in…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has no intention to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Speaking on Thursday at a…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Agriculture Department has announced $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Shell’s earnings have more than doubled in the third quarter. That has fueled the debate over…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak — the glamorous daughter of Russian President…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces attacked Russia’s hold on the southern city of Kherson on Thursday…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Exactly 100 years ago Friday, the Black Shirt March on Rome triggered events that brought Italian…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BRIG, Switzerland (AP) — A battle is brewing around Europe’s rooftop over the planet’s most precious…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two Hong Kong residents, including a pastor, have been found guilty of sedition and sentenced to…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss bank Credit Suisse has unveiled a “radical strategy” meant to overcome recent troubles…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola of Alaska in a televised debate called partisanship a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Here is a look at the 10 largest U.S. jackpots that have been won and the states where the winning tickets were…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is holding its fifth national election in under four years, and once again the race is…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — No one won an estimated $700 million Powerball jackpot, meaning the big prize will grow to an estimated $800 million for…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Spiraling energy costs caused by various economic factors and the Ukraine war could be a…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics has officially appointed third-generation heir Lee Jae-yong as…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A South Los Angeles man whose cache of illegal fireworks blew up a neighborhood in a bungled police bomb squad detonation,…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a better-than-expected 2.6% annual rate from July through September,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Lawmakers in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have voted to legalize same-sex marriages, becoming the last of Mexico’s…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was hospitalized…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday lambasted Democrats’ leadership on inflation, crime…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A judge on Thursday discharged a jury in the high-profile trial of a former government…

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was escorted out of the California-based headquarters of athletic shoemaker…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many U.N. Security Council members led by the U.S. and its Western allies insist…

By DENNIS PASSA AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The Australian men’s soccer team has issued a three-minute video highlighting…

By EDGAR H CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Chiapas (AP) — Three migrants are dead and seven are injured after the vehicle they were riding in…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man who livestreamed the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket has been…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge in Arizona said he hopes to decide by Friday whether to order members of a group to…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron vowed Wednesday to implement a pension reform that would eventually push up the retirement age by…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council formally rebuked two members and its former president…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say Israeli airstrikes have targeted sites in the vicinity of Damascus, marking the third such strikes in…

KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say one construction worker died and two others were injured when a bridge under construction collapsed in a rural…

MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Tuesday that the country has too many “takers” instead of workers and suggested that…

JACKSON, Miss (AP) — A federal judge has lifted a decade-long federal consent decree governing a youth jail in Mississippi’s capital city. U.S.…

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A woman who was arrested for feeding homeless people in northwest Arizona is suing over a local ordinance that…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mike Davis, an author, activist and self-defined “Marxist environmentalist” whose greatest fears drove him to anticipate…

By BILL BARROW and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman is accusing Herschel Walker, the anti-abortion Republican running for…

LAUREL, Neb. (AP) — A man charged with killing four people in a small northeast Nebraska town in August has been released from a hospital and moved…

The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is reportedly the subject of a new federal investigation.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A raging fire destroyed a vacant commercial building in Los Angeles and numerous other small fires broke out in the same area,…

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal jury has returned a guilty verdict on six of seven charges against a suspended Georgia sheriff accused of violating the…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and ousted the CEO, chief financial…