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By FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press AROCUTIN, Mexico (AP) — Visitors are once again thronging the famed Day of the Dead ceremonies around Mexico’s…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — American whiskey producers have toasted a trans-Atlantic agreement to end retaliatory…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV says the country’s foreign minister is at home in quarantine after testing positive for the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is still trying to dig out from under a blizzard of canceled flights over the…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa panel responsible for resolving lawsuits against the state has agreed to pay nearly…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish protesters have paid tribute to a woman who died in the 22nd week of pregnancy. Reproductive rights activists say the…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A televised remark by a game show host-turned Cabinet minister in Lebanon about the war in Yemen…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out California’s new 30-foot buffer zone designed to…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department says it plans to borrow $1.02 trillion during the current…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s Government Accountability Board has called for more information in at…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is calling on Congress to pass legislation that would…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin is wavering over supporting President Joe Biden’s…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Bill Luckett was an attorney, small-town mayor, candidate for Mississippi governor,…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s supreme court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for the killing of two prominent Iraqi journalists, known for their…

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Police say a shooting at a suburban Chicago Halloween party that left two people dead appears to be gang related. The Will…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A proposal to grant early release from prison to one of the world’s most prolific serial killers has raised outrage in…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press State and local election officials are hoping for a smooth election on Tuesday to…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — President Joe Biden has thrown his political weight behind two-term Democratic state…

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden, a descendant of Italians, donned an apron and rubber gloves to help culinary students at a U.S.…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of revelers clad in white and clutching candles are crowding into the main…

Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is taking Big Business to task. In an op-ed published Monday, the Republican from…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say they have arrested the suspect in a gruesome killing in a Suez Canal city, soon after shocking footage of the…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As deadlines loom for military and defense civilians to get mandated COVID-19 vaccines,…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it welcomed a private mission to Myanmar by former U.S. ambassador to the U.N.…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say they have registered more than 5,000 unauthorized border crossings last month by people who had arrived from…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board has recommended Gov. Kevin Stitt spare the life of death…

By DAVID BILLER and DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government has stepped up its commitment against greenhouse…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin judge presiding over Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial opened jury selection…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Three police officers and two paramedics indicted on manslaughter and other charges in the 2019…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the Biden administration is already assembling and shipping…

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has suspended a Dec. 31 deadline for Chicago police officers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. But he didn’t interfere…

By KEN SWEET and EMILY SWANSON The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Americans’ opinions on the U.S. economy have soured noticeably in the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One of musical theater’s most exciting new writing partnerships started with a breakup…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Witnesses and officials say at least three people were killed and dozens more remain…

Elon Musk says he will sell $6 billion worth of Tesla stock and donate it to the United Nations’ food agency if it could show how the money would…

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Subtropical Storm Wanda has formed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. That means forecasters…

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi students have returned to classrooms for the first time in a year, following the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies with at least 100 workers will be required to give employees paid time off to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and paid…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama’s next promotion for her memoir, “Becoming,” will center on the college…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Russia’s Novgorod region have ordered most residents to stay off work for one…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has authorized some 1,300 Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank days after…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a man in Germany faces a murder investigation after he apparently deliberately drove into a group of schoolchildren,…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Audra McDonald is going from host of the Tony Awards to another stage role. The six-time…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation at its highest point in three decades, the Federal Reserve is set this…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former business partner of presidential son Hunter Biden who was seeking to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a lawsuit challenging the makeup of the Ohio Elections Commission. The high court has turned away…

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s police chief has apologized for an incident in which officers were pictured practicing push-ups on a part of the German…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a case involving transgender rights and leaving in place a lower court decision…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized the need to strengthen the country’s air…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s President says his U.S. counterpart has told him that he would do “his…

MIAMI (AP) — Jon Bon Jovi tested positive for COVID-19 just before he was set to perform a concert in Miami Beach. An announcer took to the stage…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A movement to divest from fossil fuels is gaining momentum among foundations as activists push the $1 trillion…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — About 9,000 New York City municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge who oversees elections in an Alabama county was removed from office after being…

ROME (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was both cheered and jeered as he arrived in a small northern Italian town to receive an honorary…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Tribal protesters have lifted their weekslong blockade on Sudan’s main seaport and oil pipelines, and…

LONDON (AP) — British authorities are investigating the crash of two passenger trains that left 14 people injured, including a train driver who was…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans are voting in local government elections that will offer…

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Biotechnology company Novavax says that Indonesia has given the world’s first…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will return to its pre-pandemic form this year, with…

GENEVA (AP) — A move by Swiss police in a resort town to shutter a restaurant because its owners flouted a government requirement to check…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet A will determines who gets your stuff after you die. But a will won’t take care of all of your final wishes. A will…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and PAN PYLAS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — France’s president offered Britain extra time for negotiations to…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The leader of North Macedonia’s conservative opposition is calling for…

By KERI BLAKINGER, JAMILES LARTEY, BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL and CHRISTIE THOMPSON of The Marshall Project and MICHAEL R. SISAK of The Associated Press The…

By KERI BLAKINGER, JAMILES LARTEY, BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL and CHRISTIE THOMPSON of The Marshall Project and MICHAEL R. SISAK of The Associated Press The…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNON PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has begun vaccinating 5-year-old children against the coronavirus as its…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s chief prosecutor has ordered the detention of three hotel workers pending an investigation into how around 50 foreign…