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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…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Daily coronavirus cases and deaths in Russia remain at their highest numbers of the pandemic.…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai police colonel, dubbed “Jo Ferrari” for his extravagant…

RYAN ZUMMALLEN Edmunds  From low visibility to slippery road conditions, driving during the winter can be stressful. This week, the experts at…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of Greek health care workers have protested in central Athens against mandatory coronavirus vaccines for their…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Ships and aircraft from eight nations are taking part in annual drills to boost…

By FRANK JORDANS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Governments and big investors have announced fresh plans to pour…

By AMANDA BARROSO of NerdWallet If you want to build your credit score, knowing your credit card limits and managing how you use them can help. A…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus cases has risen in Europe for the fifth consecutive week, making it the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey risked his bid for a second term by opposing a push to replace…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Central Bank has doubled the cap on weekly bank withdrawals to the equivalent of $400. Wednesday’s…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Sweden say two men died when one of them jumped or fell from the seventh floor of a culture center and landed…

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Police say at least 22 passengers have been killed in a road accident in Pakistan’s part of Kashmir.…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Gucci fashion show in Los Angeles Tuesday night was such a spectacle that…

By EMILIO MORENATTI Associated Press SANTA CRUZ DE LA PALMA, Canary Islands (AP) — Authorities on La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands are…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — European lawmakers are meeting with Taiwan’s premier in the first official visit of a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — South African writer Damon Galgut has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction with his story of…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer PROSECCO, Italy (AP) — Italy has pledged to defend the name of the popular sparkling wine Prosecco as Croatia…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign ministry says it summoned a Belarusian diplomat over an “intrusion”…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has been absent from the Group of 20 summit in Rome and global…

By JON GAMBRELL and LUJAIN JO Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The king and queen of the Netherlands have toured Dubai’s Expo…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers are set to begin marathon voting to try and pass the first national budget in three years. It’s a major…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Yahoo Inc. said this week that will withdraw from the China market. It said its services in China…

By JAMEY KEATEN and CARA ANNA Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief says Ethiopia’s yearlong war has been marked by…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A French envoy says Australia leaking French President Emmanuel Macron’s text messages…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Human rights groups have asked the Philippine Commission on Elections to disqualify the…