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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Executions in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state face delays amid legal questions…

BEIRUT (AP) — Ali Atwa, a senior Hezbollah operative who was on the FBI’s most wanted list for his role in one of the most notorious plane…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Roger Marshall won’t let people forget he’s a doctor. That’s clear because the…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — During the recent standoff over the nation’s debt limit, Senate Republican…

BERLIN (AP) — A leader of the Greens say the multiparty talks on forming a new German government have “a long way to go” and will have to…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has recorded a new record-high daily death toll from COVID-19, continuing a persistent rise that has brought new records…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A top British government official is backing a phone company’s proposal for a new tracking service…

By SARAH EL DEEB and ANGELA CHARLTON BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian pro-government newspaper says that President Bashar Assad has allowed his exiled uncle…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A peeling portrait of Polish piano composer Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban have ruled out cooperation with the U.S. to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan.…

BERLIN (AP) — A former Israeli soldier has been assaulted in Germany’s capital in what police describe as an antisemitic incident. The assault…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Facebook has recently taken a harsher tone toward whistleblower Frances Haugen, suggesting that the social network…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A spotlight that has been thrown on how many of the rich and powerful shield their wealth is also intensifying…

By VANESSA GERA and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister has signed a government resolution welcoming a…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A spate of Chinese military flights off southwestern Taiwan in recent days has prompted alarm from…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s centrist party has narrowly lost the Czech Republic’s…

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — U.N. officials say guards at a Libyan detention center for migrants have shot and killed…

By MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s ambassador to Australia says Australian officials lied to his face and raised the risk…

By ZEINA KARAM and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s elections on Sunday come with enormous challenges: Iraq’s economy…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — After a crude oil sheen was detected on the waters off the Southern California coast,…

By MARK SHERMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil has topped 600,000 virus deaths as it bids to return to pre-pandemic normalcy. Relief…

By ERIC TUCKER, MARY CLARE JALONICK, ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will not block the handover…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s newly-politicized government science board is now ordering researchers not to publicly criticize the body, and…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The executive board of the International Monetary Fund says it is seeking more…

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

By KATHY GANNON and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say senior Taliban members and U.S. representatives are to hold…

CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) — A small plane has crashed just after takeoff from a suburban airport in a northeast suburb of Atlanta, killing all four people…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York prosecutor will seek an indictment in the coming weeks against millionaire real…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man upset over the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, illegal immigration…

By ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities have discovered 652 Central American migrants in six trailers…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Congo’s Health Ministry and the National Institute of Biomedical Research have…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes that evacuated patients to a warehouse where…

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cruise ships are returning to San Francisco after a 19-month hiatus brought on by the pandemic in what the…

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer A report that Jon Gruden used a racist comment about NFL Players Association leader DeMaurice Smith in an…

By ANDREW DEMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The city of Little Rock and the family of a Black driver shot by a white police officer…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California public schools and colleges must stock their restrooms with free menstrual…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced plans to nominate George Tsunis to be his envoy to Greece.…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — In a story published October 9, 2021, about a global minimum corporate tax, The Associated Press erroneously reported…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil has topped 600,000 virus deaths as it bids to return to pre-pandemic normalcy. Relief…

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California high school students will have to take a course in ethnic studies to get a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the law license of an attorney…

BEN FINLEY Associated Press Negotiations have broken down between members of Virginia’s bipartisan redistricting commission. The impasse came…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they won’t file charges against a white police officer who…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say they have caught the replacement leader of a drug gang involved in a bloody turf battle in central Mexico. The…

HOUSTON (AP) — MLB Network broadcaster Jim Kaat has apologized during an AL Division Series game between the Astros and White Sox after saying…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Civil rights groups are trying to convince the Colorado Supreme Court to block the…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal agent shot and killed while questioning a passenger on an Amtrak train in Arizona is being remembered as a venerated…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — The U.N. says forces from Libya’s rival sides have reached an initial agreement on…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media are quoting an unnamed military official as saying that an Israeli strike targeted a military airbase in the…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Civil rights advocates are asking a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit against a…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The former director of a county jail in Cleveland where federal authorities called conditions…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge has extended an order that will prevent state officials from enforcing a law…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The number of Americans getting COVID-19 vaccine shots is nearing an average of 1 million per day. That’s a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two wealthy parents have been convicted of buying their kids’ way into school as athletic…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. House committee is demanding that the company in charge of the transmission…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Only when Lashana Lynch was in the midst of stunt training did she finally learn just who she would be…

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Officials say four people injured when a tree fell on them as they were working inside a Northern California wildfire…

PLANTERSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities are still searching for a 3-year-old boy who went missing in Texas on Wednesday afternoon. Christopher…

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado father has been sentenced to 48 years in prison in the 2012 disappearance of his 13-year-old son. The Durango…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police have acknowledged for the first time that their officers were involved in violent pushbacks of migrants,…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Top science advisers to President Joe Biden are calling for a new “bill of rights” to guard against…

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Now that schools are back in session, parents are mastering this year’s new school…

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Motorcycle gang members got into a shootout on a Florida interstate, leaving a woman riding with the instigator near death.…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman has been convicted of manslaughter in the death of her newborn son whose body was discovered in a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff says he will not enforce the county’s vaccine mandate in his agency. Sheriff Alex Villanueva…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is phasing out its program for gifted and talented…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ largest city is under a water boil order after a large water main break, leading Wichita-area schools to close and…