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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A power company’s plans for an enormous offshore wind farm off Virginia’s southeast coast have received key…

NAUGATUCK, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut police officer who shocked a shoplifting suspect three times with a stun gun, including when the man was on…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International says civilians in southern Lebanon were injured this…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer TGL is the tech-infused golf league created by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. And now they’re sharing exactly…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed Jacob Lew as ambassador to Israel, filling the key…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press Over the past five days, Israeli ground troops have pushed deeper and deeper into Gaza in their war against Hamas,…

Authorities say a North Dakota woman fatally poisoned her boyfriend after learning that he planned to break up with her after he received a large…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press FBI Director Christopher Wray is warning that Hamas’ rampage inside Israel could inspire violence in the…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United Nations expert on human rights in Haiti says he is alarmed…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The mother of a man who was fatally shot by an officer in Tennessee after fleeing a…

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday vowed a “merciless fight” against surging antisemitism after residents of the…

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer In a country shadowed by the threat of mass shootings and neighborhood violence, courts have embraced an…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The country’s largest Christian university is being fined $37.7 million by the federal…

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls slain in 2017 during a hiking trip has been moved…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An independent party will review antisemitism policies at the City University of New…

McCOOK, Neb. (AP) — Officials say a single-engine plane crash in a southwestern Nebraska town has killed one person and injured another who were on…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan attorney general’s office says the state prosecution of former Gov. Rick Snyder and other officials for their…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with whether public officials can block critics from…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city of Philadelphia has picked the winning design for a Harriet Tubman statue outside City Hall after facing criticism…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who beat a 66-year-old Sikh man to death after a fender bender in New York City has been…

By The Associated Press Five hostages of Hamas are free, offering some hope to the families of more than 200 others snatched in southern Israel…

RUMFORD, Maine (AP) — Law enforcement officers in Maine have killed a man who confronted officers outside a police station with a rifle.…

OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — An independent investigation has concluded that a threat assessment should have been conducted by school officials into Ethan…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico police have arrested at least 380 people in the department’s biggest crackdown on crime in recent years.…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Five weeks into the trial against three Tacoma, Washington, police officers charged in the…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Toyota will invest an additional $8 billion in the hybrid and…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer In her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the…

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Three people were struck by bullets and a fourth grazed when a shooter opened fire inside a Brazilian restaurant south…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have for the first time claimed missile and drone…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million to the federal…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Like other Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy in a delegation of Ukrainian interfaith leaders…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican navy said Tuesday that four more boats have been located on the bottom of Acapulco bay, bringing to 33 the number of…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A high-ranking official from China has made a visit to military-ruled Myanmar to discuss security…

By DAVID SHARP LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Children returned to school Tuesday and planned to go trick-or-treating in the evening after spending days…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Gallaudet University and AT&T developed a football helmet for Deaf and hard-of-hearing…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The leader of Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party has been sentenced to 15 months…

HELSINKI (AP) — Three Finnish men who embraced neo-Nazi ideology have been found guilty of committing crimes with terrorist intent including…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader John Lee will not attend an upcoming economic conference in the U.S. due to…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of garment factory workers have taken to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and the industrial…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say remains of a person missing since devastating floods in western Germany more than two years ago have been found near the…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted a Russian businessman of exporting computer chips and other electronic products to the…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers us suing the Republican-controlled Legislature, arguing…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers are feeling increasingly less confident these days as fears of an oncoming…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Police have clashed with opposition supporters in Bangladesh as the main opposition…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck off the coast of northern Chile, and has been felt in several provinces of neighboring…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The U.N. chief has toured the highest peaks in Nepal, and says the world should end…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is working out with partners in the European Union and the Middle East the…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — The United Nations migration agency says a record 6.9 million people have been displaced by…

By JULIA FRANKEL and MOSHE EDRI Associated Press ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — The soldiers guarding Avi Chivivian’s organic vegetable farm in…

By MELINA WALLING and JOHN LOCHER Associated Press GANADO, Ariz. (AP) — Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona,…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Residents say United Nations peacekeepers have withdrawn from a rebel stronghold in northern…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Catholic bishops have apologized again for sex abuses committed by members following…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former U.S. Army major and his wife accused of routinely beating their young foster children and denying them food and water…

By LUIGI NAVARRO Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wages and benefits grew at a slightly faster pace in the July-September quarter than…

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer AJIJIC, Mexico (AP) — There’s a look Sandy Phillips came to know each time she arrived somewhere a gunman had…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Legal Affairs Writer As Janet Paulsen prepared to leave her husband, who had become increasingly volatile over their 15-year…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO AP National Writer FLINT, Texas (AP) — She leaned out of the tent at a small-town summer festival, hoping someone would stop to…

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — By the time Hollan Holm pulls the family minivan into Chickasaw Park, the buzz rising…

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Inside the columned church on the corner, the rich tones of the organ have wrapped…

By NEBI QENA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.N investigators have urged Russia to acknowledge responsibility for a missile strike on a…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — An alliance of nations that push for more solar power worldwide are set to announce nearly…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer U.S. regulators have sued SolarWinds and its top security executive for fraud for allegedly concealing poor…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.N. experts are demanding the Taliban immediately release two women’s rights defenders in Afghanistan. Neda Parwan and…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism police squad has arrested at least 59 suspected…

LONDON (AP) — A former top aide who has accused ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson of being unfit for office is scheduled to testify Tuesday at…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — World rugby champions South Africa have arrived back in the country to a heroes’ welcome…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Biden administration and JetBlue Airways are facing off in court over the Biden administration’s effort…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has overturned a reform to the country’s criminal code that allowed for people who have been acquitted to…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The heir to the Spanish throne, Princess Leonor, is to swear allegiance to the Constitution on her…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is poised to leave its key interest rate unchanged at a time when…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Singapore’s defense minister has urged China as a dominant power in Asia to take the lead in…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine navy patrol ship has been shadowed by Chinese forces near a disputed shoal in…

PARIS (AP) — Paris police have opened fire on a woman who allegedly made threatening remarks on a train. The shooting Tuesday is the latest…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police say they have surrounded a post office where a man with a gun is holed up and that…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A pair of recent reports from the Environmental Protection Agency put striking numbers on…

By RIAZ KHAN and ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Afghans are piling into trucks and buses and leaving Pakistan to avoid…

By The Associated Press Anheuser-Busch Inbev says that revenue growth in most of its global regions was offset by a drop in North American sales.…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A wildfire in eastern Australia is suspected to have killed a man, destroyed more than…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — An official survey of manufacturers shows China’s factory activity contracted in October,…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s new government has been confirmed, with the prime minister promising…