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By SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced Jeff Zients as his next White House chief of…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Court says it has charged a 74-year-old retired man with terrorism for allegedly sending six letters…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s Supreme Court has removed the country’s deputy prime minister from office and from his parliamentary seat for…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. plans to make it easier for gay and bisexual men to give blood. The Food and Drug…

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been nearly a decade since Smokey Robinson’s last album, but new music from the King of Motown is on the horizon.…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel by Jesmyn Ward, the two-time National Book Award winner, is the story of an…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities released video footage Friday showing Tyre Nichols being beaten by five Memphis…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will receive 12 cheetahs from South Africa next month that will join eight others it received from Namibia in September as…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press ADVENTDALEN, Norway (AP) — Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling killed at least 10 Ukrainian civilians and wounded 20 others in a day, the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief says taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes. Jeremy Hunt…

By SAM METZ and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nichole Mason first became concerned when she learned administrators…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tommy Paul says he went into his Australian Open semifinal against Novak Djokovic…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police on Friday brought in for questioning several people over the disappearance last October of a luxury yacht…

BEIRUT (AP) — Angry protesters in several Middle Eastern countries have gathered to denounce the recent desecration of Islam’s holy book by…

LONDON (AP) — A student nurse has appeared in a British court charged with planning to attack an air force base and taking a home-made bomb to a…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A coronavirus-denying former Russian Orthodox monk has been given a seven-year sentence on…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has protested President Joe Biden’s two-year extension of a program that protects residents of the semi-autonomous…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog established there are…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Of all of his considerable talents, Novak Djokovic’s ability to cast aside…

BERLIN (AP) — A senior German official says she hopes her country will receive hydrogen made with renewable energy from Australia by 2030. The two…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The foreign ministers of France and the Netherlands paid an official visit to Romania on Friday where they visited a NATO…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren’s name is on the U.S. Navy’s newest…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Low-cost fashion brand H&M says its net profit for the year ending November 2022 fell 68%, while it took a hit of 864 million…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine justice secretary says any investigation violating the country’s…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government says it will promote civilian efforts to provide…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Authorities said Saturday that three people had died and at least one was missing…

By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — A strong week for Wall Street closed out with modest gains Friday, sending…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle has attacked the Azerbaijan Embassy…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A senior EU official says that Russia has taken its war against Ukraine to “a different stage”…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tennis Australia says Novak Djokovic’s father decided to stay away from the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — They are now among the most powerful women in Congress. But when they…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A University of Michigan student is one of the world’s foremost “speedcubers,” a…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel won her bid Friday to…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A judge says a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket nearly two…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s chief medical examiner has positively identified the body of a child found earlier this month as 4-year-old…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will ban CBD starting Wednesday, categorizing it as a “dangerous drug” and mandating harsh penalties for its…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second time this month, House Republicans have advanced a measure to restrict…

By ED DAVEY The manufacture of “green steel” moved a step closer Friday as Massachusetts-based Boston Metal announced a $120 million investment…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican immigration authorities say they have found 57 Guatemalan adolescents packed into a trailer on a highway near the U.S.…

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Billy Packer, an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it will continue to restrict the entry of short-term travelers from…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A mid-Michigan man says he’s innocent of the charges brought against him in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot in…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Powerful Santa Ana winds across Southern California were clocked as high as 112 mph, toppling trees, prompting the closure of San…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed off on a two-year extension of a program that protects Hong Kong…

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer who purchased gasoline that another lawyer used in firebombing an unoccupied New York City police car during protests over…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor has asked a judge not to dismiss a second-degree murder charge against a former Grand Rapids police officer…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A newly released report from the Mississippi State Department of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Jamaican cleric accused of recruiting support for the Islamic State group has been convicted in New York. Abdullah…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the nation’s prayers are with two California cities where…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — In less than 48 hours, two gunmen went on shooting rampages at both ends of California that…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal lawsuit in Nevada is seeking class-action damages for countless hotel patrons who booked…

By RIO YAMAT and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police in southern Oregon were searching Thursday for a man accused of torturing…

MIAMI (AP) — Federal authorities have charged 25 people accused of participating in a wire fraud scheme in Florida that they say created an illegal…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Democratic-led Virginia Senate panel has defeated several bills that would have restricted…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Conservative attorney John Eastman, a lead architect of some of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in power…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A group of Texas death row inmates have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the public shouldn’t read anything into the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new attorney general is appointing an independent counsel to conduct a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Nazis tried to rob millions of Jews of…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers are filing an appeal that seeks to overturn…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite…

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for the kidnapping and grisly knife attack on a teen in 2020. The…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Restaurants are beginning the new year with a recurring problem: labor shortages. Chipotle said Thursday it’s…

By JANIE HAR and AO GAO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The shooting that left four dead at a California mushroom farm on Monday was at least…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES and EDMAR BARROS Associated Press BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are…