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By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Some states that stockpiled millions of masks and other personal protective equipment during the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Some states that stockpiled millions of masks and other personal protective equipment during the…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — How far can a state go to keep migrants out of the U.S.? The answer may soon come out of…

By DÉBORA REY and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Just days after right-wing populist Javier Milei became…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo is heading to the polls to vote for president as authorities scramble to finalize…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its exports fell slightly in November from a year earlier while imports declined nearly 12%. Exports to the rest of…

By The Associated Press After blunting Ukraine’s counteroffensive from the summer, Russia is building up its resources for a new stage of the war…

By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press DAUFUSKIE ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Historic Black communities have dwindled from their once-thriving existence in the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council’s adoption of a new U.N. resolution to spur desperately…

YANGWA, China (AP) — Surrounded by destruction, the relatives of an earthquake victim are mourning her death in temporary shelters and frigid…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Alibaba Group says its CEO Eddie Wu will head its core e-commerce business, as the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A 2021 federal raid on Rudy Giuliani’s home and office was spurred by…

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An ethnic armed group in northeastern Myanmar has seized a major crossing point for trade along the Chinese border.…

By JERRY HARMER and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Naphat Krutthai and Rasithaya Jindasri have been in a committed…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former New York Giants running back Derrick Ward has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of robbery. Police say the…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A body found in an open field in 1979 near what is today a busy intersection of the Las Vegas Strip…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is defending his comments about migrants…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a Vallejo police…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two Southern California brothers who ran a heroin-delivery operation that took telephone orders…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the public disclosure of the identities of more than 150 people mentioned in a mountain of court…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who served 37 years in prison for the shooting deaths of two people in the 1980s has been released from…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea and Russia have clashed with the United States, South Korea and their allies…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says the owner of a Kansas company has pleaded guilty in a…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 10-year-old child who was sentenced by a Mississippi…

NEW YORK (AP) — Southwest Airlines and its pilots reached a tentative labor agreement after three-and-a-half years of negotiations, the last of the…

By MANUEL RUEDA and ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities say two children from the West African nation of…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of slashing people with a large knife while riding a bicycle on a rail trail in Philadelphia is…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Migrant families and their advocates marched outside New York City Hall on Tuesday to demand…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Survivors of a massacre in central Mexico told investigators that a group of people turned away from a holiday party returned…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis says a Federal Elections Commission complaint filed against his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has unanimously confirmed 11 top-ranking military officers. The quick move late Tuesday ends a months-long blockade…

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Two former youth counselors charged in the death of a teenager more than three years ago who was restrained at a Michigan…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, Associated Press and RUBENS VALENTE, Agencia Publica JACI-PARANA, Brazil (AP) — Authorities in a western Brazil state are…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible…

WASHKISH, Minn. (AP) — A light plane carrying ice anglers broke through thin ice as it tried to land on a large lake in northwestern Minnesota.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council has voted unanimously to start the withdrawal of the U.N.…

By MOHAMMED JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza (AP) — She was born amid war, in a hospital with no electricity in a southern Gaza…

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit police officer has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 71-year-old man who fell to the ground after he was…

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Kalen DeBoer landing the job at Washington two years ago seemed to be an unheralded transaction at the…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with murder in the killing of hip-hop music icon…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An orange tabby cat named Taters stars in the first video transmitted by laser from…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says it’s going to waive penalty fees for people who failed to pay back taxes…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge is expressing strong misgivings about extending a restraining order that…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million of its electric vehicles — an effort to have drivers who use…

PENDLETON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina couple has been charged with killing four older family members in a gory 2015 Halloween attack in the…

By SOPHIA TAREEN and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The death of a 5-year-old migrant boy and reported illnesses in other children…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Texas man who was part of a romance scam that bilked a Missouri woman out of $1.2 million has been sentenced to three years in…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican lawmaker who forced the Universities of Wisconsin to reduce its diversity…

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer Aaron Rodgers’ quest to make an improbable return this season for the New York Jets appears over.…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — More than 2,000 workers remain underground for a second day in a protest over pay and benefits at a platinum mine in…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The grand jury indictment of a man charged with killing four University of Idaho students was…

MILAN (AP) — A court in northern Italy has convicted the parents and an uncle of an 18-year-Pakistani woman of murdering her after she refused her…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The super PAC supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has launched a television ad…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new law taking aim at Philadelphia’s progressive prosecutor…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis political leaders and people connected to a shuttered nursing home are calling for…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has protested to Iran after a court ruling implicated the Islamic republic in a plan to attack a synagogue last year. The…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A state panel says Minnesota’s new state flag should feature an eight-pointed North Star…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Civil rights organizations on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging a new Texas law that…

MILAN (AP) — An Italian fashion blogger-turned-businesswoman has apologized after being fined 1 million euros by Italy’s anti-trust authority for…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to more than…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands have returned after a week to the streets in a dozen of major cities across Slovakia to keep protesting a…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors in Las Vegas can proceed with their criminal…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor says Republican Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant language is…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Advocacy groups say thousands of struggling families in New York City are waiting unacceptably long times to receive…

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami has sentenced a former Haitian senator to life in prison for conspiring to…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s first provincial elections in a decade saw a relatively low turnout and largely…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — South Carolina and Florida were the two fastest-growing states in the U.S. this year. New…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Regulators have unanimously approved an additional 6% rate increase to pay for remaining costs at…

BERLIN (AP) — A Syrian man has been convicted of murder, attempted murder and bodily harm over two knife attacks in Germany this year. He was…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — For decades, Christmas tree growers and breeders have been preparing for a future of hotter…

PERRY, Ga. (AP) — A man serving prison time for concealing the death of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in two…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A woman who bought a vase for $3.99 at a Virginia thrift store recently sold it for $107,000. Jessica Vincent said he…

YORK, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania death row inmate who spent more than two decades locked up has been released from prison following the…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine’s military wants to mobilize up to 500,000 more…

PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says parliament members from French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist majority and a conservative…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket company has launched for the first time since a crash in 2022. The New…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, Associated Press and RUBENS VALENTE, Agencia Publica Associated Press JACI-PARANA, Brazil (AP) — In an unusual series of…