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By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin’s reluctance to endorse the Biden administration’s expanded child tax…

By MEG KINNARD, JOSH BOAK and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden has pledged to fight for stalled…

By ALICE FUNG and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong voters are preparing to vote for the first time this weekend since election…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are suing three federal agencies over an environmental review the government…

By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Black motorist…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Travis Kelce scored on a 34-yard pass from Patrick Mahomes in overtime and the Kansas City…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge says that a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems can go forward. In a…

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — The contestant from Alaska has been crowned Miss America at an event marking the competition’s 100th anniversary. What…

By CHISATO TANAKA and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press OSAKA, Japan (AP) — A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental clinic in an eight-story…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s ethics commission has more work to do if it wants to seize the millions of dollars former Gov. Andrew Cuomo earned…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Sex and the City” actor Chris Noth has been accused of sexually assaulting two…

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say the body of a Kentucky teenager has been found after a tornado ravaged her neighborhood. Nyssa Brown was…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal judges in Louisiana and Texas continue to chip away at Biden administration COVID-19…

SYDNEY (AP) — The premier of Australia’s most populous state says he is not considering lockdowns or other restrictions as a record 2,213 new…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Two South Florida men have pleaded guilty in Ohio to leading a nationwide scheme to fraudulently obtain over $35 million in…

By EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The widow of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has died in the apartment where she led a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block lower court orders that are keeping President Joe Biden’s vaccine…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s sweeping deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over…

SYDNEY (AP) — Christmas lights have been turned off and a candlelight vigil was held in the Australian town where five children died after falling…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is subpoenaing James P.…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Educators have announced plans to increase security in response to TikTok posts warning of shooting and bomb…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say an electrical fault from an improperly disconnected battery in a used vehicle led to the fire aboard a…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A new federal regulation requires higher safety standards for pipelines…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says an engineer who worked for decades as a federal defense contractor…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former train engineer has pleaded guilty to terrorism for intentionally derailing a locomotive near a Navy hospital ship…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana appeal court says the man who killed former NFL player Joe McKnight cannot…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite months of being courted and cajoled, Sen. Joe Manchin is still not a…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate parliamentarian says a Democratic effort to let millions of immigrants remain…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities have issued a search warrant for Alec Baldwin’s cell phone, saying it could hold evidence that might be…

By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An official with Rivian Automotive said the company was attracted to Georgia’s…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman suspected of shooting at strangers in vehicles over the last few months is facing four charges of…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press Michael Cohen claims in a new lawsuit that Donald Trump retaliated against him for writing his tell-all memoir last…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are lifting long-standing restrictions on how women obtain the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is exhorting the world to make “concrete” progress…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, JENNIFER PELTZ and ALI SWENSON Associated Press This year’s holiday season was supposed to be a do-over for last year’s…

CHICAGO (AP) — An arbitrator has ruled that several unions representing Chicago firefighters and other city employees must follow Mayor Lori…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A group has dropped plans to circulate petitions for a 2022 ballot drive to award…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Security researchers say they discovered two different types of commercial spyware on the phone…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Three media organizations and their reporters are suing Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, alleging she…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — If there was a decade when the NBA nearly disintegrated under the weight of its own problems,…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ Republican governor has told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the state will not…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa, Florida’s big pirate celebration and parade is coming back after a year off…

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A congressional report says the federal agency overseeing the lease of the luxury hotel that…

By The Associated Press One photo shows a man lying on the beach of a Spanish enclave in northern Africa after swimming there from Morocco. Another…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press U.S. health officials say most Americans should get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of…

HOUSTON (AP) — Miami Herald President Nancy Meyer has been hired as the new publisher of the Houston Chronicle. New York-based Hearst Corp.…

By HOPE YEN and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s pick to run the nation’s highway safety agency is pledging…

By The Associated Press It was the year that mental health took a prominent position in the sports world — led by two female athletes, Simone Biles…

BOSTON (AP) — The chief executive of a California liquor distribution company who authorities say paid $500,000 to get her son into college as a…

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana judge will take an unpaid leave of absence after she repeatedly used a racial slur in a video recorded at her…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been detained by police in Bratislava for organizing an anti-government…

By The Associated Press This year was always expected to be busy on the Mexican border. President Joe Biden, who took office in January, promised to…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has withdrawn from settlement negotiations to end lawsuits filed on behalf of…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In a story published December 16, 2021, about Oregon’s efforts to combat illegal marijuana production, The Associated Press…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State University police chief has resigned after a recording the institution called reprehensible came to light…

By The Associated Press Olivia Rodrigo, Kanye West, Tyler, the Creator and Billie Eilish are among some of the well-known acts who released albums in…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A suspect has been identified and charged in the 2016 shooting death of a St. Louis man…

By PATRICIA LUNA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Most eligible Chilean voters stayed home for the first round of…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince William has revealed some of his Christmas favorites in response to questions from children receiving cancer…

MILAN (AP) — A U.S. Navy support site near Naples, Italy, was locked down for some two hours Thursday after reports of gunfire near a base school.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the former Oklahoma zookeeper known as “Tiger King” Joe Exotic say he is…

By The Associated Press Chronicling COVID for a second straight year, and this year’s vaccine saga, AP photographers found new ways of telling the…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s Justice Ministry says it has struck a preliminary agreement to rent 300 prison cells to Denmark to help the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed a bill raising the nation’s borrowing limit by $2.5 trillion, avoiding a potentially…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says it has identified its first three cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says an Israeli man has been killed in a shooting ambush in the northern…

PARIS (AP) — The United Nations cultural agency has placed a traditional Haitian soup widely seen as a symbol of the nation’s independence on its…

By MARK KENNEDY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Many stages on both Broadway and the West End have been forced to go dark once…

By The Associated Press In Germany, a train passes a railroad crossing surrounded by floodwaters. In Greece, a man stands off a beach and watches a…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Labor unions led by the Greek Communist Party are demanding a return of wage and pension levels that were axed during three…

By The Associated Press Afghanistan, the country that can’t catch a break, had another difficult year in 2021. It was punctuated by the chaos…

Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Even though there have been no cases of clinical infection, the new omicron variant is now the dominant…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has returned a lawsuit over Texas’ six-week abortion ban to a federal…