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By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are bringing Christmas Eve cheer to…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The doctor for a private Christian boarding school that has been the focus of an abuse investigation in Missouri has been…

By The Associated Press Christmas may be over, but a feast of movies and television shows arrive next week. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s critically…

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Two New Hampshire brothers have gotten their holiday regifting skills down to an art by passing the same hard candy back…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has imposed a four-year prison sentence on a 41-year-old man convicted of attempted murder for firing…

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OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — Police say a suspected gunman was among four people who were wounded during a shootout at a suburban Chicago shopping mall…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Keenan Scott II made his Broadway acting debut this week in “Thoughts of a Colored…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two antiviral pills are the latest additions to the handful of therapies to treat COVID-19 in…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries that it imposed to…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says it expects the U.S. to respond next month to Moscow’s request for security…

By The Associated Press Children younger than 5 can’t get COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. yet, but there are steps you can take to protect them from…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has frozen the assets of 770 Turkish nationals and a Chicago-based foundation it accuses of having links to terror groups. A…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newly released video shows a security officer leaping over conveyor belt rollers and saving a 2-month-old boy who stopped…

By ULIANA PAVLOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has fined Google nearly $100 million and Facebook’s parent company Meta $27…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has fired more than a dozen of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. The Friday…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II is expected to offer a particularly personal Christmas Day message to the nation…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds took to the streets in several Libyan cities to protest the cancellation of Friday’s…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says the proportion of coronavirus infections with the new omicron variant will increase sharply in the…

By DAVID McHUGH and TALI ARBEL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights as the omicron variant jumbled schedules…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — At least 13 people have died after a migrant boat capsized in the Aegean Sea. That…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Central Group and Signa of Austria have confirmed plans to buy luxury British department store chain Selfridges.…

PARIS (AP) — Protesters angry over virus and vaccine rules have occupied Guadeloupe’s regional legislature because of stalled negotiations over…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet has approved a record 5.4 trillion yen ($47 billion) defense budget for fiscal…

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government has denounced a U.S. law that restricts imports from Xinjiang as a violation of international law and…

By JACK JEFFERY, DAVID McHUGH and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press From Bethlehem and Frankfurt to London and Boston, the surging coronavirus…

BERLIN (AP) — Police and prosecutors say a German man who fled after losing his final appeal of a murder conviction for the 1993 killing of a…

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — While many college athletes have profited from recent rules allowing them to make money…

By PHILIP MARCELO, ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The surge in coronavirus cases driven by the new…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — As 2021 comes to a close, many people in richer parts of the globe are fretting over the…

HONG KONG (AP) — Universities in Hong Kong are removing memorials to the bloody suppression of the 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement centered on…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press LIWA, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Tens of thousands of camels from across the region have descended on the desert…

BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say the military has unleashed airstrikes and heavy artillery on a small town controlled by ethnic guerrillas,…

By BEN FINLEY and STEVE HELBER Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The spot in Richmond, Virginia, where a towering statue of Confederate Gen.…

By ABDUR RAHMAN JAHANGIR Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Officials say a massive fire swept through a crowded river ferry in Bangladesh,…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stocks were mixed in quiet trading on Friday, with many markets closed or ending early in…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forecasters say winter storms that have killed at least two people will bring flooding…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The coroner’s office has identified the 14-year-old girl who was fatally shot by Los…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Native American tribes are awaiting a one-time windfall that could help…

By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Rest assured, kids of all ages: Santa’s coming this Christmas Eve, and…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan says it won’t send a delegation of ministers to represent the government at the Beijing…

DENVER (AP) — The district attorney’s office that prosecuted a trucker who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for an explosive crash that…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Rescuers trekked through heavy snow and sleet to find a hiker lost in one of the most…

OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — Police say a shooting occurred at a mall full of Christmas shoppers in suburban Chicago, injuring four people. The incident…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in says he will pardon his chief conservative rival and…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore police officer has died after being removed from life support one week after she was shot while sitting in her patrol…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors in Michigan are striking back against the parents of a boy charged with a school shooting…

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

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Biden administration has rejected Georgia’s plan to expand Medicaid coverage on the…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for a Taser was led away in handcuffs Thursday after a…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. officials are loosening rules that call on health care workers to stay out of work for 10…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Attorneys for an oil and gas company are asking a federal judge to reinstate a drilling…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed a bill into law to block imports from China’s…

SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a Utah man and a Tucson girl were killed when a single-engine plane crashed near the airport of the…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas board has withdrawn a unanimous pardon recommendation for George Floyd over a 2004…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities rescued one driver early Thursday but were unable to save two more from a submerged car in a flooded underpass south…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — An archaeological dig in Sicily has uncovered traces of a lost World War II American heavy bomber…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A senior government human rights official says that 90% of crimes against activists and journalists go unpunished in Mexico. The…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press SOAVE, Italy (AP) — Italy has again tightened its COVID-19 restrictions, focusing on the unvaccinated and on New…

TAMPA, Fla (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has blocked President Joe Biden’s requirement for federal contractors to receive coronavirus…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have fatally shot a 14-year-old girl who was inside a clothing store…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A white suburban Minneapolis police officer has been found guilty of first-degree and…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador says vaccination against the coronavirus will be mandatory for most citizens. Only Ecuadorians with a medical…

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — France has condemned the Malian transitional authorities’ decision to allow the deployment…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The mother of a transgender teenager who died by suicide at a youth detention center in Maine has settled a wrongful death…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be…

PHOENIX (AP) — The first Native American woman elected to Arizona’s Senate has resigned to take a position with the U.S. Department of the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Revelers will still ring in the new year in New York’s Times Square next week, there just…