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LONDON (AP) — U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu has been honored by Queen Elizabeth II in the British monarch’s annual New Year’s list following…

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A western Colorado woman has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder after her children,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The airline industry is trying to delay next week’s scheduled rollout of 5G wireless service near dozens of major U.S.…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s navy has seized two semi-submersible boats carrying 4.1 metric tons of cocaine off the…

By FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press Betty White was America’s naughty sweetheart. With a wholesome smile and a dirty joke she charmed millions of…

By The Associated Press Tributes from fellow actors and comedians poured in on social media Friday in reaction to the death of Betty White. The…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Beaches along the south Los Angeles County coast have been closed due to a spill of untreated sewage. Authorities say a…

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The Rose Parade and Rose Bowl college football game between Ohio State and Utah are set to go forward on New Year’s Day…

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

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and tribal leaders are suing the U.S. government to try to block construction…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has dropped plans to give the country’s highest honor to an Israeli historian amid criticism of his work on…

By LYNN ELBER and FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television…

By DARKO VOJINOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Boisterous New Year’s Eve celebrations have kicked off in Serbia’s capital of…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press A New York resident and “Jeopardy” contestant who was stumped this week by a clue about his state’s governor…

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio high school football player who says coaches forced him to eat a pizza covered with pepperoni grease in violation of…

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected in the shooting of one police officer and wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel has been…

By MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy It was a healthy year for big gifts to charitable causes in 2021, a year…

By ACACIA CORONADO and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Sarah Weddington is being remembered this week as a champion…

By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This time last year, the Republican Party was hitting bottom. The GOP had…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Flight cancellations surged again on the last day of 2021, with airlines blaming it on crew shortages related to…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES, MAURICIO SAVARESE and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Leaders around the world are relying on…

LONDON (AP) — New post-Brexit custom rules for goods arriving from the European Union to Britain are taking effect on Saturday. A leading food…

By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This time last year, the Republican Party was hitting bottom. The GOP had…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Denis O’Dell, a British film producer and director who worked with The Beatles on the movie “A Hard Day’s Night,”…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from drag queen titan RuPaul, the sixth and final season of…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say six people were shot as six gunmen fired dozens of shots on a street full of businesses late Thursday.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Winnie the Pooh” and “The Sun Also Rises” are going public. A.A. Milne’s children’s book and Ernest Hemingway’s…

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The judges of a Michigan university’s cheeky annual “Banished Word List” have a message for texting and…

AVENTURA, Fla. (AP) — Police say two people died when a higher speed commuter train hit their car as the driver tried to make it around the…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials have warned revellers in Scotland and Wales to think twice before travelling to England to…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni military officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has mistakenly hit a…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French customers will be encouraged to adopt more environmentally friendly habits under a series of…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service pulled out all the stops to avoid a repeat of the 2020 holiday…

By WILSON RING Associated Press From minimum wage increases to animal protection to police accountability to both cutting and increasing taxes a…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — This New Year’s the European Central Bank is celebrating the 20th anniversary of…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The International Federation of Journalists says that 45 reporters and media workers were killed doing their jobs over the last…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says troops shot and killed a Palestinian man as he ran toward a bus stop in the occupied West Bank…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation. It comes a year…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The World Food Program has suspended its operations across Sudan’s province of North Darfur…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans of all walks of life are paying their respects to Desmond Tutu.…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces raided two militant hideouts in a former Taliban stronghold, triggering…

SYDNEY (AP) — New coronavirus infections have soared again in Australia to a record of more than 32,000, just days after surpassing 10,000 for the…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her…

By JOHN LEICESTER and NICK PERRY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Muted New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world ushered in the fourth calendar…

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press An anguished encounter between two titans of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle during the…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Wall Street ended 2021 on a weak note Friday, but still managed to end the year with big gains. The S&P 500…

BEIJING (AP) — A survey shows Chinese factory activity edged higher in December as supply disruptions eased and export demand weakened. The monthly…

By BRITTANY PETERSON, PATTY NIEBERG and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press SUPERIOR, Colo. (AP) — Tens of thousands of Coloradans driven from their…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square has arrived…

By AAMER MADHANI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that the…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial was a four-week winding road with…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian countries are looking to a China-centered trade bloc encompassing about a third of…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for the woman who says Prince Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17 insist that…

TORONTO (AP) — Quebec is reimposing a nighttime curfew beginning New Year’s Eve, and Ontario has delayed the resumption of school by two days as…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police say the suspect in a fire in Japan that killed 25 people has died at a hospital where he was…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A coronavirus surge has upended plans to hold a major nuclear treaty conference at the United…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Weather Underground radical David Gilbert described his path from nonviolent 1960s…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is urging Germans to pull together to defeat the coronavirus in 2022 and…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has sided with local law enforcement in a case brought by Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrators alleging…

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With a guilty verdict in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, here’s a look at what…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it’s streamlined the approval process for urgent use of…

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Hundreds of homes, a hotel and a shopping center have burned and tens of…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The bodies of 15 more migrants killed in a Dec. 9 truck crash in southern Mexico have been returned to Guatemala. The remains…

HONOLULU (AP) — Military officials tell Hawaii lawmakers that they need more time to flush jet fuel from their Pearl Harbor water system. Navy…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have designated a member of the Pussy Riot punk group, a satirist and an art collector as “foreign agents” as…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people not to go on cruises,…