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Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has undergone a complex surgery in Iran…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have banned gatherings of five or more people in the capital ahead of a planned march by supporters of…

Associated Press FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A man convicted of human smuggling testified that he shuttled more than 500 Indian migrants across the…

Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Extreme heat ruined the pineapples on Esther Penunia’s small farm in the Philippines this year, more…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s first stint in the White House proved to be a chaotic ride for the District of Columbia.…

Associated Press UDHAGAMANDALAM, India (AP) — Scattered groves of native trees, flowers and the occasional prehistoric burial ground are squeezed…

Associated Press CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) — Over a New Mexico training range named the Hornet, two Osprey aircraft speed 100 feet off the…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s president has opened the second day of a meeting of the world’s 20 major economies by calling…

TORONTO (AP) — Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma.…

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The final counts by counties are about over and a Democratic incumbent on North Carolina’s Supreme Court…

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media say numerous children were injured by a vehicle outside an elementary school in central…

AP Travel Editor NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Frommer, whose “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by…

Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas public schools could use teachings from the Bible in lessons as an option for…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of a New York City church where pop star Sabrina Carpenter filmed provocative scenes for a music video…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi Gulf Coast restaurant and its co-owner have been sentenced on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive…

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday she is willing to work with Republican President-elect Donald…

AP Sports Writer Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates was the heralded fireballer who equaled the hype, to the point he started the All-Star Game…

AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — There was House Speaker Mike Johnson walking behind President-elect Donald Trump’s entourage…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Defense attorneys began their defense of a former U.S. Marine charged with fatally choking a homeless man aboard a…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — President Joe Biden inadvertently was a missing man in the traditional photo of world leaders at the final…

Associated Press Attorneys for Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX have argued in a federal appeals court that the National Labor Relations Board’s…

Actors Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good are engaged. The two told E! News of their engagement at the Ebony Power 100 Gala in Los Angeles on Sunday,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — World Wrestling Entertainment’s first episode of “Monday Night Raw” on Netflix will take place from the Intuit Dome on…

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s internet gambling market set another record in October, the latest proof that people are…

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court is weighing in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S.…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The largest budget airline in the U.S., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Spirit Airlines said said…

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor who tried the murder case made famous by the book “Midnight In The Garden of Good…

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Jason Stephens says he won’t seek another term as the Ohio House speaker. Stephens has…

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities in New Orleans are imploring witnesses to come forward with information about two outbreaks of…

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Lisa Kyung Gross first tried to recreate the Korean dishes her grandmother made when she was a child,…

AP Sports Writer EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers will honor former coach Pat Riley with a statue outside their downtown arena. The…

AP White House Correspondent WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump appears to be planning to attend a SpaceX “Starship”…

AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With Thanksgiving less than two weeks away, food retailers are trying to tempt Americans who haven’t…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused prosecutors on Monday of engaging in “outrageous government…

WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) — Herlda Senhouse, who founded a jazz dance group to raise money for Black students in the 1950s and lived to become the…

BRENTWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California city has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle an excessive force lawsuit brought on behalf of a…

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing has so far laid off 2,199 workers in Washington, among job cuts that will eventually total about 17,000 across the company.…

Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court says it will let the nation’s third execution with nitrogen gas go forward…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man fatally stabbed three people across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, carrying out a series of random…

Associated Press ROME (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to expand its zero-tolerance policy that it approved for…

Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has hit Iran with new sanctions for sending ballistic missiles and other weapons to Russia in support of the war…

AP Media Writer The Associated Press says it is looking to cut 8% of its workforce, primarily through buyouts, and employees eligible to leave their…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. Army soldier who was court-martialed for fatally shooting a handcuffed civilian in Iraq two…

AP National Race Writer Jimmy O. Yang once played “Chinese Teenager #1.” He’s now No. 1 on the call sheet in “Interior Chinatown” —…

Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister is criticizing U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to authorize Ukraine to…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say Pakistani security forces have raided a militant hideout in northwest Pakistan, sparking an hourslong shootout…

Associated Press A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas is being asked to disqualify a winning bid made by the satirical news outlet The Onion to buy…

AP Film Writer The August Wilson adaptation “The Piano Lesson” is an impassioned family drama but it is also a profound ghost story. For the…

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is an icon in Australia but a cult figure in the rest of the world. Many…

LONDON (AP) — British police are investigating a burglary on the Windsor Castle estate, fueling concerns about security at the royal residence west…

AP Golf Writer President-elect Donald Trump boasted during the campaign he would need about 15 minutes to get a deal done between the PGA Tour and…

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution Monday calling for an immediate cease-fire in the war between Sudan’s…

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and pitcher CC Sabathia are among 14 new candidates on the Hall of Fame ballot released Monday,…