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By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has withdrawn from settlement negotiations to end lawsuits filed on behalf of…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

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A group of Afghan artists evacuated after the Taliban seized power in their homeland have…

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…