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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer says Saturday that New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19. His…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has offered to reinstate a professor who was acquitted of federal charges that…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela’s socialist government said it would suspend negotiations with its opponents in…

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil has broken ribs during a fall off the stage at a concert in Tennessee. In video footage…

By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing in front of the Capitol, President Joe Biden paid tribute on Saturday to fallen…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say government shelling of a rebel-held town near the border with Turkey killed four people and wounded…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Designed more than a century ago, the Rio Grande Valley’s canal system in South Texas…

SRINAGAR, India- (AP) — Assailants have fatally shot two non-local workers in two targeted attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir, days after five…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press The fatal stabbing of a British lawmaker has cast fresh doubt on the continued viability of what he had called…

CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese have taken to the streets in the capital of Khartoum to call for the dissolving of the joint military-civilian…

By TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has launched a new political party,…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press A Vermont high school homecoming football game turned into a “drag ball” runway at halftime with a mix of…

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A police chief in Alabama says four people are wounded after a shooting near a high school football game Friday night. Mobile…

MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed that remains found in September are those of a boy who disappeared in…

UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say a woman was raped by a stranger on a commuter train in the presence of other…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who was 13 years old when he killed a 4-year-old boy with a rock has been granted parole. State corrections…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Protester have erupted for a second day in Bangladesh’s capital, amid a wave of violence against local Hindus following…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The families of the victims of last year’s massive Beirut port blast have reaffirmed their…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Two of Europe’s longest serving leaders have paid tribute to one another as Turkishh President…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A vendor at a major motorcycle rally in Florida briefly sold hats emblazoned with Nazi symbols, saying she considered…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Republicans in New Hampshire are struggling to contain a party wing that’s promoting…

ROME (AP) — Tens of thousands of union members and other Italians gathered in Rome to stand up against rising fascism Saturday, a week after…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers are on the brink of finishing redrawn U.S. House maps…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press A bitcoin operation in central New York has taken over a power plant to find cheap energy for currency mining in a…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Judges around the country are increasingly being asked to weigh in on the deworming drug…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A lawyer says an Iranian appeals court has upheld a verdict sentencing an Iranian-British woman long held in Tehran to another…

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — One of the world’s largest elevator towers will soon be opened to test elevators of the future…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Frustrated with persistently low prices, ranchers and others in the beef industry are…

By HOPE YEN and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As pandemic-era traffic fatalities spike, the U.S. agency in charge of auto safety…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ energy minister says an undersea cable linking the electricity grids of Cyprus and Egypt could be key to helping…

By HOPE YEN and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As pandemic-era traffic fatalities spike, the U.S. agency in charge of auto safety…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Norway has announced it will hold an independent investigation into the actions of police and…

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a man with an AR-15-style rifle ambushed three constable deputies outside of a Houston bar, killing one and wounded…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press A Maine law banning obscene license plates goes into effect Monday, but getting the foul language off the roads and…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Africa’s largest film festival is kicking off in Burkina Faso for the first time…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A judiciary spokesperson says a court has sentenced the former governor of Iran’s central bank to 10 years in prison for…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 1000 for the first time as the country…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president has paid her respects at a morgue to the dozens of people killed in a deadly inferno that ripped through…

BERLIN (AP) — The leader of outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has urged supporters to emulate the unity and discipline of their…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky with diamonds on a 12-year…

By MAYUKO ONO and PAN PYLAS Associated Press LEIGH-ON-SEA, England (AP) — Leaders from across Britain’s political spectrum have come together…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Police say four Russian tourists were found dead at a beach resort in western Albania. Albanian police issued a statement…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese astronauts have begun their six-month mission on China’s first permanent space station, after successfully docking aboard…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers have agreed to downgrade Myanmar’s participation in…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, a year of war and months of government-enforced…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State group says its members are responsible for a deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern…

By JILL COLVIN and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Donald Trump rallied Republicans this past week to vote for Glenn Youngkin in…

By ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he would prefer to slash the length of the new…

LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A black bear that was caught on video snacking on food in stores near Lake Tahoe has been shot and killed when it refused…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Far from the White House, Donald Trump continues to circle the Republican Party.…

By HAVEN DALEY and LOU KESTEN Associated Press ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — A spokesman says Bill Clinton will spend one more night at a Southern…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand health care workers have administered a record number of vaccine jabs as…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix says it has fired an employee for disclosing confidential financial information about the Dave Chappelle comedy special…

Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Eleven students have drowned and 10 others were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — A moderately strong earthquake and aftershock has hit…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior U.N. official says the Taliban told him they will announce “very soon” that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Defense Department says it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of Japan and South Korea say they will look to deepen ties in the face of regional…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under people’s homes. But recently when he was…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The lawyer for an American journalist detained almost five months in military-ruled Myanmar says he…

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A truck driver accused of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on a Colorado highway has been…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) —  An appellate court has ordered a federal judge to consider an Alabama’s inmate’s…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week, smashing…

NEW YORK (AP) — A California man has pleaded guilty to threatening harm in text messages sent during the attack on the Capitol to a New York-based…

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

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former Boeing employee has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud in connection with development of the 737 Max before…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog group says it has filed an ethics complaint against White House press…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Ron Watkins, a prolific promoter of false conspiracies about the 2020 election who is closely…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A 2018 candidate for governor of Nevada says his enthusiastic pursuit of big contributions…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an Elton John album of duets and an HBO documentary about the Jan. 6 siege…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press BERLIN, El Salvador (AP) — At a geothermal power plant near El Salvador’s Tecapa…

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The president of Central African Republic has declared a unilateral…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a Black man shot to death by a U.S. Marshals task force wants a new investigation into the shooting after…