National-World

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld California’s ban on…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a handful of states say members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — National Park Service officials say dozen ancient alligator juniper trees have…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Leave it to Mel Brooks to blurb his own memoir. There, along with laudatory quotes from Billy Crystal,…

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A 55-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for her role in the death of a Kansas couple…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Women’s rights activists in Poland used red paint symbolizing blood to protest a government plan to register every…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A jury has convicted the former dean of Temple University’s business school on charges related to a scheme to falsely boost…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, is cooperating with…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The longtime president of Belarus says his country would be ready to host Russian nuclear…

By EMILY HAYNES of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy GivingTuesday, the annual fundraising blitz on the Tuesday after…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Democratic Florida congressional candidate who lost a special election primary…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of TV’s “Dr. Oz Show,”…

BAGHDAD (AP) — The final results announced by Iraq’s electoral commission have confirmed Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as the biggest winner in…

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has officially joined the centrist Liberal…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s interior minister has applied freshly adopted regulations and declared area…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MARTHA IRVINE Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Next to a North Texas day care center is a site where Total Energies…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A suburban Detroit office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell has been broken into and ransacked, with memorabilia…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROSEMOUNT, Minn. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday went to Minnesota to  pitch his completed infrastructure deal…

German investigators have searched offices of accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and the homes of current and former employees in a probe of…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 14-year-old Philadelphia boy waiting for a bus to take him home from school was shot 18 times and killed Monday afternoon,…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City says the first officially authorized safe havens for people to use heroin and…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece says residents over 60 will have to undergo mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 or face monthly 100-euro ($114)…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence fell to a nine-month low in November, held back by rising…

CAIRO (AP) — Security forces have fired tear gas at anti-coup protesters in the Sudanese capital in the latest demonstrations against a military…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has convicted a monk who denied the coronavirus’ existence and…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman has testified she had repeated sexual contact with disgraced financier…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The eastern Caribbean island of Barbados has honored Rihanna as a national hero at a…

BERLIN (AP) — Automakers Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis have announced agreements with U.S. company Factorial Energy to help develop solid state…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer As supply chain bottlenecks create shortages on many items, some charities are struggling to secure holiday…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Kurdish official says a tanker truck distributing water at a sprawling camp housing families of…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says it was unable to pay its 28,000 employees on time this month. He…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian authorities say they have seized over 500 kilograms (1,000 pounds) of amphetamine pills known by the brand name…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union will unveil a multibillion-euro plan aimed at bolstering the 27-nation bloc’s worldwide infrastructure and…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health advisers have endorsed an antiviral drug from Merck to treat COVID-19. It sets…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose briskly in September, another sign that the housing market is booming…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The United States has improved its surveillance system for tracking new coronavirus variants such as omicron,…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has sternly warned NATO against deploying its troops and…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a famous saying in the world of showbiz: “Never work with children or…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is asking China to release “verifiable proof” that tennis player Peng Shuai is safe. The EU also urged…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has called off a spacewalk because of menacing space junk. Two U.S. astronauts…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Seinfeld became a vegan almost by stealth. The cookbook author and philanthropist…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — U.S. officials are considering a new method for testing water that could show more places have…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has reported that its economy grew at an 8.4% annual pace in the July-September quarter in the latest sign of an economic…

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — A military helicopter crashed in Azerbaijan during a training flight on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding two more,…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it will offer all adults a booster dose of vaccine within two months to bolster the…

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators say 14 suspects have been arrested in an investigation of a gang accused of bringing nearly five metric tons…

BERLIN (AP) — German police are looking for witnesses after burglars broke through the wall of a toy store to steal dozens of Lego sets. Police…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in former reality TV star Josh Duggar’s trial over federal child pornography…

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The head of a team of veterinarians has called for urgent medical care for a pair of…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s outgoing and incoming prime ministers have put aside their differences to support an initiative to…

By DAVID KEYTON and LORNE COOK Associated Press RIGA, Latvia (AP) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is warning that the U.S.-led military…

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman who says she was falsely arrested for shoplifting at a Walmart and then threatened by the company after her…

By AMRITA JAYAKUMAR of NerdWallet If your finances are in better shape this giving season, you can be more strategic with your dollars. The same…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish fashion giant Inditex says the founder’s daughter has been named as the next chairperson of the company that owns Zara,…

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say four family members, including a 20-year-old man who was suspected gunman, were found shot to death in a…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s medical agency chief said Tuesday that it is ready to deal with the new…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark. (AP) — Sweden’s first female prime minister has presented her one-party center-left minority government with only a few…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s antitrust watchdog has blocked Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy and ordered…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British airline easyJet says it’s already seeing some impact on demand from the new omicron…

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says there’s little chance the military organization would ever introduce a system…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s president has refused to sign for the second time a parliament-sanctioned bill allowing euthanasia and…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that consumer prices across the 19 countries that use the euro currency are…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A far-right former TV pundit with multiple hate-speech convictions has officially entered the race…

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Several prominent Kuwaiti opposition figures have returned home from a decade of self-exile after getting amnesty from the…

By GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s next chancellor says he will back a proposal to mandate coronavirus…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has barred entry to travelers from 10 African countries, citing the threat from the new omicron coronavirus…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have arrested a prominent member of an opposition party over…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A former member of the Islamic State group has been convicted by a German court of genocide and…

By LEE KEATH Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Human Rights Watch says that Afghanistan’s Taliban fighters have killed or forcibly…

By RAF CASERT and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press Brazil and Japan joined the rapidly widening circle of countries to report cases of the omicron…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish officials say a fire in part of a building occupied by squatters in central Barcelona has…

By SYLVIE CORBET and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has inducted U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis is heading back to the Greek island of Lesbos to meet…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Olivia Rodrigo, H.E.R and The Weeknd have all won honors at a revamped Apple Music Awards,…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid nervous trading due to worries over the newest coronavirus variant.…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran is striking a hard line after just one day of restarted talks in Vienna over its…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has confirmed its first case of the new omicron coronavirus variant, a Namibian diplomat who…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Crown Prince Akishino, the emperor’s younger brother, has complained about harsh…

By ISABEL DEBRE and MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai has spent over $7 billion as the first host of the…