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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Unidentified assailants wounded four news photographers in the violence-wracked southern Mexico city of Chilpancingo.…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former guard at a federal prison in Virginia has been sentenced to three years in prison for failing to help an inmate who…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The parents of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy fatally shot while sitting in his…

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — The pilot of a small airplane and a car’s driver have escaped with minor injuries Tuesday after the plane crashed…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former California tech executive has announced she is ending her longshot campaign for…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The first commercial airliner to cross the Atlantic on a purely high-fat, low-emissions fuel flew…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court is deciding whether the state’s abortion ban is too…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has temporarily stepped down as chairman of his cable…

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. (AP) — A customer has filed a lawsuit against the fast casual chain Chopt over a salad that she says contained a piece of the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Tech executives at Microsoft and Amazon have dropped out of an upcoming software conference after at least one of the women on the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — As authorities in Vermont push forward with their investigation of the weekend shooting of three…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Missouri are investigating the circumstances that led to a child’s death in a fall from a downtown Kansas City…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has had enough problems with some outsiders seeing it as flyover country, so perhaps…

A Phoenix family came to the rescue of Arizona Cardinals player Jesse Luketa, who had a fumble on the road to Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles…

By SAM METZ Associated Press MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Matteo Garrone’s migration odyssey “Io Capitano” played at the Marrakech…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B singer Kiana Ledé is launching the international leg of her “Grudges” tour…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia drivers are likely to begin paying higher prices for gasoline and diesel as state motor fuel…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders.  The announcement marked the…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida official was dead or dying in a hallway in the governor’s office complex for 24 minutes before anyone noticed…

CLEVELAND (AP) — An early blast of cold and snow shut down schools in Cleveland on Tuesday and made driving on heavily traveled Interstate 90 in…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A teenager faces life imprisonment after being found guilty of second-degree murder in last year’s heinous carjacking and…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge overseeing the estate of Aretha Franklin has assigned real estate to the late star’s sons.…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former pro wrestler Tammy “Sunny” Sytch has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for drunkenly colliding…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Britain and Greece were able to differ for decades over the world’s toughest cultural heritage dispute. What’s the right…

By VINEETA DEEPAK Associated Press PANAJI, India (AP) — Veteran Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas was honored with the Satyajit Ray…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials say that a magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the eastern Caribbean island of Barbados but no damage…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has cast Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as an existential battle against purported attempts…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British government-ordered inquiry says it found serious failings at hospitals where an…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The war in Gaza is highlighting the latest advances in artificial intelligence as a way to…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Police in Michigan have arrested a 12-year-old boy who they say led them on a chase in a stolen forklift. MLive.com reports…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York drivers who renewed their expired licenses during part of the coronavirus pandemic face license suspensions on Dec. 1…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Federal Reserve official said he is “increasingly confident”  that the…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A ransomware attack has prompted a health care chain that operates 30 hospitals in six…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus’ top state criminal investigation agency says it has conducted raids as part…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans for Prosperity, the political arm of the powerful Koch network, formally…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities have arrested the leader of a multinational tantric yoga organization on…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A spokesperson for Ukraine’s spy agency says the wife of Ukraine’s intelligence…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer American consumers are feeling slightly more confident this month as the all-important holiday shopping season kicks…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vigils for three college students of Palestinian descent who were shot in Vermont over the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has taken measures to punish one of his highest-ranking critics, Cardinal…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Long lines have appeared in Sao Paulo’s bus and subway stations as a strike opposing privatization efforts of public…

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The attacks on Sierra Leone’s main military barracks and prisons are a failed coup attempt and have resulted in the arrest…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say a 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder after a stabbing at a high school that left one…

HELSINKI (AP) — Prime Minister Petteri Orpo says Finland will close its entire border with Russia due to concerns over migration. Orpo made the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Eddie Izzard is returning to a New York stage this winter for an ambitious version of…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country singer Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” tops Apple Music’s global song chart in…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden is offering to testify publicly before Congress, setting up a potential…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a 20-year concession for a Canadian copper mine that had sparked…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Hungary’s capital next month. It will…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer WWE crushed its social media record over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with the return of wrestler CM Punk…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The foreign ministers of the three Baltic states say they will boycott a meeting by the Organization for Security…

BEIJING (AP) — A violent rock burst in a coal mine has killed 11 people in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province. Mining work can release…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers are arguing that he had a good faith basis to…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Kfir Bibas has spent nearly a fifth of his life in Hamas captivity. The 10-month-old was…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press An advanced geothermal project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada grid to power Google…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press The woman refused to sell Captain Saleha Jabeen a hijab to don with her military uniform. While many civilian Muslims…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German-Israeli singer who claimed he had been turned away from a hotel in the eastern German…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Latvia’s foreign minister is staking a claim to the top job at NATO. Krisjanis Karins says…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A group tracking antisemitism in Germany says that it has documented a drastic increase of…

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet The holidays are a time when travel, gift buying and family outings are abundant. The season can lead you to feel…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders has tapped a former minister from the…

PARIS (AP) — France’s government plans to ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and some other public areas. The measures are…

By JILL LAWLESS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Greek officials say they will continue talks with the British Museum on…

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan High Court has struck out key clauses of a contentious finance law that has…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — A thick layer of fog is believed to have caused a roughly 30-vehicle collision on an Idaho interstate, state police said.…

By The Associated Press Tornadoes have been forecast for the Black Sea region after a storm left more than 2 million people without electricity in…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway says the Philippine government and the country’s communist rebels have agreed…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai is preparing to host the COP28 climate talks as world leaders including…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A visiting Chinese official has warned Australia to act with “great prudence” in…

BERLIN (AP) — Winter’s early onset has brought heavy snowfall and icy roads to Northern Europe. The winter conditions have created disruptions…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter will be memorialized Tuesday with classical music and beloved hymns, some of her…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has told Israel that it must operate with far greater…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has ordered a public trial in prison of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says more than 120 suspected victims of job scams have been…

By TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A truce between Israel and Hamas entered its fifth day on Tuesday, with…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it has postponed the planned launch of its first military spy…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Officials in India say rescuers are 5 meters (about 16.4 feet) away from the 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A mine operator says an elevator suddenly dropped while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa,…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian media say a court in Moscow has extended the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested on…