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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic legislators want to link the statewide minimum wage to an inflation index to provide potentially automatic annual…

By SAM METZ Associated Press ENOCH, Utah (AP) — A Utah man fatally shot his five children, his mother-in-law and his wife and then killed himself…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says that a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during an arrest raid in the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday after Wall Street benchmarks fell on worries that the U.S.…

By REBECCA BOONE, MANUEL VALDES and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Idaho police pieced together DNA evidence, cellphone data…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s economy has hit its lowest point since the start of its civil war nearly 12 years ago, with…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Opponents of the largest lithium mine planned in the U.S. urged a federal judge in Nevada on…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court will hear arguments on whether a newly organized firing…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, GIADA ZAMPANO and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis joined tens of thousands of faithful…

By ANDY WONG and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Mostly older men and women wearing masks rested on cots in hallways, while others…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sony unveiled a new high-tech prototype car it will produce in partnership with Honda at the CES tech show Wednesday. The vehicle,…

By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The stalemate over the Republican House speaker vote is more than just an…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Eight family members, five of them children, were found dead from gunshot wounds in a southern…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — It’s been weeks since four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their…

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man charged in a July 2017 crash that killed a pregnant woman and her three sons has been sentenced to two years in…

The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday sent a frigate armed with the country’s latest Zircon hypersonic missile on…

By KEN MORITSUGU and KANIS LEUNG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The attendance of both the former bishop of Hong Kong and an adviser to Taiwan’s…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers E-commerce giant Amazon and business software maker Salesforce are the latest U.S.…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Mexican man who was arrested by U.S. immigration agents in 2017 despite his participation in a…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press A man accused of chewing off the ear of a 78-year-old man on a light-rail train platform near Portland, Oregon, told…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans squabble over who will be the next speaker, there are essentially no…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has told a statewide audience that Kentucky’s future is brighter…

By JAMES BROOKS, ADRIANA MORGA and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia announced Thursday it will boost its defense capabilities by buying advanced missile and rocket systems,…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As a huge storm approached California, officials began asking people to evacuate in high-risk coastal areas, including where…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former mixed martial arts fighter Phil Baroni has been arrested in Mexico for allegedly killing his girlfriend. The…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden will undergo a medical procedure next week to remove a small lesion from above…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A former Bolivian interior minister has been sentenced in the United States to nearly six years in…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Shortages of computer chips and other parts continued to hobble the U.S. auto industry last year,…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Spanish lawmaker says he was formally kicked out of Bolivia as he was getting ready to leave the South American country…

The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — CES is not allowing Russian exhibitors to display their products at the annual tech show because of the…

By ALI SWENSON, DAVID KLEPPER and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Unfounded claims about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines…

By MEG KINNARD and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — As Republicans struggled for a second day to elect a House speaker, Rep. Byron…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The name of a teenager killed in a shooting outside an Indianapolis shopping mall has been released. The Marion County…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of handicraft vendors in southern Mexico have blocked access roads to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza. The vendors are…

By CODY JACKSON and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — More than 500 Cuban immigrants have come ashore in the Florida Keys since…

By AAMER MADHANI and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that’s he’s weighing sending Bradley Fighting…

By ERIC TUCKER and GABE STERN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nevada’s most populous county has provided the U.S. Justice Department special…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey will award $15 million in zero-interest loans and grants to health care…

SPARTA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man convicted of killing his step-grandfather and badly injuring two other relatives with an ax has been sentenced…

DALLAS (AP) — James “Buster” Corley, a co-founder of the restaurant and entertainment chain Dave & Buster’s, has died. He was 72. Corley…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has slashed millions of dollars from the damages a jury ordered white…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian soccer stars past and present are under fire from fans for skipping Pelé’s…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — If ever there was an heir to the intellectual legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI,…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is launching an investigation into one of the…

MONTARA, Calif. (AP) — The California Highway Patrol says a man remains hospitalized with serious injuries after he plunged a vehicle off a…

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — The daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte has been found guilty of fatally stabbing a 24-year-old man…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has summoned the French ambassador to condemn the publication of offensive caricatures of Supreme Leader…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Officials in California ordered evacuations in a high-risk coastal area where mudslides…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI held one of the world’s highest-profile positions but in his…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown asked for a moment of silence on New Year’s Eve to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials suggested at their most recent meeting that a continuing…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times…

By ISABEL DEBRE and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s justice minister on Wednesday…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Central Banks says the pound has seen its largest single-day slide since the government agreed to a $3 billion…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — More than 50 people were convicted in the sprawling college admissions bribery scheme that…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kelly Craft has set a fast pace for raising and spending campaign cash in her bid to…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is plowing ahead with plans to open a U.S. embassy in the Solomon…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press The Nebraska Legislature began its new session Wednesday with several new members, a new incoming Republican…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has entered into four new settlements with opioid makers and distributors totaling…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Some of the last survivors in France from a colonial-era infantry corps that recruited tens of…

LONDON (AP) — British author Fay Weldon, known for novels including “The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil”, has died. She was 91. Weldon was a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The seditious conspiracy trial of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York has announced a $100 million settlement with Coinbase over what state officials called significant failures in the…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s defense minister says Turkish and Russian troops could “expand” their joint patrols in northern Syria as part…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — As a sedated Damar Hamlin lay before him in a Cincinnati hospital bed surrounded by…

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says the agency is “concerned about the risk to life in China” amid the coronavirus’…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The suspect in the November slayings of four University of Idaho students has arrived in…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — More than 30 graves at a historic Christian cemetery in Jerusalem have been found toppled and…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was feast or famine at the Broadway box office as 2022 wound down, with eye-popping…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says House Republicans’ inability to unify behind a speaker…

LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for online privacy violations and banned…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings slipped in November but remained at high suggesting businesses are…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major speech of 2023, has pledged to halve inflation,…