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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge declined Tuesday to stay litigation over Alabama’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The U.S.…

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The widower of metro Phoenix’s former top county prosecutor was suspected of fatally shooting a woman he was in a…

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison after taking part in the straw purchase of a handgun that was used to kill…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The administration of Argentine President Javier Milei says the government won’t renew contracts for more than…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Sweden edged closer toward joining NATO after the Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has launched its army-run airline, with the first Mexicana airlines flight taking off from Mexico City bound for the…

By ALI SWENSON and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Experts are warning that the spread of misinformation could get worse in the…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Christmas is over, but giving season for nonprofits is just starting to peak. The end of the calendar year is when…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Buckle up, cowpoke! The next generation of indie rock has found inspiration in country music.…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who left on a flight to visit his grandmother was put on the wrong plane. When the grandmother, Maria…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of judges has blocked a new Tennessee law that would reconfigure the group…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mastercard SpendingPulse said Tuesday that holiday sales rose this year. The indicator, which tracks all kinds of…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The rollout of potential new electric vehicle goals in Maine has been pushed back by a year. That’s because a  recent…

PARIS (AP) — More than 50 French performers, writers and producers published an essay Tuesday defending film star and national icon Gerard…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Kuwait’s foreign affairs minister says the bodies of a Kuwaiti citizen and a Saudi with…

VIENNA (AP) — The International Atomic Energy Agency says in a report to member states that Iran has increased the rate at which it is producing…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — As law enforcement agencies across the country pursue reform measures, the Baltimore Police…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Parliament reports that hackers tried to get into its data and wipe them out,…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Online, direct-to-consumer health care has grown well beyond its roots mostly treating hair loss and acne or selling…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has held only the operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Firefighters and volunteers worked overnight to reinforce dikes in northern and eastern Germany against rising…

PARIS (AP) — Four children between nine months and 10 years old and their mother have been killed in their apartment east of Paris in what the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday released a sardonic statement about his transfer to a Arctic prison colony…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 140 people were killed by gunmen who attacked remote villages over two days in…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The forecourt of Paris City Hall sparkles with activity this holiday season, including a Christmas…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A huge fire at a guesthouse in Romania has left five people dead, including a child, and others missing. Emergency…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two lawsuits say Nebraska’s two largest cities are violating a new state gun law by prohibiting them from public places such…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces bombarded Palestinian refugee camps in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Daihatsu, a unit of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp., has shut down production lines at all…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee is set to resume deliberations on Sweden’s bid to join NATO. The…

By The Associated Press Asian markets were mostly higher in holiday-thinned trading on Tuesday, with some markets in the region closed for holidays.…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian naval ship in Crimea was damaged in an airstrike by Ukrainian forces, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The…

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll following the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Their first battle plan was outdated the moment the dam crumbled. So the Ukrainian…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Their first battle plan was outdated the moment the dam crumbled. So the Ukrainian…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press HASLET, Texas (AP) — Worried about his mother’s health, Jacob Mabil tried for months to persuade her to let him…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer They are snippets in time, unforgettable snapshots that gloriously capture the soaring euphoria and gut-wrenching…

BEIJING (AP) — A distillery in southwestern China is aiming to tap a growing taste among young Chinese for whisky in place of the traditional…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed…

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — Beyoncé’s childhood home caught fire early on Christmas morning in Houston. The family that currently lives there escaped…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been targeted with another swatting attempt at her Georgia…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of…

By The Associated Press The actor Kamar de los Reyes has died in Los Angeles. A publicist representing his wife says de los Reyes died Sunday at age…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — Christmas Day meant the same as any other for thousands of migrants walking through…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The president of Belarus says Russia has completed its shipments of short-range, tactical nuclear weapons to his country,…

Conditions were mostly nice this year for travelers flying ahead of and on Christmas, but some naughty disruptions again plagued those flying with…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whose country’s relations with Russia grew tense this year, says that when…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Christmas carries more than spiritual weight for many Ukrainians this year: for the first time, the country is observing it as…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift celebrated Christmas Day by watching her boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce…

By ABDELRAHMAN ZEYAD and HOGIR ABDO Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Turkey has intensified its airstrikes against Kurdish groups in Syria…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iranian state media say that an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood has killed a…

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool soccer star Mohamed Salah says he “shares the pain” of grieving families at Christmas amid the Israel-Hamas…

MOSCOW (AP) — Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Shipping firm Maersk says it is preparing to allow vessels to resume sailing through the Red Sea. It comes at the start…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s air force on Monday reported that it shot down two Russian fighter jets during the night along with two cruise…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police said Monday they have detained at least 38 people who took part in a protest…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal…

By SAMY MAGDY, NAJIB JOBAIN and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has put forward an ambitious, initial proposal to end the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Americans are expected to spend nearly $30 billion on gift cards this holiday, according to the National Retail…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots…

By CHRISTOPHE ENA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press VATRY, France (AP) — A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking…

Associated Press ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in a California community are seeking a suspect in a hit-and-run collision that killed two…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s emergencies ministry says a fire broke out on a nuclear-powered container ship and icebreaker in the northern port of…

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing recorded the most hours of sub-freezing temperatures in December in more than seven decades as a cold wave has enveloped…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s authority in charge of press and publications has approved 105 online games,…

Associated Press HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California authorities say a fire started at a California home while an armed suspect remained inside…

By MOHAMMAD HABIB RAHMANI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan schoolgirls are weeping as they finish sixth grade, knowing their…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police say they have freed 290 activists who were arrested when they attempted to hold a…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Monday after Wall Street capped its eighth straight winning week…

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is giving his Christmas message from Buckingham Palace with a live Christmas tree in the background. The message to…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Some voted for Donald Trump, others for Joe Biden. A few had never wanted anything to do with…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been fatally shot and three people were hurt at a shopping center in Colorado. The…