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NEW YORK (AP) — The iconic Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center will be lit Wednesday night by more than 50,000 multicolored lights as crowds…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Powerball losers in Iowa were actually winners for about seven hours this week after the state’s lottery mistakenly…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Kraft Macaroni and … Fava Beans? The Kraft Heinz Co. said Wednesday it’s bringing dairy-free macaroni and…

CORTEZ, Colo. (AP) — A police officer and a suspect were killed in a shootout following a traffic stop in southwest Colorado on Wednesday,…

By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican demands to stop the flow of migrants at the…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana county judge has dismissed a state lawsuit filed against TikTok that had…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Young environmental activists who won a landmark climate change case are trying to…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Virginia man has been arrested on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing a Captain America…

By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ and JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press Panama (AP) — In a historic ruling, Panama’s Supreme Court declared that legislation…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The top U.S. cyberdefense agency says hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming coal mine that supplies fuel to a power plant that will be converted to burn gas…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden is bringing an ice rink to the White House lawn for children to skate and play…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn, (AP) — NASCAR has added two new partners and streaming elements to a seven-year media rights…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Federal inspectors have levied fines against two construction companies in connection with a worker’s death at Lambeau…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is trying anew to help voters using mail-in ballots in the battleground state…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who set fire to an Austin synagogue in an antisemitic attack two years ago has been sentenced to 10 years in…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Republican Party has filed a petition challenging a…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is expressing reservations about expelling Rep. George Santos from…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Frances Sternhagen, the veteran character actor who won two Tony Awards and became a…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Crews have installed what’s billed as the nation’s first wireless-charging public roadway for…

By LISA RATHKE Associated press The man charged with shooting three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont was accused in 2019 of…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will join the United States delegation at the upcoming United…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s government says it has reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100…

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union has announced plans to try to simultaneously organize workers at more than a dozen nonunion auto…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of American hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are describing their anguish and…

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s top prosecutor says officials in a rural county who delayed canvassing the 2022 general election results have been…

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer The Newport Beach, California, Police Department said Wednesday that its detectives are conducting an investigation…

By TIM REYNOLDS and SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writers Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has entered into an agreement to sell a majority stake in the…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man serving life in prison for a deadly 2004 flower shop robbery had a simple message at a hearing reexamining his…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The proposed NewRange Copper Nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota has suffered a fresh…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar. The…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A group of residents have sued a public utility company in the U.S. Virgin Islands…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Stay and enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime show. That is the message organizers of the Paris Olympics…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway says the billionaire Haslam family tried to bribe at least…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Several stores where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020 are suing the city for about $1.5 million. The…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new parliament has reinstated government funding for in vitro fertilization, previously banned by the conservative…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that antisemitism in the United States has…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Top diplomats from more than 50 countries are arriving in North Macedonia…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are considering holding a formal vote next month to authorize the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An expensive private high school in Mexico has suspended and may expel a student who was caught on video beating a parking lot…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China has presented the United Nations Security Council with a four-point plan for…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Black former delivery driver who says two white men shot into his work van and…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Deutsche Bank viewed Donald Trump as a “whale” of a client, wanted to land him and eagerly…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says a Navy warship sailing near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait shot down a drone…

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — A Maryland jury will decide in the coming weeks whether a Prince George’s County police officer broke the law when he…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s public university system is offering free tuition to family members of those who died and to those who were…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British foster child who killed the woman caring for him when he ran over her with her car has…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The actor Jonathan Majors has appeared in court in New York for the expected start of jury…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria has passed a law enshrining new media freedoms and repealing old measures that allowed journalists to be prosecuted…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old boy has been arrested in western Germany on suspicion of planning a possible attack on a Christmas…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — For years, the the massive mostly-intact dinosaur skeleton that came to be known as Sue the T-rex was at the center of a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader has presented a $34.8 billion spending plan for 2024 to federal…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — NATO member Finland has closed its last remaining border crossing with Russia. The move Wednesday…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On Wednesday the U.S. Treasure Department imposed a new round of sanctions against a group of…

HILLSBORO, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an explosion at an auto repair shop in Ohio has left three people dead and another person hospitalized. The…

By LORNE COOK and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister insists that NATO allies are showing no sign of war…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in northeastern Poland say three teenage students were injured when a classmate attacked them with a knife at a…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Opposition protesters in Kosovo have used flares and tear gas to protest against a senior war crimes court official in the…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on average, than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and…

By KRISTEN DE GROOT Associated Press There’s a village built among massive boulders. Screeching seabirds. Lots of Roman ruins, sheep, old…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Members of South African political parties, civil society organisations and other…

PARIS (AP) — A special court has cleared France’s justice minister of conflict of interest, ruling he was not guilty of having used his office to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico confirmed Wednesday that a reporter was shot and wounded the previous day in the western state of…

By JUAN ARRÁEZ and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SURAMA, Guyana (AP) — Congregants of an Anglican church in a sparsely populated rainforest…

LONDON (AP) — Elton John is to address Britain’s Parliament on his work fighting HIV at an event to mark World AIDS Day. The British star’s…

In a story published November 28, 2023, about a federal lawsuit seeking to throw out an Iowa law that bans some books and outlaws discussion gender…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden…

Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military government has announced an investigation into the Tuareg rebel leaders who signed a peace…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS. Since the…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Shrugging off higher interest rates, America’s consumers spent enough to help drive the…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has acquitted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a graft case, removing a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has escalated his war of words with the leader of Greece. Sunak…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A gay couple in Nepal on Wednesday became the first in the nation to receive…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka says it has reached an agreement in principle with a group of…

By TIFFANY STANLEY and LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — As Charles Richardson gradually lost his eyesight to complications from…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s her, hi — Taylor Swift is Spotify’s 2023 most-played artist. According to…

By TIFFANY STANLEY and LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — As Charles Richardson gradually lost his eyesight to complications from…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei says he’s chosen Luis Caputo, a…

By NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds Hands-free driver assistance technology has seemingly gone from a sci-fi fantasy to everyday driving reality in a very…