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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press CHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) — Lutheran pastors across Germany’s Saxony state have used their sermons and…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer From South African undertakers to ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbis, an unconventional cadre of people has joined…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews have yet to receive their…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly lower amid lingering worries about the omicron coronavirus variant’s…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. infectious disease expert says the nation should consider a vaccination mandate for…

By GERMAN DE LOS SANTOS and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) — Evangelical pastors have become increasingly influential inside…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Authorities say a gunman who went on a deadly shooting rampage in several locations in the Denver…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area health clinic founded four decades ago to screen refugees from…

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rookie sensation Jaylen Waddle returned from the COVID-19 list to catch 10 passes for 92 yards…

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Snow, ice and unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest and the Sierra Nevada are continuing to…

By STEFANIE DAZIO, CHRISTOPHER WEBER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was killed by Los…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — A man convicted of killing four people in what authorities say was one of the most…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Keri Hulme, the New Zealander whose 1984 debut novel The Bone People won the Man Booker Prize, has died. She was 74.…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party is pressing entrepreneurs to make the country a…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria media are reporting that Israeli missiles fired from the Mediterranean struck the port of Latakia, igniting a fire in…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s Victoria and Queensland states have reported record levels of new daily coronavirus infections as pressure on testing…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has opened a key political conference to review past projects and…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A college student who authorities say was killed by a handyman at an apartment complex where they both worked died by…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a murder charge against a man suspected of killing a good Samaritan who tried to detain him after an…

CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney says a lawsuit filed against the Chicago Blackhawks by a former Michigan high school student who said he was sexually…

Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the state’s death toll from devastating tornadoes earlier this month…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO says its fighter jets were scrambled hundreds of times this year to intercept aircraft flying too close to its borders. Most…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A referendum allowing Mexicans to vote midterm on whether the president should remain in…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, authorizing…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An autopsy report says that a Black youth’s death following a physical struggle with staff at…

WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — Two children were killed and another four children were hospitalized with injuries when a car plowed into them and fled…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The U.S. flu season has arrived on schedule after taking a year off. Flu hospitalizations are rising and the…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video released Monday shows Los Angeles police firing at a man…

TROY, Mich. (AP) — Police say they believe a 23-year-old man fatally shot his twin brother and shot and wounded their father before apparently…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are cutting isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who test…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — The wingtip of a plane loaded with passengers clipped the auxiliary power unit of a parked empty aircraft nearby as it…

PARIS (AP) — The French government has announced new COVID-19 measures in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. But authorities stopped short…

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Officials in Virginia have closed a road in one neighborhood after a mother bear and three cubs were spotted napping in a…

HONOLULU (AP) — Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has purchased more land in Hawaii, including most of a reservoir that unleashed a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Artist Wayne Thiebaud, who was known for his colorful and luscious paintings of cakes, gum ball machines and other everyday…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s president has called for an end to an 11-week deadlock that has prevented the government from convening, further…

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Police say three teenagers were killed and a fourth was critically wounded when another teen opened fire inside a Dallas-area…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy warship remains in port at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, with about two…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. infectious disease expert says the nation should consider a vaccination mandate for…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan in New Orleans has given birth to a healthy male baby, but his twin brother died in…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities say bird flu has killed thousands of migratory cranes and forced farms to kill over 500,000 chickens to…

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Severe weather sweeping parts of the U.S. has brought frigid temperatures to the Pacific…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says crews wrapping up the removal of a giant pedestal that once…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece say three people have been charged with murder following the death of 16 migrants who were killed when…

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia says it is unhappy with the U.S. decision to revoke duty-free access for the East African…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A leading conservation biologist who is credited with popularizing the term “biological diversity” has died. Thomas Lovejoy…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria has called Israel’s plans to double the number of settlers living in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has seized the former embassy and diplomatic offices of Taiwan, saying they belong to China.…

LONDON (AP) — A British police chief has written to apologize to the family of former professional soccer player Dalian Atkinson who died after a…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The sister and lawyer of a French tourist jailed in Iran last year say that he has begun a hunger…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A truck driver sentenced to 110 years for an explosive crash that killed four people in…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government has blocked Mother Teresa’s charity from receiving foreign funds, saying…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ authorities have released a draft document proposing amendments to the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A man charged with fatally shooting two men at a busy restaurant in Kentucky has pleaded not guilty. News outlets report…

By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Flight cancellations that disrupted holiday travel stretched into Monday. Staffers calling out…

By DÉBORA REY and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It’s been a year since Argentina legalized elective…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — English sparkling wine has been winning respect and an audience in recent years. Globally, English…

By KWASI GYAMFI ASIEDU Associated Press WEDOWEE, Alabama (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic church faces a clergy shortage. The number of priests has…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — French investigators say they have detained a man suspected of supplying authorities in…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has completed three full days of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s government minister for public security says he is now under round-the-clock protection after coming under threats from…

BOSTON (AP) — Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who advanced the provocative theory that human behavior such as war and altruism…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators have stepped up a series of investigations into multiple engine fires that…

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden insists that he strongly believes in the rights spelled out…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — New Year celebrations are approaching and across the world there is an urge to party. But the desire…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When Ohio House legislative aide Adam Headlee got his hands on a new set of trading…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court has rejected an appeal filed by Iran-backed factions contesting the results of parliamentary elections held in…

LONDON (AP) — British police say they are investigating a video linked to a man armed with a crossbow who was arrested at Windsor Castle on…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan lawmakers are meeting to discuss the many challenges that forced a postponement this month of…

BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin court says none of the parties has appealed against the verdict in the diplomatically sensitive trial of a Russian man who…

By HOLDEN LEWIS of NerdWallet IBuyers are one of the few true innovations to hit the real estate industry in recent years. Yet consumers haven’t…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat says talks between Russia and the United States on Moscow’s demand…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he has decided to veto a media bill that would have forced U.S.…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has extended the prison term handed to an activist who investigated Stalin-era repression to 15 years. Yuri Dmitriyev…

By MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking…

By ALEX SCHULLER and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Negotiators from Iran and five world powers have resumed negotiations on restoring…