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Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A police officer has been charged over his role in the death of two teenagers during the high-speed…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Latin American leaders converged on Brazil to meet with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s vice president says the death toll in a stampede at a shopping mall during New Year’s celebrations in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s longtime personal secretary has written a tell-all book that…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say three construction workers were killed and two others were hurt when scaffolding collapsed in an industrial…

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Relatives of a man arrested in Pennsylvania in the slayings of four University of Idaho students expressed sympathy for the…

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has said he wants to have his father and brother back and that he wants “a family, not an institution,” during a TV…

BERLIN (AP) — Scuffles have broken out outside a village in western Germany that is to be razed to allow the expansion of a coal mine, a plan that…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The president of the European Parliament has launched an urgent procedure to waive the…

NEW YORK (AP) — A possible strike by thousands of New York City nurses loomed Monday even as nurses at one hospital reached a tentative agreement…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When lawyers argue before the Supreme Court, a small white light goes on to tell them when…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California residents are bracing for another round of powerful storms. A weather…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — At least 500 migrants have arrived in the Florida Keys over the last several days in what the local sheriff’s office…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will convene Tuesday to elect a speaker for the new Congress. The majority of the…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African officials say the death toll from an explosion of a tanker truck on Christmas Eve near eastern Johannesburg has…

A suspected gas explosion a few hours into the new year demolished two Philadelphia row homes and sent several people to the hospital. Fire…

By SELLO MOTSETA Associated Press GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued in Botswana for former President Ian Khama on a…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SANTOS, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of mourners, including high school students and supreme court justices, began…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Democrat Marcy Kaptur is set to become the longest-serving woman in congressional history…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Emergencies such as power outages or severe weather can happen at any time and can be costly. Unplanned hotel stays,…

CAIRO (AP) — An ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences was returned to Egypt after U.S. authorities…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Lise Nørgaard, a screenwriter who penned the popular epic television drama “Matador” about the lives of ordinary…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A 29-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her baby daughter in northern Greece. The…

By GIADA ZAMPANO and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ‘s body, his head resting on a…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of people in the Philippines remained in emergency shelters in the wake of devastating Christmas flooding, as…

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces fired rockets at a facility in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court says the government’s surprise decision in 2016 to demonetize high-value…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Katie Hobbs took the oath of office to become Arizona’s 24th governor and the first…

RENO, Nevada (AP) — Jeremy Renner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries in a snow plow accident in Reno, Nevada, on Sunday, a…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Two children have been killed and five other civilians wounded in a blast in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir a day…

By COURTNEY WALSH Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two helicopters collided in an Australian tourist hotspot, killing four people and…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans and Democrats are being forced to confront critical questions about the…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Both political parties are opening the new year confronting critical questions about…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from the…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a man claimed by an armed group as a member, during a confrontation…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press MACAO (AP) — Only a few tourists crisscrossed the wavy black and white paving of Macao’s historic Senado…

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army says missile strikes by Israel’s military have put the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States Embassy in the tiny Central American nation of Belize on Sunday confirmed the death of a U.S. citizen there…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ten guards and four inmates were killed early Sunday when gunmen in armored vehicles attacked a state prison in Ciudad Juarez…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul was sworn in for her first elected term on…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. division of climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion says its activists would temporarily stop blocking busy roads,…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham has officially started her second term as New Mexico governor. She promised…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sworn in for second term as the state’s 49th…

SUPAI, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden has approved a disaster declaration made by the Havasupai Tribe in northern Arizona, freeing up funds for…

NEW YORK (AP) — “Avatar: The Way of Water” is the box office king for a third straight week, and shows no sign of slowing down. James…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BUCARAMANGA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia and Venezuela are opening a key bridge linking the countries that had been…

COOKE CITY, Mont. (AP) — Two people were killed in New Year’s Eve avalanches in Montana and Colorado after heavy snow blanketed much of the…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Residents of a Northern California community were ordered to evacuate ahead of imminent flooding, and evacuation warnings…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court has halted provisions of a new law that would eliminate cash bail for criminal defendants,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremiah Green, the founding drummer for the rock band Modest Mouse, has died just days after the band announced he had been…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The chief of the European Union has visited Croatia to celebrate the “immense achievements” of the newest EU member…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The election contests of 2022 may have been held and decided, but Ohio’s political…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nearly 300 domestic and international flights at the Manila airport in the Philippines have been either delayed,…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Officials are investigating a fatal police shooting in a Olathe, Kansas, on New Year’s Eve. Olathe police said in a news…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ROME (AP) — Dubai has ended its 30% tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom and made its required liquor licenses…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — President Joe Biden and top administration officials will open a…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities say they have found 18 bodies buried in a mass grave in the central coastal city of…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer After the best semifinal day in the nine-year history of the College Football Playoff, the title game…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The tourism minister of Israel’s new hardline government has promised to invest in the West Bank, calling the occupied area…

By MARIA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press RAPA NUI, Chile (AP) — Rapa Nui – the remote Chilean territory in the mid-Pacific widely known as…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — There was no tolling of the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica, no solemn announcement by a…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SANTOS, Brazil (AP) — Pelé. Santos, Brazil. Over decades, adoring fans around the world mailed thousands of…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians faced a grim start to 2023 as Sunday brought more Russian missile and drone…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eva Guzman’s expenses have swelled, but she feels comfortable financially thanks to…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul’s military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding “several”…