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Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities have found the body of a maintenance worker who was considered a person of interest in the case…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare moment of ethical controversy for the Federal Reserve, two top officials…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Middlebury College has removed the name of a former Vermont Gov. John Mead from the campus chapel because of what…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan has marked the 30th anniversary of its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union with a…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation and its affiliates have agreed to pay $6.15 million as part of a settlement with…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department spokesman Ned Price has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek state ERT TV has reported that the leaders of Greece and France are expected to announce a major, multi-billion euro…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The owner of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is selling the 3,000-room Las Vegas Strip hotel in a $5.65 billion deal. New York…

LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 36-year-old man with the murder of Sabina Nessa, a schoolteacher killed as she walked to meet a friend…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press Fort Bliss officials say a soldier reported that she was assaulted by a small group of Afghan refugees at the…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest in a series of U.S. satellites that has recorded human and natural impacts on…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press Hospitals and nursing homes around the country are bracing for worsening staff shortages…

NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly grew up in Chicago’s housing projects and went on to have an illustrious musical career increasingly clouded by…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new monument in Montgomery pays tribute to three enslaved Black women who were subjected to experimental surgery by a…

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — The final chunk of a cargo ship that capsized two years ago along the Georgia coast is awaiting removal from the…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Officials say security forces of Yemen’s internationally recognized government have…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho state lawmaker charged with rape earlier this month has been arrested in…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have banned barbershops in a southern Afghanistan province from shaving or trimming beards, claiming their…

BERLIN (AP) — South Africa has pledged more ambitious emissions targets, a move that was welcomed by climate activists. The South African…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — DNA tests on six sets of skeletal remains found in northern Mexico have confirmed that five of them belong to missing men from…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Global Citizen Live, a 24-hour concert that featured performances from Stevie Wonder, Jennifer…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The father of a University of Alabama student who killed herself after reporting she was raped has settled a lawsuit…

BOSTON (AP) — A former assistant soccer coach at the University of Southern California testified Monday that she regularly created fake athletic…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is planning to hire a private weather forecaster, install more drainage…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are beginning a special session on a $1.3 billion prison construction…

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend after he confessed to his mother and she…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s interior minister says he will seek an extension of the state of emergency in force along the border with Belarus.…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Police are investigating after three dismembered bodies were discovered last week in a dumpster that had been set afire in…

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man unexpectedly won the Quad Cities Marathon this weekend when the two Kenyan runners who had far outpaced him…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia will hold their second round of strategic talks later this week…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Residents of Alaska’s largest city often contend with bears and moose, but state officials are warning of another wild…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s celebration of the 200th anniversary of its final independence from Spain has…

By MAGGIE HYDE Associated Press The top diplomat of Yemen’s internationally recognized government says his conflict-torn country needs millions…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Ethics experts are questioning whether South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem had a conflict of…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” returns for its 47th season this weekend with a bit of a surprise. All…

WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — Attorneys for an Ohio man charged in eight slayings want the aggravated murder charges and the possibility of a death penalty…

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are trying to shore up their slipping dominance in…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The two co-hosts of “The View” who were abruptly pulled off the air last week before a planned…

By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s top diplomat says Syria’s doors are open for the safe return of refugees to their…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and PETER SMITH Associated Press Faith-based groups are scrambling to keep up with fast-paced developments in the Haitian…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press The Biden administration is proposing a new rule that would shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Senate’s Republican leader have now had three COVID-19 shots…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Court records show a Tennessee state senator charged with stealing $600,000 in federal grant money from a health care school…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar Airways says it suffered a more than $4 billion loss in revenues over the…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A high-ranking Roman Catholic cardinal who was placed on a ventilator after contracting…

BOSTON (AP) — The guitar played by Johnny Ramone on all 15 Ramones albums and at nearly 2,000 live performances by the rock band sold at auction…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The dispute between Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers and its former government over…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Poland has convicted a man of instigating a murder in 2002 and participating in subsequent cannibalism and handed…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are getting into the fast-growing market for plant-based chicken. Beyond Meat…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B superstar R. Kelly faces the possibility of decades in prison after being…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer America had yet to really learn about sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in…

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron was hit at the shoulder by an egg thrown at him by a man during an international food trade fair in the French…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — After hovering for years at lows sometimes near $1 per pound, coffee futures — the price…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s new prime minister has appealed to the international community to stand together…

MADRID (AP) — Law enforcement agencies from eight European countries have pounced on a Balkan crime organization allegedly running the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Council of Europe has awarded its human rights prize to jailed Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova. She was arrested…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Some hospitals and nursing homes in New York began removing workers Monday for failing to meet…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has among the lowest rates of death nationally among pregnant women and…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Timbaland paved his own way as a hit-making producer for elite acts like Justin…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say representatives from Iran and Saudi Arabia have held a new round of talks…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren said Monday that he will retire on…

MOSCOW (AP) — Azerbaijan and Armenia are marking the first anniversary of the start of their six-week war in which more than 6,600 people died and…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Instagram is putting a hold on the development of Instagram kids, geared towards children under 13, so it can…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Tuesday finally meet with members of the COVID-19 Bereaved…

By BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The lead judge investigating last year’s massive blast in Beirut’s port…

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Many of the 38 members recognized by the United Nations as small island developing states are known…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCESCO FEDELI Associated Press SAN MARINO (AP) — Pope Francis has repeated the Catholic stance that abortion is…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Millions of U.S. workers have changed jobs or are looking, often in pursuit of flexible hours, remote work and other…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry says two Canadians detained in late 2019 who were allowed to…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has sought urgent clearance…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Wildlife campaigners have called on the Albanian government to stop the construction of…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says two of its members died from injuries they suffered in an…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Aboriginal man is taking Australia’s government to court to argue that Indigenous…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Princess Mako’s fiancé has returned to Japan for their marriage, which was suspended…