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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Tennessee man has been charged in Southern California with kidnapping his 3-year-old son and sexually assaulting his…

PHOENIX (AP) — Far-right social media personality Tim Gionet, who calls himself “Baked Alaska,” has been charged with misdemeanors over…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Spacey and his production companies must pay the studio behind “House of…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government says it is proposing threatened status for the Pearl River map turtle, a species found only in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An American man has filed a lawsuit alleging the U.S. government held him for more than a month in immigration detention even…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a trucker from Mexico was arrested after trying to smuggle record-breaking amounts of methamphetamine and…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s former ambassador to the Organization of American States has been detained by unidentified men outside…

By TIM SULLIVAN, KATHLEEN FOODY and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press In the devastation wrought by an SUV driver plowing into a suburban Milwaukee…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police say they have tied a car used in the killing of rapper Young Dolph to a shooting that…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Groups of thieves ransacked jewelry and high-end clothing stores throughout the San…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa judge has ruled that 2019 state law passed by Republicans prohibiting Medicaid…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to five…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes returned to the witness stand on Monday…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The families of most of those killed in the 2018 Florida high school massacre will…

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Jean Castex has tested positive for COVID-19 hours after a visit to neighboring Belgium. The announcement from…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s final congressional map sprinted through the Legislature last week and was…

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts judge has dismissed criminal neglect charges against two former leaders of a veterans’ home where…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is defending a new law assigning sprawling limits on COVID-19…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland met with state and…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press A New Jersey man who conspired with his girlfriend to concoct a feelgood story about a helpful homeless man and then…

By MARK THIESSSEN Associated Presss ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A rural Alaska man charged with threatening the lives of Alaska’s two U.S. senators…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s army said militiamen targeting a camp for displaced people in…

By ALAN SUDERMAN, FRANK BAJAK and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Outsiders have long profited from Africa’s riches of…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are getting into the holiday…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has signed an ordinance designed to divest the city from fossil fuels. The…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The regional train system serving the Washington D.C. area will remain on drastically reduced…

By MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The United States’ top diplomat in El Salvador has announced she is leaving…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man photographed carrying a lectern belonging to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office at the U.S. Capitol during the…

By JOHN RICE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fernando González, the head of Caribbean newsgathering for The Associated Press, has died in…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A lion has been killed after escaping its enclosure at a zoo and killing its handler in northern Guatemala. The news site…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Poet Robert Bly, who authored the men’s movement classic “Iron John,” has died. Bly…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are proposing more than $160,000 in fines against eight airline passengers over incidents involving alcohol.…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister says he will lead his country’s army…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A formerly homeless man who ended up in a mental institution for more than two years…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Nine people have died after a fire swept through a nursing home in eastern Bulgaria on Monday. Officials say an old school…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A former police detective in Missouri has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for repeatedly kicking a…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two Fox News Channel contributors have quit, saying “irresponsible” voices have drowned out the…

NEWBURY, Ohio (AP) — A tractor-trailer apparently collided head-on with a van Monday on an Ohio state highway, killing five of the seven people in…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Disney has paused its policy requiring Florida-based employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine following new laws passed…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Traveling this holiday season can be safe if you’re fully vaccinated for COVID-19. For those who…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian parliamentary commission has recommended stripping a lawmaker in the lower house of his immunity from prosecution as he…

BOSTON (AP) — American Airlines and JetBlue are asking a federal judge to throw out the government’s effort to block a deal between the two…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has formally cleared four Black men who were falsely accused of raping a…

BERLIN (AP) — Amazon says it plans to cut the use of plastic packaging in Germany following complaints that the online retailer is contributing to…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III received a stern talking-to from a Las Vegas judge but…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says he has completed his three-year prison term and will…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania is…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Assault charges will be dropped against a former suburban St. Louis police officer who shot a shoplifting suspect in a…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, one of the country’s largest newspaper owners with a reputation for intense…

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Police say the suspect in a deadly Christmas parade…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KAYA, Burkina Faso (AP) — The French military has denied injuring civilians in Burkina Faso when firing warning…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes ticked higher in October, marking their strongest pace since January, even…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Former President Barack Obama’s foundation says it has received a $100 million donation from Amazon founder…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s Brit Awards are scrapping separate male and female artist categories in a shakeup designed to make the music prizes…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Amnesty International is urging Pakistani authorities to stop forcibly disappearing suspected militants for years without trial,…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of residents in the southeast English coastal resort of Southend have paid their respects to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court has rejected a claim that the Memphis, Tennessee, area has been taking water that belongs to…

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — Three people have died in a plane crash in northwest Nebraska. The Star-Herald reports the pilot and two passengers died…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that the Biden administration is investing $1.5…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Climate change isn’t what’s driving some U.S. coal-fired power plants to shut down — instead it’s…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin has rejected the U.S. claims of a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine as a ruse…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Medical Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Scientists say vaccinating kids should not only slow the spread of the coronavirus but also…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A legislative investigation has found “overwhelming evidence” that former New York…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Jurors have finished their second day of deliberations without reaching a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced he’s nominating Jerome Powell for a second term as…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 90% of federal workers have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A divided Venezuelan opposition has found itself  on familiar territory, having…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency says it is evaluating whether to authorize booster doses of Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and SARAH EL DEEB MOSCOW (AP) — Lebanon’s Foreign Minister says his country has received from Russia satellite images of…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s reinstated prime minister says that he will have the authority to form his own independent government, according to the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish lawmakers will vote later this week on whether Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson should become the…

A Palestinian prisoner rights group says two Palestinian hunger strikers have halted their protest against Israel’s controversial policy of…

By DAN PARKS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy After years of declines, Americans’ trust in civil-rights and…

By ELODIE SOUPAMA Associated Press LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — Schools have closed across the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and the French…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed preschool favorite Peppa Pig as an inspiring model for the…

By RISKA MUNAWARAH Associated Press CALANG, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has begun a trial against a group of men accused of poaching…

By RAF CASERT and MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European authorities are pleading for patience, calm and a willingness…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has introduced a wide range of new restrictions aimed at curbing a COVID-19 infection spike that has pushed the rate…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The authoritarian leader of Belarus has criticized the European Union…