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

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

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…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of Novak Djokovic’s supporters have gathered at a rally in downtown Belgrade to protest his confinement in…

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Former players David Cone and Eduardo Perez are joining Karl Ravech to form a new broadcast team for ESPN’s “Sunday Night…

By LINDSEY TANNER and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers Hospitalizations of U.S. children under 5 with COVID-19 have soared to unprecedented levels, a…

MOSCOW (AP) — As Kazakhstan struggles to cope with an increasingly violent uprising this week, it has turned for help to a Russian-led security…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s office says he has tested positive for the coronavirus after apparently being infected by a…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue and his campaign are challenging a new state law that…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Culture Ministry launched an investigation Friday following the online release of a short film showing two men…

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 DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A ballot drive being launched in Michigan would protect a woman’s right to an abortion…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A Portuguese court has acquitted a former defense minister but convicted 11 others in connection with the theft of weapons…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators are shortening the time that people who received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine have to wait for a booster —…

CHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City player Benjamin Mendy has been released from prison on bail ahead of his trial on rape charges, which has…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Governors across the U.S. took sweeping action during earlier surges of the COVID-19…

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the Boston area’s public transit agency to determine whether there was a…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer Novak Djokovic isn’t alone in having his visa canceled after flying in for the Australian Open without the…

By MATTHEW LEE and LORNE COOK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and NATO are roundly rejecting Russian demands that the alliance…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press MAKURDI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 100 people have been killed in three days of violence in Nigeria’s troubled…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A winter storm in the eastern U.S. has snarled travel and given hundreds of school districts…

PRAGUE (AP) — The new Czech government says it aims to phase out coal in energy production by 2033 while increasing the country’s reliance on…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The tallest mountain in the Galapagos islands is erupting, spewing lava down its flanks and clouds of ash over the Pacific…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron maintained on Friday his rude remarks about the country’s minority of vaccine refusers, saying he…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has delivered two tons of medicines to Afghanistan, although it has not officially…

By ZEN SOO and KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities have suspended several government officials from duty and will…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press GUIPRY, France (AP) — The wildfire spread across Europe of the highly contagious omicron variant of the…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The government of the Netherlands has sparked anger by announcing it may have to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is recalling its new ambassador to Prague after he criticized the country’s approach to a dispute with the Czech…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s population has declined by 11.5% in the past decade, according to first results from the 2021 census.  The…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Three suspected pirates detained on a Danish military vessel after a fatal gunfight in November off West Africa have…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is distributing an additional $4.5 billion in funds to help low-income…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has dismissed North Korea’s claim to have recently launched a hypersonic…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is displaying three ballistic missiles at an outdoor prayer esplanade in central Tehran as talks in Vienna…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency says an airstrike has killed three Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray region amid the…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities are facing face growing pressure to free an author who has been in…

By YURAS KARMANAU The Associated Press KYIV, UKRAINE (AP) — Ukraine’s Court has frozen the assets of former President Petro Poroshenko as part of…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro currency hit its highest level on record, led by…