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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams named a Las Vegas jail official and former New York police officer as his incoming head of the…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman who was…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Local authorities in western Serbia have suspended a plan that would allow mining…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press Americans across the country are pitching in to help after last week’s tornadoes ravaged the South and Midwest,…

By EVENS SANON and PETER SMITH Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The remaining members of a U.S.-based missionary group who were…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — A prominent U.S. Senate candidate in North Carolina has withdrawn from next year’s…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Medical regulators are under increasing pressure to act against American doctors who spread COVID-19…

By JAY REEVES and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Details about the fathers and mothers, friends, siblings and children who died during a tornado…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Burton gives the competition a celebrity…

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A section of a major interstate highway in Northern California has reopened after a nearly 24-hour closure caused by…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Survivors of a tornado that leveled a Kentucky candle factory have filed a lawsuit against…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The government of Cyprus expects tourism to start fully rebounding in 2022 after arrivals this year increased a healthy 175%…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — US industrial production increased 0.5% in November as output at the nation’s…

By MARCELA ISAZA AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bay Area-rapper Saweetie wants to win a Grammy for the West Coast. Nominated for best…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Congolese health authorities have declared an end to the Ebola outbreak in the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has given final approval to a bill barring all imports from…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s health ministry has confirmed the country’s first case of the omicron coronavirus variant, detected in a visitor…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The line of cars started forming at dawn. It was early November in Greenville, North…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say all of the military services have now begun disciplinary actions and…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week despite signs that…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — New home construction in the U.S. rebounded 11.8% in November, as strong demand continues…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking steps aimed at reducing lead in…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say a Baltimore officer is in critical condition after being ambushed and shot while sitting in a patrol vehicle. The…

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GAUHATI, India (AP) — Police in India say Myanmar has handed over five insurgents belonging to an Indian rebel…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The head of the U.S. agency that grants citizenship and visas says it’s in a strong financial…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say that four men including suspected right-wing extremists have been arrested as German investigators raided their…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A big postal rate increase over the summer hasn’t stopped catalog retailers from stuffing…

By DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Soaring infections in Britain driven in part by the omicron variant of the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — New witness accounts allege that thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been forcibly expelled,…

By MARGERY A. BECK and MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say at least five people died when a powerful storm system…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has again cut interest rates despite soaring consumer prices that…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Oversight Committee is demanding the Justice Department provide answers about…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have closed an investigation into a racist attack last year after finding no evidence that the gunman who killed…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russia has submitted draft documents outlining security arrangements it…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The former Facebook manager who startled the world this fall by leaking tens of thousands of…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank has raised its key policy interest rate from 0.25% to 0.5%, citing the upswing in the economy…

BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany has convicted a 31-year-old man of 89 counts of attempted murder for driving his car into a crowd celebrating…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish authorities say citizens from fellow Nordic countries will have to show a valid COVID-19 vaccination certificate…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A summit of European Union leaders is trying to coordinate action to tackle the surge of…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police have arrested eight former Bosnian Serb army commanders and soldiers in the 1992 wartime killing…

By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has a positive international image when it comes to the rights and lifestyles of…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has raised interest rates to combat surging consumer prices. The move Thursday…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A fashion studio in Hungary is challenging the centuries-old stereotypes faced by the…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has decided not to abruptly pull back its pandemic support…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has marked 50 years of victory over Pakistan in a bloody war for independence by hosting a military parade with…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its exports jumped 20% and imports rose at an even faster pace in November as disruptions to manufacturing supply…

By ANGELA CHARLTON and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France will restrict arrivals from Britain because of fast-spreading cases of the…

By LORNE COOK and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are pressing Russia to enter peace talks with Ukraine. At the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A former employee of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba says human resources and upper…

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Some former vaccine skeptics in Eastern Europe are shifting over to the other…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares have fallen in Asia after technology companies led Wall Street benchmarks lower.…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows that millennials and Generation Z Americans say they are more likely to be…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jurors in the case of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Thursday heard…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy says it has rescued five Iranians suspected of smuggling drugs after they apparently set fire to…

By INNA VARENYTSIA and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press NEVELSKE, Ukraine (AP) — The 7-year-old conflict in eastern Ukraine has all but emptied the…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist…

SYDNEY (AP) — Five children have died and four others are in critical condition after falling from a bouncy castle that was lifted 33 feet into the…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called on people and government officials to…

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing Winter Olympics organizers say measures to prevent cross-infections between athletes and the outside world are being…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The largest mosque in the disputed region of Kashmir dominates its neighborhood with an…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hospitals in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul are running out of supplies,…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After a dozen years in office, one piece of unfinished business remains for Manhattan District…

By SEAN MURPHY and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) — Several tightknit communities of the South and Midwest are turning…

By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has all but acknowledged negotiations over his sweeping…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s workplace regulators are extending the state’s coronavirus pandemic…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government says it is donating 1 million coronavirus vaccines to the U.N.-backed COVAX program. The Foreign Ministry…

By BRIAN MELLEY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors are blaming a Texas oil company’s negligence for a…

By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Urban Meyer’s tumultuous NFL tenure ended after just 13 games — and two victories…

By JAMES LAPORTA and JASON DEAREN Associated Press An Associated Press investigation has shown how U.S. troops have stolen guns and explosives from…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Addressing a group of visiting French lawmakers, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is calling for greater unity among…

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kim Potter’s police chief at the time she shot and killed Daunte Wright…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell responded to surging inflation by…