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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares retreated Monday as investors awaited updates on consumer spending and inflation in…

SAN FRANCISO (AP) — Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed —…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Christopher Luxon was sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister on Monday and…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s largest school district says it has reached a tentative agreement with its teachers union and its roughly 45,000…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts scored the winning touchdown on a quarterback draw with 2:37 left in overtime, and…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Sunday’s airing of the late afternoon games on the NFL RedZone Channel literally went code red. The broadcast was…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press SHENZHEN, China (AP) — A year after protests pushed Beijing to end its strict “zero-COVID” controls, retired…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Plastic chairs as beds. Meals of bread and rice. Hours spent waiting for the bathroom. As…

WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl from a landslide that smashed into homes in an Alaska fishing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say they have found the body of anti-mining activist Higinio Trinidad de la Cruz. Prosecutors said…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Sunday he hopes a meeting of Mediterranean…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police have arrested six individuals who they say are members of a large human trafficking gang that violently…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime TV producer Marty Krofft has died at age 86. He was known for imaginative children’s…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer No. 3 Washington, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Oregon all moved up a spot in The Associated Press…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Police say three young men of Palestinian descent who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering were shot…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska woman bagged a marriage proposal along with a big buck during a recent deer hunting trip. Samantha Camenzind’s…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media say an Israeli airstrike has hit the international airport in the Syrian capital and put it out of commission.…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden has confirmed that Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old…

AUTRYVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Deputies responding to a call about shots fired in North Carolina on Sunday found four people shot to death in what they…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An alliance of armed ethnic minority groups that launched a surprise offensive last month against…

By The Associated Press Russia’s interior ministry has added the spokesman of U.S. tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co.’s “Wish” had been expected to rule the Thanksgiving weekend box office, but…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Among the many challenges small businesses face as they try to grow these days, getting a loan…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter could not remember their first meeting. She was a newborn. He…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it will summon the Irish ambassador over a tweet celebrating…

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people including former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have gathered in London for a march against antisemitism, a…

ROME (AP) — A lawyer for the Italian man extradited from Germany for the kidnapping and slaying and his former girlfriend says he hasn’t yet…

LONDON (AP) — Former England, Tottenham and Barcelona manager Terry Venables has died. He was 80. He was a former England soccer player who led the…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are known for being a global power couple. But they were also best…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An unknown force has seized an oil tanker linked to Israel off the coast of…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say an operation is underway to find 13 members of a cargo ship that…

LONDON (AP) — The winner of the Booker Prize for fiction will be announced on Sunday. If bookmakers are right, the victorious writer will be named…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The 2024 presidential election is drawing a robust field of independent, third party and long…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress return to work this week after the holiday break, and Senate…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s health ministry says a surge in respiratory illnesses across the country that has drawn the attention of the World Health…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Heavy snowfall and strong blizzards in Romania and Moldova have left one person dead and scores of localities without…

BERLIN (AP) — A German government official says Taliban authorities in Afghanistan arrested four local employees of Germany’s main…

By SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — More than 2,000 people took part in a gay pride event in New Delhi, waving rainbow flags and…

Russian authorities on Sunday claimed that Ukraine tried to attack Moscow with dozens of drones overnight, just a day after Russia launched its most…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday was skipping his weekly appearance at a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, a day after the Vatican…

BY KEMO CHAM and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) (AP) — Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has declared a…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians in…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The tense cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appeared to be back…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The top diplomats from South Korea, Japan and China met Sunday to discuss when to…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press In audio intercepts from the front lines in Ukraine, Russian soldiers speak in shorthand of 200s to mean dead, 300s…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press Secretly recorded calls of Russian soldiers speaking from the front lines in Ukraine with loved ones back home offer…

By JAMEY KEATEN and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — As he sits in Geneva, Michel Dreifuss does not feel all that far away from the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai has a long history of finding economic success amid the war-ravaged woes…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai has a long history of finding economic success amid the war-ravaged woes…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador President Daniel Noboa — less than 48 hours into his term — has repealed controversial guidelines that eliminated…

BY JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege has kicked off his campaign for next…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Star skipper Jimmy Spithill plans to start a new Italian team following his departure from the…

ROME (AP) — Players and coaches across the top men’s soccer league in Italy have had red marks painted on their faces to promote a campaign…

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Officials have recovered the flight data recorder from a U.S. Navy airplane that overshot the runway near Honolulu. The Navy…

By TRISHA AHMED AND MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota state prosecutors say former Minneapolis police Officer Derek…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — Rep. George Santos has said he expected to be expelled from Congress following a scathing…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press KFAR KILA, Lebanon (AP) — A cautious calm has prevailed over the border area in south Lebanon. Saturday was the…

NEW DELHI (AP) — News reports in India say that at least four students have died and 60 others have been injured in a stampede during a music…

LONDON (AP) — The British Antarctic Survey says that one of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters after being grounded…

NEW YORK (AP) — Honda is recalling several hundred thousand 2023-2024 Accord and HR-V vehicles due to a missing piece in the front seat belt…

By VANESSA GERA and JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Russia threatened retaliation against Finland after its Nordic neighbor joined…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized…