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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida said he will step down on Friday, the third…

NEW YORK (AP) — A list of some of the deadliest fires in New York…

By MARTÍN ADAMES Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic tell The Associated Press they…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A white former Nashville police officer has waived the right to a parole hearing under…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A man arrested in Alabama is accused of using a phone app in an attempt to hire someone to kidnap and rape a woman in…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that gruyere cheese does not have to come from the Gruyere…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 58-story luxury apartment building in San Francisco continues to sink and is tilting about 3 inches per year. The engineer…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Family, friends, civil rights activists and community members memorialized a 14-year-old…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation surging, unemployment falling and wages rising, some economists are…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel has named Jesse Watters as host of a 7 p.m. Eastern opinion hour, leading in to…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A damaged Georgia O’Keeffe painting is back on display after conservators spent 1,250 hours and $145,000 restoring the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former NPR “All Things Considered” host Audie Cornish is joining CNN to be part of its upcoming CNN+ streaming service, which…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers raised $10 million last year, while his top…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A prosecutor says a man arrested on child rape charges last month in Tennessee could have victims in nine other states.…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — House Speaker Cameron Sexton says Tennessee Republicans plan to…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Comedian and actor Bob Saget was found dead lying face up on his bed in a luxury hotel room…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The U.N. says it has begun meetings with Sudanese groups to find a way out of the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden expressed concerns on Monday to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed about…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado is not running for reelection. Perlmutter has…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s Senate has reconvened for the first time in a year with only a handful of…

By ANDREW DALTON and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst, the New York real estate heir sentenced to life in prison for…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter is pushing for federal voting rights legislation and has…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A snowy owl apparently touring iconic buildings of the nation’s capital is captivating…

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ highest court has ruled that Harvard University is not required to pay legal defense fees for a professor who…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to make California the first state to cover all low-income state…

By MARK PRATT and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The New England states are bracing for extreme cold that is already closing some…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega has been sworn in for a fourth consecutive term following elections considered rigged…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A top delivery company in Israel says rapid antigen tests have become its most in-demand…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Three new reports show 2021 was a deadly year for America’s struggle with climate change. Two federal…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s tax filing season will begin on Jan. 24, 17 days earlier than last year.…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The man who bought an AR-15-style rifle for Kyle Rittenhouse has pleaded no contest to a…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry has formally announced his reelection campaign amid allegations that he misled federal authorities…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has rejected an attempt by the state’s Democratic attorney general to…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban say they have held talks with senior leaders of an anti-Taliban alliance, a meeting that took place over the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has taken a step to reorganize the Vatican’s powerful doctrine office. He removed…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Italy has sent to Athens a small 2,500-year-old marble fragment of the Parthenon…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union auditors say that the hundreds of millions of euros that the bloc has poured into six…

ALMA, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say two people who were snowshoeing over the weekend in Colorado’s mountains were killed in an avalanche. The…

By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh say he’s so…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, ROBERT BUMSTED and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sorrow is welling across a Bronx community Monday, a day…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a baby in Germany has been reunited with its parents after they watched in horror as it speed off on a train without them…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police body-camera video shows a harrowing rescue in California, where a small plane crashed on railroad tracks shortly after…

By JASON DEAREN Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Flórida (AP) — Supremacistas brancos trabalham em prisões nos EUA…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Authority has summoned the Dutch representative to object to the Netherlands’ decision to halt funding to a…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC says it has hired former Biden aide Symone Sanders to host a weekend television show and…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A group of North Carolina voters want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish opposition senator whose phone was hacked with advanced spyware has filed a civil suit against Poland’s ruling…

CAIRO (AP) — One of Egypt’s last independent human rights organizations says in a statement it has closed down, citing government persecution.…

GENESEO, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois family has solved the mystery of what happened to their missing cat that likes to sit on horses and donkeys. The…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — A 33-year-old aspiring Olympian has set a Walt Disney World marathon weekend record, sweeping all four races in…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European drug regulator says it has started evaluating an application by Pfizer for its pill to treat the effects…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile is implementing a fourth vaccination dose for some citizens as the number of daily coronavirus infections rises.…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is blaming the collapse of a shipyard business on its Malaysia-based owner Genting Group, saying the conglomerate refused to…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health secretary Xavier Becerra is ordering Medicare to reassess a big premium…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor weighing whether Donald Trump and others committed crimes by trying to…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The spokesman for European Parliament president David Sassoli says the Italian has been hospitalized due to abnormal functioning of…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is targeting the unvaccinated with a host of new coronavirus restrictions. As of Monday,…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has been easing coronavirus restrictions after a decline in new infections while the fast-spreading omicron…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Take-Two Interactive, maker of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, is buying Zynga, maker of FarmVille…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says property developers must bear the cost of removing dangerous cladding that has left scores of apartment…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military leaders are denouncing new economic sanctions imposed by a regional bloc…

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in the Chinese city of Tianjin have reported 41 COVID-19 infections out of 3.4 million residents tested since the…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Damage wrought by Hurricane Ida in the U.S. state of Louisiana and the flash floods that hit Europe…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Conscripts in Norway have been told to return their underwear, bras and socks after the end of their military service so…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Activists and migrants say Libyan security forces have broken up a protest sit-in by…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police body-camera video shows a harrowing rescue in California, where a small plane crashed on railroad tracks shortly after…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Supply chain issues mean many people gave and received gift cards for the holidays. The more time that passes, though,…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s prime minister has ordered cafes, bars and restaurants to close at 11 p.m., urged people to work from home…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The office of a Taliban-appointed governor in eastern Afghanistan says that an explosion near the border with Pakistan…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says it’s time to consider whether to move away from the detailed tracking that the…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s schools reopened their gates to students on Monday, ending the longest school…

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing has accused Washington of inciting Lithuania to “contain China” in a feud over the status of self-ruled Taiwan after…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is now speaking about getting the coronavirus vaccination as a “moral…

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to the country’s Mediterranean coast to…

BEIJING (AP) — Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern states are visiting China for meetings this week with officials from…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish diplomat appointed to improve contacts with Jews worldwide has been fired after he criticized his own government’s…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch King Willem-Alexander has sworn in a new ruling coalition, led for the fourth…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Kazakhstan say nearly 8,000 people were detained by police during protests that…

By KONSTANTIN MANENKOV and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Russia and the U.S. remained far apart after talks aimed at defusing…