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JERUSALEM (AP) — A trash bin installed next to a bus stop in Jerusalem thanks people for not littering. Drop a piece of trash in, and sensors…

BEIJING (AP) — China and Russia are holding joint naval drills off the Russian Far East in the latest sign of their growing political and military…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The consortium of journalists behind the Pegasus Project investigation into malware from Israel-based NSO Group that provided…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry has warned against what it calls possible “political manipulation” of a renewed probe by the World…

By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok, an app best known for dancing videos with 1 billion users worldwide, has also become a…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has recorded the highest daily numbers of coronavirus infections and deaths since the…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Armenia is accusing neighboring Azerbaijan of systematically promoting ethnic hatred…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Couric’s book tour, which begins in two weeks, will have some have well known guests. Live Nation…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican fundraising committee dedicated to flipping the House in next year’s midterm…

By ANDREA ROSA and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Rome judge has halted the trial of four high-ranking members of Egypt’s…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian news agency APA has reported that former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been sworn as a member of parliament after resigning…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — Many residents of Timbuktu are worried that when French troops pull out of the city in…

MADRID (AP) — A 4.5-magnitude earthquake has shaken Spain’s La Palma island off northwest Africa in what was the strongest recorded since a local…

By SUSAN FERRISS and JOE YERARDI The Center for Public Integrity Immigrants perform some of America’s lowest-paying, most arduous jobs, and are…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s leading economic institutes have slashed their forecast for Europe’s biggest economy. They said Thursday that output is…

By ZEINA KARAM and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — At least six people have been killed and dozens wounded in armed clashes in Beirut.…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s defense ministry says one of its soldiers has been killed and three injured in an overnight Israeli airstrike…

BEIJING (AP) — China is preparing to send three astronauts to live on its space station for six months — a new milestone for a program that has…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — United Airlines employees who are suing the airline over its vaccine mandate will get more time to make their case. A…

By PAAL NORDSETH, JAN M. OLSEN and MARK LEWIS Associated Press KONGSBERG, Norway (AP) — Norwegian authorities say the bow-and-arrow rampage by a…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — International Olympic Committee Vice President John Coates says challenging China on its human rights record as Beijing…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says that troops have shot and killed a Palestinian who was throwing firebombs at cars on a main highway in…

By KRISTA LARSON and MARIA CHENG Associated Press SARE GIBEL, Gambia (AP) — Health officials are confronting vaccine reluctance among African…

By LEONARDO CORREA and YESICA FISCH By The Associated Press SERREKUNDA, Gambia (AP) — Oyster harvesting in Gambia is considered women’s work.…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Five biracial women born in Congo when the country was under Belgian rule who were taken away…

By KRISTA LARSON and MARIA CHENG Associated Press SARE GIBEL, Gambia (AP) — Health officials are confronting vaccine reluctance among African…

By BERNAT ARMANGUE and LEE KEATH Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Ask almost anyone in the Afghan capital what they want now that the…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Disaster response officials in the Philippines say that a tropical storm has left at least 19 people dead. Authorities…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are higher after technology companies powered the biggest rally on Wall Street since March. All…

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — More than 10,000 Deere & Co. workers have walked out strike after the United Auto Workers union said negotiators…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that that Democrats “must put…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has dissolved the lower house of parliament for Japan’s first…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been sentenced to life in prison without a chance of…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jacobo grew up in the western Mexico state of Jalisco, home to the Jalisco New Generation…

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A key Southern California highway closed for days because of a wildfire was reopened Thursday evening but authorities…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — The Indonesian resort island of Bali has reopened for international travelers to…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Officials say at least 46 people were killed and another 41 injured after a fire broke out…

SYDNEY (AP) — One of New Zealand’s best-known businessmen Ron Brierley has been sentenced in a Sydney court to 14 months in prison for possessing…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court is hearing from five people who say they were promised “paradise on Earth” in…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — About 800 San Francisco city workers have asked for medical or religions exemptions to avoid a looming deadline for them to…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — After sending a record number of military aircraft to harass Taiwan over China’s National Day…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles politician Mark Ridley-Thomas and a former dean at the University of Southern…

CHICAGO (AP) — Civil rights activist, retired Chicago professor and historian Timuel Black has died at the age of 102. Black’s widow tells…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal judge says OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma can resume laying the groundwork to carry out its $10 billion…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans are trying to fire up the party’s…

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says a Facebook representative provided false testimony in a lawsuit that accuses the…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — The Delaware Supreme Court has heard arguments in a defamation lawsuit filed by a former…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker has called off a fundraiser in Texas because…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A county in southern Oregon says it is so overwhelmed by an increase in the number and size of…

KERHONKSON, N.Y. (AP) — A dog trapped for five days deep inside a narrow, rocky crevice at a state park north of New York City was rescued…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado Army veteran who pleaded guilty after the FBI found four pipe bombs in his home last…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges have heard arguments over whether an Alabama inmate had the mental capacity…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — William Eugene “Bud” Davis, who was a higher education leader in Idaho, Oregon, New Mexico and Louisiana as well as a…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Facebook has expanded its online harassment policies to do more to stop degrading attacks on public figures as well…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer Current and former NFL players and others who work in the league have varying opinions whether the attitudes…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly all female and transgender inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex will be temporarily transferred to state…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A newly filed lawsuit says the federal government is funding organizations that…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state television is reporting that the country’s air defenses are responding  to an Israeli airstrike…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A second person has been killed by an exploding air bag inflator made by a Tennessee company that has…

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — An attorney for a former Marine battalion commander relieved of his duties after he made comments critical of the U.S.…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested five suspects believed to be part of a jihadist group that sought to recruit others…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The head of the Chicago police officers union has called on its members to defy the city’s…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Former Michigan Rep. Dale Kildee, who served in Congress for 36 years, has died. He was 92. Kildee’s death was announced…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate aides and immigration advocates say Democrats are considering proposing that the government…

NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN has signed a five-year agreement with the NFL to broadcast the Monday night game during the first weekend of the playoffs,…

MONROE, La. (AP) — A former Louisiana State Police trooper has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge in the 2019 beating of a man whose injuries…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A University of Delaware student who was accused of threatening people with a BB gun has died…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper says it would be “appropriate” if…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A $6.5 million settlement has been reached in the death of an unarmed man who was undergoing a mental health crisis when he was…

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California mother faces 39 charges alleging that she hosted alcohol-filled parties for her teenage son and…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The nation’s most restrictive abortion law is driving many women from Texas to seek…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department has launched an investigation into allegations of widespread mistreatment at Texas’ embattled youth…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man who was accused of selling machine gun conversion devices to followers…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former North Dakota oilfield executive has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges for misleading shareholders about his…

By JILL COLVIN, MICHELLE R. SMITH, ERIC TUCKER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the…