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By DANIEL NIEMANN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press ESCHWEILER, Germany (AP) — Germany is inching toward the mark of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19.…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hosting Abu Dhabi’s powerful crown prince as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are lower after Federal Reserve officials indicated they were ready to raise…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA has launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israeli warplanes attacked some army positions in the country’s central region leaving two…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The city manager in Newport, Rhode Island, is standing by the city police department’s review of the 1966 death of…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Three men have been convicted of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. He’s the Black…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press FERGUS FALLS, Minnesota (AP) — A Minnesota woman who worked as an agricultural adviser in the hinterlands of…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have finally driven President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion package of family services,…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press FERGUS FALLS, Minnesota (AP) — A Minnesota woman who worked as an agricultural adviser in the hinterlands of…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and climate activists generally support President Joe Biden’s decision to release a…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered the release of 50 million barrels of oil from America’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say a group of hundreds of mainly Haitian and Central American migrants who had started walking north have…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand will reopen its borders to the world over the coming months, allowing for…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — New coronavirus infections in South Korea have exceeded 4,000 in a day for the first…

CLEVELAND (AP) — New Orleans Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor weapons charge in Cleveland. Police there say…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia intends to add far-right extremist group The Base and the entirety of the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say a Florida man affiliated with the far-right Oath Keepers militia group has been arrested on charges related to…

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — Officials have identified three people killed in a northwest Nebraska plane crash. The Star-Herald reports the local coroner…

By PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s environmental commissioner is suspending a permit for a…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has dropped visa requirements for Cuban citizens, a move that may spark an increase in Cubans…

By LISA MASCARO and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has notified Congress it is delisting Colombia’s…

The Associated Press The celebrated Native American singer-songwriter Joanne Shenandoah has died. She was 63. The Native American Music Awards &…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — When tennis star Peng Shuai disappeared from public view this month after accusing a senior…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Published reports say the estranged wife of a former Baltimore County police officer who killed himself, an accomplice and his two…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The embattled Kansas City police chief has announced that he is retiring just four days after a white officer on the force…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Award-winning actor Helen Mirren somehow missed out on starring in the Harry Potter film…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal advisory committee found evidence to culturally link remains and funerary…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wireless carrier T-Mobile is paying $19.5 million in a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission over a 12-hour…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Just under 5 million viewers tuned in to see Fox opinion host Tucker Carlson talk to Kyle…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — E-cigarette giant Juul Labs will pay Arizona $14.5 million and won’t market to young people…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic governor of Illinois has signed the state’s new congressional district map into…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press Defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is facing another sexual abuse lawsuit, from a man who claims McCarrick abused…

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — West Point cadets attempting to nab the U.S. Naval Academy’s mascot ahead of the annual Army-Navy football game ended up…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia school system says it is returning two books to library shelves, two months after they were pulled for a…

By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America EDINBURGH, Ind. (AP) — Federal officials are pushing back their timeline to resettle roughly…

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police say a 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting near a school in suburban Denver last…

By PAUL WISEMAN, CATHY BUSSEWITZ and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — LBJ tried jawboning. Richard Nixon issued a…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two southeast Iowa teenagers charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit…

NEW YORK (AP) — Spectators at a WWE event saw an unexpected bout when a man got past a metal barricade at the Barclays Center and tackled wrestler…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Samsung said it plans to build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in Texas amid a global shortage of…

ARGUINEGUIN, Spain (AP) — Spanish rescuers have saved and disembarked more than 400 migrants and asylum seekers to the Canary Islands in the past…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to require essential nonresident travelers crossing U.S. land borders,…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Lucy McBath isn’t going away, even as Republicans try to draw district lines to pry back…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh want a judge to stop a lawyer suing him from publicly…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A Kansas City man who was jailed for more than 40 years for three murders has been…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister says the country has reached an agreement with Azerbaijan to…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has vacated two death sentences for a prison inmate convicted of fatally…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Before the jurors in the trial of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery retired to…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Monitors from the European Union say Venezuela’s regional elections last weekend…

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma has denied a death row inmate’s request for a stay of…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon residents are increasingly pushing for the state to divest from fossil fuel companies…

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — Officials say the van in a crash with a tractor-trailer that killed five of its passengers had been leased to an organization…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Tech giant Apple is suing Israel’s NSO Group, seeking to block the world’s most infamous…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Officials say Brian Laundrie, who was found dead last month in a Florida swamp, shot himself in the…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Biden administration is asking a federal court to let it move ahead with a workplace rule that would require…

By ROXANA HEGEMAN and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, say a former police detective,…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal jury says CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies didn’t do enough to stop the flow of…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press A 39-year-old rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A judge’s decision to release longtime inmate Kevin Strickland, of Kansas City, was…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister is heading to Morocco for an official visit to cement security ties…

By ED WHITE Associated Press The U.S. is in better shape approaching its second Thanksgiving of the pandemic, thanks to the vaccine. But some cold…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer Retirees are ruling the roost in this year’s Grammy nominations in the record of the year category.…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense chief has signed a roadmap for closer military ties with China, pointing…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Daniel Hsu is a U.S. citizen who spent four years trapped in China. Chinese authorities had…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency says it has received a request from Merck to authorize its coronavirus antiviral, the first pill…

By EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The lower house of Chile’s Congress has approved a measure to legalize marriage and…

By SCOTT BAUER and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Friends and families of the roughly 60 people hit by an SUV that sped through…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Philippines has asked the International Criminal Court to defer its crimes…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A United States envoy says he sees “massive progress” in talks with Ethiopia’s warring…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Daniel Hsu is a U.S. citizen who spent four years trapped in China. Chinese authorities had…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a major U.S. sugar manufacturer…

By LAURA MCMULLEN of NerdWallet You’ll probably face heavy pressure from retailers to take advantage of Black Friday deals, but you get to choose…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police and media reports in Serbia say that a series of explosions have ripped through a munitions factory on the outskirts…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — An air quality monitoring outfit says Lahore has become the world’s third most polluted city as increasing smog has…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday night in the first…