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LONDON (AP) — Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning for a second day of testimony before a COVID-19 public inquiry, facing…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Chinese naval vessels have become the first ships to dock at a new pier at a…

By The Associated Press President Ilham Aliyev has ordered Azerbaijan’s Central Election Commission to prepare for an early presidential…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces struck the southern Gaza town of Rafah twice…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is struggling to avert a leadership crisis. It erupted after his…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian state news agencies and authorities say a Russian schoolgirl has shot several of her classmates with a gun before killing…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Greece in an effort to mend strained relations and reset ties with Western…

BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of China and the European Union are holding wide-ranging talks that include their disputes over trade and a deep divide…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech Walesa, Poland’s 80-year-old former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, says he is improving after being…

By TIAN MACLEOD JI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow says she feels she’s still under the watch of…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers on Thursday set the date of the 2024 presidential election for March 17, moving Vladimir Putin closer to a fifth…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Twitch, a popular video service, will shut down its struggling business in South…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An internal Amazon memo has provided a stark look at the company’s carefully laid out plans…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has signed a security pact with its nearest neighbor Papua New…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — When Notre Dame went up in flames in 2019, people who worked in the cathedral felt orphaned. With…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Thursday in Asia after a retreat on Wall Street as crude oil prices slipped on…

By ERIN HOOLEY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A northern sea otter who was found alone and malnourished in the remote Alaska town of Seldovia in…

By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WILLIMANTIC, Conn. (AP) — The killing of a visiting nurse in Connecticut is sparking renewed…

By KEN RITTER and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Three people are dead and a fourth in critical but stable condition after a gunman…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Lear, who died this week at age 101, changed American life with the candor and comedy of his…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An unprecedented test of Texas’ strict abortion ban is headed before a court in Austin. A…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Off and on for over a decade, Wyoming leaders have threatened to auction off large chunks of…

By EDNA TARIGAN and DITA ALANGKARA Associated Press MAMUJU, Indonesia (AP) — A pair of tall birds with black feathers and pinkish breasts crossed a…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press Some of the words tied to this year’s hottest topics were also among the most mangled when it came to saying…

By AUDREY McAVOY and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, DAVID KEYTON, JOSHUA A. BICKEL and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The mood is about to shift,…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is getting slightly more support among Democrats for…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — J Balvin has released his latest single, “Amigos.” He calls it a “romantic reggaeton”…

By RONALD BLUM AND BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writers NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The New York Yankees have acquired All-Star slugger Juan Soto in a trade…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. officials say intensifying Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy facilities are…

HONG KONG (AP) — Customs data show that China’s exports rose in November, indicating that demand may be picking up following months of decline.…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan will meet in Seoul this week to discuss North…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A military helicopter carrying seven people has vanished near Guyana’s border with…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has used a rarely exercised power to warn the…

By STEVE PEOPLES and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press With the Iowa caucuses rapidly approaching, a shrinking field of Republican White House…

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have suspended the search for the 12-year-old boy still missing following a deadly landslide in the southeast…

MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) — Former NFL Player Sergio Brown pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press The U.S. Marshals say a deputy was detained in the United Kingdom on suspicion of acting inappropriately while…

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a driver in a suburb of Boston crashed into at least two individuals and a police officer…

By MARDI ROSA TANJUNG Associated Press BATU PALANO, Indonesia (AP) — The seacrh has ended for any more victims among climbers who were caught by a…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer President Joe Biden is pushing for the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to be able to play under its own…

The Associated Press UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — A Maryland jury has acquitted a police officer who had been charged with murder after shooting a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Two paramedics on trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain told investigators in…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The military announced late Wednesday it was grounding all of its Osprey V-22 helicopters, one week…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have approved a bill to block strict new tailpipe pollution limits proposed by…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard officials are promising reforms after an internal review found a…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison Wednesday on…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — The judge presiding over the Boys Scouts of America’s bankruptcy has rejected a $21 million…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A twice-convicted killer has been charged with attempted murder for a prison yard attack on a fellow inmate convicted of the…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry has announced a run for the U.S. House seat held by…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A new state comptroller report finds that a police training seminar in New Jersey included…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man has pleaded guilty in a 2021 drive-by shooting of three undercover law enforcement officers that he mistook for rival…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — A new generation of senators is working on gun violence prevention legislation in…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Norfolk Southern railroad plans to stop paying relocation aid to people displaced by last February’s fiery…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Majors’ former girlfriend testified Wednesday about the injuries that she suffered…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court has overturned a 2022 ban on bullfighting in Mexico City, opening the way for events to resume,…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — She was an admired pop star with a voice like butter. But writing a musical about a woman who…

By TERRY SPENCER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The anti-communist sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro has died in…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — NCAA president Charlie Baker says his proposal to allow the most highly resourced…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A renegade Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia shortly after Moscow’s invasion has been found dead near Moscow. The…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer UNLV’s basketball game at Dayton on Wednesday night has been canceled because of a mass shooting earlier in the…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin legislative leader says that he opposes a bill from fellow Republicans that seeks…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada grand jury has indicted six Republicans who submitted certificates to…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Norman Lear has died. The producer who made TV topical in the 1970s with the sitcom “All in…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees told The Associated Press on Wednesday there is…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is pushing back a plan to ban menthol cigarettes, an unexpected delay that…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden and military kids are sorting toys donated by the White House to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve…

PARIS (AP) — Prosecutors say a man accused of fatally stabbing a tourist and injuring two other people over the weekend near the Eiffel Tower has…