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By PAUL J. WEBER and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court’s rejection of a mother of two’s…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is planning to construct a new U.S. embassy in Ireland. The State…

AMES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa sheriff’s deputy has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge after a police dog under his care died inside a…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s attorney general has sued three firearms dealers, alleging that they ran…

By STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis’ expansive political machine is facing a churn of…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court on Tuesday ordered the state to draw new congressional…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Texas Supreme Court this week said no to a woman who asked for permission for an immediate abortion. Katie…

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — This Rudolph won’t be leading his pals Blitzen, Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, Comet and Cupid through the Christmas Eve sky.…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Virginia authorities have determined that a Tesla was operating on its Autopilot system and was…

By SARAH BRUMFIELD, JOHN RABY and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America Police have released video from an arrest in North Carolina last…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prosecutors charged a man with first-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal stabbing of a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians are expecting a high vote for a U.N. General Assembly resolution…

By COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that Israel was losing international…

CONWAY, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say more than 25,000 gallons of gasoline spilled when part of a pipeline failed in northwestern Washington state…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A judge sentenced a South Florida dentist to life in prison for the 2014 shooting death of his former brother-in-law, a…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations is warning that hunger could surge across West and Central Africa next…

CAIRO (AP) — Voting has closed in Egypt’s presidential election that is almost certain to see President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi secure a third…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands have rallied in the capital and other major cities in Slovakia to denounce a plan by the new government of…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Missouri’s second-largest county will pay a $1.2 million settlement to the parents of a 21-year-old man with mental…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The birth of their daughter should have marked the beginning of…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — The operator of a Chicago commuter train that collided with snow-removal…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press South Dakota officials will no longer deny applications for personalized license plates based on whether the…

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google lost an antitrust lawsuit over barriers to its Android app store, as a federal court jury has decided…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the highest-profile video game conventions is being shut down permanently, its organizers said Tuesday. The Electronic…

By JESSE BEDAYN The Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — The Colorado cattle industry association filed a lawsuit Monday against state…

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will hold his first in-person meeting with the families of…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Shawn Fain, the international president of the United Auto Workers union, recently won…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A local human rights center says security services in Belarus are breaking into…

ATLANTA (AP) — The trial for rapper Young Thug and five other people is on pause until early next year after one of the defendants was stabbed in…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. George Santos ‘ lawyer expressed optimism about plea…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired…

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s state judiciary is accepting applications to replace a circuit court judge who was killed earlier this year.…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Kwamé Ryan was hired as music director of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina and given a four-year…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government has announced plans to build new nuclear power…

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police in Gary, Indiana, say a debit card left behind at the scene of a fatal shooting helped officers track down and arrest a…

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Gov. Phil Scott has announced that online sports betting starts in Vermont on Jan. 11. He says the state Department of…

By FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of people sang the traditional Mexican birthday song “Las mañanitas” at Mexico…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — During a career than spans over four decades, Grammy-winning Mexican rockers Maná have toured the…

A far-right lawmaker in the Polish parliament has used a fire extinguisher to extinguish a candle on a menorah that was lit for Hannukah in the…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai will meet with…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch counterterrorism agency has lifted the country’s threat alert to its…

By PAT EATON-ORBB AP Sports Writer SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — A day after professional hockey player Adam Johnson suffered a fatal cut to his…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — All five people inside a construction site elevator that crashed to the ground in Stockholm have died, a Swedish…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and KIMBERLEE KRUESI FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Attorneys for a pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election workers’ defamation…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say that they have confiscated 11 tons of cocaine and arrested 20 people in two different operations against the…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have filed terrorism charges against 27 people, including a self-styled…

By KIM COOK Associated Press Part game, part sport — part home decor? Chess sets come in a range of designs from the museum-worthy to the…

DETROIT (AP) — Passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit spent the night in a military barracks in eastern Canada after…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s government says it will reopen two out of eight border crossing points with Russia…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Jon Rahm is the latest player to go back on his word by joining LIV Golf. He was among the early proponents of the…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has came under heavy attacks from the air and from cyberspace. Local officials said…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African singer Zahara, who rose from an impoverished rural background with no…

By EDNA TARIGAN and REZA SAIFULLAH Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia says it is appealing to the international community for…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency has thanked Russian state television for…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — State media say Chinese leaders have wrapped up a two-day annual meeting to set economic…

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — An appeals court in Moldova has annulled a decision that banned hundreds of candidates from an alleged pro-Russia…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has overturned the 2018 conviction of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press NARANJA, Fla. (AP) — Martin Monjaraz takes special pride in helping to organize the Guadalupe festival…

MOSCOW (AP) — The loss of contact with Alexei Navalny at the prison colony where the opposition leader was being held likely signals a Kremlin…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis are asking a federal judge to dismiss a free speech lawsuit filed by Disney after the…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bipartisan bill that would dramatically rework how Wisconsin residents choose…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian prosecutors have asked lawmakers to strip former Prime Minister Sali Berisha of…

LONDON (AP) — British officials say an asylum-seeker on board a barge housing migrants off the south coast of England has died and a police…

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA AND BRIAN INGANGA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president is defending the high taxes the government recently…

BEIRUT (AP) — Jordanian troops have clashed with dozens of drug smugglers along the country’s northern border with Syria, leaving several…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament is remembering a young woman who died in Iranian police custody during a ceremony at which she and a…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Floods, fires, historic storms — severe weather events are on the rise. If your home was hit by high water or a fire…

Choice Hotels is launching a hostile takeover offer for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts after attempts to reach a deal with the hotel chain were…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s culture minister has announced that Tricia Tuttle, a former director of the London Film Festival, will become the new…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of protesters have gathered in the capital of the European Union, calling for better…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The White House says Congo’s security forces and rebel groups have agreed on a 72-hour…