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By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia says he won’t seek reelection in 2024, giving…

MOCKSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina congressional candidate who narrowly lost in the state’s only U.S. House swing district in 2022 is…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey says shelters are being pushed past their capacity,…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, has met with students and…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested that the Fed is in no hurry to further…

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Two-way star and coveted free agent Shohei Ohtani is donating about 60,000 baseball gloves to Japanese elementary schools.…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a vigilante who fired two shots inside a New York City subway station after…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s highest court is preparing to weigh in on the removal of time limits on child…

Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is requiring state health officials to develop an outreach program to educate the public on the…

By MARK SHERMAN and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee abruptly adjourned a meeting…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — A western Illinois judge could face removal from office after a judicial…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its…

BRANDON, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man intentionally drove into two sheriff’s deputies, badly injuring them before a third deputy…

By COLLEEN NEWVINE Associated Press TV, movies, books and music frequently showcase the tumult of tweens coming of age. Until recently, the same…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press SMITHS STATION, Ala. (AP) — After the 2019 suicide of a local teenager, small-town mayor and pastor F.L.…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ and MARKO ÁLVAREZ Associated Press BARRANCAS, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government has announced that the father of Liverpool…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Health officials in Puerto Rico have declared a flu epidemic. Health Secretary Carlos Mellado said Thursday that at…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak remains hospitalized in Mexico City following a “health…

By EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press HUSAVIK, Iceland (AP) — The Blue Lagoon geothermal spa — one of Iceland’s biggest tourist attractions —…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says it “feels good to get in the game” after endorsing…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI director has told staff in an internal message that he’s concerned about a…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are urging a judge to put an immediate end to the…

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya says it won’t deploy its police officers to Haiti until all…

MONTREAL (AP) — Montreal police say two Jewish schools in the city were hit overnight by gunshots. Staff members discovered bullet holes on the…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has ruled tha tprosecutors will be allowed to use rap lyrics as evidence when rapper Young…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Black riverboat co-captain at the center of an Alabama riverfront brawl that drew national attention has been accused of…

LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has sentenced the wife of an Irish businessman and her father to additional prison time after their…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee college student who was hit by a stray bullet while walking near campus has…

MILAN (AP) — Rome is removing antisemitic graffiti that was scrawled on buildings in the city’s old Jewish Quarter on the 85th anniversary of…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police lieutenant who was placed on paid leave for more than a year for forwarding a racist email has been…

AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The Census Bureau is predicting an older and more diverse America in the coming decades, along with other…

NEW YORK (AP) — Omegle, a video chat service that connects users with strangers at random, is shutting down after 14 years following ample misuse…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press SHENGJIN, Albania (AP) — Some in the Western Balkans country saw it as reciprocation when the leaders of Albania…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities on Thursday were trying to determine who sent letters filled with fentanyl…

Associated Press The nation’s top accident investigator says a surge in close calls between planes at U.S. airports this year is a clear warning…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an…

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — The nation’s first openly gay governor is looking to re-enter politics nearly 20 years after he left. Former New Jersey…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press In 2015 Heather McDonald launched her podcast “Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald” as a way to promote her…

By ED KOMENDA and LINDSEY WASSON Associated Press JEROME, Idaho (AP) — Behind the barbed wire, the little boy pressed his ink-covered index finger…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials would be able to process absentee ballots…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and VICTOR CAIVANO Associated Press FORT MCMURRAY, Canada (AP) — During a May wildfire that scorched a vast swath of spruce and…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and VICTOR CAIVANO Associated Press FORT MCMURRAY, Canada (AP) — Thousands of wildfires in Canada have incinerated an area…

MADRID (AP) — Veteran Spanish right-wing politician Alejandro Vidal-Quadras has been taken to a hospital in Madrid after being shot in a street in…

MOSCOW (AP) — An economic grouping that includes several ex-Soviet nations along with Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey has held a summit in…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — In Wisconsin, the old fashioned cocktail comes with brandy, not bourbon. Now, state lawmakers…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s outgoing deputy foreign minister has written to newly-elected legislators and senators to urge them to…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Analysts say that Pakistan’s crackdown on undocumented migrants risks radicalizing Afghans who…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Slightly fewer Americans applied for jobless claims last week, further indicating that the labor market remains strong…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military government has charged that a major offensive in the country’s…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Davyd Booth believes strongly that people everywhere are the same and that music touches the heart…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say a student with a weapon is suspected of having injured a person at a school in the country’s southwest. German…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India — and for Hindus in particular. It is celebrated…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The U.S. ambassador has urged Kosovo’s government to proceed with…

By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president has signed a controversial bill that earmarks $6.1 million…

By RANDA KRISS of NerdWallet Mistakes during the holiday season can be detrimental to a business’s bottom line — but small-business owners still…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Apple might end up on the hook after all for billions of euros in back taxes to Ireland in the…

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist Party has struck a deal with a fringe Catalan separatist…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian port of Odesa hit a Liberian-flagged freighter, killing a port worker and injuring…

ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press The 12 months ending in October were the hottest ever recorded on Earth and likely the planet’s hottest…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A New York-based climate watchdog says the French oil company TotalEnergies is failing…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Kazakhstan, part of his efforts to cement ties with the ex-Soviet neighbor and major…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Across Germany, in schools, city halls, synagogues, churches and parliament, people are coming…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s interior minister has accused the country’s largest police force of being more lenient…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan has reported that its profit zoomed more than 10-fold in the last quarter from a year…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Toxic gray smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore, forcing authorities to…