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By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla is recalling certain Model 3s because a coaxial cable for its backup camera can…

WINFIELD, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say homes and buildings were damaged and trees blown down as a line of intense thunderstorms rolled…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police say a man fatally shot his 16-year-old daughter in the family’s Ohio home after he mistook her for an intruder.…

By DAVID CRARY and JOHN HANNA Associated Press Year after year, several thousand women in the U.S. carry an unintended pregnancy to term and then…

BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are searching for two people believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of one police officer and…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters rallying against the…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Bill de Blasio says New York City will ring in 2022 in Times Square…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell below 200,000, more evidence…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The news is a mixed bag for people in need of heating assistance who see a cold winter…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy shot a Malayan tiger that grabbed the arm of a man who was either feeding or petting the…

By PHILIP MARCELO and AMY TAXIN Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal immigration officials have denied hundreds of Afghans seeking temporary…

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court has accepted an indictment against suspects from a religious association in a…

BEIRUT (AP) — Satellite images taken this week over the port of Latakia show the smoldering wreckage after an Israeli missile strike, hours after…

LONDON (AP) — Members of Ghislaine Maxwell’s family say they still believe she is innocent after a New York jury found her guilty of luring…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police say six suspected rebels and an Indian soldier were killed in two separate counterinsurgency operations in disputed…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has reported a sharp increase in coronavirus-related deaths as the National Health Service…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese officials are promising steady deliveries of groceries to residents of Xi’an, an…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press SIBIU, Romania (AP) — Officials and experts in low-vaccinated Eastern Europe are anticipating a post-holiday…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s Environment Minister said Thursday a clandestine oil deal between Israel and…

By NASSER KARIMI and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television says Tehran has launched a rocket with a satellite…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — United States navy vessels have seized 385 kilograms (849 pounds) of heroin in the Arabian Sea worth some $4…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press MUTARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — African leaders are paying tribute to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for his fearless…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two former editors from a Hong Kong online pro-democracy news outlet have been charged with sedition…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have arrested a Hindu religious leader for allegedly making a derogatory speech…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia after a late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man accused of killing five people in a rampage in Denver is believed to have…

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

By SAM McNEIL, DAVID RISING and RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An AP investigation reveals signs Myanmar’s military is reverting…

By SAM McNEIL, DAVID RISING and RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An AP investigation reveals signs Myanmar’s military is reverting…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has urged its 1.2 million troops to unite behind leader Kim Jong Un and…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A fire has damaged the front doors and exterior of the Old Parliament House in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The…

TORONTO (AP) — Coronavirus infections have set new one-day highs in six Canadian provinces, prompting several provinces to impose more restrictions…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Two men in Panama have been given long prison terms for killing seven young people in 2020, bloodshed that shocked a country…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former Alabama Secretary of State Nancy Worley has died. She was 70. Worley later became…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in Mexico say inspectors have found 21 more cracks in welds or steel structural pieces on a Mexico City elevated…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers have subpoenaed law enforcement officials and crash…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s health safety council has approved the use of Cuba’s three-dose Abdala coronavirus vaccine. The council…

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Officials at the Publix grocery store chain says that they will start offering paid parental leave to employees who are new…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in north-central Mexico says a shooting attack has killed eight people at two homes, including a baby boy. Officials…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver’s marriage is officially over, 10 years after…

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — A World War II veteran who was one of the last living members of an all-Black cavalry regiment has died in Florida. Steve…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor says an autopsy’s finding that the death of a Black teen in custody at a…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada casinos set a record in November, reporting a ninth straight month of $1 billion or more in…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story published December 29, 2021, about California’s Medicaid overhaul, The Associated Press erroneously reported…

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire court has found that a woman violated the state’s civil rights law when she called Black child by a racial…

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The third-generation editor and publisher of a historic Black newspaper in North Carolina and a driving force behind the…

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Dallas-area police have charged a 14-year-old with capital murder in a triple killing at a gas station and are warning that…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas isn’t canceling or scaling back plans for big New Year’s gatherings amid concerns…

By KEVIN FREKING, LAURIE KELLMAN and KEN RITTER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents and former colleagues are lauding longtime Senate…

NEW YORK (AP) — A surge of coronavirus cases in New York has forced the postponement of another signature event, the Westminster Kennel…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level…

ENNIS, Mont. (AP) — Firefighters faced cold temperatures that caused their equipment to ice up as they battled a fire in a four-unit apartment…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a Los Angeles business manager whose clients had included Nicki Minaj and the Kardashians has been killed, and…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Supporters of Donald Trump are trying to remove some of the guardrails that stopped him from overturning the…

CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago men have been charged in a shooting at a suburban Chicago shopping mall that wounded four bystanders and sent thousands…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — William Alvin Moncrief Jr., a Texas wildcatter who helped build a father-son venture into an oil…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has postponed the penalty trial for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to Feb. 21. Circuit Judge Elizabeth…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating more cruise ships due…

SEATTLE (AP) — A thaw-out is coming for the frozen Seattle and Portland, Oregon, but not before another round of snow that could compound problems…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia and Belarus will hold joint war games early…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 27-year-old Florida man accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed two children and injured four others caused a…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Supporters of Donald Trump are trying to remove some of the guardrails that stopped him from overturning the…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The woman who co-founded Preservation Hall in New Orleans has died. Sandra Jaffe and her…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have allowed for the reopening of cinemas, theaters and concert halls. The…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Candace Parker staved off Father Time to help the Chicago Sky win the franchise’s first WNBA championship and…

In the headline of a Dec. 29 story about a Muslim woman’s lawsuit against a Missouri gun shop, The Associated Press erroneously reported that…

CARLYLE, Ill. (AP) — Police have arrested a Kentucky man in connection with the fatal shooting of an eastern Illinois deputy early Wednesday and a…

GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A judge has kept lawsuits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family who own it on hold…