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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will prohibit private social gatherings of five or more people nationwide…

First lady Jill Biden met with victims of a Christmas parade crash in suburban Milwaukee where six people were killed and dozens were injured after…

By MARTÍN ADAMES Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — An aviation company says a small plane it operates crashed in the…

Australia’s New South Wales state has recorded 1,742 new cases of COVID-19, its highest daily total since the pandemic began. Hospitalizations are…

By The Associated Press On Jan. 6, as Congress was meeting to certify the victory of President Joe Biden, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who…

BOSTON (AP) — Rachael Rollins says she has endured racist and threatening messages as she prepares to become Massachusetts’ next U.S.…

By ERICA HUNZINGER AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — U.S. sports leagues are seeing rapidly increasing COVID-19 outbreaks with dozens of players in…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two Muslim worshippers who at different times charged toward a gunman to try and stop…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.N. report says humanitarian aid delivery from Turkey to rebel-held northwestern Syria is…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press At former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial for fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a Black…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Port of Los Angeles is on track to move a record volume of import cargo this year.…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks have settled a lawsuit by a former player who said he was sexually assaulted by…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — What could be California’s first major new reservoir in years has cleared a key…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s congress has voted to strip a politician accused of making a deal with the country’s powerful…

By BRIAN MELLEY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles federal grand jury has charged a Texas oil company and two…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Enbridge Energy is trying to shift to federal court a Michigan lawsuit seeking…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israeli rockets have hit army posts in the country’s south, killing one soldier and causing…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has pleaded guilty to a federal count…

By AAMER MADHANI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden announces two more ambassador nominees, the White…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Tennessee man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of an off-duty police officer in 2015. The U.S.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has rejected arguments aimed at dismissing sex assault charges against a former New…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Patrick King wants the record to show that “Sex and the City” had a “slow burn…

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida grand jury has issued a lengthy list of recommendations aimed at preventing another condominium collapse like the one that…

By SEAN MURPHY and JOHN RABY Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a Kentucky man suffered a fatal heart attack while cleaning up…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Meek Mill played basketball before the 76ers game with 25 Philadelphia-area children from…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Partisan election reviews of the 2020 presidential election are…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — An electrical engineer who examined the USS Bonhomme Richard after it was destroyed by fire last…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former OppenheimerFunds analyst has pleaded guilty to a securities fraud charge alleging he used company secrets to collect over…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is defending lawmakers’ right to trade stocks. The practice…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government is advising Canadians against all non-essential international travel and the…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Family and friends of slain rapper Young Dolph have remembered him as a generous…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced he’s nominating Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have met with their counterparts from five former Soviet republics, including Ukraine, with an eye toward…

By BRITTANY PETERSON and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Water leaders in California, Arizona and Nevada have signed an agreement…

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press The Los Angeles public school system became the latest in California to delay a deadline for mandatory student…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A lawsuit filed in a North Carolina county says officials with a local Boy Scouts of America chapter in North Carolina…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine group has thrived during the COVID-19…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government report says U.S. health care spending rocketed to $4.1 trillion last…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has called critical race theory “crap” and…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives has made public nearly 1,500 documents related to the U.S. government’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say a Florida man has been arrested on charges related to storming the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection and…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Council has voted to pay $2.9 million to a woman who was handcuffed by police officers during a February 2019 raid of…

By KEVIN McGILL and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has lifted a nationwide ban against President…

By The Associated Press If 2020 was a pandemic-induced pause, 2021 was when things started up again, albeit slowly and timidly. But that doesn’t…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Associated Press says a freelance video journalist accredited to the AP in Ethiopia has…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Attorneys for a Mexican woman who was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent and survived have…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has sent President Joe Biden a $768.2 billion defense bill that makes…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A spokesman for Christian churches in the Holy Land has accused Israel of discriminating against Christian tourists during the…

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

By TOM MURPHY and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most older Americans have had to use telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is requiring audience and employees to receive COVID-19 booster shots for entry starting Jan. 17. The…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s interior minister has ordered the deportation of members of Bahrain’s outlawed Shiite opposition party after they…

BY CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — As winter approaches Florida, state wildlife officials say a test feeding plan will…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing questions about his future after almost 100…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — bell hooks, the author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Essence Festival is planning its return to New Orleans next summer after a two-year…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — New test results show that the amount of lead in Benton Harbor, Michigan’s drinking water…

By LAURA UNGAR and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press The new omicron coronavirus mutant speeding around the world may bring another wave of chaos, as…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amazon’s “With Love” is a holiday-themed TV series that takes a different approach.…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin are sharply divided over Democrats’ huge social and…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s minister of innovation and digitalization has resigned following a…

ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has announced a $10.2 billion incentive plan in an attempt to attract global chipmakers and…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The countries behind a U.N. agreement on weapons have been meeting this week on the thorny issue of…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Adrienne Warren had studiously avoided touching a Tony Award her entire stage career. On…

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. recorded the highest number of confirmed new COVID-19 infections Wednesday…