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By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press At some of the world’s most sensitive spots, authorities have installed security screening devices made by a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s exports and imports both reached record highs in December, largely because of surging…

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court has sentenced a Muslim woman to death after finding her guilty of blasphemy for insulting Islam’s…

By LUJAIN JO Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Even trash has become a commodity fought over in the streets in Lebanon, mired in one of the world’s…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A proposal to overhaul New Mexico’s social studies standards has…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand is among the few remaining countries to have avoided any outbreaks of the…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights groups argue is vital for…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden acknowledges that the pandemic has exhausted and demoralized…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has approved an Israeli-sponsored resolution condemning any…

By AAMER MADHANI and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is unlikely to answer a further Russian invasion of Ukraine…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE Stocks rose broadly in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday as investors reviewed the latest corporate earnings and gauged the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former Minneapolis officers headed to a federal trial on civil rights charges this…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former officers who were with Derek Chauvin during the arrest that led to George Floyd’s…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s death after his arrest by police officers in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, sparked widespread anger after…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA has adopted a sport-by-sport approach for transgender athletes, bringing the organization in line with the U.S. and…

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Jury selection is underway in the federal trial for three former…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine has become the fifth coronavirus vaccine approved for use in Australia. The country has…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps will spend $732 million to expand a congested lock and dam in Missouri.…

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — FBI agents have conducted a search near U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s home in Texas as they conducted what an FBI…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinian foreign minister is criticizing U.S. President Joe Biden for moving too…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested a 31-year-old man in connection with the slaying of a woman while she worked at a Los Angeles…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Online social platform Twitter has suspended the account of one of Mexico’s wealthiest men and a close ally of President…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego police have determined the causes of death of a 40-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son who plunged from the third…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former Minneapolis officers headed to a federal trial on civil rights charges this…

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say two U.S. Marines were killed and 17 others injured when the 7-ton truck they were riding in overturned…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Disability rights activists and advocates for Britney Spears are backing a California…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man convicted of a Southern California rampage that included shootings, carjackings and murder has been sentenced to life in…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Viewers parked themselves in front of their televisions to watch football and stay out of the…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld as valid a voter-approved election system that would end…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has previewed the message he hopes can buoy Democrats during November’s…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has accused the U.S. of hostility and says it will consider restarting…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For about half of President Joe Biden’s news conference, it was a traditional, organized…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The first flights carrying fresh water and other aid to Tonga finally arrived after…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — John Adams’ version of “Antony and Cleopatra” will have its world premiere on Sept. 10 on the opening weekend of the San…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Planned Parenthood is suing the state of South Dakota to stop new rule for medical abortions that would make the state one…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two Richmond residents living near the site where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee…

By GISELA SALOMÓN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — U.S. authorities say a businessman accused in the July 7 killing of Haitian President Jovenel…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request by a coalition of media groups for greater access to…

GENEVA (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal,…

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted an Indiana man on charges that would make him eligible for the death penalty if…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, BERNARD CONDON and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Legal experts say a court filing alleging that Donald…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Navy has decided to let Wisconsin keep a beloved badger statue for 50 more years. The…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has declassified and publicly released video footage of a U.S. drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians in the…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old student died at a hospital after two people fired into a van at a Pittsburgh school. Pittsburgh…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the U.S. is considering restoring its designation of Yemen’s…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ attorney general is suing Google, alleging the company asked radio DJs to record personal endorsements for…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The widow and two sisters of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan are suing Alec Baldwin.…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer A team of scientists has explored a rare, pristine coral reef off the coast of Tahiti. The rose-shaped corals…

ELMORE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont community is asking the U.S. Postal Service to renew a contract with a local store to retain an outpost where people…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former Oklahoma jailer has pleaded guilty to violating an inmate’s civil rights by kicking and…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s death after his arrest by police officers in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, sparked widespread anger after…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Senate has passed a bill proposed by Republican Gov. Kristi Noem that would…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and the United Kingdom have agreed to begin talks on removing former…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The embattled former police chief of Miami is suing his former employer and city…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) — The eastern Caribbean island of Barbados is holding a snap general election after cutting ties with Queen Elizabeth II…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit’s claims that police on…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is using a court filing to outline much of the evidence her investigators have gathered so…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seem sympathetic to Sen. Ted Cruz in…

By ADEL OMRAN Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The head of Libya’s national oil company has said that his country will try to keep oil…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the parents of a U.S. student Otto Warmbier, who died after being imprisoned by North Korea, should…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s president has ordered all schools closed for 10 days because of a surge of COVID-19 infections in the North…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch media report that a man who stood outside the home of a former Dutch foreign minister shouting and waving a…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A fourth worker at a federal women’s prison in California has been…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fraudulently collecting more than $1.3 million in COVID-19 relief funds has been sentenced to five…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former officers who were with Derek Chauvin during the arrest that led to George Floyd’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Fred Parris, the lead singer of the 1950s harmony group the Five Satins and composer of the classic doo-wop ballad “In the Still…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The wife of a former Vermont legislator and House majority leader says he has died with the help of a law he himself…

By MORGAN LEE and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is asking National Guard troops and state bureaucrats to…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The infant endangered Sumatran orangutan at the zoo in New Orleans is being bottle-fed because his mother wasn’t producing…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yvette Mimieux, the blond and blue-eyed 1960s film star of “Where the Boys Are,” “The Time…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Complaints that a University of Michigan sports doctor was committing sexual assault went back decades,…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor in suburban New York says authorities decades ago blew chances to build a case…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A state court trial for three former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd has been rescheduled for…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Criminal investigators are telling South Dakota lawmakers that they didn’t believe the…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A financial payout for more than 1,000 people — mostly men — who say they were sexually assaulted by former…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Stacey Abrams has used a campaign stop in Atlanta to applaud the push for voting rights in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Supreme Court justices say a media report they were at odds over the wearing of masks during the surge in coronavirus cases…