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By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A humpback whale visiting the waters off Seattle dazzled onlookers Thursday morning with several…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three militias of…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three militias…

By The Associated Press The Israeli military says a total of eight Israeli hostages have been released from captivity in the Gaza Strip. The army…

By FRANK BAJAK and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three members of Congress are asking the U.S. Justice Department to…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that Montana can’t enforce a first-in-the-nation law banning the video sharing app TikTok in…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Most drivers would pay $15 to enter Manhattan’s central business district under a plan…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky state Rep. Kevin Bratcher has announced plans to run for a Louisville Metro…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An attorney for the billionaire Haslam family has called the bribery allegations from Warren…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The chairman of Florida’s Republican Party is the subject of a rape…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republicans are pushing forward new legislative maps that would preserve their majorities in…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has gotten his turn at bringing the holiday spirit to Washington. The…

ARLINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A 59-year-old man suspected in the June disappearance of a 17-year-old neighbor has been charged with murder after human…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press The nation’s largest publisher is suing over Iowa’s new law that bans public school libraries and classrooms…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has temporarily delayed ruling on…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. health officials say consumers should not eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don’t know the source. That comes…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida law enforcement agencies aren’t required to withhold victims’ names under the Marcy’s Law…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement authorities say in court papers that the plot driven by a government official…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A bill that would end smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos continues to go nowhere. The…

PHOENIX (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison for murdering her two youngest children and another woman is now in an Arizona jail on…

By FREIDA FRISARO and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A busy Atlantic hurricane season is now coming to a close. This…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Alec Baldwin didn’t have to pay anything to resolve a $25 million lawsuit filed by…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A judge for now isn’t stopping Border Patrol agents from cutting razor wire that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say they will give investigators a better tool for understanding accidents and close calls between planes. The…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new study says that about half of Nicaragua’s population of 6.2 million want to…

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a package of bills adding more protections for…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — With manufacturing kinks still to be worked out, Tesla has delivered the first dozen or so of its…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Donations are pouring in at a Christmas charity in Michigan after smoke damage from a fire stymied plnas to deliver…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. authorities say a Mexican drug cartel was so bold in operating frauds targeting elderly Americans that the gang’s…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Five former correctional officers in West Virginia have been indicted by a federal…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say a high-profile entertainment marketing consultant was targeted by a woman who…

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has rejected Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s request to examine signed ballot envelopes of 1.3…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Seven unions representing teachers and other public workers in Wisconsin have filed a lawsuit attempting to end the…

DETROIT (AP) — Influential longtime Detroit pastor the Rev. Charles Gilchrist Adams has died following an illness. He was 86. Adams’ sister…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Biden administration will issue $200 million in grants to modernize the country’s ferry systems. The administrator of…

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC is shuffling its weekend schedule early next year with an eye toward juicing ratings heading into an election year. It will…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina will not be joining the BRICS bloc of developing economies next year as scheduled, a senior official in…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Ambassador to Poland and longtime Republican politician Victor Ashe is suing…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Syracuse, New York, police say an ex-girlfriend of the man charged with recently shooting and wounding three college…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been named the best film of the year by the…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s prison system unfairly punished more than 2,000 prisoners…

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A lawsuit by Daryl Hall over John Oates’ plan to sell his share of the Hall &…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The final member in a migrant smuggling ring that was responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A Paraguayan government official has been replaced after it was revealed that he signed a memorandum of…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers have discovered that some penguin parents sleep for only seconds at a time…

By DIANE JEANTET and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — City lawmakers in Brazil passed what appears to be the nation’s…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The U.S. has charged an Indian national in what prosecutors allege was a failed plot to…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s first TV series was the meta, sci-fi, just-go-with-it, wild ride “The…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says it’s asking media and market competition officials to look into a potential Abu Dhabi-backed…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican National Committee’s rules for next year’s nominating contest and…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bubba Wallace acknowledged it was difficult for him to find joy in best friend Ryan…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina trial judges have blocked portions of a new law that will eliminate…

DALLAS (AP) — Police in Dallas have issued an arrest warrant for Buffalo Bills linebacker Von Miller for allegedly assaulting a pregnant person.…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s government has postponed a deadline by two weeks for ethnic Serbs living in the country to register their…

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have voted to authorize subpoenas…

Academy Awards enthusiasts won’t have to stay up quite as late to hear the best picture winner in March. The 96th Oscars will begin one hour early,…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Actor-singer Cynthia Erivo lent searing and soulful vocals to an evening marking Alvin Ailey American Dance…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal watchdog will investigate how the Biden administration chose a site for a new…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The legislature of the northern Mexico border state of Nuevo Leon says protesters broke through doors, took over the floor of…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN There’s been homophobic and racist chanting in the stands, a team bus pelted with stones, a game called off because of crowd…

LONDON (AP) — An alternative healer who advocates a technique known as “slapping therapy” has been charged over the death of a woman at one of…

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and Sirius XM extended their broadcast agreement by five years through the 2028 season. The deal announced…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two Nevada state troopers have died after they were struck by a vehicle while helping another driver. Las Vegas police will be…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek novelist Vassilis Vassilikos, whose political book “Z” inspired the Academy Award-winning film of the same name,…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Authorities say an early morning explosion and subsequent fire leveled a home in a St. Paul, Minnesota, suburb,…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A former high-profile Myanmar army officer who had served as information minister and presidential…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Notorious coup leader Guy Philippe has returned to Haiti after the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court has reinstated a gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci is expected to testify before Congress…

NEW YORK (AP) — Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with a billion dollar class-action lawsuit over his role in promoting…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The prospective new owner of the Dallas Mavericks is one of the richest women in the world, a Las…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israeli leaders to respect…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a Gambian man of murder and crimes against humanity for involvement in…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four decades into his career, which includes 20 studio albums, a Grammy, and the Guinness World…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Deion Sanders reinvigorated a fanbase and put a downtrodden football program back on the map in his…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish court has ruled that the human rights of a Danish man who was convicted of murdering a Swedish journalist on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A defiant Rep. George Santos is warning colleagues his expulsion from Congress before being convicted in a court of law would…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and…