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By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro is holding a commanding lead as…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer The head of the Women’s Tennis Association says he remains “deeply concerned” about the whereabouts of…

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities have taken into custody a 26-year-old man who apparently stowed away in the landing gear compartment of an American…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press CANTARRANAS, Honduras (AP) — Two weeks before Honduran elections, Cantarranas Mayor Francisco Gaitan…

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say that a man remains in critical condition following a shooting at a shopping mall that was packed…

By ARMANDO SOLÍS Associated Press NUEVO URECHO, Mexico (AP) — Extortion of avocado growers in western Mexico has gotten so bad that 500 vigilantes…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a shooting in a Tennessee apartment has left three people dead and four others wounded. A suspect was among…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America Residents in Washington are preparing for possible flooding as “atmospheric rivers” once again…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban prime minister is defending the group’s rule amid a worsening economic crisis. In his first…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police in Washington state are investigating a shooting at a shopping mall that left one person seriously wounded and sent…

DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A security guard has died after he was shot while protecting a San Francisco Bay Area…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than $1.4 million has been raised for a man who spent 43 years behind bars before a judge overturned his conviction in…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has ordered five people to remain in pre-trial detention for two months pending…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says he hopes that the sight of air force planes transferring patients across the country will act as a…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Miloš Zeman has been discharged from the capital’s military hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus.…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Bob Dylan has been telling stories through songs for 60 years. But recently America’s master…

By ALICIA LEON and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Tens of thousands of Spanish police officers and their supporters have marched in…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say they have arrested 15 people suspected of smuggling Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants into the country…

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city’s request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Skirmishes have erupted in Serbia between police and anti-government demonstrators who briefly blocked roads and bridges in…

Italy is reopening its slopes to recreational skiers after one season lost and another abbreviated by the pandemic. Here is a glance at how the…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press CASS LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Several members of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in northern Minnesota are…

By LORI HINNANT and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — Migrant smuggling networks organizing English Channel crossings have reaped…

By ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — California and Colorado this year banned state agencies from using the…

By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s Interior Ministry says a man who attempted to attack security officials in…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is soaring, businesses are struggling to hire and President Joe Biden’s poll numbers…

By COLLEEN BARRY and CHARLENE PELE Associated Press SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Italy (AP) — After a season of being restricted to watching snow…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Security forces have fired tear gas at protesters throwing rocks in Burkina…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal investigators say an oil tanker hit an oil platform at night off Louisiana…

By ELODIE SOUPAMA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — France’s government is offering to discuss greater autonomy…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been on a PR blitz promoting his new book. In…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs a year ago are…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s annual Golden Horse Awards kicked off Saturday with a Hong Kong drama receiving the most nominations for the Asian…

LONDON (AP) — At least three people have died in the U.K. after the year’s first winter storm battered parts of the countries with gusts of…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerians are voting Saturday to elect their mayors and regional leaders amid widespread worry and frustration over rising…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government has asked Starlink Internet Services of Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company to comply with the…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus has popped up in more European…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands police have found three bodies in a burned-out building and arrested more than 100 people in this…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s new law on working from home has grabbed attention around the world for the…

By COLLEEN LONG and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Demands by Democrats to fix the nation’s broken immigration system were…

BEIJING (AP) — Macao police have detained the head of Macao’s biggest casino junket organizer and others after Chinese authorities issued an…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread across the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, at his first troop review, has renewed his pledge to…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say shots were fired near a food court at a shopping mall in Tacoma, Washington. Pierce County Sheriff’s Sgt.…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The widow of South Korea’s last military dictator has issued a brief apology over…

HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu city worker has died after being trapped in a tank at a sewage treatment plant. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched airstrikes targeting the country’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The president of the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances says there is an “almost total, structural” lack of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden is back at his rental home on the Massachusetts island of…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from saxophone legend Kenny G, a documentary about the 12 young…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim had to endure a public fuss when a…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. and JONATHAN DREW Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A police chief says three people were shot and wounded Friday during an…

NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) — Authorities say a man eating Thanksgiving dinner inside a home in the Philadelphia suburbs was killed by a stray…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization is postponing its conference set to open Tuesday after Switzerland…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Police and media reports say an unknown gunman has opened fire on a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has designated the armed groups blamed for hundreds of abductions and killings in…

BOSTON (AP) — One of the first coins minted in Colonial New England has sold at auction for more than $350,000, more than it was expected to get.…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press The brother of a British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein exploit underage girls says her prosecution…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Golf, cricket and rugby have become the first major sports to be affected by the…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s government has launched measures to discourage foreign travel as a way to protect the country’s thin…

By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Minnesota’s Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is calling on House leaders to take “appropriate…

PARIS (AP) — The archbishop of Paris has offered to resign after admitting to having had an “ambiguous” relationship with a woman in 2012. The…

EDMAR BARROS, SILAS LAURENTINO and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press ON THE RIO MADEIRA, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of barges of illegal gold miners are…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nineteen people are dead and 32 more are injured after a bus apparently carrying pilgrims to a religious site in central Mexico…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials struggling to distribute federal funds to prevent evictions have outlined…