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Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the…

Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital has killed the Taliban refugee minister and two others in the most brazen…

BRUSSELS (AP) — After suffering multiple fractures when he crashed into one of their vehicles, two-time Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel is teaming…

AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The World Bank forecasts that Myanmar’s economy will contract this year, as flooding and fighting take a…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s pro-European parties agreed to form a majority government made up of groupings that were traditionally on…

Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he…

Associated Press The Onion’s rejected purchase of Infowars in an auction bid supported by families of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting dealt…

Assocaited Press CAMP ASAKA, Japan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has expressed confidence about enhanced military capabilities…

Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into Wednesday, with one attack ripping…

Associated Press CHEKKA, Lebanon (AP) — Suheil Hamwi spent 32 years in a Syrian prison, and now, after an offensive by insurgents that toppled the…

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has demanded that China end its ongoing military activity in nearby waters, which it said is…

Associated Press FOURNA, Greece (AP) — Fourna, home to 180 people and hidden in the fir-tree covered mountains of central Greece, is a vanishing…

Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The next United Nations climate conference will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where…

Associated Press Sexual abuse and harassment by coaches and others who held positions of power over women on the U.S. Biathlon team have been…

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. East Coast began a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather Wednesday with a deluge of rain, rapid…

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Amnesty International has called for an investigation into a former governor and two top army officials in…

Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Reem Ajour says she last saw her husband and then 4-year-old daughter in March, when Israeli…

AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fueled by pricier used cars, hotel rooms and groceries, inflation in the United States moved slightly higher…

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes got back to climbing on Wednesday after the latest update on inflation appeared to clear the…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who was captured on courtroom video attacking a judge in Las Vegas has been sentenced to at least 26 years in prison. Deobra…

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s previous defense minister was stopped from attempting suicide while in detention over…

Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The sheriff of the nation’s fifth-largest county on Tuesday defied a new policy to limit cooperation with…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris…

Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A judge has overturned a Black man’s conviction in a 2009 double homicide that was investigated by a…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is promising expedited federal permits for energy projects and other construction…

AP Film Writer The hardest movie ticket to get this weekend was for a film audiences have been able to watch at home for years: Christopher Nolan’s…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump made another flurry of job announcements on Tuesday, selecting Andrew Ferguson as…

Associated Press Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has filed to run for a seat on the New York City Council, launching a potential political comeback…

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Vandals have torched a car and sprayed graffiti with anti-Israel slogans in a Sydney suburb in what…

Associated Press MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — In coastal Southern California, a university has extensive plans for students to shelter in place in case of…

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that Ohio’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing…

ANDERSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow’s home was broken into during Monday Night Football in the latest home invasion…

Associated Press Police became convinced they were investigating a crime rather than a voluntarily missing person two weeks after a University of…

Boeing is resuming production of its bestselling plane, the 737 Max. It’s the first time that Max jets have moved down the assembly line since…

AP Baseball Writer For the second straight Major League Baseball offseason, a norm-shattering contract has been the talk of the winter, with Juan…

WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities have arrested and charged a southeast Georgia man with the 1985 killing of a couple at a Black church. Harold and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Remember what you searched for in 2024? Google does. Google released its annual “Year in Search” on Tuesday, rounding up the…

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The East Coast is due for a whiplash-inducing rainy, windy and potentially dangerous stretch of weather.…

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Another recount won’t be ordered by North Carolina election officials in a close state Supreme Court race…

AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will retreat from the robotaxi business and stop funding its money-losing Cruise autonomous…

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — High-profile legal battles are nothing new for Texas attorney Tony Buzbee, with his latest being a lawsuit…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Southwest Airlines jet and a small plane wound up on the same runway in California in October after an air traffic controller…

Associated Press Luigi Nicholas Mangione was apparently living a charmed one: the grandson of a wealthy real estate developer, valedictorian of his…

DENVER (AP) — An arraignment for a Colorado funeral home owner accused of keeping a woman’s corpse in the back of a hearse for over a year and…

Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge says a UPS driver who crashed his truck after downing several beers while driving is not…

AP National Writer The athletes whose lawsuit against the NCAA is primed to pave the way for schools to pay them directly also want a players’…

Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that immigrants known as “Dreamers” in 19 states aren’t entitled to…

AP Health Writer Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables, all while…

Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two bodies have been recovered amid debris from a fishing boat that reportedly capsized with five people…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Protesters across North Macedonia have taken part in demonstrations to demand better air quality in cities that are…

If you want to get yourself thoroughly depressed, spend a little time looking at statistics about Americans’ retirement preparedness. Though many…

Authorities say eight people and two law firms have been charged in a more than decade-long scheme that allegedly began with staging vehicle crashes…

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dengue fever is sweeping across the Caribbean and the Americas, with a record 12.6 million suspected…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s President has announced that the government will stop rationing electricity services just before the holidays,…

Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The federal government has sued South Carolina, saying the state has not done enough to make sure people…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have charged a man with burning an American flag in the nation’s capital during protests…

ROME, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a motorist was killed as police responded to a bomb threat at the Georgia home of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor…

Associated Press OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki has accepted this year’s Nobel…

MADRID (AP) — Venezuela’s political opposition is signaling a shift toward a flexible timeline for a government transition that it had long…