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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security officials say the country’s military courts have convicted a prominent…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A six-story condominium building that was the subject of structural complaints dating back to June 2020 has been evacuated in…

By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Antony Sher, one of the most acclaimed Shakespearean actors of his generation, has died aged 72. The…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A U.N expert says contemporary forms of slavery exist in Sri Lanka, with vulnerable…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The Council of Europe’s committee on torture has harshly criticized Croatia over “severe ill-treatment” of…

DETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling nearly 725,000 SUVs and pickup trucks because the hoods can open while the vehicles are moving. The recall covers…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The newly installed mayor of Rochester, New York, is in quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus last month.…

By ABDOULIE JOHN and CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambians are getting ready to vote in a historic election that…

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida teenager is accused of making a school shooting threat against Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dozens of flag-waving demonstrators from a Kurdish organization have broken into the grounds of the global chemical…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British study has found that Black and other members or racial and ethnic minorities in the U.K…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s new parliament has convened for its first session following the country’s third parliamentary election of the…

BERLIN (AP) — German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle says it is suspending four employees and one freelancer during an investigation into…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have decreed that they are banning the forced marriage of women in the war-torn country, in what appears to…

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a Muslim mob descended on a sports equipment factory…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer says he will be the acting leader of the conservative People’s Party and will seek to…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A research institute’s analysis has concluded the incoming German government’s plans for…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin will seek binding guarantees…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press RANYA, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurds seem to make up the majority of Middle Eastern migrants seeking to move to Europe…

BEIJING (AP) — The prime minister of Laos has ridden the first run of a $5.9 billion Chinese-built train connecting his isolated, mountainous…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Europe’s democracy and human rights-promoting body says it is initiating a disciplinary…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — An investigation into the disorder at the European Championship final says aggression by…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, President Joe Biden has taken it on the chin from Republicans over his handling of…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says more than 1% of the population is currently infected with the…

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurdish media says an attack by Islamic State militants on a village in northern Iraq has killed at least 12 people,…

COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have killed an Islamic rebel leader and four of his men in fighting in the volatile south in the…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party has held onto a seat in Parliament in a special election triggered by a lawmaker’s death.…

By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Indian authorities have issued an alert, shut schools and canceled trains in parts of the…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police say they have arrested seven people suspected of war crimes against civilians during the 1992-95…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese real estate developer has warned it might not be able to pay a $400 million bond due next week, adding to financial strain…

By BARBARA SURK and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — France has announced multibillion-euro deals to sell fighter…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s beleaguered currency has been plunging to all-time lows against the U.S. dollar…

By ZEINA KARAM and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s information minister has resigned in a bid to ease an unprecedented,…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street closed out a bumpy week with more losses on Friday following a mixed reading on U.S. jobs…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Bars, restaurants and gyms have reopened in Auckland as the last major parts of a…

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — CeeDee Lamb had 122 yards from scrimmage, Tony Pollard had a 58-yard touchdown run and the…

By CLAY BAILEY Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis Grizzlies broke the NBA record for margin of victory, beating the Oklahoma City…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The head of the most populous province in the Solomon Islands says the country would likely…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press RESERVE, La. (AP) — EPA Administrator Michael Regan says a recently completed “Journey to Justice” tour from…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu’s water utility is shutting down one of its wells so it doesn’t pull petroleum from…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — During his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh assured Sen. Susan…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of a U.N. team investigating atrocities in Iraq says Islamic State extremists…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — World Health Organization officials say that the measures used to counter the delta…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press RESERVE, La. (AP) — EPA Administrator Michael Regan says a recently completed “Journey to Justice” tour from…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has detected its first case of the new omicron strain of the coronavirus in a foreign student who returned…

By AARON MORRISON, HELEN WIEFFERING and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press The nation’s military academies provide a key pipeline into the leadership of…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the conservative-leaning Supreme Court this week signaled that it may dramatically limit…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — We’ve been here before, with the fate of abortion rights throughout the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A mostly white jury has been seated for the trial of a former Minnesota…

By PAUL J. WEBER and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The state of Texas is offering a glimpse in real time of what would be a…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Pope Francis is lamenting centuries of hostility and prejudice…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s unemployment rate tumbled last month to its lowest point since the…

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed into law the stopgap spending bill that will…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s opposition leader says the nation would set a more ambitious target of…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China and the United States are tussling over President Joe Biden’s upcoming democracy…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is tightening recently relaxed restrictions on social gatherings as it…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in Los Angeles announced more than a dozen arrests in recent smash-and-grab…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press United Nations (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is urging all nations to observe a truce during the Beijing…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials have disclosed that the U.S. Department of Justice began a civil…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Republican governor and the state attorney general are suing in federal court to exempt the state’s…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Global Inc. says it will pull out of the New York Stock…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a South Florida teen tried to get $5,000 from a state senator after threatening to…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California official says the state’s landmark law mandating women be placed on corporate…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Jake Dickert has been introduced as the new head football coach at Washington State…

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — State workers enrolled in public employee healthcare plans in Nevada will be charged…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has helped light the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse near the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s former insurance commissioner is beginning a seven-year prison sentence. Jim Beck was…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A University of Florida professor has filed a grievance against the school, saying…

ATLANTA (AP) — A sheriff says a 14-year-old Georgia girl was killed when her younger brother was trying to sell a homemade gun and he fired a shot…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Disorder and confusion erupted outside the New Jersey Assembly as Republican lawmakers…

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Court records and campus officials say a Liberty University associate professor has been charged with sexual battery and…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee County’s top prosecutor says a young assistant in his office sought $1,000…

A former Arizona nurse was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman at a long-term care facility where she…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ordered nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump to pay Detroit…

By STEPHEN WADE and HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writers The stand the women’s professional tennis tour is taking in China over concern about…