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By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The trial hasn’t even started and yet issues of race are at the forefront of the case in…

By ED WHITE Associated Press The filing of U.S. charges against a Chicago woman convicted of killed her wealthy mother during an overseas vacation is…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two civil rights groups have filed a federal court challenge against a Tennessee law…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The Senate has confirmed Robert Santos as the next U.S. Census Bureau director. As a third-generation Mexican…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — News agencies report that the body of a Louisiana man who wanted it donated for science was dissected before paying viewers…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has marked the national Unity Day holiday with a trip to Crimea, declaring the region will always be…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s voters have delivered a significant rebuke to the governing African…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church is urging members of its congregations to attend services with vaccination or test…

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric has reached a $125 million settlement agreement with California regulators over the destructive…

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) — Skeletal remains found in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park are believed to be those of a…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling that Baltimore city officials cannot ban a conservative…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s capital city says it will no longer serve meat at seminars, staff meetings, receptions…

MOSCOW (AP) — The presidents of Russia and Belarus have signed an array of measures to deepen the integration of the two countries but stop short…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is questioning Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold documents from…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The water system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has tested for elevated levels of lead…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Texas real estate agent who bragged she wasn’t going to jail for storming the U.S.…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin and outgoing Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam are…

PARIS (AP) — British and French negotiators looking to untangle a post-Brexit spat over fishing licenses have met in Paris and expect to talk again…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Back in May, the chances of Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega’s reelection to a fourth consecutive term were looking…

By MARIAM FAM and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press As a wary world watches to see the Taliban’s policies for women, many girls and young women in…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A federal lawsuit accuses the National Rifle Association of violating campaign finance…

By ANDREW DeMILLO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general are forming a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A senior official with Hungary’s ruling party has acknowledged for the first time that…

By FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese family that lost a brother and son in recent protests against the coup says…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police accountability activists are vowing to keep…

By SEBABATSO MOSAMO Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The fossil remains of an early hominid child have been discovered in a cave in South…

COLLIER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former neighbor of a U.S. Postal Service worker has been indicted on a murder charge after…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor says the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians is recovering well in a New York hospital after…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. survey of astronomers puts the search for extraterrestrial life at the top of…

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A group of independent researchers is warning of a rise in torture and enforced…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The weekslong process of selecting a jury for the federal sex trafficking trial of financier…

PARIS (AP) — A French astronaut has used a video call from space to sound the alarm about worsening repercussions from climate change that he can…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press The juror dismissed from Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial apparently was trying to be funny when he cracked to a…

By MIKE CATALINI TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s longtime state Senate president, Democrat Steve Sweeney lost reelection, falling to a…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson has left Myanmar after finishing a private…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — At least 11 people are missing after torrential rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia’s main island of Java. The…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The man known as “Tiger King,” who gained fame in a Netflix documentary following his conviction for trying to hire…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is calling on all those who work with children, starting from the Catholic church, to join together in a…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian analyst who provided information for a dossier of research used during the Trump-Russia…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, it’s been one of Hollywood’s darkest rumors: A teen-age Natalie Wood was…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The average long-term mortgage rate in the U.S. ticked back down this week following…

ROME (AP) — The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization says world food prices are the highest since July 2011, reflecting reduced…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Food banks have ramped up their output during the coronavirus pandemic to meet an explosion of…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is to hold a snap election for a new parliament and government on Jan. 30.…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say law enforcement agencies in nine countries helped break up a network that smuggled hundreds of Pakistanis into the…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is expanding its COVID-19 vaccination booster shot drive to everyone 50 and over as well as to those who have been…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has reported another record high number of new coronavirus infections, part of an…

LONDON (AP) — Dozens of climate change activists have blocked roads outside the Parliament in London. Some glued themselves to the ground as part…

KINGSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A southern Texas police officer has died three days after being shot while responding to a reported domestic disturbance.…

By The Associated Press Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine. The federal government on Thursday announced new…

GENEVA (AP) — A diamond bracelet that once belonged to France’s Marie Antoinette and jewels that dangled from a Russian grand duchess are among…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A top executive of Myanmar’s military-linked telecommunications company has been fatally shot near…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a fresh pandemic low last…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit hit an all-time high of $80.9 billion in September as American…

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Central and Eastern Europe is seeing spiraling coronavirus cases. Several countries in the…

By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be vaccinated against…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch newspaper reporter has been expelled from Russia, a move denounced as…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government has backed down on plans to overhaul lobbying rules for…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Moderna is scaling back expectations for the number of COVID-19 vaccine deliveries it expects to make this year and…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has watched from the sidelines as the…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The number of bodies recovered from a collapsed high-rise apartment building in Nigeria’s…

BERLIN (AP) — Official data shows that German factory orders, an important indicator for Europe’s biggest economy, made a feeble recovery in…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s prime minister has again urged his information minister to step down over an…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has set another record for daily coronavirus deaths as it struggles through a long surge of…

By FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the fight to curb climate change, several major coal-using…

GENEVA (AP) — Top officials at the World Health Organization say there has been more than a 50% jump in coronavirus cases across Europe in the last…

By HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam is seeking more information about a Vietnamese oil tanker that was seized at gunpoint…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and MARIA CHENG Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain has granted a conditional authorization to Merck’s coronavirus…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — A rescue ship carrying nearly 400 migrants picked up another 400 people from a two-tier wooden boat…

By DAVID McHUGH and JOSH BOAK Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries have decided to stick with their…

BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany has found a 28-year-old mother guilty and sentenced her to life in prison for the murder of five of her six…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have squelched virtually all online discussion of sexual assault accusations…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan’s largest labor federation says stable work must be…

By AMIR VAHDAT Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Thousands of Iranians have gathered on the streets of Tehran for the anniversary of the 1979…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s largest pension fund says it has divested from 14 companies involved in…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press SOULAINES-DHUYS, France (AP) — Nuclear power is a central sticking point as negotiators plot out the world’s…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has confounded market expectations and held interest rates steady. It said Thursday…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video game maker Nintendo says its profit dropped 19% in the first half of its fiscal…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s disease control agency has reported the highest number of new infections with the…