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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press/Report for America GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The co-leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol is granting a special pardon to ex-President Lee Myung-bak, who…

By RAHMAT MIRZA and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press PIDIE, Indonesia (AP) — A U.N. agency says at least 26 Rohingya Muslims had died in dire…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a post-holiday retreat on Wall Street, as…

By The Associated Press The holiday shopping season — for Mega Millions lottery ticket buyers, at least — is ramping up as officials say the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president on Tuesday called for stronger air defenses and high-tech…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., admitted Monday that he lied about his job experience and college education during his…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two seemingly isolated and random outdoor murders at the height of the holiday season and of…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The United States will permit Major League Baseball players from Cuba to represent their home…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A fourth electrical substation was vandalized late on Christmas Day in Washington state, leaving homes in Kapowsin and Graham…

CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities believe six people were killed in an early morning house fire in Tennessee. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Days of freezing temperatures in Deep South areas that usually freeze for only hours are threatening dozens of water systems…

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister said Monday that his nation wants a…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Over 1,000 senior Israeli air force veterans, including a former Israeli chief of staff, on Monday urged the country’s top legal…

BEIJING (AP) — China will drop a COVID-19 quarantine requirement for passengers arriving from abroad starting Jan. 8, the National Health…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The chorus against Ticketmaster’s contentious concert pricing practices is growing, numbering among them Zach Bryan and…

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer Roberto Clemente remains one of the most revered figures in Puerto Rico and Latin America 50 years after his death.…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities have handed lengthy prison terms to two opposition activists who…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Federal penalties have increased under a newly signed law intended to protect the…

By RAHMAT MIRZA Associated Press PIDIE, Indonesia (AP) — A second group in two days of weak and exhausted Rohingya Muslims has landed on a beach in…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent former soccer player in Iran who has expressed support for anti-government protests says his wife…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities have identified the 19-year-old man who was fatally shot during an altercation at the Mall of America on Friday…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Holiday sales rose this year as American spending remained resilient during the critical shopping season despite…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The season’s triple-virus threat notwithstanding, parties are back, and they’ve…

By HOGIR AL ABDO Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces say an attack by Islamic State militants in the…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Serbia has placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on “the full state of combat readiness,” ignoring…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police say two people have been shot dead by al-Shabab militants and several houses have…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations says its top official in Kabul has met the Taliban government’s economy minister in the Afghan…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s newly appointed prime minister has taken his oath as the leader of a…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities announced Monday the recovery of the body of a seventh victim after a bus plunged 30 meters (100 feet) from a…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Members of France’s Kurdish community and others are holding a silent march…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A key international highway in Serbia remains closed, along with schools and public institutions in an eastern town,…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has formally lifted a ban on the import of full-body sex dolls, ending…