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By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After almost 40 years circling Earth, a NASA satellite has plunged harmlessly…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council  has voted unanimously to keep key a border crossing from…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Rob Gronkowski will be back on a football field for the Super Bowl. The four-time All-Pro tight end will attempt…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has revived claims by a Texas inmate who has the rare support of the state…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DENVER (AP) — Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an Israeli spyware maker’s bid to derail a high-profile lawsuit filed by the WhatsApp messaging…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service says it delivered more than 54 million ballots during the midterm elections, with nearly 99% of ballots…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A tweet from Elon Musk indicating that Tesla might allow some owners who are testing a “Full…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Five journalists from Belarus’ top independent news outlet have gone on trial in the…

PARIS (AP) — France’s government has unveiled new plans to tighten hunting safety rules but stopped well short of the outright ban that many…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group has denied having contact with the Somali…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Staying awake might be Mikaela Shiffrin’s biggest challenge as she prepares to…

Russian authorities have announced criminal probes against a famous actor critical of the war in Ukraine and a philanthropist who supports the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has met with Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI.…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press BARENTSBURG, Norway (AP) — A 15-year-old boy in a polar bear hoodie took turns reading the Gospel…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A mission to launch the first satellites into orbit from Western Europe suffered an “anomaly”…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Inflation has a way of affecting nearly every aspect of our finances. Big jumps in tax brackets could save you money,…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Officials at a vocational school in an eastern Ukraine city dismissed claims by…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has opted out of a European convention on fighting corruption, a move that comes in the wake of its withdrawal from the…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has accused his stepmother, Camilla, the queen consort, of leaking private…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL and TIAN McLEOD JI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Three Cabinet ministers welcomed Chinese tourists with flowers…

By BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The mottled bright green leaves of a pothos plant stood out against the flashy expanse of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British government ministers are meeting trade union leaders in a bid to end a wave of strikes that…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has broken his silence on the nationwide protests convulsing Iran. He has denounced…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Palestinian prime minister has accused Israel’s new ultra-nationalist government…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China will not include Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment drug in a national reimbursement list…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates will begin teaching about the Holocaust in history…

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators are searching two garages used by an Iranian man arrested on suspicion that he could be planning an attack with…

By PANAGIOTIS BALASKAS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press LESBOS, Greece (AP) — A Somali migrant is to be freed in Greece after winning an…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — A Prague court has acquitted former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of fraud charges in a $2 million…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer If Vegas oddsmakers are correct — and there’s a reason those casinos are huge and luxurious — then…

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says his country would invest…

By JAMEY KEATEN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Dozens of countries and international institutions have pledged more than $9 billion…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses went on strike Monday at two of New York City’s major hospitals after…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A cargo ship carrying corn that went aground early on Monday in the Suez Canal was refloated and…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Stock markets were mixed Tuesday ahead of a U.S. inflation update that traders hope will…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Laura Kelly is calling for leaders in Republican-leaning Kansas to emulate the…

By JEFF AMY and BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is done being underestimated. Having vanquished both a Donald…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian authorities said Monday that they were looking into who may have been behind the…

BY JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer New guidelines suggest children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively. The…

NORTH BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A longtime foreign affairs journalist in both print and television, Bernard Kalb, has died. He was 100 years old. His…

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (AP) — Scientists are examining the corpse of an endangered whale that washed up on a Mississippi Gulf Coast beach. The rare…

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Two people are dead and several others are injured after a 15-vehicle pileup in icy conditions on Interstate 80 near Iowa…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The pay raise plan that gives Illinois lawmakers an 18% annual salary hike…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is selling shirts to benefit first responders and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center…

By GAVIN GOOD Associated Press EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Mackenzie Holmes scored 24 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead No. 6 Indiana to a 72-50 win…

By HOPE YEN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After an epic 15-ballot election to become House speaker, Republican Kevin McCarthy…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi environmental regulator has denied claims that the…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s outgoing U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse left office Sunday to become the University of Florida’s new president and…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia teacher who authorities say was shot by a 6-year-old student is known as a…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Protesters in southern Afghanistan have gathered following Prince Harry’s claim in his new memoir that he killed 25…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A roof collapsed on bathers at an Idaho hot spring, sending seven people to hospitals with a variety of injuries. The injured…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences as “America’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — With a strike deadline looming, contract negotiations continued Sunday between two large New York City hospitals and the union…

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to…

FARMINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Joseph Hardy III, founder of the 84 Lumber chain of building materials stores and developer of the Nemacolin resort, has…

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Officials in a West Texas city have lifted an order that had called for its more than 131,000 residents to boil their tap…

By RISDEL KASASIRA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan police say at least 20 people have been killed and 49 others injured in a bus…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Damar Hamlin’s old high school teammate clutched the ball he had just intercepted,…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The head of Cyprus’ Orthodox Church Archbishop Georgios formally has assumed his…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Blumhouse evil-doll horror film “M3gan” got off to a killer start, debuting with $30.2 million…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian hardliners have burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting against cartoons…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina priest who served in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston is facing federal sex crime charges stemming…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Media reports say about 400 items believed to have been hidden in the ground by their Jewish owners during World War II have…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An aid agency chief has told The Associated Press that the Taliban’s “internal…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and…

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press LYON, France (AP) — Hundreds of marchers in European cities have protested in support of protesters in…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serb separatist leader has awarded Russian President Vladimir Putin with the highest medal of honor…

PULLMAN, Mich. (AP) — Investigators for a Michigan sheriff’s office believe a man shot and killed his two children and their mother before…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The prize for best film of the year at the National Board of Review Awards went to “Top Gun:…

ROJ CAMP, Syria (AP) — A woman who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20, joined the Islamic State group and had a child with one of its…