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BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from China’s most powerful earthquake in years has risen to 149, with two people still missing after the tremor hit…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police say one of the country’s most wanted criminals has turned…

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Jason Sanders had waited all season for this moment. On a Miami Dolphins team that…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Mike Nussbaum, reputed as the oldest professional actor in America with a prolific stage career…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the…

SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — A large avalanche and blizzard conditions have cut off road access to much of the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage. The…

Hundreds of people reported feeling minor earthquakes on Hawaii’s Big Island and on the Olympic Peninsula west of Seattle, but no damage has been…

By STEPHEN GROVES and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With support for Ukraine slipping in Congress, the United States is once…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A sprawling caravan of migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and other…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police in Serbia have fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of opposition supporters from entering the capital’s city…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three men are recovering after being shot and wounded in New Orleans’ French Quarter. The New Orleans Police Department says…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region has killed four people as Ukraine prepares to officially celebrate…

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — One person died and another was shot in the leg in a shooting at a shopping mall in central Florida. Ocala Police Chief Mike…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” led a crowd of new releases at the box office on the weekend before Christmas…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — More than a year after it was put up for sale, Manchester United said Sunday that…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer It’s not a secret that Fantasia Barrino did not want to play Celie again. The “American Idol” winner hadn’t…

LONDON (AP) — A second suspect was arrested in the alleged theft of a work by the elusive street artist Banksy of a stop sign adorned with three…

LONDON (AP) — British Home Secretary James Cleverly is under fire for making a date rape joke at a party just hours after announcing plans to crack…

By STEPHEN GROVES and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With support for Ukraine slipping in Congress, the United States is once…

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Tourist visits have been barred at Germany’s landmark Cologne cathedral and Christmas…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are telling a federal appeals court that he was acting within his…

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ELISE MORTON PARIS (AP) — Judges will decide whether about 300 Indian citizens, suspected of being victims of human…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian state TV says the country’s navy has added domestically produced sophisticated cruise missiles to…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus looks like a ghost town on…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Atop many Christmas wish lists in economically troubled Zimbabwe is a travel document.…

By TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military says more than a dozen Israeli…

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — A smelting furnace has exploded at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s state media says Tehran has summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires after Moscow and Arab countries…

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Pillsbury Mills was a groundbreaking, history-making flour mill in central…

By JESSE BEDAYN The Associated Press/Report for America FORT MORGAN, Colo. (AP) — Millions of migrants have arrived in the U.S. in recent years,…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The room was packed with Native American leaders from across the United States, all invited to…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Police in Cologne, Germany, say indications of a possible attack have led them to search the country’s landmark…

BEAVER, W.Va. (AP) — Officials say an inmate at a West Virginia jail scrutinized in lawsuits citing inmate deaths and alleging poor living…

HONOLULU (AP) — The state has announced the first recipients of a program aimed at helping medical professionals pay off student loans in exchange…

DORA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman with two uteri and two cervixes has given birth to two babies after carrying one of them in each uterus. Kelsey…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has vetoed a bill days before Christmas that…

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Multiple people were injured Saturday during what authorities described as “an active shooting” situation at a shopping mall…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has struck down a bill days before Christmas…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The city of Tampa, Florida, has reached an agreement with the federal government to resolve a discrimination lawsuit alleging…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A woman who was shot in the head while she was a passenger in a car fleeing from police has filed a federal lawsuit against a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa will not participate in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family over the…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A freshman point guard from Michigan State is recovering after he was shot while on holiday break near his hometown. The…

By MOHAMMED ZAATARI and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press AIN EBEL, Lebanon (AP) — Christians in the border villages of south Lebanon are preparing for…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he intends to veto a spending bill which includes money for public media and raises for teachers,…

Associated Press Wildlife officials in Colorado have released an additional five gray wolves in the state, bringing the total so far under a…

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Burundi’s government says at least 20 people have been killed following an…

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Six Turkish soldiers have been killed in clashes with Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, a day after another six were also…

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Travell “G. Dep” Coleman, who walked into a New York police precinct in 2010 and admitted to committing a nearly…

LONDON (AP) — Detectives are investigating the alleged theft of a Banksy work of art after witnesses shot photos and video of a man removing a red…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fadi Sckak has already lost his father to the violence in Gaza. He wants to help his…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The leaders at USRowing have been working with producers of the new movie “The…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A maritime intelligence company says a drone has hit an Israeli-affiliated merchant vessel off the coast of India in the Arabian…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian politician Yekaterina Duntsova hit a roadblock in her presidential campaign Saturday, when Russia’s Central Election…

LONDON (AP) — The Premier League has its first female referee. Rebecca Welch blew her whistle to start the match between Fulham and Burnley on…

By CHRISTINA LARSON, JENNIFER McDERMOTT, PATRICK WHITTLE and WAYNE PARRY Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Unfounded claims about offshore…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican next year will publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI. Most of them…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American colleagues have educated millions of Chinese students over the past four decades. Many of…

BEIJING (AP) — Chiese state media say The strong earthquake that hit northwest China this week, and killed at least 148 people, has caused economic…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With Christmas right around the corner, you might want to check the list of what…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Authorities in France say about 300 Indian citizens heading to Central America are sequestered in…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — National flags pn public buildings are at half-staff and people across the Czech Republic are set…