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By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Around three dozen Democrats were trapped in the House gallery on Jan. 6 after the rest…

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 J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When the U.S. Capitol came under siege a year ago, Associated Press photographer J. Scott…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Beneath the glare of television cameras, it seemed hard not to see the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for what it…

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia officials are defending their response to the snowy gridlock that…

By MATTHEW LEE and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Germany say that Russia’s military buildup near…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging concern but not alarm as the United States set records for daily…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and JEFF AMY Associated Press SMYRNA, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he’ll push for a new state law that would…

By THOMAS PEIPERT and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Investigators looking for one of two people missing after a destructive Colorado…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities have announced a two-week ban on flights from the United States and seven other…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia and Japan will sign a treaty on Thursday to increase defense and security cooperation in a move that has been hailed as…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia is experiencing rising COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations and long queues at testing centers as it continues to…

LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — A German shepherd named Tinsley successfully led New Hampshire state police to the site of its owner’s rollover crash.…

U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence says she plans to retire from Congress at the end of her term, becoming the 25th House Democrat to decide against seeking…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico City say a judge has ordered a former political boss held in jail pending trial on sex-trafficking…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State fire officials say Pacific Gas & Electric power lines sparked last summer’s Dixie Fire in Northern California…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Reigning “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider was robbed at gunpoint over New Year’s weekend in Oakland, California.…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say they have found the mother of a baby found abandoned in a…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say R&B entertainer Jason Derulo was involved in a scuffle with two people at a Las Vegas Strip resort, but he was not…

MIAMI (AP) — Rapper Pooh Shiesty has pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge in Florida and avoided a possible life sentence. Court records show…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Some Democratic California lawmakers want to make it easier for people to sue gun-makers…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man has been freed from prison after 37 years in a case tarnished by…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A rabbi who was badly wounded in a deadly antisemitic attack at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Southern California has been…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. military says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the sea, its…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An FBI dive team has joined the search for a 3-year-old San Antonio girl reported missing two weeks ago. Lina Sardar Khil was…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has canceled a press conference he had planned to hold in Florida on…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, recently defended his lack of public appearances during the omicron surge,…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the U.S. led-coalition in Syria struck several launch sites for…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An anthology of the late Norman Mailer’s writing that Random House allegedly had scheduled…

By DAVID KOENIG and TALI ARBEL Associated Press Telecom giants AT&T and Verizon have agreed to postpone the launch of a new slice of 5G wireless…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A family that was stuck on Interstate 95 and other roads in Virginia by a snowstorm says they went more than 18 hours…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians won’t be able to water their lawns for 48 hours after rainstorms…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — One of the survivors of a racist massacre at an African American church in South Carolina has started giving out…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah tech entrepreneur and onetime prominent figure in state Republican politics resigned from the board of the company he…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former hermit in New Hampshire whose cabin in the woods burned down after nearly three…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury has ended the suspense surrounding the fraud trial of former Theranos CEO…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are explaining why they recently shortened their COVID-19 isolation and…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. new vehicle sales rebounded slightly last year from 2020′s dismal numbers, but were still about…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican Larry Elder is bypassing a possible rematch with California Gov. Gavin Newsom…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln deployed this week from San Diego under the command of Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, the first woman to lead a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say 97 hostages, mostly women and children, have been rescued more than…

ELFRIDA, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona couple has been arrested after authorities say they left their 11-year-old son home alone for two weeks. The…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. public health officials are investigating how civilians have been affected by the leakage of…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge has ruled that thousands of documents related to security during the construction in North Dakota of the…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A rural Alaska man who threatened to kill Alaska’s two U.S. senators in a series of…

PARIS (AP) — The French national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into a car explosion last week ahead of the…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a 30-year-old man who alleged that the…

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says a police officer fatally shot last week at a northern Illinois hotel pleaded for her life before a man…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — About 1,000 sexual abuse victims of a University of Michigan sports doctor would get a…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new federal court order says a Mississippi city must allow construction of a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Demonstrators denouncing the doubling of prices for liquefied gas have clashed with police in Kazakhstan’s largest city and…

ROME (AP) — Designer Giorgio Armani is cancelling his men’s fashion shows in Milan this month and his Prive haute couture show in Paris because…

CHICAGO (AP) — Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois has formally announced he won’t seek a 16th term in the U.S. House. The former Black…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has aced the most complicated, critical job on its newly launched space…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago schools have canceled classes Wednesday after the teachers union voted to switch to remote…

By JOSEPH HAMMOND Religion News Service Halal Restaurant, East London’s oldest halal eatery, opened in 1939 to serve the needs of Muslims in the…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says all nine justices have received COVID-19 booster…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer A forecast of better weather means that the worst may finally be over for tens of thousands of air travelers who…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging concern but not alarm as the U.S. sets new records for daily…

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — An attorney for a man accused of driving his son to a Dallas-area gas station store where the 14-year-old is accused of…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has five new members. Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday…

PARIS (AP) — France reported a record-smashing 271,686 daily COVID-19 cases Tuesday as omicron infections race across the country. The surge is…

By ALAN FRAM and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he remains opposed to President Joe Biden’s…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press Winter weather is playing havoc not only with road travel but also passenger trains in Virginia and other states.…

By ALEJANDRA ZÚÑIGA Associated Press LA PAZ, Mexico (AP) — COVID-19 infections are rising across Mexico, especially in two states home to major…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — This week’s remaining episodes of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” have been scrapped after the host…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The explosive increase in U.S. coronavirus case counts is raising alarm, but some experts believe the focus…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s currency has hit a new low, reaching 20 times its value on the black market since the economic meltdown began in late…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Brightline higher-speed train fatally struck a pedestrian who walked into its path…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the first part of a report on…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for over 140 days to protest being imprisoned without charge will end his…

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Sen. Tim Kaine left his home in Richmond for his usual two-hour commute to the U.S. Capitol after Monday’s snowstorm,…

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. government says it charged one of the main suspects in the killing of…