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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Citing unspecified examples of election fraud, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pledged…

By CARA ANNA and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Facebook says it has removed a post by Ethiopia’s prime minister that urged…

By SARAH RANKIN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When Virginia Republicans nominated Glenn Youngkin as their…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Deere executives say the company won’t return to the bargaining table with striking workers because it…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the European…

SEBRING, Fla. (AP) — The former lover and later informant against a Florida woman convicted of trying to hire a hit man to kill her newlywed…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Federal prosecutors are recommending a prison sentence of nearly four years for a New Jersey gym owner who is…

By JOCELYN GECKER and TERENCE CHEA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Scavenger hunts and blow-up animals greeted children at some of…

By ERIC TUCKER, NOMAAN MERCHANT and BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has released hundreds of pages of newly declassified…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Voters in Texas have pushed back against pandemic restrictions on nursing home visits and worship services. A pair…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The princes, presidents and prime ministers have left, and now the real mask-to-mask…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press GLEN ALLEN, Va. (AP) — Republicans have won at least 50 seats in the Virginia House, ensuring at least a tie with…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats forced another test vote on voting rights legislation. For the fourth time…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In Chloé Zhao’s “Eternals,” Ridloff plays the first deaf superhero in Marvel’s “cinematic…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The FBI surveillance plane that captured footage of the night Kyle Rittenhouse shot three…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has tested positive for COVID-19…

By JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say the elections director in Georgia’s most populous county will step…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and ROGELIO V. SOLIS Associated Press BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to the 2018 shooting…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An errant monkey has captivated dozens of people in the capital of Puerto Rico. A…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A court in Belarus has handed prison sentences to two human rights activists, part of an…

By ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The multibillion-dollar world of sleep training guides, toddler activity ideas, breastfeeding tips…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Neal Smith, a World War II bomber pilot who became a successful lawyer before representing…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Greg Kinnear was just a month away from making his Broadway debut in “To Kill a…

By JILL LAWLESS and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British-registered scallop boat caught up in a post-Brexit spat between the…

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The United Nations climate conference has urged sports organizations and teams worldwide to meet environmental targets…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that an independent Pentagon review has concluded that the…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press At least six state or local political candidates who won their races on Tuesday had attended former President…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are blending finger-pointing, optimism and a renewed push to unstick their stalled…

BEAUNE, France (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is being feted by France in a special farewell ceremony honoring her leadership and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has tested positive for COVID-19 in Scotland. The mayor’s office says Garcetti’s…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been found guilty of murder in the shooting death of an Orlando police officer who was trying to arrest him…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the country’s arms makers to develop even more…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has won reelection over Republican Jack Ciattarelli.…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Reporter WASHINGTON (AP) — If you find the current economy a bit confusing, don’t worry: So does the…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Transgender pop star Kim Petras says her performance at next week’s MTV EMAs in Hungary will…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The Algerian president’s office says three Algerians were killed by a military strike on their trucks. It accuses…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press and AIM Media Texas McALLEN, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden recognized migration flows…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officers have been charged with helping conceal evidence of a shooting and the involvement of the…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says nearly 8,500 active duty members of the Air Force and…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press and AIM Media Texas McALLEN, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden recognized migration flows…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors in Las Vegas say former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was speeding at 156 mph…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Thirty years ago, Ken Welch’s father sought unsuccessfully to become the first…

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Voters have reelected the Black mayor of Iowa’s eighth-largest city, Waterloo, which…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press The oldest college in Louisiana is celebrating its first granting of tenure to a Black faculty member, and…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Voters in Virginia Beach have approved a huge bond measure for a mid-sized city, committing to spend millions in hopes…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up, Barry Watson says the TV series “Highway to Heaven” was appointment viewing…

By The Associated Press Ronnie Wilson, multi-instrumentalist and founder of the popular R&B and funk group The Gap Band, has died. He was 73. His…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says China is expanding its nuclear force much faster than U.S.…

by SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon is seeking a dialogue with Saudi Arabia to resolve an unprecedented diplomatic rift over a…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities say they are searching for a French woman who spent four years as an al-Qaida…

By DON BABWIN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The judge in the trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery has declined to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s central bank has made its second interest rate hike in as many months as consumer prices surge. The National Bank…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Anti-vaccine protesters have blocked central streets in the Ukrainian capital, protesting…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Biden administration has announced it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has begun testing a massive inflatable missile detection system designed to hover at high altitudes and detect…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise apartment building under construction in…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The rate of expansion in the U.S. services sector, where most Americans work, hit a record…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in has met with Hungary’s president in Budapest, where…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have announced the arrest of the head of a company suspected of…

MOSCOW (AP) — Officials say a Belarusian cargo plane has crashed while trying to land in eastern Russia, killing all seven people on board. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir Paul Newman left unpublished in his lifetime will come out next fall. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department plans to start scaling back the size of some of its…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British homeowners and borrowers are bracing for a possible interest rate increase from the Bank of…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s police say 30 people face legal proceedings over a series of Twitter posts suggesting that President Recep…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — England’s deputy chief medical officer says too many people believe the pandemic is over, and has…

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Last call could come three hours earlier in Miami Beach, where voters fed up with nighttime violence chose yes to rolling…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and MARIA CHENG Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The World Health Organization has granted an emergency use license to a…

Germany’s health minister is calling for booster vaccinations to be stepped up and for more frequent checks of people’s vaccination or test…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities say an anti-terrorism raid uncovered a tunnel being dug in the vicinity of the French ambassador’s…