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BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of people have held a rally in Beirut to protest measures imposed against the unvaccinated, saying individuals should have…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says it will hold talks in Sudan aimed at salvaging a fragile democratic transition.…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Police in Albania have intervened to disperse protesters from the headquarters of the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Swiss federal court has upheld a freeze on a reported 50 million euros in assets belonging to one…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has asked Indian authorities to immediately release a journalist in…

HONG KONG (AP) — One of two people who attended a large gathering with senior Hong Kong officials and was believed to be infected with COVID-19…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and JERRY HARMER Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s foreign minister has defended Prime Minister Hun…

By FLORIAN BRUNET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Egyptian-Palestinian human rights activist Ramy Shaath has arrived in Paris and…

CAIRO (AP) — Health officials in Egypt say a traffic accident involving a microbus and a larger bus has left at least 16 people dead and 18 others…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Tighter pandemic measures have come into force in Romania as authorities hope to…

By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say at least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The former head of Kazakhstan’s counterintelligence and anti-terror agency has been arrested on…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer Lawyers for Novak Djokovic have filed court documents in his challenge against deportation from Australia that showed…

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Milorad Dodik was once described in Washington as an anti-nationalist…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government has allowed Mother Teresa’s charity to receive foreign funds, weeks after blocking it saying the Catholic…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Coronavirus cases fueled by the highly transmissible omicron variant are rocketing through…

By KEN RITTER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has commemorated the late Senate Majority…

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities say a strong overnight earthquake shook a sparsely populated area in western China and forced the suspension of…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will…

BEIJING (AP) — Renowned Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou is promising a simpler opening ceremony for next month’s Beijing Winter Games with a bold…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico ended 2021 with an annualized inflation rate of 7.36%, the highest in 20 years. The national statistics institute said…

By JESSICA GRESKO and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lani Guinier, a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has tested positive for COVID-19, as case numbers hit new highs across the…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man with homemade explosive devices was arrested near a Tampa Bay area rally in support of a…

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities say a lunchtime explosion at an office cafeteria killed 16 people in southwest China on Friday and injured 10 others. A…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina Supreme Court justices have decided they won’t step away from…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The Treasury Department says states and localities in November paid out the largest amount of rental assistance to…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider is adding to her list of bragging rights. She’s…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A Marine Corps battalion commander has testified that in retrospect he would have…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, one of former President Donald Trump’s most…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO NEW YORK (AP) — Companies that would be affected by a Biden administration vaccine-or-testing requirement for workers…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sidney Poitier made history — on the screen and off. He opened up possibilities for…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — At least one person was missing and presumed dead as snow turned to rain and deluged the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The third straight Pixar feature film will go straight to Disney+, the Walt Disney Co. announced Friday. “Turning Red” will…

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Rex Dearmont Rust, co-president of the Missouri-based media company Rust Communications, has died. The company’s…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers rookie running back Najee Harris helped Ben Roethlisberger win last Monday night in what was likely the…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy is adding two weeks to boot camp in a major overhaul aimed at improving…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the state’s…

By DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The sister of a slain federal security officer is suing Facebook, alleging the tech giant…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan legislative leader is denying allegations that he raped his future…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press One of Pennsylvania’s biggest gas drillers is facing newer allegations of pollution in a rural community where…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Coast Guard has announced new safety rules following a deadly blaze that…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press President Joe Biden enters the midterm election year of 2022 determined to address what economists call a “supply”…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston mother was charged after authorities allege she placed her 13-year-old son in the trunk…

NEW YORK (AP) — “Judge Judy” Sheindlin has given a $5 million donation to New York Law School in Manhattan, where she, her daughter and…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As a trailblazing actor to generations of Black performers in Hollywood, Sidney Poitier often spoke…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a former Oklahoma police officer to 25 years in prison for the 2014 killing of his daughter’s…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police in Haiti say two journalists were killed by gang members while reporting in a conflictive area south of…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden has visited Colorado to comfort residents…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys for three former Minneapolis officers who are charged in the death of George Floyd are asking…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not often that Ted Cruz finds himself having to mend fences with the right. But that was…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of a memoir by Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona is correcting a passage about a…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sex trafficking at the 2020 Super Bowl in South…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil is already one of the countries most devastated by COVID-19 and it’s…

The Associated Press Tributes to Sidney Poitier poured in from Hollywood and elsewhere following the death of the groundbreaking actor and cultural…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas abortion clinics that were unable to stop the nation’s most restrictive abortion…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the fastest years of job creation in U.S. history stumbled at the finish line in…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio abortion providers have again sued to block a state law requiring that fetal…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The state of Vermont says investment management company Merrill has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle allegations…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has announced an amnesty for some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including…

NEWBERRYTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police who pulled over a suspected drunken or drugged driver in Pennsylvania discovered a live deer that had apparently…

CATSKILL, N.Y. (AP) — Graphic video made public Friday shows a man who doused himself in hand sanitizer bursting into flames when police officer…

By PATTY NIEBERG and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colorado (AP) — In Colorado and other states hit by natural disasters this…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sidney Poitier, who played roles of such dignity and intelligence that he transformed how Black…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A top Republican lawmaker in the presidential battleground state of Wisconsin says there is…

HOUSTON (AP) — The mother of a 2-year-old girl whose body was found in a Houston bayou in 2020 has pleaded guilty for her role in the child’s…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address on March 1, the White House…

BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin teacher has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for the killing of another man that the court said was…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz say a heap of nine bodies has been found piled on a roadside. The…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Wisconsin lawmakers are pushing for tougher bail policies after a man who is charged with driving his SUV through a…

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The challenges facing former U.S. Sen. Dean Heller as he runs for Nevada governor were on…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press CALI, Colombia (AP) — For the first time in years, Víctor Escobar stopped taking most of the medicines needed…