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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in the unit that handles its popular voice assistant Alexa as it plows more resources into…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Associates and children of one of the highest-ranking leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, M. Russell…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California prosecutor says evidence supports involuntary manslaughter and…

DETROIT (AP) — Unions and Detroit’s three casinos have announced a tentative five-year contract that could end a weekslong strike. A labor…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Board has voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by her hair during unrest at a…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics are scaling back the metal tower they plan to…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by a group of Indiana residents…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press READING, Pa. (AP) — A judge has rejected a plea agreement for a Pennsylvania woman charged with killing her…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Friday to a slew of financial crimes in…

PHOENIX (AP) — Police outside Phoenix say they identified a set of decomposed remains known for 31 years as “Apache Junction Jane Doe” as that…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Appointees of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are seeking communications between Disney and local…

NEW YORK (AP) — George Brown, the co-founder and longtime drummer of Kool & The Gang who helped write such hits as “Too Hot,” “Ladies…

By MARK M. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Election officials in Liberia have released nearly all the results from this…

SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A Louisiana woman accused of involvement in the death of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — University of Virginia officials are further delaying the public release of the findings of…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — At the inaugural Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, music and entertainment has taken a front…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is moving forward with its offshore wind industry, despite the loss of two…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s highest court has effectively barred detained opposition leader Ousmane Sonko…

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A man has been found guilty in the death of a woman whose remains were found inside a duffel bag along a rural road in…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is screening imports of cinnamon from multiple countries for toxic lead. It…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four Las Vegas high school students facing murder charges in the fatal beating of their classmate…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer A New York woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase million of dollars in medical debt with…

PARIS (AP) — An expert commission in France has called for removing all time limits on the prosecution of people suspected of raping or sexually…

MENTOR, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a man facing eviction from a mobile home park in Ohio fatally shot the site’s property manager and two other…

NEW YORK (AP) — Charges have been dropped against a New York City lawmaker who brought a gun to a protest because her gun was apparently…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The federal government is delaying a new rule that could make it easier for millions of workers to unionize…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say at least seven states are seeing high levels of the flu and that cases…

MADRID (AP) — The former president of the Spanish soccer federation has been ruled unfit to work in the sport in Spain for three years after he…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.N. top court has issued an order calling on Azerbaijan to ensure that people…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Six Colorado law enforcement officers have been charged with failing to intervene during a…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. Its intimate anecdotes about love, sex,…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — More than 2,400 Ukrainian children aged 6-17 have been taken to Belarus from four…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has ruled that the state’s Republican-controlled…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — E-40 created his own lane with an unorthodox rap flow that’s worked for more…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Ethics Committee has filed a resolution to force a vote on expelling…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a story published November 14, 2023, about the arrest of Donna Adelson in the murder of her son-in-law Daniel…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Author A.S. Byatt, whose books include the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession,” has died at…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say airstrikes by the ruling military in a western region have killed at least…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of people are marching through central Athens to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that…

DETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling nearly 250,000 vehicles in the U.S. because bearings can fail, causing the engines to stall and increasing the…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press As the temperature drops (in many places), the holiday TV calendar is heating up with a variety of festive…

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least 130 people have died in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia following heavy rains that…

NEW YORK (AP) — The visceral documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” about Russia’s early assault on the Ukrainian city will soon reach its widest…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Three weeks after Hurricane Otis smacked Acapulco, businesses of all types and sizes hum…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press HENRICO, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Democrat whose legislative campaign was rocked by the disclosure that she had…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a high-speed train and a regional train were involved in an accident in southern Germany that left several people slightly…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor has launched an investigation into the country’s soccer…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has opened civil rights investigations into seven schools and…

LIMINGTON, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police say a 62-year-old pilot suffered minor injuries when his plane crashed less than a mile after taking off…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries and lawmakers have reached a breakthrough to stop sending their…

By MOHAMED SHARUHAN Associated Press MALE, Maldives (AP) — Mohamed Muizzu has been sworn as the Maldives’ fifth democratically elected president…

BY MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elton John’s musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is coming to Broadway from…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Tony Korenberg Hand celebrated her eighth birthday last year romping with friends and…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Chinese court will hold hearings on claims for compensation for the Chinese relatives of people who died on a Malaysia…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s newly appointed Roman Catholic cardinal says he dreams of having bishops and…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials say Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A lobsterman in Maine jumped from a boat into the water to help save a driver trapped in a sinking car, police said. The car…

By JOSEPH WILSON and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez has pulled off his latest feat…

NEW BUFFALO, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say 11 people were injured when an Amtrak train heading to Chicago derailed in southwestern Michigan. The…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ron DeSantis has picked up 10 endorsements in South Carolina from former backers of Sen. Tim…

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar’s Andry Rajoelina has taken a commanding lead in the island…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Members of the United Auto Workers union moved closer to approving a contract agreement with…

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Justice Ministry says it has filed a lawsuit with the country’s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ “international…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s marine corps says it has secured multiple bridgeheads on the eastern bank of the…

By DAVID KEYTON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Many cities around the world see clean and efficient public transport as a crucial way to lower…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir say government forces have killed five suspected militants in a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s government has released a set of questions for an informal survey it will…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The first Formula One practice of the Las Vegas Grand Prix was called off less than 21…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press The lower house of Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, has passed a record federal budget which aims to increase…