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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…

By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press DRAPER, Utah (AP) — The mother of a 10-year-old Utah girl who died by suicide is speaking out about the bullying…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The head of Visa says he believes the pandemic caused a permanent shift of how consumers…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska is asking a judge to toss out statements he made to federal authorities who were…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A Miami judge says a summer trial is likely for lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages from the…

The four teenagers killed by a fellow student at Oxford High School in Michigan are being remembered for their commitment to athletics, art and…

By LORNE COOK and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press RIGA, Latvia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning that President Vladimir Putin…

BERLIN (AP) — A court has ruled that German authorities are justified in banning three pornographic websites based in Cyprus from operating in…

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.K. parliamentary committee has criticized government plans to deter migrants…

LONDON (AP) — A man has been arrested after breaching security at Britain’s Parliament. Photos showed a man being held on the ground Wednesday…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A top independent science panel says the U.S. needs to generate less plastic so less of the material ends up as…

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a man who had long been considered a person of interest in the killing of a 21-year-old South Florida woman…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists in Chile have found the fossils of a strange new dinosaur species. This dog-sized dino had a tail…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have released video of follow-home robbers targeting a mother with a baby in a stroller after she opened the…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Republican Gov. Charlie Baker says he won’t seek a third term as governor of Massachusetts.…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A human rights group in Belarus says authorities have raided the homes of dozens of…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gang has rammed vehicles into a prison in central Mexico and escaped with nine inmates. It’s one of the most dramatic…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A 69-year-old man drifted in choppy waters for nearly a day while clinging to the bottom of his…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have killed eight suspected communist guerrillas in a jungle clash near a central town, where the…

By MATT OTT AP Business Reporter SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — U.S. manufacturing activity grew at a faster pace in November as companies continue to…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — People magazine has named Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, actor Sandra Oh, country icon Dolly Parton and the…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The defense at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is trying to cast doubt on a key accuser’s allegation…

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News has released a clip in which Alec Baldwin tells George Stephanopoulos that he did not pull the trigger on a gun that went…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Turks and Caicos police boat has collided with a vessel carrying migrants believed to be from Haiti, spilling scores…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Top European Union migration officials have offered to ease the asylum procedures for Poland,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Prengaman has been named climate and environmental editor of The Associated Press. This new position will lead the news…

LONDON (AP) — British officials say about 30,000 people in the north of England and in Scotland have been without electricity for the better part…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge says that jurors in Josh Duggar’s child pornography trial can hear evidence that the former reality…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat has warned NATO against redeploying U.S. atomic weapons to Eastern Europe if Germany refuses to keep hosting…

GAUHATI, India (AP) — A passenger train has hit and killed two wild elephants in northeastern India. A ranger says the elephants were walking on…

HAYDEN, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama sheriff says a FedEx driver dumped packages into a ravine in the woods at least six times. Now the company and…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany say a World War II bomb has exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich. The fire service…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say airport police in Tulsa shot and wounded a man after he opened fire on a vehicle carrying his wife, whom he…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s troubled jail system is facing the suspension of…

By CHANELLE BESSETTE of NerdWallet Cash management accounts are offered by brokerages and provide many banking-like services, such as checking and…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet separately with his Russian and Ukrainian…

By DAVID KOENIG and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say a 20-year-old man armed with multiple knives stabbed two Indianapolis police officers before they shot and…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Moscow would seek Western guarantees that would…

By ARITZ PARRA and HELENA ALVES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Lines have returned for those seeking vaccine shots in Portugal and Spain. The two…

BEIJING (AP) — China is lashing out at Shinzo Abe after the former Japanese prime minister warned of the serious security and economic consequences…

By RISHI LEKHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian man has built a one-third sized replica of the historic Taj Mahal for his wife, but…

HUMBOLDT, Tenn. (AP) — Two people were shot, one fatally, following a pair of basketball games Tuesday night at a Tennessee high school. Humboldt…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has unveiled his new HIV/AIDS strategy to end the more than 40-year-old…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has arrived in South Korea for annual security…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says the coronavirus pandemic has “radically altered” mobility around…

By ZEKE MILLER, OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. identified its first known case of the omicron…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say four people are dead, including a police officer and the shooter, after officers responded to a domestic disturbance call…

By RAF CASESRT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A European Union official says the bloc has decided against holding a special remote summit of EU…

By LORNE COOK and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press RIGA, Latvia (AP) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the military organization was a…