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By JILL COLVIN Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence visited early-voting New Hampshire, where he delivered a…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MATTHEW LEE and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has reached out to Ukraine’s leader…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Dole is lying in state at the U.S. Capitol. President Joe Biden and others…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Food waste is California’s next target as the state seeks to lower greenhouse gas…

By DON BABWIN and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett’s conviction for lying to police has come nearly three years after…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man for the 1985 shooting death of an Oklahoma City-area…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Starbucks workers at a store in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize…

By MATTHEW CHENG and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong tycoon and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai and two others have…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The U.S. has ordered an arms embargo on Cambodia, citing deepening Chinese military…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer IOC President Thomas Bach can’t escape repeated questions about Peng Shuai and issues raised by two video calls…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. authorities have sent the first two migrants back to Mexico under the reinstated “Remain in Mexico” policy. The…

Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Navy will halt operations at fuel storage tanks above a Hawaii aquifer until its own investigation into how…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Pelé has been hospitalized again in Sao Paulo to continue his colon tumor treatment.…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A judicial board has ruled that the more than 300 lawsuits that have been filed so far in Houston…

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A West Texas man has been acquitted of murder in the 2019 fatal shooting of a police officer who was shot while checking a…

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie says he tested positive for COVID-19 and has mild symptoms. Guthrie said in a news…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A father and son have been arrested on suspicion of starting a massive California…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has appointed a former federal judge to ensure no First Amendment protections are…

SEATTLE (AP) — The vote in a recall effort against a socialist Seattle City Councilmember has tightened considerably as more mail ballots are…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin is promising to use his executive powers to…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former boyfriend of a woman who says she was paid to give sexual favors to…

RIVERVIEW, Fla. (AP) — A body camera video shows that a Florida deputy who fatally shot an 88-year-old man while checking on his welfare repeatedly…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is convening global leaders determined to show the world that…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says he’s tested positive for the…

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Nebraska smashed an 80,000-pound tractor-tanker into a…

ROMEO, Mich. (AP) — A 41-year-old Michigan man has been arrested and accused of using chemical spray on law enforcement officers as part of a mob…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Progressive Democrats are ratcheting up pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to punish firebrand…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jurors at the manslaughter trial for the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Diplomatic boycotts of the Olympics aim to snub host nations while keeping athletes free to…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Native corporations face a year-end deadline to use federal coronavirus relief funds…

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — The billionaire daughter of the Publix Super Markets founder has died after having early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. She was…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia library has removed a display that placed the Bible alongside two books…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is isolating after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have authorized a new COVID-19 antibody drug for people with serious health…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Outrage is spreading on social media in Myanmar over images and accounts of the alleged killing and…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court has delayed the state’s planned March 8 primary until…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Attorneys for entertainer Flavor Flav say he’s working to stay sober following dismissal of a…

By AUDREY McAVOY and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. Navy has commissioned the USS Daniel Inouye, naming its…

COUSHATTA, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities say a police officer is accused of using a patrol car while off duty to illegally hunt deer at night…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than six months after the wife and son of a prominent South Carolina lawyer were…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of debate, Congress is on track to change how the U.S. military handles sexual…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer ATLANTA (AP) — The chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 40 people in the…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A new report by a Norwegian watchdog group documents Chinese squid vessels using wide nets to…

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) — A shootout during a traffic stop at Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park wounded a ranger and one…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida ethics panel says it has found probable cause that Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried violated state law for…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer In a blog post titled “No Dollar Signs This Time,” billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott said she…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pivotal Sen. Joe Manchin says he’d vote to uphold the Senate parliamentarian’s decision…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The editor of a popular Belarusian media outlet has been arrested following a raid of his…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to make the federal government carbon-neutral…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The military says it has identified the remains of a U.S. Army corporal from Connecticut…

TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — An investigation by the Los Angeles Times has found that hundreds of Southern California criminal cases could be…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former high school employee serving a life-without-parole sentence for recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband in…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The president of the International Olympic Committee has done his best to stay neutral as Canada,…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has narrowly approved a resolution to nullify the Biden administration’s…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will continue as tag-team hosts of “Jeopardy!” through the rest of this season. The…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced tighter restrictions to stem the spread of the…

BERLIN (AP) — The German news agency dpa reports that the relatives of a Chechen man shot dead in Berlin two years ago are accusing the Russian…

Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — After deliberating for five hours over two days, jurors have recommended the death penalty for a man…

By MATT O’BRIEN and FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writers Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for…

By BRIAN MELLEY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A report filed with federal regulators reveals the offshore pipeline that…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew braved poor visibility and frigid rapids to reach a car partly submerged in…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — France’s top diplomat has sought to smooth over unusually sharp tensions with Algeria with a visit to Algiers, the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It would be an understatement to say that Simon Rex is drawing the best reviews of his life playing a…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury says the government of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele secretly…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Democrats on a U.S. House committee are pushing to reduce the financial secrecy that…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for a Maryland woman charged along with her husband in a scheme to sell Navy submarine…

GALENA, Mo. (AP) — Three men charged after a tourist boat sank and killed 17 people in Missouri in 2018 are in state court for a preliminary…

TALLAHASEE, Fla. (AP) — Advocacy groups are criticizing the Florida Department of Education for removing an anti-bullying webpage from its site,…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal jury in Arkansas has begun deliberations in the trial of former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who is accused of…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says early evidence suggests the omicron variant of the coronavirus may be spreading faster than the…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho woman says her lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on transgender athletes should…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say they have discovered the 1974 Pinto a 22-year-old student was…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith rappelled into a live volcano and kayaked down an Icelandic whitewater river for…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The defense team for fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has rested its case in…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas judge is due to issue a ruling Thursday on whether to limit medical information that…

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s top elections official is asking lawmakers for $200,000 annually for guards and other security-related measures after…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An assembly line of holiday films to make the heart sing is the Hallmark Channel’s blueprint,…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Julius S. Scott, a groundbreaking scholar of slavery and Atlantic history who wove together…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A train belonging to Florida’s higher-speed passenger rail service struck and…