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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press German Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz’s center-left party has given its overwhelming approval to a deal to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis has warned that the “easy answers” of populism and…

By KATHLEEN FOODY and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge has imposed a combined $1 million bond for the parents of the…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of European right-wing populist parties say they will cooperate more closely at…

By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A tropical storm has weakened after dumping heavy rains overnight in parts of southern…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s Communist Party has taken American democracy to task, sharply criticizing a global…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are hoping that Congress is nearing the finish line in its seven-month trek on President…

By AAMER MADHANI, ELLEN KNICKMEYER, NOMAAN MERCHANT and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has pledged to make…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and TATIANA POLLASTRI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A female judge was hiding from the newly empowered Taliban in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican immigration authorities say they have discovered 210 migrants packed into a truck trailer in the central part of the…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported daily records in coronavirus infections and deaths and…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan school leader says a third party will investigate events at Oxford High School…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, the long-reigning chief of San Francisco protocol and unofficial aide to 10 mayors, died Friday of…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Experts say guns used in U.S. school shootings have often come from the homes of young perpetrators. But parents are…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Fire crews on the scene could smell gas after an explosion leveled a house in Oklahoma City. Fire Capt. Scott Douglas says…

MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — A police officer has died and a suspect has been wounded in a shooting outside a suburban Dallas supermarket. Mesquite…

By DEBORA ALVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is facing a potential investigation into comments…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has postponed a…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana State Prison inmate serving a 100-year sentence for killing his wife in 1983 has…

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has denied clemency for a death row inmate sentenced to die for…

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The state of Nevada plans to fully cooperate with federal efforts to investigate the…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 34-year-old Nevada man has been arrested on multiple charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press The arrival of the omicron variant of the coronavirus has health officials in some…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Nearly two decades after earning a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and more than four years after his death, rock…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A trial has begun for a man accused of killing his wife and blaming her death on a Baltimore panhandler. Keith Smith told police…

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jurors who will hear testimony in former Minnesota police officer Kim…

The Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The parents of the 15-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of four students at a Michigan high…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal correctional officer at a women’s prison in California has…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council  has voted unanimously to allow international naval forces to…

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — A court has imposed Panama’s maximum sentence of 50 years in prison on seven members of a cult who killed a woman and…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether cash and checks discovered during repair work being done at…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi death row inmate says he wants the state to start planning his…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are hoping that Congress is nearing the finish line in its seven-month trek on President…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 6% of the Air National Guard and Reserve did not meet the deadline to get the…

By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Say her name with flowers on your tongue. That’s what Breonna Taylor’s sister wants during Miami’s art week…

SEATTLE (AP) — A completed report on Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s missing text messages from a period during last year’s racial justice…

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s Supreme Court ruled gun manufacturers cannot be held responsible for the deaths in the 2017 mass shooting…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Zion National Park in Utah will soon require reservations to hike a famed trail…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey statehouse requirement for visitors to show proof of COVID-19 or a negative…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year has been ruled…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday named “Drive My Car,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s three-hour…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors and retailers are pushing back on assertions by California’s governor and…

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is upset that her beloved Mariah Carey Christmas album has gone missing. But she was…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief of the National Guard has tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from an…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Botswana scientist who may well have discovered the omicron variant of the coronavirus…

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jurors who will hear testimony in former Minnesota police officer Kim…

By ALAN SUDERMAN, ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked using…

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s foreign minister has sharply criticized a system of deterring migrants from reaching European shores that she argues has so…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The documentary “Flee” uses animation to tell the true tale of a refugee’s journey from…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s high-stakes race for an open U.S. Senate seat is seeing candidates…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed five Republican-authored anti-abortion…

DENVER (AP) — In a story published December 3, 2021, about a lack of snow in the Rockies, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Deer…

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian zoo says that a pair of hippopotamuses in its care have been placed in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19.…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Far-right activist Ammon Bundy says time he has spent campaigning to be Idaho’s next governor should count toward his…

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has paid her respects to Jewish and Polish victims of World World II. Her gestures came the day before she is…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has signaled it might be willing to let…

PRAGUE (AP) — The outgoing Czech government is planning a vaccine mandate for the elderly and some groups of professionals. Health Minister Adam…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal appeals judges are weighing whether former President Donald Trump can be held liable in…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s interior minister has resigned after a series of gaffes and missteps that could have made him a political…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is asking the White House to cut back a big Medicare premium hike…

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

WINNSBORO, S.C. (AP) — A mother in South Carolina is charged with murder after investigators say she shot her 6-year-old son in the chest with a…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A troubled Chinese developer struggling under $310 billion in debt has warned it may run out of…

By TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — A folding massage table used by financier Jeffrey Epstein was carried into a Manhattan courtroom and set up in front of…

By AAMER MADHANI, ELLEN KNICKMEYER, NOMAAN MERCHANT and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has pledged to make…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The family of a man shot and killed last year by an Oklahoma City police officer is suing the city and two officers involved…

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle, a city known for soggy weather, has seen its wettest fall on record. The National Weather…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has at least one thing in common with thousands of parents and…