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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…

LONDON (AP) — A protester has been arrested in London on suspicion of inciting racial hatred as tens of thousands of people joined a…

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say militants in a northern West Bank refugee camp have shot and killed two…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN The energy used by cars and their CO2 emissions could have dropped by over 30% in the past decade if not for the world’s growing…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A local official in Congo says militants from a shadowy extremist organization with…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Top diplomats from Japan and China have met for bilateral talks as they try to resolve disputes…

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — An Italian man suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend in a case that has shaken the country has been…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say government forces’ shelling of a northwestern village has killed at least nine people,…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a blaze has killed at least 10 people in a shopping mall. The multi-story RJ Mall is in a high-rise…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis has canceled his audiences scheduled for Saturday morning because he has a slight fever.  “The Holy…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched Saturday morning its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Officials say they have stopped digging to rescue 41 construction workers who have been trapped for nearly two weeks in a…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state news agency says an avalanche killed five mountain climbers and injured four others in west Iran. Rescue…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas is expected to swap more of its hostages for…

By DAVID R. MARTIN and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press ELMSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills…

By BILL BARROW and MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump plans to use a college football rivalry weekend…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips, who is running for president and challenging…

Mexico’s Department of the Interior reportedly revoked funding on Friday for a conference on the government’s violent anti-insurgency policy from…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Georgia can keep statewide elections for its five-member…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The owners of a defunct Colorado funeral home where 190 sets of decomposing human remains were found have been…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — National security adviser Jake Sullivan; former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden spent much of his day after Thanksgiving focused on work. But he was…

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like…