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By CLAIRE RUSH, DAVID KOENIG and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Alaska Airlines again grounded all of its Boeing 737 Max 9…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Timothée Chalamet and “Wonka” topped the box office charts for the third time in its four…

SHREWSBURY, England (AP) — Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have FA Cup fever just like their soccer club Wrexham. The Hollywood stars were…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — With a deep freeze approaching, an animal shelter in Krakow, Poland, appealed to the public to adopt or at least temporarily…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an album by Colombian-American musician Kali Uchis, Seth…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Pioneering surgeon Roy Calne, who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation, has died aged 93.…

MALE, Maldives (AP) — The president of the Maldives has suspended three of his deputy ministers for posting derogatory comments against India and…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Fans, players and coaches are paying their last respects in Brazil to Mario Zagallo. He…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A major winter storm bringing up to a foot of snow and freezing rain to some communities spread…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s alpine rescue service says two persons who were hiking with snowshoes have died after being struck by an avalanche. A…

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A crash involving dozens of vehicles along a foggy stretch of California’s Interstate 5 in southern California has…

By ALI ZERDIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenian authorities say five people are trapped in a cave in the southwest of the…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Catholics around the world are sharply divided by the Vatican’s recent declaration giving priests more leeway to…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Unprecedented riots in support of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro took…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An apparent Israeli airstrike has killed two Palestinian journalists in…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has named several of his party’s candidates for March’s nationwide election. The ruling…

By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press No matter who takes home the College Football Playoff championship Monday night in Houston, a rare…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Election integrity activists want a federal judge to order Georgia to stop using its current…

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Hollywood is ready to party as the Golden Globes return for its annual boozy celebration of film and television’s…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Here’s what to know about the night South African Olympic runner Oscar…

By The Associated Press Washington plays Michigan in the College Football Playoff championship game on Monday, with the Huskies looking for their…

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Medics say an Israeli man has been fatally shot at a busy intersection in the West Bank. Sunday’s drive-by…

More than 100 residents of the Russian border city of Belgorod have evacuated to an area further from the Ukrainian border, local officials said.…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has baptized 16 babies in the Sistine Chapel. The ceremony, under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, has become…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Australian Open with an injury after playing just one tournament in his comeback…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mocked South Korea’s…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Jordan’s king and foreign minister and…

By JULIA FRANKEL, SAMY MAGDY and NAJIB JOBAINh Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military signaled that it has wrapped up major combat…

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — A devastating fire has raced through a crammed refugee camp in Bangladesh’s southern coastal district of…

By OMID HAQJO ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Survivors of a massive earthquake that struck Afghanistan’s west on Oct. 7 say they’re…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a minibus explosion in the Afghan capital late Saturday that killed at…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Japanese prosecutors have made their first arrest in connection with a major political slush funds scandal that…

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Anders Behring Breivik, who slayed 77 people in an anti-Islamic bomb and gun rampage in…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ AND ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Daniel Bermudez’s family had fled Venezuela and was headed to…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Fossil hunters are celebrating the discovery of a mammoth tusk and other bones unearthed at a…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov.-elect Jeff Landry, a Republican endorsed by former President Donald Trump and…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ upcoming State of the State address is supposed to…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Thamsanqa Mothobi was going about his life in Johannesburg when he was carjacked and taken…

By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A core mission of Florida A&M University from its founding over a century ago has…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The Golden Globes are back from the dead, and ready to party. The long-running award show will again have the champagne…

By HIRO KOMAE, AYAKA MCGILL and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — Rescue teams worked through snow to deliver supplies to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places has once again been blocked from taking…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A human rights group in southern Mexico says an attack in a remote community in Guerrero state caused an undetermined number of…

DHAKA (AP) — Polls have opened in Bangladesh as voters began casting their ballots in an election fraught with violence and a boycott from the main…

BEIJING (AP) — China has announced sanctions on five American defense-related companies in response to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and U.S. sanctions…

SEATTLE (AP) — Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war blocked northbound traffic on Interstate 5 in Seattle on Saturday. The…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, currently the lone Democratic governor in the Deep South,…

By The Associated Press Orthodox Christians packed churches on Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many believers…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The number of children who died as a result of a fire in their St. Paul home has risen to three. At a news conference…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press A small town in Iowa is stunned but pulling together after a school shooting in which a a 17-year-old killed a…

NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly two decades, journalists, police detectives, FBI agents, lawyers and amateur sleuths have pried into the depraved world…

By LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A cumbersome process of Israeli inspections and other hurdles are slowing the entry of aid into Gaza.…

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Greek Orthodox community has celebrated the Epiphany with their annual cross dive near the Gulf of…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s state news agency is reporting that Polish farmers who had blockaded a border crossing to Ukraine have ended…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JILL COLVIN and ANDREW HARNIK Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is courting young…

AMMAN (AP) — The Jordanian army says it has killed five drug and weapon smugglers and arrested 15 in a day of clashes with armed groups of…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress and Pentagon leaders were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The emergency landing of a Boeing 737 Max jetliner with a gaping hole in its side is renewing safety concerns…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The mother of an 11-year-old who was killed in a school shooting in Iowa this week…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three Florida residents are in FBI custody on charges that they assaulted officers…

By DARREN SANDS Associated Press Over its 215-year history, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City has earned a reputation as the flagship of…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Eleven people were killed Saturday in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk province, according to…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — The rivalry between GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley has become a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A minibus exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, killing at least two civilians and…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Residents across the eastern U.S. — particularly in New England — are gassing up their snow…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson is inviting President Joe Biden to deliver his annual State of the Union…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. police have opened a fraud investigation into Britain’s Post Office over a miscarriage of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press It has only taken 18 minutes to evacuate the 379 passengers of Japan Airlines Flight 516 after their plane burst…

BERLIN (AP) — The death toll from a fire in a hospital in Germany this week has risen to five. All of the victims were patients. Investigators are…