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By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Many adults find themselves helping their aging parents sign up for Medicare, a complex process with many steps and…

By ZEN SOO and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — For Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, 2021 has been a year in which the city’s…

By SYLVIE CORBET and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s government is forging ahead with efforts to increase pressure on…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has granted a request to shut down another prominent human rights organization…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is lifting its ban on Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft, three years after one…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Here are some athletes who were money in the bank for sports bettors this year:…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian prosecutors have postponed their sentencing demand for a top terror suspect…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says he’s worried about the omicron and delta variants…

BEIJING (AP) — China is urging the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Desmond Tutu is being remembered for his passionate advocacy on behalf of LQBTQ people as well as his fight for…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press PARALIMNI, Cyprus (AP) — Many well-off Lebanese who escaped their country’s economic tailspin for a new…

By LAURIE KELLMAN and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving…

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 KAT STAFFORD and JAMES LAPORTA Associated Press An AP investigation found that despite new Defense Department guidelines on extremism, racism and…

By KAT STAFFORD and JAMES LAPORTA Associated Press An AP investigation found that despite new Department of Defense guidelines on extremism, racism…

By YAYAN ZAMZAMI Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have decided to allow a boat carrying 120 Rohingya Muslims to…

WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a suspect in a hit-and-run crash in South Florida that killed two children and…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press ENIWA, Japan (AP) — Japan has been building up its defenses to counter strategic threats, but its arms industry…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say the slashed-up bodies of five men have been found on a roadside in southern Mexico. The bodies were…

By LAURIE KELLMAN and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has died. He was 82 and had battled…

By The Associated Press Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is being remembered by Democrats as well as Republicans as a skilled dealmaker who…

By LAURIE KELLMAN and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving…

Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Coronavirus cases are surging across Australia as an outbreak of the omicron variant spreads, prompting Prime…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press Former President Donald Trump says he will endorse Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy for reelection, but only if the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled against the state in its lawsuit challenging the vaccine…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Stand News online media outlet says it is ceasing operations following a police raid and arrests of…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer The NFL says Hall of Fame coach turned broadcaster John Madden has died at age 85. Madden’s exuberant…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The big waves are returning to Walt Disney World. The theme park resort said Tuesday that it will reopen its Typhoon Lagoon…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Prince Andrew say a lawsuit by an American who claims he sexually abused her when…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The attorney representing the private company that oversaw the Arizona Senate’s partisan review…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s new puppy, Commander, has gotten his moment under the…

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Dallas-area police have released a 14-year-old boy whom they had suspected in a weekend shooting that left three teenagers…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Twenty people were injured when a Greyhound bus headed to Las Vegas veered off a highway and rolled over in central Utah late…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general says a retired priest who once oversaw children’s safety in a Catholic diocese in the…

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says it is investigating the fiery crash of a small business jet near San Diego.…

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s public lands agency is warning people that they face arrest if found burning Christmas trees at an oceanic sandbar. The…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has paid a rare visit to Israel for talks with Israel’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Ballet has canceled its remaining performances of “The Nutcracker.” The famed ballet by George Balanchine was…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says it will allow cruise ships carrying people infected with the coronavirus to dock. The announcement…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s parole commission has canceled the scheduled 2024 parole for one of two men convicted in the 1993…

By DAVID PORTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won’t face criminal charges stemming from…

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police officer has been suspended with pay after a video showed the officer pressing his knee into the back…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group to stay…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 22-year-old white supremacist has been sentenced to life in federal prison for killing a woman…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The county attorney prosecuting the case of two southeast Iowa teens charged with murder in…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A prosecutor in Las Vegas says a 57-year-old man jailed after police found the severed head and…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California became the first state to record more than 5 million known coronavirus infections. The state dashboard…

By ZEKE MILLER and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials’ decision to shorten the recommended COVID-19…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A federal judge has refused to throw out an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the far-right Proud…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A total of 116 cities in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia were in a state of…

WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities have found the car that plowed into a group of children in Florida, killing two and injuring four. But…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese authorities said at least 38 people were killed when a defunct gold mine collapsed in West…

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

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers are meeting behind closed doors as they launch an impeachment…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani did things during 2021 that almost nobody alive had ever seen in sports.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — An advisory body in Belgium has suspended a government-ordered closure of part of the cultural sector. The Council of State said…

By FAZLUR PHILLIPS Associated Press CAPE TOWN (AP) — Desmond Tutu’s family members have gathered at his Cape Town home in preparation for his…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor must soon decide whether to free one of America’s most…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown and his ex-wife have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Officials say firefighters have contained a blaze that raged for hours in Syria’s port of…

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a mama black bear and her three cubs clambered up a tree and napped in the middle of a Virginia…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital pulled books, money, ammunition, documents and…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s main opposition party is calling for the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The jury weighing the fate Ghislaine Maxwell’s fate has told a judge it is…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has agreed to defer its…

By HASSAN AMMAR Associated Press TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s energy minister has launched two projects in the country’s north to…

MIAMI (AP) — Federal regulators say the owner of a Miami-based payday loan company bilked hundreds of investors out of millions of dollars and…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Supreme Court has thrown out the 2016 conviction of a Florida woman…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s ruling emir has announced the formation of a new Cabinet. The move…