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By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Congress has overturned a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva so it can…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House have introduced a bill, likely the last of the year, they hope may one day…

By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 31-year-old former Jacksonville Jaguars financial manager accused of stealing more…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 100 people incarcerated as children in Maryland juvenile detention facilities have sued…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andre Braugher’s cause of death has been revealed. His publicist says Thursday that the actor died from lung cancer. The…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former FBI counterintelligence official has been ordered to spend over four years in prison…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A 10-year-old Black child who urinated in a parking lot is being…

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is departing Washington without a deal to pass wartime support for…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies have been counting down the days until the two-time All-Star’s 25-game…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has declined to put on hold a new Illinois law that would ban high-power semiautomatic weapons like the one…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for the city of Atlanta are asking an appeals court to overturn a ruling that let nonresidents…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Workers angry that a proposed smoking ban in Atlantic City’s casinos seems to be…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The shiny, gold Nike sneakers were hard to miss in the donation pile at a shelter in Portland, Oregon, earlier this year.…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — New charges approved Thursday against the 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer included an…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for a drag-racing crash that killed a 4-year-old boy. A jury in…

By ISABEL DEBRE and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marine Corps officials have identified the Marine killed at a California base this week in a training exercise after the…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge has released from jail a New Hampshire man accused of sending text messages threatening to kill a presidential…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials recently seized more than 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes from overseas…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is initiating a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan jury will soon decide if Jonathan Majors is guilty of assaulting his girlfriend…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Mark Wahlberg knows as well as any parent that it’s hard to find a movie everyone in the household wants to watch…

PARIS (AP) — French media say that a British teenager who went missing six years ago on a family holiday in Spain has been found in southwestern…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made his first visit to the U.S. military…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a defense policy bill Thursday that authorizes the biggest pay raise for…

By ISABEL DEBRE and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians…

NEW YORK (AP) — Six jerseys worn by soccer superstar Lionel Messi during Argentina’s winning run at last year’s World Cup have sold for $7.8…

BURLINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Former NFL player Adam “Pacman” Jones reached a plea agreement on a disorderly conduct charge Thursday after he was…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A 13-year-old boy has been charged with allegedly planning a mass…

ROME (AP) — A European human rights expert says violence and discrimination against women in Italy is a “prevailing and urgent concern.” The…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s government has decided to seal again, effective Friday, the Nordic country’s entire…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Female soccer fans in Iran have claimed a small win in their long campaign to be allowed into stadiums to watch men’s games…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer New gene therapies promise a cure for sickle cell disease but experts say they are out of reach in places that need…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could pay less for outpatient drug treatments beginning…

LONDON (AP) — Rebecca Welch will become the first female referee in the Premier League when she takes charge of the match between Fulham and…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Raja the elephant has been one of the biggest attractions — literally and figuratively — at the…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Top Polish leaders have joined members of the Jewish community for a Hanukkah celebration in…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney for two former Georgia election workers suing Rudy…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court has again upheld a gag order that bars Donald Trump from commenting…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government’s controversial effort to look for people falsely listed as…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A loose bull on the tracks at a New Jersey train station has snarled rail traffic. New Jersey Transit released a photo of the…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo exchanged heated words with members of the Indiana staff and raced toward the Pacers’ locker room…

ATLANTA (AP) — A Republican congressman says he won’t seek reelection to his Georgia seat in 2024. Rep. Drew Ferguson said Thursday that he…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington once…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first indication that you’re not seeing a run-of-the-mill production of Alice in…

LONDON (AP) — A judge says a former British soldier will stand trial in the killing of two civil rights protesters half a century ago on Bloody…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Gautam Dongre’s two children in India and Pascazia Mazeze’s son in Tanzania live with an inherited blood…

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A federal grand jury in Montana has indicted two men accused of killing about 3,600 birds, including bald eagles and golden…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been a great year for stock markets around the world. Wall Street’s rally has been front…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press A federal judge is set to consider on Thursday a request by Colorado’s cattle industry to block the impending…

By BRIAN INGANGA Associated Press MANDERA, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s military continued efforts Thursday to evacuate hundreds of people trapped by…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The painful economic steps that Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, announced this…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of protesters angered by what they view as wasteful municipal spending by Kyiv…

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two-time ABA champion and three-time NBA All-Star George McGinnis has died. He was 73.…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — NATO’s newest member and Russia’s neighbor Finland is to sign a bilateral defense cooperation…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The climate negotiations that just finished in Dubai hit upon the essence…

CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a Chicago woman who died after she became locked in a hotel freezer has agreed to a $10 million settlement. The…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An academic who entered Norway as a Brazilian citizen and was arrested last year on suspicion of spying for Russia has…

By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A former member of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has appeared in district…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers are ready to welcome Shohei Ohtani to Hollywood. The biggest star in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned the International Olympic Committee rules mandating Russian athletes compete at the…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A top official says a Turkish opposition lawmaker has died days after he suffered a heart attack and collapsed just after…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens has been…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans picked up their spending from October to November as the unofficial holiday…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police are offering rewards for information leading to the arrests of five activists…

LONDON (AP) — Amazon won’t have to pay about $273 million in back taxes after European Union judges ruled in favor of the U.S. e-commerce giant.…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell last week as the labor market continues to thrive amid high…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has replaced four of his Cabinet ministers in an effort to…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On Thursday, a court ordered Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to be reinstated…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says a boat carrying 12 passengers sank north of the Dominican Republic during inclement weather,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile fired from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen missed a container…

BERLIN (AP) — An Austrian court has acquitted five people, including the founder of the Blackwater security firm, who were accused of exporting two…

LONDON (AP) — A political standards watchdog says a U.K. Conservative lawmaker who offered to lobby on behalf of gambling interests should be…

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office says an investigation has been opened following the death of a French actress who was among those…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official has praised an agreement that would see Albania host thousands of…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition lawmakers have disrupted the opening of a new session of Parliament,…