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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Germany are backing Lithuania in its spat with China, saying the pressure exerted by Beijing against the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers say she’ll request a new trial after revelations by a…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that parents shared more meals and spent more quality time together…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve policymakers at a meeting last month said the U.S. job market was…

OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — Students at a Michigan high school will return to classes next week at a different location, weeks after four were killed…

PARIS (AP) — France has announced a staggering number of daily virus cases, at more than 332,000 far surpassing a string of recent records.…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press The U.S. is strengthening its COVID-19 booster campaign, endorsing an extra shot for everyone…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli committee has approved plans for building more than 3,500 settler housing units in east Jerusalem, nearly half in a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Santos has been sworn in as the head of the nation’s largest statistical agency. He became the first Hispanic director…

By RODRIQUE NGOWI, MICHAEL CASEY and DON THOMPSON Associated Press Hospitals across the U.S. are feeling the wrath of the omicron variant and getting…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemeni officials say forces of the internationally recognized government have reclaimed large swaths of…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A major lawsuit in the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium that killed 98 people will go to trial…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The oldest World War II veteran in the United States has died at the age…

By ZEKE MILLER and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials say they are not changing the definition of being “fully…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls videos of a party on a recent Sunwing Airlines flight…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — ExxonMobil says it has made two additional oil discoveries off the coast of Guyana as the South American country…

LONDON (AP) — Four anti-racism demonstrators have been cleared of criminal damage in the toppling of a statue of a 17th-century slave trader during…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More earthquakes have struck near South Carolina’s capital city. Wednesday’s 2.6- and…

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Since he was a child, Li Jingwei did not know his real name, where he was born or his exact…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief is insisting that the 27-nation bloc must have a bigger…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Treasure hunters who believe they found a huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania are now on the…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man and his Minnesota son have pleaded guilty to a charge of civil disorder related…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib says she will seek reelection in a new Detroit-area seat created through…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s health authorities have recommended that the use of the country’s digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say two construction workers have been killed after being buried under the roof of a school that collapsed. No…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the Jan. 6 attack, the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Experts in South Africa say President Cyril Ramaphosa is challenged to take decisive…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Some legal experts say a prosecutor’s decision to drop a groping…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A preliminary voting report in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy indicates the group’s…

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Hampshire College has received an anonymous $5 million gift in honor of one of its most famous alumni, award-winning…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Authorities in Portugal are wrestling with a conundrum: how to hold a general election…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of anti-vaccination protesters in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe attacked a hospital director and…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Taiwan says it’s creating an investment fund and planning other measures to help…

By ERIC TUCKER and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader…

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a man to death for beheading another man in a gruesome street murder that shocked the country two…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government has decided to cut isolation restrictions for those testing positive for COVID-19 from 14 to five days, and also…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer Kyrie Irving was just the jolt the Brooklyn Nets needed to escape a midseason slump. He can only provide it on…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — University of Florida President Kent Fuchs has announced that 2022 will be his final year in office. The 67-year-old…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — An Italian museum is lending a fragment of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece in what both sides…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Officials in Croatia say that omicron variant of the coronavirus has fueled the highest number of daily new infections in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Sussex will receive a nominal 1-pound payment for invasion of privacy plus…

LONDON (AP) — Chrysler says it plans for its vehicle lineup to go all electric by 2028. It’s the latest brand to announce a major shift away…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — France is allowing health care workers who are infected with the coronavirus but have few…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian rescuers are praising a dog who protected his injured owner from freezing high on a snowy mountain, keeping him…

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Police say a second man has been arrested in a shooting at the Mall of America in a Minneapolis suburb last week that…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say an eight-year-old girl has died from her injuries after strong winds blew a bouncy castle several meters into…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago school leaders canceled classes in the nation’s third-largest school district for the…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Fifteen years after Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union, many residents…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s defense minister has met with the Jordanian king. The meeting in the Jordanian capital Amman on Wednesday…

LONDON (AP) — Germany’s antitrust watchdog has paved the way for extra scrutiny of Google by designating it a company of “paramount…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in Sao Paulo, where he spent two days after an intestinal…

NEW YORK (AP) — Staff writers for The New York Times and The New Yorker, an art expert based in Rome and an associate professor at Oxford…

BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. official says unknown perpetrators have attacked a group of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, vandalizing their vehicles…

By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger officials say that police have seized more than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of cocaine…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli court has sentenced a man to a year in prison for his involvement in the…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, hundreds of people who…

By ANNIE MILLERBERND of NerdWallet The busy season for home remodeling usually ends in late summer or early fall, but contractors say demand from the…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds The semiconductor chip shortage and supply chain disruption have forced many automakers to remove certain features from…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An aide says Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time but has no serious…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden has created an agency to combat disinformation as the country approaches a September general election. The…

By DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Health authorities across the U.K. have simplified COVID-19 testing requirements in…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s foreign minister has tested positive for the coronavirus as the European Union member country experiences a…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest opposition party says it will support the reelection of President Frank-Walter…

By AYA BATRAWY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — An influential Saudi cleric who once served for years as head of…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russia-led military alliance says it will dispatch peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan after the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has called for making it simpler for couples to adopt children as he presided over his…

BEIJING (AP) — A troubled Chinese real estate developer with $310 billion of debt is asking investors in one of its bonds to postpone when they…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military has apologized for causing public concern about its security…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. and the Iraqi military say Katyusha rockets have struck Iraqi military bases hosting…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Officials in Ethiopia have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared thousands of ethnic Tigrayans who recently were…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister is advocating tougher curbs on contact between people as the country prepares for a new rise in…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the lawmakers who were trapped in the upper…

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — More than half of the NFL’s 32 teams have female fan clubs. The Detroit Lions’ Women of…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street lower after investors saw minutes from a Federal…