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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz has disbanded an alumni advisory committee that was created after a 2020 investigation…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — SeaWorld Orlando transferred four manatee calves to an Ohio aquarium for rehabilitation, freeing space to treat more of the…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Alekos Fassianos, one of the most important modern Greek painters, has died at age 86. The state news agency ANA said…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden packed carrots and apples into food boxes for…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Jeff Goldblum infused Milan Fashion Week with some levity as he shimmied down the Prada runway in a…

OVID, N.Y. (AP) — While the vast majority of New Yorkers are hunkering down to ride out frigid temperatures and snow blasts from the latest winter…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — For more than a year, federal prosecutors have been investigating the Capitol riot, and at…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a month at the top of the box office, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has finally been overtaken…

PARIS (AP) — France’s parliament has approved a law that will exclude unvaccinated people from restaurants, sports arenas and other venues.…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — For more than a year, federal prosecutors have been investigating the Capitol riot, and at…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — As California enters its fifth year of broad legal marijuana sales, industry insiders say…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A new election system, narrowly passed by voters in 2020, is set to be used in Alaska races…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he is returning to Ukraine to fight treason…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s military says that an army officer was killed in a shootout with smugglers on the country’s northern border with…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sharply higher costs are yet another challenge thrown at business owners by the global pandemic.…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The pilot of a medical helicopter that crash-landed without loss of life next to a church in a residential area of suburban…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president has called on Novak Djokovic to return to his native country…

NANTES, France (AP) — Far-left French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon is seeking to reinvigorate his flagging campaign for April’s…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The president of South Korea has reached a preliminary multibillion-dollar deal…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish police have arrested the leading smuggler of heroin into the European country in a bust that took a total of 10…

By HOLLY MEYER and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale. Already financially…

By PAMELA SAMPSON and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice is blasting through parts…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says Russia was behind a cyberattack that defaced government websites and it…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — By some counts, President Joe Biden can lay claim to a banner first year in office. But the numbers…

By BABA AHMED and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has died nearly 18 months…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has presented revised plans for its proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate.…

By ZEKE MILLER and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden came to office seeing two sicknesses in his country.…

By MEG KINNARD and BRYAN GALLION Associated Press COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths…

By ZEKE MILLER and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden came to office seeing two sicknesses in his country.…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has held a referendum on constitutional amendments that the populist government says are needed for the Balkan…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has rattled northern Greece and has been felt in the capital. There have been no immediate reports…

HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark has lifted a number of coronavirus restrictions and allowed the reopening of certain venues despite the spread of the…

By HASSAN BARISE Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s government spokesperson has been wounded in a suicide bombing that the…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state internet provider says internet services have been disrupted because of…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has filed a claim for a judicial review against the British government’s decision not…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand and Australia have sent military surveillance flights to assess the…

BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization says a U.N.-backed program shipping coronavirus vaccines to many poor countries has now delivered 1…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The official two-week campaigning period for Portugal’s Jan. 30 general election is kicking off. But there will be none…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is negotiating a plea deal in his…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Novak Djokovic’s attempt to play in the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated for COVID-19 has come to an…

By TOM BOWKER and TOM KRISHER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tesla is turning to Mozambique for a key component in its electric car batteries in…

By HELINA SELEMON Associated Press Thousands of miles away from the Tigray war a lawsuit between trustees and clergy over the language of services is…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford is set to land her ultralight plane in Belgium…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Bronx community is paying its final respects to loved ones, a week after a fire filled a…

By LORI HINNANT Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The omicron variant of the pandemic is exposing the vulnerabilities of European public…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — Police in England say they have arrested two teenagers in their…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia after losing a bid to stay in the country to…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic was being deported rather than playing his first-round Australian Open…

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says dozens of computer systems at an unspecified number of Ukrainian government agencies…

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese city of Xi’an has gradually begun lifting restrictions after over three weeks of lockdown as authorities sought to…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who authorities say held hostages inside a Texas synagogue had demanded the release of a…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Alabama quarterback Jay Barker was arrested on a felony domestic violence charge. An arrest affidavit says the…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan says Mark Schlissel has been removed as school president due…

By The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ralph Emery, who became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a…

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — DirecTV says it plans to drop the right-wing TV channel One America News Network. The satellite…

BEIRUT (AP) — Greece’s dominant Aegean Airlines says it has suspended its flights to and from Lebanon’s capital pending an investigation into…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The six-year legal battle over Prince’s estate has ended. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that parties to the pop…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Italian media say Nino Cerruti, the Italian fashion designer credited with revolutionizing menswear…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say they arrested a prominent member of a U.S.-designated terrorist group. Government media say the suspect was…

By CLAUDIO ESCALÓN Associated Press SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Several hundred migrants who had departed from the Honduran city of San Pedro…

By JAKE BLEIBERG, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday at…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television says three Iranian citizens have died after they were infected with omicron, the new, more easily…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are promising to try to open all schools for girls across Afghanistan after…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and CAROLYN THOMPSON NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train by a homeless man at…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan menswear designers seem to have decided on the answer, but the question remains: Have the…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Music and thoughtful tributes filled a portion of The National WWII Museum where family and…

By HAROLD ISAAC and DÁNICA COTO PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s National Police says Jamaican authorities have arrested a former senator…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group and its main Shiite ally say they are ending their boycott of Cabinet meetings after three…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The U.N. envoy for the disputed Western Sahara has visited refugee camps in Algeria housing those displaced by fighting…