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By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A University of Miami expert on financial crimes in Latin America was sentenced Tuesday to six…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a longtime University of Michigan violin professor pleaded guilty to transporting an underage girl across…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Adele reached 10.33 million viewers on Sunday for a special that showcased her new songs on CBS.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A book about a wealthy American family whose actions helped unleash the United States’ opioid…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Treasury from enforcing a provision of the American…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An influential U.S. advisory panel will discuss expanding eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine booster…

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona is facing censure in the House over a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A suburban Denver police department whose officers were indicted in the death of Elijah…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Democrat Patrick Leahy’s announcement that he will retire after eight terms in the Senate…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter users will soon see new warning labels on false and misleading tweets, redesigned to make them more…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two incumbent Democrats who trail Republican challengers in close races in Virginia’s…

By MATTHEW BROWN and JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday will auction vast oil…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix on Tuesday rolled out a new website that measures its most-watched films and series by the…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has announced he’s suing the founders of an e-cigarette maker over his…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington state’s bipartisan redistricting commission failed to meet its deadline…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. Catholic bishops are preparing a teaching document on Communion, which some are linking to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An 86-year-old woman who survived mass roundups and massacres of Jews as a child in Romania has been crowned Israel’s “Miss…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press U.S. Rep. Cori Bush has claimed on social media that white supremacists shot at protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, but…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The son-in-law of one of the 18 older women a man is charged with killing in the Dallas area over a…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Messages presented in a federal court Monday appear to show an organizer of the deadly Unite the Right rally in…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Will Smith wouldn’t seem an obvious candidate for a mid-life crisis. He’s hugely successful, immensely popular,…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A second set of states has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — States will soon be flooded with federal money they can use to repair, improve or…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Warsaw court has confirmed the arrest order for a Polish businessman who is a…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia is planning to limit movement of the non-vaccinated people in an effort to tame the latest wave of coronavirus…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A trial date has been set early next year for a former Fort Worth police officer charged with murder after shooting a…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer is seeking U.S. authorization of its experimental COVID-19 treatment pill. The filing…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lawyers for a former St. Louis police officer plan to ask a judge to sentence him to 26 months for his role in the beating of a…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan have reported military clashes on their shared border and blamed each other for starting the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after announcing he will not seek reelection, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont has told his colleagues in an…

CHICAGO (AP) — The head of Chicago’s largest police union has carried out his promise to retire from the force rather than go through with a…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A ping-pong ball may have bounced in Republicans’ favor as a GOP-dominated court was selected at random to…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Michelle Wu has been sworn in as Boston’s first woman and first person of color elected mayor in…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia will lift its indoor mask requirement starting next week, as local…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has held talks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis amid a renewed push by Athens for…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press HARTVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Some people might describe Hartville, Missouri, as being in the middle of nowhere, but…

FREEDOM, Maine (AP) — A wayward roadrunner is on the mend in Maine after traveling across the country in a moving van. The greater roadrunner is a…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts say they have evidence of direct involvement by Belarus’ government…

By SABINA NIKSIC SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A senior U.S. official says Washington remains committed to maintaining peace and stability in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed a ban on lawmakers acting as “paid…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say soldiers have captured the wife of the leader of the Jalisco New…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says crowds will once again fill Times Square this New Year’s Eve. The mayor said Tuesday that…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prospective jurors got their first glimpse of a British socialite charged with…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman is scheduled to be a witness when her stepfather is executed…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime California Rep. Jackie Speier is the latest congressional Democrat to announce…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The shotgun blasts that hit Ahmaud Arbery punched a gaping hole in his chest and unleashed…

LONDON (AP) — A British court has found a former official in Muammar Gadhafi’s government “jointly liable” for the fatal 1984 shooting of a…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The Estonian and Swedish accident investigation boards say a research expedition earlier this year…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jane Campion and Kirsten Dunst admired one another before they’d ever met, but it was Campion who made the first…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding Attorney General Merrick Garland…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Lazio is sponsoring a soccer friendly between the Vatican and a team from the World Roma…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has asked competition regulators to investigate the national security implications of American technology company…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The Qatar-based satellite news network Al-Jazeera says Sudanese authorities have released its bureau chief, two days after…

PARIS (AP) — Six Greenpeace activists have blocked a railroad in southern France in what they say is an attempt to prevent loads of reprocessed…

HOUMA, La. (AP) — Authorities in southern Louisiana are searching for a woman who bit off part of an officer’s ear. Houma police say they were…

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla (AP) — A Florida teacher hospitalized with COVID-19 has died after her husband unsuccessfully sued to force doctors to…

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says his country is ready to offer whatever support it can to help mend relations between Lebanon and…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans have taken a darker view of the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A senior American official overseeing arms exports says the U.S. remains…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Veterans and officials from China and the United States have celebrated the 80th anniversary of the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it will resume allowing air travel to Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mongolia starting Dec. 1. The…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they are no longer ruling out an Islamic extremist motive in a knife attack on a train earlier this month that…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court says Hungary broke EU law by making it a criminal offense to help…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s elected public advocate Jumaane Williams is running for New York governor.…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian judicial panel says that army soldiers “shot, injured and killed” peaceful…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart topped almost all expectations in the third quarter, an encouraging sign…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — People in the Netherlands can get to know their future queen a little better with the publication of an authorized…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have arrived in Jordan as part of the…

By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet It’s a critical year to shop small for the holidays, as businesses continue dealing with the fallout of pandemic…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials are rejecting accusations that they endangered astronauts aboard the…

BEIJING (AP) — No breakthroughs were delivered during talks between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden, but the cordial…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is increasing pressure on member nation Poland. The 27-nation bloc’s top court…