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By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Hundreds of Mexican adolescents are being bused across the U.S. border to get vaccinated against…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A physician testifying as an expert in a condemned Nevada inmate’s bid not to be put to death…

By PARKER PURIFOY Associated Press The New Orleans Audubon Zoo has taken in a 7-month-old female jaguar that was rescued from wildlife trafficking.…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was the Meghan hour Thursday on the talk show of her friend, Ellen DeGeneres. The…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at limiting turnover for federal service…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A group of state attorneys general are investigating Instagram and its effects on children and young adults,…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican governor has sought to capitalize on…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — California has a new $419 million research facility that will allow state air quality regulators to expand emissions…

By JOE REEDY and ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writers A person familiar with the deal says NBC will continue to broadcast England’s Premier League with a…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A Los Angeles visual arts space wants to display a South Carolina statue of former vice president and slavery advocate John…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Presd UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is condemning “in the strongest terms” the intrusion…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Migrants whose children were taken from them under former President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A suspected serial killer has been charged with killing two people in Kansas.…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A surge in COVID-19 cases in the Upper Midwest has some Michigan schools keeping students at home ahead of Thanksgiving.…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Private businesses in Florida will be forced to let workers opt out of coronavirus…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jurors in the trial of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery must decide whether…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the United States is considering a diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing over…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan police said on Thursday they had killed at least five people, including a Muslim…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The judge at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial banned MSNBC from the courthouse Thursday after police said they briefly…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has embraced “Let’s go Brandon.” The Republican governor’s campaign said they picked the…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds of pastors are rallying at the Georgia courthouse where three white men are on…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton says Formula One is “duty bound” to raise awareness of human…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two suspected Iranian computer hackers have been charged in a broad campaign of election…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s chief of police says security forces are using legal means to contain anti-coup protests in the country. He spoke a day…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic officials have met with Taliban-appointed sports leaders from Afghanistan. The IOC says the talks led to a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell surely expected to have some breathing room after…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A 35-year-old man has been charged with three counts of murder in the shooting deaths at a…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Migrants who were held for weeks at sea on tourism boats chartered by the Maltese…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have brushed aside months-long divisions and are approaching House passage of their…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Moments of documentary make cameos in “C’mon C’mon,” but the entire film pulses with something…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A detective in Florida investigating the disappearance of Carole Baskin’s second husband says that the “Tiger King” star…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A charge of improperly disposing of a body has been dismissed against the owner of…

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina congressman G.K. Butterfield, a Democrat, has announced…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s flamboyant ambassador to Washington during the rule of the shah…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has denounced a conservative group’s offer to pay $500 to…

By VANGELIS PAPANTONIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press LESBOS, Greece (AP) — A group of 24 volunteers who took part in migrant rescue…

BUFFALO, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say remains found at a southwest Missouri home were those of a missing woman who was photographed partially nude…

By The Associated Press The Academy of Country Music awards show is getting a NFL-sized upgrade next year, moving to Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer U.S. communications regulators are requiring that phone companies allow people to text as well as call a new…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney Cruise Line will require all guests ages 5 and up to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before setting sail starting…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s choice to become one of the top banking regulators endured a contentious…

By TRAVIS LOLLER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — New measures that restrict how race is addressed in classrooms have…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA says the International Space Station remains at increased risk from orbiting…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — It’s a neutral pronoun that’s proving anything but: A nonbinary pronoun added to an esteemed…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador opens talks on immigration and other…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, in a telephone call with his Chinese counterpart,…

By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan has released a radical Islamist leader under a deal struck with his party that was…

MOSCOW (AP) — A lawyer for imprisoned former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike for seven weeks, says he fell…

By ADRIAN SAINZ and RYAN PEARSON Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police are scouring the city of Memphis, Tennessee, as they search for…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Several independent websites are joining forces to create a network for news about rural America,…

VUKOVAR, Croatia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar that was…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian media say an explosion at a weapons factory in a small southern town has killed four people and injured another…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against Croatia in a 2017 migrant pushback case after which a 6-year-old girl…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a request by Steven Avery to review his conviction for killing a young photographer…

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — A jail guard was shot and killed at a Pennsylvania courthouse by what appears to be friendly fire during a struggle with an…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech and Slovak governments have approved new coronavirus restrictions that specifically…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission says it could approve aid to fund production of semiconductors in the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Neil deGrasse Tyson is reaching very high with his next book. Henry Holt and Company announced Thursday that the celebrated…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union’s medicines authority says it has begun evaluating a new drug for treating COVID-19 patients who do not…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell for the seventh straight week…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A 14-year-old runaway accused of trying to shoot central Florida sheriff’s deputies during a standoff has been ruled…

By ADEL OMRAN and NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s former interior minister has announced his bid to run for…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has came under fire for scrapping a long-planned high-speed rail line to the…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Sweden’s top soccer leagues have signed an Amnesty International protest that gives “a red card to FIFA” and…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has authorized a public inquiry to better examine any possible Russian involvement…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press PONGARA NATIONAL PARK, Gabon (AP) — Gabon remains the “last stronghold” of African forest elephants, new…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The U.S. government will pay drugmaker Pfizer $5.29 billion for 10 million treatment courses of its potential COVID-19…

By DANIEL NIEMANN and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Germany’s Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne has held a…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, have arrived in Cairo for the first time in 15…

MIAMI (AP) — A 23-year-old woman called her former high school teacher a “monster,” cursed at him and then clapped as he was handcuffed and led…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Chinese professional tennis player not seen in public since she accused a former top…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is giving $139 million to police departments across the U.S. as part…

By ROSALIE MURPHY of NerdWallet Many small businesses close within a few years of opening. If that’s true for yours, work with a lawyer or…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has cut interest rates by 1 percentage point a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke out…

By ZEINA KARAM, DARIA LITVINOVA and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of Iraqis have returned home from Belarus after…

By DAVID KEYTON and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team have arrived in…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have ordered an investigation into a police raid that killed four people and later…