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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Investigators were trying Thursday to determine what touched off a fire on the Atlantic…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury has levied a new round of sanctions on firms and ships that used U.S.…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Indian manufacturer of more than a number of eyedrops subject to a U.S. safety warning…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The WWE is collaborating with the Big 12 Conference for their championship game next month, as the sports…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A human rights activist in Belarus has gone on hunger strike in prison protesting…

By NATHAN GILLES Columbia Insight SHERWOOD, Ore. (AP) — Deep inside a forest in Oregon’s Willamette Valley stands a dead “Tree of Life.” Its…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California authorities have arrested a man in connection with the death of a Jewish protester during demonstrations over the…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Formula One has arrived in Las Vegas for a week of parties, concerts, celebrity-packed events…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of abducting and beating a woman while she was confined for four days in a residential garage last month has…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press ROSSTON, Texas (AP) — For generations, beef has been the most quintessential of American main courses, and a…

By SCOTT McFETRDIGE Associated Press ROSSTON, Texas (AP) — The cattle part as Meredith Ellis edges her small four-wheeler through the herd,…

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press If it still seems strange to think of fish growing on farms, it shouldn’t. Aquaculture has been the fastest…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A familiar aroma wafted through the Believer Meats test kitchen earlier this year as Research and Development Chef…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and 13 partners in the Indo-Pacific region are announcing a signed deal on supply…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new report shows that the decline of local news outlets is accelerating despite efforts to help,…

By NINIEK KARMINI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian defense ministers have expressed “profound…

WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — Longtime NASCAR announcer and broadcaster Ken Squier has died. He was 88. Squier died Wednesday night in Waterbury, Vermont,…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics panel says it has found “substantial evidence” of lawbreaking by…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer TEKOHAW, Brazil (AP) — Saving the remaining Amazon rainforest in Brazil will require ensuring that the 28…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, KRISTA LARSON and LAURA UNGAR Associated Press SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — The half-crescent moon glowed in the predawn…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court has ordered the Syrian government to “take all…

By STEPHEN HAWKINS and RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writers ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Oakland Athletics’ move to Las Vegas was unanimously approved…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writers THORNTON, Colo. (AP) — Lars Obendorfer says he was “badly insulted” after he first began…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writers THORNTON, Colo. (AP) — Lars Obendorfer says he was “badly insulted” after he first began…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s interior minister says the U.K. government can revive its blocked plan to send…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s government says it will close four crossing points on its long border with Russia to…

BOSTON (AP) — Demonstrators seeking a ceasefire in Gaza are blocking traffic on the Boston University bridge during rush hour. The group chanted…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer More Americans filed for jobless claims last week, but the labor market remains broadly healthy in the face of…

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — When the Rev. Silvio Báez finished his homily on a recent Sunday, applause broke out among the…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A storm system that formed over the Florida Keys and dumped up to 9 inches of rain…

By KIM COOK Associated Press There’s one room in the home where a lot of holiday memories are made — the kitchen. For years, peak kitchen design…

BERLIN (AP) — Five people including the founder of the Blackwater security firm have gone on trial in Austria, accused of exporting two…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for replacing supermarket…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It was the most awkward lie of the day for Rory McIlroy. The four-time major winner’s tee shot on the par-3…

LONDON (AP) — One year after Qatar hosted the men’s World Cup, the gas-rich emirate and soccer body FIFA have been urged by human rights group…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana voters will return to the polls to decide runoff elections in which no candidate…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The center-right lawmaker who could become a kingmaker in coalition talks after next…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says his country has filed a referral to the…

LONDON (AP) — TikTok and Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and…

By BEN WALKER AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Terry R. Taylor, the first female sports editor at The Associated Press who ran the department from…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle…

BY EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s parliament has approved the deployment of 1000 police officers to Haiti to…

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Luxembourg’s Christian Democrats and free-trade liberals have announced a two-party center-right coalition that will run the…

By CIARÑAN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is expected to be chosen by a…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission will continue the use of the controversial chemical herbicide…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The airline Emirates says it will purchase 15 additional Airbus A350-900s worth…

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — People in Madagascar are trickling to polling stations as voting opened in a…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Perhaps just shaking hands and sitting down together can be enough sometimes. At their…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — A day after Palestinian authorities called for an evacuation of Gaza’s biggest hospital, Israeli…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national railway operator is running a drastically reduced schedule after a union called a 20-hour strike aimed at…

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Officials say more than half of the estimated 5,000 refugees who had fled the heavy…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his first overseas trip in his…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says police have raided 54 locations across the country in an investigation of a Hamburg-based center suspected…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee is set to debate Sweden’s bid to join NATO, drawing the country closer…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares have retreated after Wall Street added a bit more to its big rally from a day…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces dropped leaflets warning Palestinians to flee…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and HENG SINITH Associated Press SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has inaugurated its newest and biggest airport, a…

BEIJING (AP) — A fire burned in a coal company building Thursday in a northern Chinese city, killing 25 people and injuring a few dozen more. The…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled late Wednesday that China will send new pandas to the…

By SAMYA KULLAB and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The night a blast struck his family’s home in the Gaza…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate convicted of strangling a 5-year-old girl taken from an El Paso store and then…

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is scheduled to execute a man convicted in the killing of a friend’s father during a 1993 robbery. Casey…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fire that erupted in storage yards underneath a Los Angeles freeway has renewed…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — About 46,000 United Auto Workers at General Motors on Thursday are expected to wrap up voting on a…

By COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fresh off his meeting with the leader of China, President Joe Biden on…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion ban on the…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A new report says progress against childhood cancers has stalled in recent years for Black and Hispanic youth.…

TOKYO (AP) — Reports say Japanese police arrested a man whose vehicle crashed into a temporary barricade near the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo. Public…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Rescuers in northern India are supplying food and medicine to 40 construction workers…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported that its exports increased by 1.6% in October from a year earlier, as auto and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities in New York City say they’ve made the largest-ever seizure of counterfeit goods, consisting of handbags, shoes…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s attorney general is investigating six Republican electors who submitted paperwork to…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Torres’ “Blackouts” has won the National Book Award for fiction. The nonfiction…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the nation’s capital are responding to a violent protest outside the headquarters of the Democratic National…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of scientists who work for California have begun a three-day strike over lack of progress on contract talks.…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE J. MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a meeting a year in the making. President Joe Biden and Chinese…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — High-risk migrants in Australia will face up to five years in prison for breaching their…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated A former Hawaii psychiatric hospital patient has been indicted on a murder charge in the stabbing death of a…

CHICAGO (AP) — Iconic music producer Quincy Jones and entertainers Jennifer Hudson and Chance the Rapper are now co-owners of the historic Ramova…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has passed a…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hotels in Argentina and Uruguay have reportedly rejected reservations for Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters over accusations…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawyer for the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San…

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Blake Snell has won the NL Cy Young Award after leading the majors in ERA for the San Diego…