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HONOLULU (AP) — Scientists lowered the alert level for the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island from a warning to a watch on Saturday and…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is losing its second elections director in as many years with the current one…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A vice president of the European Union’s parliament was suspended from her duties on Saturday…

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is once again attempting to launch its premium service, a month after a previous attempt failed. The social media company…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff’s deputy who police say traveled to California to kill three family members of a 15-year-old girl he…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Mauritanian national suspected of planning and coordinating three lethal attacks in 2015 on Westerners in Mali has been arraigned…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A winter storm packing powerful winds, heavy rain and potentially several feet of snow in the…

AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — American soccer writer Grant Wahl has been honored with a tribute from FIFA on the desk where he was due to work at the World…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana state trooper shot and killed a man who was reportedly hauling drugs after what started as a high-speed chase…

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press The leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should not be sentenced to life in prison because…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another teenager accused in a fatal shooting near an Iowa high school has admitted to the crime, marking the fifth guilty…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Morocco became the first African country to reach the World Cup semifinals by beating Portugal…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo has postponed a local election due to be held Dec. 18 in…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman who was imprisoned without parole for killing her newborn daughter by throwing the infant in the trash after giving…

TRENTON. N.J. (AP) — Gas prices have again dropped sharply in New Jersey and around the country as demand remains slow and supplies continue to…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police in Wisconsin are searching for the shooter who killed a U.S. Postal Service employee as he was delivering mail. The…

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Kansas man in the 1980 shooting death of a 23-year-old neighbor after investigators who…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Newcomer Davante Lewis has won Saturday’s runoff for a seat on Louisiana’s Public…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — German aid organization Help says Jorg Lange, a German national who headed its Niger…

By MARKUS SCHREIBER Associated Press OSLO, Norway (AP) — The winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus have…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo choked up with emotion as the tears ran down his cheeks. He momentarily…

By AYANNA ALEXANDER and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Georgia’s 2022 election season ended dramatically this past week, but that…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It is one of the world’s most visited and beloved religious venues – the…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The U.N. says two Yemeni troops have been killed in an armed ambush on one of its convoys in…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade ago, then-Vice President Joe Biden shocked the political world and preempted his boss…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a bomb exploded in a bakery in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Baluchistan province killing at least one…

LONDON (AP) — Police on the Channel Island of Jersey say an explosion and fire in an apartment building has killed at least three people and left…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A defense lawyer says a special court for narcotics cases in Pakistan has acquitted the country’s interior minister of…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have turned the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut into ruins, President…

BERLIN (AP) — German police said Saturday that a man suspected of killing his mother and later taking two people hostage in the eastern city of…

By BASSEM MROUE and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — After weeks of deadly Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria, Kurdish forces and…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles City Council member embroiled in a scandal over racist remarks and an activist fought at a Friday night holiday…