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By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh will hold its next general election on Jan. 7, but the country’s main…

By JOSHUA A. BICKEL, DAVID KEYTON and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Negotiators have been urged to narrow down…

By The Associated Press President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says it is overwhelmed by a shift in human smuggling routes, with…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, the U.N. General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a…

By DAVID BILLER and DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Economist Javier Milei is assuming Argentina’s presidency after…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City voters will decide whether to approve a 1% sales tax to fund a new downtown…

By SYLVIA HUI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Rights groups say that Beijing’s crackdown on dissent is becoming increasingly…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A former U.S. Navy SEAL who says he shot Osama bin Laden is at the center of a much different…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Anthony Davis had seasons highs of 41 points and 20 rebounds and the Los Angeles Lakers won the…

By MIKE CORDER and MELINA WALLING Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Visitors walking along the river that flows through downtown…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press This year’s global climate summit in Dubai set aside Sunday to spotlight food and agriculture, a sector that…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine coast guard says the Chinese coast guard has assaulted three Philippine…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Residents are going to the polls in Hong Kong’s first district council elections since an…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police in Atlanta say a shooting has killed three people and left one victim wounded. The Atlanta Police Department said officers…

BY RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, becoming the…

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southern China say a workshop built from steel sheets collapsed, killing six people and injuring three others. An…

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — First responders in Tennessee were surveying damage from an apparent tornado that damaged homes as a line of severe…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Vikings offensive coordinator Wes Phillips was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after being stopped for…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The National Rifle Association will be represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in an…

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in southeast Alaska during a rescue mission last month has been recovered. The…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A British Palestinian surgeon who spent weeks in the Gaza Strip during the current Israel-Hamas war…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s governor has called on the state’s colleges to swiftly address antisemitism and…

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a warning about the danger of high-powered, pea-sized magnets found in toys. It says it is…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani agreed Saturday to a record $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles…

NATURAL BRIDGE, Va. (AP) — Court documents show that over 100 animals – both living and dead – have been taken from a roadside zoo in western…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — International and regional leaders have rejected the latest attempt by Guatemalan…

SEATTLE (AP) — Some patients of a Seattle-based cancer center are receiving threatening emails following a data breach last month. Fred Hutchinson…

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina jurors have convicted an inmate on charges related to participation in the deadliest U.S. prison riot of…

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Police say officers investigating a domestic disturbance fatally shot a man who they say ran at them with knives in West…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The regents of Universities of Wisconsin have narrowly voted to reject a deal with Republican lawmakers to freeze hiring for…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Going around Congress, the Biden administration says it’s approved the emergency sale…

NEW YORK (AP) — Here come Santa Clauses. Again. Throngs of people dressed as jolly Old St. Nick descended on New York City for the annual SantaCon…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s power and energy ministry says the country experienced an…

By PETER PRENGAMAN and FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fresh off election victory, a year ago Brazilian…

By SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC Associated Press KYIV (AP) — City workers in Kyiv have dismantled an equestrian statue of a Red Army commander. It’s…

By UZMI ATHAR, Press Trust of India DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Many women, young people and Indigenous voices say they feel they’re…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police say a clerk at a small grocery store died after a customer beat him and impaled him with a golf club. The…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has acquitted two Indianapolis police officers of excessive force for striking two women with batons during arrests at a…

By ROB MAADDI Pro Football Writer The NFL has banned Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro from the sideline for one game for his role in an altercation…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has strongly condemned Russia’s plans to hold presidential elections on occupied Ukrainian territory in the spring.…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used a speech on human rights to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Littlejohn remembers the days when lots of people had a couple of dollars to spare to buy…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would…

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE and ELISE MORTON Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Hundreds of people have marched in Georgia’s capital to support…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — The four members of Maine’s congressional delegation are calling for an Army…

By JULIA FRANKEL, ADAM GELLER and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) — After seven weeks held hostage in the tunnels of Gaza, they…

By FARAI MUTSAKA and TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe is holding special elections for nine seats in…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is confident that his troubled government will find a good…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, have separately condemned a…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters at the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit have demonstrated for…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAM MAGDY and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli warplanes struck parts of the Gaza Strip overnight…

ROME (AP) — A fire has broken out in a hospital on Rome’s outskirts, killing at least four people. The blaze also forced the evacuation of the…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The future of fossil fuels that are warming the planet are at the core of negotiations at the United Nations…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — If you’re a Democrat with money to burn and friends in high places,…

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to…

By HANNA ARHIROVA, KARL RITTER and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press KORCZOWA, Poland (AP) — Ukrainian charities and companies supplying the…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidates will cross paths again in Iowa just days after a…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Behind bars in penal colonies or in self-exile abroad, Russian opposition figures vow…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A century-old territorial dispute is boiling over between…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Two of Houston’s most powerful and longest serving political titans are facing off in a mayoral…