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By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer At the dawn of 2023, the specter of Saudi Arabia’s growing influence on pro golf — and sports in general —…

By MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Until recently, the Chinese manufacturer behind Elf Bar e-cigarettes was able to slip its…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A convicted terrorist whom Australia had wanted to strip of his citizenship and deport…

RIO YAMAT and GABE STERN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — New court transcripts show that a lawyer who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign’s…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has lost his latest bid to end the business fraud lawsuit he faces…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Looking to build on his reelection victory, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has taken his…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has vowed “more offensive actions” to repel…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Western powers in the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran are accusing Tehran of…

By STEPHEN GROVES, LISA MASCARO and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s push to have Congress replenish…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A trade group that represents TikTok and other major tech companies sued Utah on Monday…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The county election officials under whose watch ballot shortages…

NEW YORK (AP) — James McCaffrey, who voiced “Max Payne” in the popular video game franchise and also starred in television shows including…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel had more riding on Jonathan Majors than perhaps any other actor. Now it’s parting ways…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s largest city is blanketed with a network of cameras, license plate…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s governor is requesting $425 million from lawmakers during the next fiscal year to…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman has undergone a double mastectomy after concerns…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press GRAND COUNTY, Colorado (AP) — Wildlife officials have released five gray wolves into a remote forest in Colorado,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden is set to appear in a California courtroom next month on nine tax counts, the latest fallout from a special counsel…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A volcanic eruption started Monday night on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, turning the sky orange and prompting the civil…

BEIJING (AP) — At least 95 people were killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in northwestern China, the country’s state media reported on…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge is being asked to disqualify Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones from holding office because of…

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves have hired Rangers analyst C.J. Nitkowski to serve on their main television broadcast team, allowing Jeff…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A declassified U.S. government report says foreign hackers did not change vote totals or…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Solway Investment Group, a Switzerland-based mining company with interests in Guatemala,…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A pair of rare Nike sneakers donated to an Oregon homeless shelter in Portland sold for…

By The Associated Press A liberal group is appealing a ruling that allows former President Donald Trump to stay on the Michigan primary ballot to the…

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges has been denied entrance to Canada due to his past…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgement against…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The adult son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer has appeared in court on a new homicide charge in…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows cannot move…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The U.S. and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect…

BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) — A mother who shot and killed her 5-year-old son in an Ohio hotel after taking him there for a special day of fun has been…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco prosecutors have begun charging 80 protesters who last month snarled…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike believed to have been carried out by Jordan’s air force hit a southern province in…

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — If two of the latest Apple Watches are on your holiday shopping list, don’t dawdle for much longer because the devices…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Wright has played Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Luther King Jr. and Muddy Waters. Across an…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. food inspectors found “extremely high” lead levels in cinnamon at a plant in Ecuador that made applesauce…

By JIM SALTER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The largest nursing home in St. Louis has closed suddenly, forcing about…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and PAUL J. WEBER McALLEN, Texas The U.S. government has shut down railroad crossing operations in two busy Texas border towns.…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors has been convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend during a…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to review a gag…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The attorney for a former Florida sheriff’s deputy is arguing that his client had…

By MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it is conducting more on-site…

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — College athletes who have transferred multiple times but were denied the chance to compete…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Nikola Corp. has been sentenced to four years in prison for his conviction for…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities say a boarding school building partially collapsed in central Romania on Monday, leaving one person dead and…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A deadly outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe continues to grow.…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — France’s foreign minister is urging Lebanese leaders to work on reducing tensions along the border…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision by state regulators to grant a major…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department has created a database to track records of misconduct by…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America A 5-year-old boy who had been living at a temporary shelter for migrants in Chicago has died.…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a trial in North Dakota’s lawsuit for the federal…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial…

By DAVID CRARY Associated Press The Catholic church, in its doctrine, still rejects same-sex marriage and condemns any sexual relations between gay…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote on an Arab-sponsored resolution calling…

By KATIE WORKMAN Associated Press If you’re looking to make pretty Christmas cookies without any fuss or fancy decorating, drop cookies are a…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching a new program to cover Indigenous…

LONDON (AP) — British media report that comedian Russell Brand has been questioned for a second time by police investigating allegations of sexual…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has called for the resignation of the state prosecutor in Guanajuato in light of the state’s high…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities have arrested a player on the Sacramento Kings’ G League affiliate and his girlfriend in the killing of a woman…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press A Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice via a once-popular YouTube channel called “8 Passengers,”…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for how such blessings can…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s winners of the I Love My Librarian Award took on a lot more than selecting books…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to deliver a speech by Pakistan’s…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — The Maryland Stadium Authority has approved a lease extension for the Baltimore Orioles at…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Attorneys for a Kentucky woman who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion have…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing sanctions on Russia over its war against of Ukraine, targeting the lucrative diamonds industry as…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Leonard Bernstein was a towering figure on Broadway. So it seems only fitting that the new…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Aleksandar Vucic likes nothing more than to win. Critics say he cheats, but Serbia’s…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson.…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sebastian Siemiatkowski is a co-founder and CEO of Klarna, the Sweden-based company that’s one of…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities added popular detective novelist and dissident Grigory Chkhartishvili, known under the pen name Boris Akunin, to…

PARIS (AP) — The wax figure of actor Gerard Depardieu has been removed from Paris’ most famous wax museum, following negative reactions from…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The holidays can be a challenging time if you’re on a budget. This year, millions of people…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press The longtime president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Larry Kramer, will step down from his role at…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The commissioners from three of the remaining power conferences in college sports appeared together in a…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples. The Vatican issued a new document explaining a radical…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has won reelection to a third, six-year term in office. The National Election Authority said…