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By TERENCE CHEA Associated Press ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Even Christmas trees aren’t immune to the pandemic-induced shortages and inflation…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection says the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks are trading mixed in Asia after a broad rally on Wall Street as investors keep an eye on the spread of…

By TOM KRISHER Associated Press The Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the U.S. is on hold because of legal challenges, but…

By KRISTIN M. HALL and JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press Takeaways from an Associated Press investigation that found that hundreds of pounds of…

By KRISTIN M. HALL, JUSTIN PRITCHARD and JAMES LAPORTA Associated Press An Associated Press investigation has found that the U.S. military has a…

By KRISTIN M. HALL, JUSTIN PRITCHARD and JAMES LAPORTA Associated Press An Associated Press investigation has found that the U.S. military has a…

By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean superstar Gianna Jun (Jun Ji-hyun) has fronted numerous beauty and fashion…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations is predicting that a record 274 million people – who together would amount to…

By DON BABWIN and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The state has rested its case to jurors at Jussie Smollett’s trial after key…

By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The superintendent of a Michigan school district says no discipline…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jury for the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after a turbulent day on Wall Street as traders tried to forecast…

LONDON (AP) — An 11-person collective from Belfast that aims to transcend Northern Ireland’s political and religious divides has won the U.K.’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — The holly, jolly, best time of the year has gotten a light-filled launch. The towering Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center has…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan says it has retracted a ban on new incoming international flight bookings to defend against…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Members of the United Auto Workers union apparently will approve picking their leaders in direct…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The new U.S. ambassador to New Zealand says he wants to find areas of common ground…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago has dropped its lawsuit against the police union over a COVID-19 vaccine…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has broken its daily record for coronavirus infections for a second…

YELLOW BLUFF, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect and sheriff’s deputy are dead after a domestic call in Alabama erupted in gunfire. The…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Organizers for GivingTuesday say American donors gave $2.7 billion during Tuesday’s giving day. The…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say DNA and genome sequencing have identified a body found decades…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — America’s defense chief has rebuked China, vowing to confront its…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom says in no uncertain terms that he thinks shoplifters should be…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Police were looking for a man dubbed the “snake burglar” who wriggled his way through a Southern California business…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The state of Hawaii says a laboratory has detected petroleum product in a water sample from an…

By JOE McDONALD, SAM McNEIL and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Laos, an isolated, mountainous nation of 7 million people wedged…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former five-term Louisiana sheriff has pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge less than a month after a state jury…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles branch of Planned Parenthood chapter has been hit by a data breach involving about 400,000 patients, but the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has been asked in arguments to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses held a “family” celebration of Hanukkah at the White…

BOSTON (AP) — A California couple accused of paying $25,000 to cheat on their son’s college admissions test has abruptly agreed to plead guilty.…

By The Associated Press Airlines are being required to gather information about some passengers that will help with contact tracing if they develop…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The man accused of driving his SUV through a suburban Milwaukee parade, killing six people and injuring dozens, says he feels…

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Hundreds of people in the central Montana town of Denton have been forced to flee flames pushed by strong winds.…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A Canadian energy company that sought to build a natural gas pipeline and marine export…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans woman who played a supporting role as a former child actor in the Oscar-nominated film “Beasts of the Southern…

NOVI, Mich. (AP) — No criminal charges will be filed in the fireworks-related death of Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks at a…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Water agencies in drought-stricken California that serve 27 million residents…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan prosecutors are charging a teen with terrorism in a deadly mass shooting at his…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study finds that climate change isn’t causing the devastating drought and famine in Madagascar.…

GLEN BURNIE, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials say a woman found dead in her garage was the mother of the knife-wielding man who was fatally shot by…

By KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge is weighing arguments about whether to dismiss the 25-count murder case against a…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla says it has officially moved its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to a large factory under construction…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada has officially narrowed its decade-long hunt for a new fighter jet to two choices as the federal government confirmed…

COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) — The father of a 2-year-old girl whose body was found in a debris field in the East Fork of the White River has been charged…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — TV stations in Philadelphia, New York City and Cleveland are taking down the “Dr. Oz Show,” now that the show’s host,…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government could be heading for a temporary shutdown. Republicans…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Leaders in the Black community of Virginia Beach are calling for a federal investigation…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico announced a joint plan with the United States to send development and agricultural aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press A book by Donald Trump’s ex-chief of staff says Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his first…

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s health department says emergency workers should not use a condition…

By DAVID KLEPPER and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Facebook says it removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to an effort to spread unfounded claims…

By TERRY TANG The Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University student groups protesting Kyle Rittenhouse’s ties to the school…

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital have announced a settlement with 79 women who say they were sexually abused…

AURORA, Mo. (AP) — A prosecutor has dismissed a murder charge against a southwestern Missouri man in a woman’s 1988 killing. Lawrence County…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri has been charged with illegally spying on relatives of sailors whose…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is holding a massive rally in Mexico City…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel’s army says two Israelis drove into the Palestinian city of Ramallah and local police turned them over to…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s new cases of COVID-19 have nearly doubled in just one day. The numbers…

PRAGUE (AP) — Petr Uhl, a Czech journalist who was one of the country’s leading communist-era dissidents and human rights activists, has died…

LONDON (AP) — British police say they are investigating a video which appeared to show a group of men spitting at a bus full of Jewish people…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Stacey Abrams says she is making another run for governor of Georgia. Her announcement…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky author Ed McClanahan has died at his home at the age of 89. McClanahan was a friend of counterculture icon Ken…

The Associated Press Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates say they will still work with the Giving Pledge. That’s the campaign they co-founded…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Federal authorities say a former Mississippi police sergeant has pleaded guilty to producing a video that shows a minor…

By RONALD BLUM and STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writers IRVING, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats are vowing to push new gun-control legislation and to revive stalled bills in…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer The head of the women’s professional tennis tour tells The Associated Press that the suspension of all WTA…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Rep. Peter DeFazio, the longest serving U.S. House member in Oregon’s history, is retiring. The 74-year-old Democrat is the…

By CHRIS PIZZELLO, STEFANIE DAZIO and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A Los Angeles philanthropist and the wife of…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man convicted and sentenced to die for his role…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the Federal Reserve can’t be sure that…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s governor is honoring the state’s first Black poet laureate, a creative…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A person in California has become the first in the U.S. to have an identified…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Prehistoric footprints that have puzzled scientists since the 1970s are getting a second…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief says if insecurity in Burkina Faso keeps up,  the…

By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-hired attorney investigating the 2020 election has told…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization is hailing steps by its member states to launch work…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — An 11-year-old girl who survived a Michigan plane crash that killed her father and three other people has been released…

DALLAS (AP) — Marcus Lamb, CEO and founder of the conservative Christian Daystar Television Network who was outspoken against COVID-19 vaccines,…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds, which are in decline…