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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most TV dramas try to tell stories over a few years with maybe half a dozen central…

By MATTHEW PERRONE, LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press The U.S. has moved a step closer to offering booster doses of Pfizer’s…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in August and the pace of price growth eased, the latest sign the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Reusable packaging is about to become more common at groceries and restaurants worldwide. Loop, which collects…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The wrecked boats, docks and processing equipment left by Hurricane Ida has some wondering what…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian appeals court has sentenced the country’s former chief prosecutor to two…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A home health nurse who discovered the bodies of a prominent Minnesota businessman and his wife in a murder-suicide case is…

By CARA ANNA, DANICA KIRKA and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Travelers and authorities from India and many African countries…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press KAMOURASKA, Quebec (AP) — At the Canadian border one night this month, a man from Atlanta pulled up in his car,…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press Writer VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian cybersecurity authorities are urging the country’s governmental…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state news agency says a former government minister has asked the country’s top…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say a drive-by shooting at a school bus stop in Kentucky left a 16-year-old student dead and another hospitalized.…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has carried out its first climate change stress test. The…

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say they have established the identity of a woman who was found in a remote…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna might be extremely consumed with rolling out her popular lingerie line,…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police are investigating an incident in which the government prisons…

By JAMEY KEATEN and DREW COSTLEY Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization is setting a higher bar for policymakers and the…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The most significant rift in decades between the United States and France seems on the mend after…

LONDON (AP) — Environmental activists who have repeatedly blocked Britain’s busiest highway face possible imprisonment after a judge granted an…

LONDON (AP) — Netflix says it has bought the works of Roald Dahl, the late British author of celebrated children’s books such as “Charlie and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — As winter looms, the European Trade Union Confederation says three million European workers can’t afford heating their houses…

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Police in a Georgia Island town say they’ve arrested a woman who witnesses say threw an injured puppy into the…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Nigeria-born designer Joy Meribe opened Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday with her debut runway…

By MARK TAKAHASHI Edmunds The fully redesigned 2022 Honda Civic will be of interest for many small-sedan shoppers. The Civic has been one of the most…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish Defense Ministry says one of its warships issued a warning to a Greek research vessel…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has ruled that border police can use ethnicity as one of the criteria…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new energy ministry says it is raising the price of fuel by 16% percent. The Wednesday price hike is the second in five…

By ERIN HURD of NerdWallet Vacation home rentals are increasingly popular among travelers, especially during the pandemic. The problem for many savvy…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Seven female lawmakers from Afghanistan have arrived in Greece as part of the wider evacuation effort and are expected to…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian police say the car of a top aide to the country’s president came under heavy gunfire, seriously wounding the…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A U.S.-based cybersecurity company says it has uncovered evidence that an Indian media…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban’s newly appointed envoy to the United Nations is urging quick world…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s constitutional court has resumed the proceedings in a case over whether Polish or European Union law has primacy…

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GAUHATI, India (AP) — Indian officials have burned about 2,500 old rhino horns to spread awareness of the need…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Milos Zeman has been released from the hospital. Zeman was admitted to Prague’s military hospital on Sept. 14 for…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Nearly a year and a half after being abducted by Islamic extremists in Burkina…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press TODOQUE, Canary Islands (AP) — A wall of lava up to 12 meters (40 feet) high is bearing down on a Spanish island…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Apple’s and Google’s cooperation with the Russian…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A person with direct knowledge of Ben Simmons’ plans tells The Associated Press the…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has reopened a crossing with the occupied West Bank for the first time since six prisoners tunneled out of a nearby…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of immigrants are running in Germany’s national election on Sunday, raising the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mostly higher after the Federal Reserve signaled it may begin easing its extraordinary…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Coronavirus cases are surging to the worst levels of the pandemic in a rebel stronghold in Syria.…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese real estate developer that is struggling to avoid defaulting on billions of dollars of…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has ordered the last person seen with Kristin Smart before she vanished from…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Racism, climate change and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say an 87-year-old woman found dead inside a freezer in the garage of her Southern California home was a retired…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, MARIA VERZA, JUAN A. LOZANO and SARAH BLAKE MORGAN Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — U.S. officials say many of the…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, COLLEEN LONG and BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents tied to images showing aggressive tactics…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Willie Garson, who played Stanford Blatch on TV’s “Sex and the City” and its movie…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling fellow Democrats to the White House, President Joe Biden is pushing in…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press President Joe Biden says the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world.…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A sports association official says seven female taekwondo athletes who fled Taliban-controlled Afghanistan have…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer The Asian Development Bank has lowered its outlook for economic growth in developing Asia to reflect renewed…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government says its health minister has tested positive for the coronavirus in New York after Brazilian President Jair…

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A top Southern Baptist Convention committee agreed Tuesday to fund a third-party…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The popular mayor of the Philippine capital says he will run for president in next year’s elections, the latest…

By ANDREW DALTON AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER LOS ANGELES (AP) — The projectors are rolling. The ruby slippers are on. The shark is hanging and waiting.…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has caused slight damage in suburban Melbourne in an unusually powerful temblor for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two suspects in an attack on Jewish men outside a Los Angeles restaurant last spring have been charged with a hate crime. Police…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Health care workers are exhausted and angry. Some of Idaho’s coronavirus vaccines are…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An Arizona man who allegedly told his father he “snapped and shot a couple of people”…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is seeing lower coronavirus transmission than other U.S. states as virus cases and…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ruling emir of Qatar has urged world leaders gathered at the United Nations…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials are facing pressure to increase COVID-19 testing for travelers. The islands are…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have bonded over their shared…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge in suburban Detroit threw out the murder conviction of a man who was blamed for a fire that…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One of two teens charged as adults in the fatal stabbing of a college student in a New York…

NEW YORK (AP) — A second woman has accused billionaire Leon Black of rape in claims lawyers are seeking to add to a defamation lawsuit filed…

LONDON (AP) — A British couple who sought justice for their 19-year-old son after he died in a vehicle crash say they have settled a civil lawsuit…