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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban’s new ambassador to China has arrived in Beijing. It is the first time Afghanistan’s rulers have…

By JON GAMBRELL and MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As world leaders gathered for the COP28 climate summit in Dubai,…

By DARCICIO BARBOSA Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunfire in Guinea-Bissau’s capital erupted late Thursday night and continued through…

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar’s top court has ratified the victory of incumbent President Andry…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court is set to announce whether it will order Venezuela to…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top government spokesperson expressed concern on Friday that the U.S. military is…

By JIM GOMEZ, AARON FAVILA and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press THITU ISLAND, South China Sea (AP) — The Philippine coast guard has opened a new…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Security officials say 11 people have been killed in an attack by a group armed with…

By ZIMO ZHONG AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares declined on Friday even after Wall Street closed out its best month of the year with…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Nearly two months after Hamas infiltrated Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 240…

By JAMEY KEATEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — International climate talks turned to a power game as…

By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ask most people what the annual U.N. climate talks are and the likely answer…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. George Santos of New York will confront a third effort to expel him from the House on…

By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Male survivors of sexual abuse and assault have long felt muzzled, but that might be starting to change as more…

By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press When Sam Schultz was sexually assaulted, it felt like a part of them died. It took eight years and the burgeoning…

The Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A temporary truce in the Israel-Hamas war expired Friday morning, without immediate word from mediator…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — More Americans now believe the death penalty, which is undergoing a yearslong decline of use and…

By JAMES JORDAN, SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an…

By JAMES JORDAN, SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the war with…

By CATERINA MORBIATO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of detainees swept up in El Salvador’s gang crackdown over the past 1 1/2…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian news website says a popular rapper has been sent back to jail less that two weeks after his release…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has asked the country’s Congress to allow him to stop performing his…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a Las Vegas man on charges of making antisemitic threats against U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen and…

By ED DAVEY and DAVID PEREDA ZAVALETA Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The City Council in Portland, Oregon, has approved $2.6 million for police body cameras. The Oregonian reported Wednesday…

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Visitors to the Edinburgh Zoo had their final chance to see and bid farewell to a pair of popular giant pandas who are…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel is running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court…

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A humpback whale visiting the waters off Seattle dazzled onlookers Thursday morning with several…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three militias of…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three militias…

By The Associated Press The Israeli military says a total of eight Israeli hostages have been released from captivity in the Gaza Strip. The army…

By FRANK BAJAK and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three members of Congress are asking the U.S. Justice Department to…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that Montana can’t enforce a first-in-the-nation law banning the video sharing app TikTok in…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Most drivers would pay $15 to enter Manhattan’s central business district under a plan…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky state Rep. Kevin Bratcher has announced plans to run for a Louisville Metro…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An attorney for the billionaire Haslam family has called the bribery allegations from Warren…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The chairman of Florida’s Republican Party is the subject of a rape…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republicans are pushing forward new legislative maps that would preserve their majorities in…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has gotten his turn at bringing the holiday spirit to Washington. The…

ARLINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A 59-year-old man suspected in the June disappearance of a 17-year-old neighbor has been charged with murder after human…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press The nation’s largest publisher is suing over Iowa’s new law that bans public school libraries and classrooms…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has temporarily delayed ruling on…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. health officials say consumers should not eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don’t know the source. That comes…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida law enforcement agencies aren’t required to withhold victims’ names under the Marcy’s Law…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement authorities say in court papers that the plot driven by a government official…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A bill that would end smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos continues to go nowhere. The…

PHOENIX (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison for murdering her two youngest children and another woman is now in an Arizona jail on…

By FREIDA FRISARO and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A busy Atlantic hurricane season is now coming to a close. This…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Alec Baldwin didn’t have to pay anything to resolve a $25 million lawsuit filed by…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A judge for now isn’t stopping Border Patrol agents from cutting razor wire that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say they will give investigators a better tool for understanding accidents and close calls between planes. The…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new study says that about half of Nicaragua’s population of 6.2 million want to…

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a package of bills adding more protections for…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — With manufacturing kinks still to be worked out, Tesla has delivered the first dozen or so of its…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Donations are pouring in at a Christmas charity in Michigan after smoke damage from a fire stymied plnas to deliver…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. authorities say a Mexican drug cartel was so bold in operating frauds targeting elderly Americans that the gang’s…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Five former correctional officers in West Virginia have been indicted by a federal…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say a high-profile entertainment marketing consultant was targeted by a woman who…

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has rejected Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s request to examine signed ballot envelopes of 1.3…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Seven unions representing teachers and other public workers in Wisconsin have filed a lawsuit attempting to end the…

DETROIT (AP) — Influential longtime Detroit pastor the Rev. Charles Gilchrist Adams has died following an illness. He was 86. Adams’ sister…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Biden administration will issue $200 million in grants to modernize the country’s ferry systems. The administrator of…

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC is shuffling its weekend schedule early next year with an eye toward juicing ratings heading into an election year. It will…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina will not be joining the BRICS bloc of developing economies next year as scheduled, a senior official in…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Ambassador to Poland and longtime Republican politician Victor Ashe is suing…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Syracuse, New York, police say an ex-girlfriend of the man charged with recently shooting and wounding three college…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been named the best film of the year by the…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s prison system unfairly punished more than 2,000 prisoners…

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A lawsuit by Daryl Hall over John Oates’ plan to sell his share of the Hall &…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The final member in a migrant smuggling ring that was responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A Paraguayan government official has been replaced after it was revealed that he signed a memorandum of…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers have discovered that some penguin parents sleep for only seconds at a time…

By DIANE JEANTET and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — City lawmakers in Brazil passed what appears to be the nation’s…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The U.S. has charged an Indian national in what prosecutors allege was a failed plot to…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s first TV series was the meta, sci-fi, just-go-with-it, wild ride “The…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says it’s asking media and market competition officials to look into a potential Abu Dhabi-backed…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican National Committee’s rules for next year’s nominating contest and…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bubba Wallace acknowledged it was difficult for him to find joy in best friend Ryan…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina trial judges have blocked portions of a new law that will eliminate…

DALLAS (AP) — Police in Dallas have issued an arrest warrant for Buffalo Bills linebacker Von Miller for allegedly assaulting a pregnant person.…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s government has postponed a deadline by two weeks for ethnic Serbs living in the country to register their…

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have voted to authorize subpoenas…