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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “Magic, wonder and joy” is the holiday theme at the White House. Jill Biden is set to…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Police are investigating a Chinese wealth management company owned by Zhongzhi Enterprise Group days…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation but that he doesn’t have…

A storm in the Black Sea took down power grids and left almost half a million people without power after it flooded roads, ripped up trees and…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A party ally of far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders has quit his role in the building of a new governing…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Delegations from the European Union member states and Middle Eastern and north African…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media says the country’s navy has added a destroyer to its Caspian Sea fleet capable of launching cruise…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in India say they were set to begin manual digging of what they hoped was the final phase of rescuing the 41…

By SHARON LURYE Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, La. (AP) — Arliya Martin accepted her high school diploma with relief and gratitude. It was her…

By TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — International mediators were pressing to extend a cease-fire in Gaza that…

PARIS (AP) — French Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt is going on trial over charges of favoritism related to a 2009 public sector contract passed…

PARIS (AP) — Six teenagers go on trial in Paris for their alleged role in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Sierra Leone’s president says most leaders of attacks on the nation’s main military…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A hearing is set to begin to help determine whether a Georgia railroad can legally condemn property to…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An international watchdog is urging the United Nations Security Council to consider all options to…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea is restoring frontline guard posts that it had dismantled…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press What motivates people to donate to charities or causes they care about is often deeply personal. Donors name…

ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s military says its forces raided a militant hideout in a former stronghold of local Taliban in the country’s northwest near…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Supporting nonprofits on GivingTuesday this year could have a bigger impact than usual. That’s because…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The third and final trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain in suburban…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Grain thunders into rail cars and trucks zip around a storage facility…

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) — Rosalynn Carter will make her final journey to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center on Monday…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Get Ready with Me” — to go on a date, go to work or … get fired? “Get Ready…

By DANA BELTAJI Associated Press Earth’s climate is in trouble, and the signs could be seen around the world this summer. Record-breaking heat,…

By DANA BELTAJI Associated Press Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Dove Cameron and Peter Gabriel, Harrison Ford’s last hurrah as…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to cap off the five-day post-Thanksgiving…

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing is calling for a cease-fire in Myanmar after a coalition of ethnic fighters seized several crossings along Myanmar’s…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has committed an additional $168 million in funding for police…

BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court is holding compensation hearings for Chinese relatives of people who died on a Malaysia Airlines plane that…

by DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Greenpeace activists are engaged in a sit-in protest on a deep-sea mining ship in the Pacific…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares retreated Monday as investors awaited updates on consumer spending and inflation in…

SAN FRANCISO (AP) — Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed —…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Christopher Luxon was sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister on Monday and…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s largest school district says it has reached a tentative agreement with its teachers union and its roughly 45,000…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts scored the winning touchdown on a quarterback draw with 2:37 left in overtime, and…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Sunday’s airing of the late afternoon games on the NFL RedZone Channel literally went code red. The broadcast was…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press SHENZHEN, China (AP) — A year after protests pushed Beijing to end its strict “zero-COVID” controls, retired…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Plastic chairs as beds. Meals of bread and rice. Hours spent waiting for the bathroom. As…

WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl from a landslide that smashed into homes in an Alaska fishing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say they have found the body of anti-mining activist Higinio Trinidad de la Cruz. Prosecutors said…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Sunday he hopes a meeting of Mediterranean…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police have arrested six individuals who they say are members of a large human trafficking gang that violently…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime TV producer Marty Krofft has died at age 86. He was known for imaginative children’s…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer No. 3 Washington, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Oregon all moved up a spot in The Associated Press…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Police say three young men of Palestinian descent who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering were shot…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska woman bagged a marriage proposal along with a big buck during a recent deer hunting trip. Samantha Camenzind’s…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media say an Israeli airstrike has hit the international airport in the Syrian capital and put it out of commission.…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden has confirmed that Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old…

AUTRYVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Deputies responding to a call about shots fired in North Carolina on Sunday found four people shot to death in what they…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An alliance of armed ethnic minority groups that launched a surprise offensive last month against…

By The Associated Press Russia’s interior ministry has added the spokesman of U.S. tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co.’s “Wish” had been expected to rule the Thanksgiving weekend box office, but…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Among the many challenges small businesses face as they try to grow these days, getting a loan…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter could not remember their first meeting. She was a newborn. He…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it will summon the Irish ambassador over a tweet celebrating…

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people including former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have gathered in London for a march against antisemitism, a…

ROME (AP) — A lawyer for the Italian man extradited from Germany for the kidnapping and slaying and his former girlfriend says he hasn’t yet…

LONDON (AP) — Former England, Tottenham and Barcelona manager Terry Venables has died. He was 80. He was a former England soccer player who led the…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are known for being a global power couple. But they were also best…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An unknown force has seized an oil tanker linked to Israel off the coast of…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say an operation is underway to find 13 members of a cargo ship that…

LONDON (AP) — The winner of the Booker Prize for fiction will be announced on Sunday. If bookmakers are right, the victorious writer will be named…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The 2024 presidential election is drawing a robust field of independent, third party and long…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress return to work this week after the holiday break, and Senate…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s health ministry says a surge in respiratory illnesses across the country that has drawn the attention of the World Health…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Heavy snowfall and strong blizzards in Romania and Moldova have left one person dead and scores of localities without…