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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is in a Sao Paulo hospital for tests after experiencing abdominal discomfort. The hospital…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Is anyone going to CES this year? A long-simmering question in the tech world will finally get its answer…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The fire that has already destroyed South Africa’s main Parliament chamber flared…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media are reporting that militants have attacked a bus carrying soldiers on a desert highway in central Syria,…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A powerful earthquake has struck Taiwan, shaking buildings in the capital and across much of…

By JOSH BOAK and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has met virtually with independent farmers and ranchers…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Three bright and driven women with ground-breaking ideas made a significant mark on the…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — An official with the international coalition in Iraq says two armed drones have been shot…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Official figures show that Turkey’s yearly inflation has climbed by the fastest pace in 19 years, jumping to 36.08% in…

By HUIZHONG WU and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A group of lawmakers loyal to China’s Communist Party were sworn in to Hong Kong’s…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says a person who crossed the border into North Korea on New Year’s Day…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has begun vaccinating teens in the age group of 15 to 18, as more…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writers The fast-moving omicron variant is complicating a key question: How does the COVID-19…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are trading mixed as worries about the omicron variant of coronavirus tempered…

By AAMER MADHANI and PARKER PURIFOY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A winter storm packing heavy snow has closed government offices and schools…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his supporters have sought to portray the woman who was…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his supporters have sought to portray the woman who was…

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden only rarely talks about last January’s violent…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House nearly a year ago seemed to herald a…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of duping investors into believing her startup…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN, BRITTANY PETERSON and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Investigators looking for the cause of the Colorado…

The Associated Press A winter storm packing heavy snow is expected to roll into the District of Columbia, northern Virginia and central Maryland…

BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are on 2022′s first trading day after Wall Street ended last year with a double-digit gain. Hong Kong…

MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) — Quebec is proceeding with the first of three planned closures of non-essential retail stores as the provincial government…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized a ship in the Red Sea, armed drones targeted…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The late former Senate majority leader from Nevada, Harry Reid, will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda next week. The…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his country’s health system can cope with the new wave of coronavirus infections as…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms while quarantining at…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in a 1963 Alabama church bombing has died. She was 93. Maxine…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Passengers on the cruise ship MSC Preziosa had to wait more than six hours to…

PINE HILLS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say sheriff’s deputies in Florida killed a man who shot his father then began firing at the deputies after a…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — For the first time since top-tier English soccer stadiums were ordered to be all-seater in…

By MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood closed out 2021 with more fireworks at the box office for “Spider-Man: No Way Home,”…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, known for his fossil-finding and conservation work in his native Kenya, has died at 77.…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden has conferred with Ukraine’s leader over the…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — There once was a small fish called “tequila splitfin” or “zoogoneticus tequila” that…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ plan to end federal immigration detention in the New Year has hit another legal…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has announced his resignation amid political deadlock and…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter says it’s banned the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the…

By HOPE YEN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal…

CHICAGO (AP) — Former Chicago-area police sergeant Drew Peterson is getting another chance to argue that his murder conviction in the death of his…

By MIKE FULLER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has been making contingency plans in case hospitals, schools and other workplaces…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Suez Canal says its annual revenues reached $6.3 billion last year, the highest in the crucial waterway’s history.…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong online news site says it will cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms,…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The head of Lebanon’s largest Christian parliamentary bloc says a 15-year-old alliance with…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 16-year-old with autism recently got the chance to meet the first mice in the world engineered…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The remains of South African archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — States across the country are taking steps to try to deter the thefts of catalytic…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military junta wants to extend its rule for five more years and put off the next…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Mask requirements are returning in some school districts that had dropped them. Some are planning to vastly ramp…

By RAF CASERT and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Draft European Union plans that would allow nuclear and gas energy to remain…

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Thousands of people in the capital of the Netherlands have defied a ban and…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An official in a Lebanese rescue group says a mother and her three children died in their sleep…

HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (AP) — A line of severe storms damaged homes, knocked out power and downed trees in parts of the southern United States late…

By ILAN BEN ZION and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Egyptian officials are pushing for Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus has veered off a mountain highway in Nepal, leaving at least seven dead and about a dozen injured. A government…

By ANDREW MELDRUM and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Firefighters are battling a major blaze at South Africa’s…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says an unidentified person has crossed the heavily fortified…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, COLLEEN LONG, JACQUES BILLEAUD and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many rioters who stormed the U.S.…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, COLLEEN LONG, JACQUES BILLEAUD and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many rioters who stormed the U.S.…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Experts say the winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s front range was rare. But similar events…

By THOMAS PEIPERT, BRITTANY PETERSON and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Search teams are looking for two missing people in…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is planning televised…

MONROE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana federal judge has ruled that President Joe Biden cannot require teachers in the Head Start early education program…

By PAUL DAVENPORT Associated Press Authorities in New Mexico say icing on a cable caused two tram cars to get stuck high up in the Sandia Mountains…

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Members of the Russian and Czech Republic world junior hockey teams were removed from a New Year’s Eve flight from…

Authorities say rapper Kodak Black has been arrested on a trespassing charge Saturday in South Florida. The Broward Sheriff’s Office says Black was…