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By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Firefighters in Hong Kong have rescued hundreds of people who fled to the rooftop of a skyscraper and…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in eastern Germany have carried out raids in an investigation of alleged threats to kill a state governor and others by…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The luxury fashion house Chanel has chosen Leena Nair, an industry…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has delivered its first formal response to Republican Rep. Lauren…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya is scheduled to hold elections in just over a week, on Dec. 24, a long-awaited vote that is the…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As a mob overran the U.S. Capitol last January, some of Donald Trump’s highest-profile…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights activists are lobbying major jewelers to stop buying gems sourced in Myanmar as…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to hold former White House chief of staff Mark…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Security pros say it’s one of the worst computer vulnerabilities they’ve ever seen. They say…

By LISA MASCARO and ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s one of the most far-reaching of all the federal aid programs launched…

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The case for and against Ghislaine Maxwell has been made, and as soon as Monday, her fate will rest…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Colleges across the U.S. are starting to require booster shots, extend mask mandates and in some cases revert…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks have climbed in Asia, tracking Wall Street’s gains, after the Federal Reserve said it would…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU, VICTORIA MILKO and LORI HINNANT Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In February, Myanmar’s military took over the…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s former president says the Taliban, who had already reached the gates…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Volunteers along U.S. coasts are raising oysters from tiny translucent spat to…

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 CLAIRE GALOFARO and JOHN RABY Associated Press BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — When a tornado touched down in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in the middle…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A telethon hosted by the University of Kentucky Athletics has raised more than $3 million in donations with matching funds to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The revelation that Fox News Channel personalities sent text messages to the White House during the…

By CLAUDIA TORRENS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — During a tribute to her career at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), Penelope Cruz…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration is weighing…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration’s plan for health insurers to reimburse consumers for…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden is pledging to do “whatever it takes, as long…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s mayor has announced even more initiatives aimed at curbing open drug use…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has emerged largely unscathed from drenching rainfall and heavy…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU, VICTORIA MILKO and LORI HINNANT Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In February, Myanmar’s military took over the…

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA and EVENS SANON Associated Press CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — Nelly Joseph picked through the twisted metal roofing,…

By SCOTT BAUER and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A use-of-force expert has testified that former Minnesota police officer Kim…

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

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has delivered its first formal response to Republican Rep. Lauren…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is exempting San Francisco from a rule that takes effect Wednesday requiring all people to wear masks indoors in a…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A group of six French lawmakers has arrived in Taiwan for a five-day visit, following a similar trip led by a group of French…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Halting its steps toward normalcy, South Korea will clamp down on social gatherings and cut the hours of some businesses…

By The Associated Press On Oct. 21, on a movie set in New Mexico, what was supposed to be fiction reached into reality in the most destructive of…

By The Associated Press Melting glaciers, deadly floods in Germany, record high summer temperatures in generally mild Oregon, more urgent pleas for…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Long Island police official will be New York City’s next police commissioner, becoming the first woman to lead…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Since taking power 10 years ago, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has cherished his…

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) — A Texas county has approved a $5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement with the family of a man who sheriff’s…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials and family members have marked the renaming of the busy Las Vegas airport as Harry Reid International Airport. Reid…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife officials have advanced plans that could allow grizzly bear hunting in…

BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Charges are expected soon for a Minnesota grocery cart delivery worker accused of driving over sacks of food meant for an…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by former President Donald Trump in his…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry now holds the NBA career 3-point record. The Golden State Warriors’ guard…

HOUSTON (AP) — Witnesses say a crime defendant punched and attacked a bailiff, prosecutor and judge after being denied bond in his fraud case in…

Associated Press THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — Three voters from a Florida retirement community that’s a GOP stronghold have been arrested on…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Next week’s launch of NASA’s new space telescope is delayed for at least…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Netflix executive is going to federal prison for taking bribes and kickbacks from tech companies to approve…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s mayor has announced even more initiatives aimed at curbing open drug use…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has topped 800,000. That is according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins…

By The Associated Press The year started with a lot of promise. The world had a vaccine. And even as the planet reached 2 million dead by the middle…

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is proposing a bill to ban transgender women and girls from participation in female school sports…

By The Associated Press The Associated Press spent months contacting hundreds of local election offices in the political battleground states where…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek foreign minister has voiced worries over potential plans by Spain to boost military cooperation with Greece’s…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The star-filled readings of old episodes of ‘The Facts of Life’ and ‘Diff’rent…

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says a secret 2008 settlement that a lawyer for Prince Andrew says would protect him against a lawsuit claiming that he…