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By LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has pledged on Capitol Hill to “get it done” as…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s train stations were packed with commuters Friday morning as Japan fully came out of a…

By ALAN SUDERMAN, FRANK BAJAK and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Outsiders have long profited from Africa’s riches of…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — People who are healing and some still struggling are gathering to remember those who died and were…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With only hours to spare, President Joe Biden signed legislation to avoid a partial federal…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — If you build it during a pandemic, will they still come? American Dream…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JORGE RUEDA Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A new currency with six fewer zeros is debuting in Venezuela,…

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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration urged a federal judge to block the nation’s most restrictive…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shortages of power, computer chips and other parts, soaring shipping costs and shutdowns of factories to…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled a former vice minister of public security amid a raft of accusations from…

HONG KONG (AP) — Police in Hong Kong halted a four-person pro-democracy protest on China’s National Day amid a expanding crackdown on free…

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Sam is a powerful Category 4 storm again with forecasters predicting a glancing blow to Bermuda as it spins north in the…

A quarterly survey by the Bank of Japan shows sentiment among manufacturers at its highest level in nearly three years. The results of the central…

By AARON FAVILA and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Newly retired boxing star Manny Pacquiao has filed his certificate…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Rights groups, the United Nations and the U.S. government have called for a full…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scarlett Johansson and the Walt Disney Co. have settled her lawsuit over the streaming…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Bangkok have sandbagged low-lying areas in the Thai capital and checked pumping…

SEATTLE (AP) — A recently demoted Seattle police commander is suing the city of Seattle and interim police Chief Adrian Diaz, alleging…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate has approved President Joe Biden’s choice to oversee vast…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The mayor of Alaska’s largest city has apologized for his comments supporting some residents’ use of Holocaust imagery…

MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — Investigators searching for an Iowa boy who vanished in May days before his 11th birthday say they have found human remains…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears and her attorney have successfully driven her father from the…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Foxconn Technology Group has struck a deal to buy a massive auto assembly plant in Ohio from a startup electric truck…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sued New York City’s police department, saying it is illegally…

MINNNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Texas man who says he is affiliated the anti-government “boogaloo” movement has pleaded guilty to opening fire on a…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The girlfriend of a man who police say confessed this week to killing her, his roommate and three people whose bodies were…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Scammers pocketed nearly 30% of the $16 billion in unemployment insurance payments sent out by…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The hedge-fund billionaire and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner who was named chairman of embattled media organization Ozy…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s top humanitarian official in Myanmar says the Asian nation’s people are…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires have destroyed nearly 50,000 homes in California alone in the last five years,…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is joining the vast majority of states in setting up a way to strip the…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A convicted rapist who hid in Florida for more than 40 years after skipping out on his Connecticut prison sentence has pleaded…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors say four dead men have been found in a stolen car in the city of Iguala, in the southern Mexico state of…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has test-fired a new anti-aircraft missile. It is its fourth…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Austin, Texas, say a man wearing an American flag bandanna threw a Molotov cocktail into the headquarters of…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian soccer legend Pelé has been discharged from the hospital where he received treatment for nearly a month. He wrote…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Officials in North Carolina’s capital city have agreed to a $2 million settlement in a federal lawsuit that alleged more…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Recent leaf-peeping seasons have been disrupted by weather conditions in New England,…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration has scheduled an offshore oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico on Nov. 17, obeying a court…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Five men have been indicted in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 4-year-old girl in Florida. A Hillsborough County jury formally…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Publicist Bobby Zarem has died at 84. Zarem earned the moniker “Superflack” while…

By CASEY SMITH and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press/Report for America Justice Samuel Alito is pushing back against criticism that recent Supreme…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will perform for…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A lawsuit says a Black civilian grounds-keeping and kitchen worker at Wyoming’s F.E.…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Three Democratic members of Congress have offered deeply personal testimony about their own abortions as a…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has narrowly approved President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Consumer Financial…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee state senator has been found guilty of wire fraud in federal court. News outlets…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Equal Justice Initiative is opening an expanded museum in Alabama that focuses on the…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he has had discussions with British…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Regulators want the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to pay a penalty and follow through on a promise to fix…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting final touches on long-sought consumer protections…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A conservative Roman Catholic media outlet is seeking a court order to stage a rally during a U.S.…

By MARCY GORDON and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have fired a barrage of criticism at a Facebook executive over…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military expects to begin receiving new Afghanistan evacuees in the United States…

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Officials say meatpacker JBS Foods Inc. faces about $59,000 in fines following the death of a worker who fell into a vat of…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday announced new rules that require authorities to only pursue…

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams is joining Purdue University after being a leader of the nation’s early…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Primetta Giacopini’s life began and ended with pandemics. The 105-year-old California woman was two years old…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Kilauea, one of the most active volcanos on Earth, began erupting on Hawaii’s Big Island…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press FORT MCCOY, Wis. (AP) — Reporters have been given a glimpse of life on a Wisconsin Army post for newly arrived…

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A fern species that was believed to be extinct when the last known specimen died on Hawaii’s Big Island has been found on the…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain has launched a diplomatic offensive to preserve its essential stream of Algerian natural gas as…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Tens of thousands of men who say they were molested as children by scoutmasters and others…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a long night of frantic negotiations, Democrats remain unable to reach an…

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) — A Black man who was fatally shot in his apartment by a white off-duty Dallas police officer has been honored with a memorial at…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson plans to relocate its headquarters from…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian markets have tumbled on the tail of Wall Street’s worst monthly loss since the beginning of the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia says it is kicking out seven United Nations officials whom it accuses of…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 22-year-old white supremacist has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Julia Ducournau’s “Titane” has already developed the reputation of being the year’s…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY and ASHRAF IDRIS Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese have rallied in the capital of Khartoum against…

By GABRIELA MOLINA Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system following a…

By MARKUS SCHREIBER and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press ITZEHOE, Germany (AP) — Officials say a former secretary for the SS commander of the…

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…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The head of the World Bank has discussed Sudan’s daunting economic challenges with the…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A plan to possibly sell the South Florida property where the collapse of a condo building…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Republicans are using money from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package for projects on…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai is opening Expo 2020 in an extravagant ceremony that was delayed a year…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Girls from the Afghanistan national soccer team who were recently granted asylum in Portugal have had a surprise visit from…