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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A year-long suspension of the legal time limit to sue over sexual assaults against adults in…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Some Democratic cities are spending taxpayer dollars on bus, plane and train…

By THOMAS PEIPERT and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — After the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Some states are steadily chipping away at longstanding bans on Sunday game hunting, and…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Officials trying to reach 41 workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press TORVAIANICA, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis’ recent gesture of welcome for transgender Catholics has resonated…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press Skyrocketing sugar prices left Ishaq Abdulraheem with few choices. Increasing the cost of…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press VOORBURG, Netherlands (AP) — Thousands of families are lining up for free handouts at food banks across the…

By DANIEL POLITI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Voters in Argentina head to the polls Sunday in a presidential…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law that decriminalized the possession…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued advisories along the California-Nevada line ahead of an early winter storm that could…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press FELCSUT, Hungary (AP) — Israel has lost 2-1 to Romania in an emotionally charged European Championship qualifying…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sales on the secondary-ticket market were surging for Saturday night’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.…

SAVANNAH, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities in western New York say a man was shot and killed while on a hunting trip on the first day of the state’s…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden says that achieving a cease-fire amid Israel’s war with Hamas “is…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union says a Kansas grade school forced an 8-year-old…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators have identified a “person of interest” in the Los Angeles freeway arson…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a large metal gate at an elementary school in Arizona apparently fell onto and killed a 9-year-old child who…

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) — The English hockey team that American Adam Johnson played for has retired his No. 47…

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office says a 5-year-old California boy has fatally stabbed his twin brother. The…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press A California man’s family is pleading for his release after they say he was wrongfully arrested…

STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say the last of four men who escaped from a Georgia jail in October has been caught. Bibb County Sheriff David…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says his country and Azerbaijan are speaking “different diplomatic languages”…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A library book that is more than a century overdue has been returned to St. Paul Public Library. Titled “Famous…

VENICE, La. (AP) — Federal authorities said Saturday that they’re investigating a leak from an underwater oil pipeline off the coast of…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and HELENA ALVES Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Survivors of Nazi atrocities have joined young Jewish activists in Paris to…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Democrats are meeting in Sacramento to decide whether to endorse candidates…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister has further signaled that his government is likely to present a…

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut judge has set Jan. 23 as the date for a new Democratic primary in the Bridgeport mayor’s race after having…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of family members and supporters of some 240 hostages held in Gaza have streamed into…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Prosecutors say Albania’s former health minister, who is being investigated for alleged…

By ELISE MORTON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — More than 100 Russian doctors have signed an open letter demanding the immediate release of an…

LONDON (AP) — A bottle of Scotch whisky billed as “the most sought-after” in the world has sold for almost 2.2 million pounds ($2.7 million).…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has officially requested India to withdraw its…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans home where civil rights activist Oretha Castle Haley grew up and…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese man wanted for allegedly embezzling millions of yuan (hundreds of thousands of dollars) from his company and then fleeing…

By ALI SWENSON and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press The man who bludgeoned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer last…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s ruling Reform Party has reelected Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as its chairperson and confirmed her staying on as…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Officials say a shooter killed a state security guard in the lobby of New Hampshire’s…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Both cheers and jeers for Argentina’s right-wing presidential candidate…

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — People in southwest Iceland remained on edge Saturday, waiting to see whether a volcano rumbling under the Reykjanes…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S.…

By JAMIE STENGLE, LM OTERO and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press OFF THE COAST OF GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Far off the Texas coast there is a…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military says its troops are working to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnieper…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A 23-year-old Taylor Swift fan died at the singer’s Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Friday night, according to a…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — By most accounts, Speaker Mike Johnson inherited a House Republican majority in…

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt says the government can afford to lower some taxes now that…

By MALAK HARB Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The first planeload of Palestinian children wounded in the Israel-Hamas war…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX is prepping its mega rocket for a test flight meant to circle the world. Liftoff for Starship is set for…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli drone has fired two missiles at an aluminum plant outside the market town…

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office says a French senator has been handed preliminary charges for drugging another lawmaker with the…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen has had an unusual encounter during an official visit to Moldova when the country’s…

BEIJING (AP) — Australia has accused the Chinese navy of likely causing minor injuries to Australian naval divers by operating its sonar while they…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, that includes Herbie…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Internet and phone service has been partially restored…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Jordan’s foreign minister has offered blistering criticism of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip,…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A Canadian security forum will present an award Saturday to the people of Israel…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union has overwhelmingly ratified a new contract with Ford, a pact that, along…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — While Louisiana’s gubernatorial election was decided in October, voters will cast ballot…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Tymofii Postoiuk and his friends set up an online fundraising effort for Ukraine,…

By GENE JOHNSON and ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Election officials around the country are stocking up on the overdose reversal…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A new museum in Barcelona is offering a second chance to controversial artworks that have…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iranian-backed militants in Iraq and Syria have long battled with U.S. and coalition forces,…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will campaign Saturday in…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Miss Universe competition hosted by El Salvador is the latest spectacle touted by…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Forty workers are trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India for a seventh…

By DAVID BILLER and DANIEL POLITI BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In the run-up to the tightly contested Argentina presidential election runoff…