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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Netherlands’ former deputy prime minister and Mideast expert has been appointed…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The head of Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group says it will only abide by a recent…

GARDEN CITY, Mich. (AP) — A man who reportedly fired a gun at people and vehicles following a traffic crash has been fatally shot by a police…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Republican leaders have called on a state lawmaker to resign after he railed…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An appellate court has reversed a 2022 federal conviction against former Rep. Jeff…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has a long history of making antisemitic comments and just apologized to the…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — A caravan of thousands of migrants continues to trudge through southern Mexico, with…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s congressional delegation wants the public to have more time to comment on a proposed transmission line…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Police said Tuesday they are investigating incidents directed at Colorado Supreme Court justices…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge declined Tuesday to stay litigation over Alabama’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The U.S.…

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The widower of metro Phoenix’s former top county prosecutor was suspected of fatally shooting a woman he was in a…

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison after taking part in the straw purchase of a handgun that was used to kill…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The administration of Argentine President Javier Milei says the government won’t renew contracts for more than…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Sweden edged closer toward joining NATO after the Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has launched its army-run airline, with the first Mexicana airlines flight taking off from Mexico City bound for the…

By ALI SWENSON and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Experts are warning that the spread of misinformation could get worse in the…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Christmas is over, but giving season for nonprofits is just starting to peak. The end of the calendar year is when…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Buckle up, cowpoke! The next generation of indie rock has found inspiration in country music.…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who left on a flight to visit his grandmother was put on the wrong plane. When the grandmother, Maria…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of judges has blocked a new Tennessee law that would reconfigure the group…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mastercard SpendingPulse said Tuesday that holiday sales rose this year. The indicator, which tracks all kinds of…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The rollout of potential new electric vehicle goals in Maine has been pushed back by a year. That’s because a  recent…

PARIS (AP) — More than 50 French performers, writers and producers published an essay Tuesday defending film star and national icon Gerard…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Kuwait’s foreign affairs minister says the bodies of a Kuwaiti citizen and a Saudi with…

VIENNA (AP) — The International Atomic Energy Agency says in a report to member states that Iran has increased the rate at which it is producing…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — As law enforcement agencies across the country pursue reform measures, the Baltimore Police…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Parliament reports that hackers tried to get into its data and wipe them out,…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Online, direct-to-consumer health care has grown well beyond its roots mostly treating hair loss and acne or selling…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has held only the operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Firefighters and volunteers worked overnight to reinforce dikes in northern and eastern Germany against rising…

PARIS (AP) — Four children between nine months and 10 years old and their mother have been killed in their apartment east of Paris in what the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday released a sardonic statement about his transfer to a Arctic prison colony…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 140 people were killed by gunmen who attacked remote villages over two days in…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The forecourt of Paris City Hall sparkles with activity this holiday season, including a Christmas…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A huge fire at a guesthouse in Romania has left five people dead, including a child, and others missing. Emergency…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two lawsuits say Nebraska’s two largest cities are violating a new state gun law by prohibiting them from public places such…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces bombarded Palestinian refugee camps in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Daihatsu, a unit of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp., has shut down production lines at all…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee is set to resume deliberations on Sweden’s bid to join NATO. The…

By The Associated Press Asian markets were mostly higher in holiday-thinned trading on Tuesday, with some markets in the region closed for holidays.…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian naval ship in Crimea was damaged in an airstrike by Ukrainian forces, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The…

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll following the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Their first battle plan was outdated the moment the dam crumbled. So the Ukrainian…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Their first battle plan was outdated the moment the dam crumbled. So the Ukrainian…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press HASLET, Texas (AP) — Worried about his mother’s health, Jacob Mabil tried for months to persuade her to let him…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer They are snippets in time, unforgettable snapshots that gloriously capture the soaring euphoria and gut-wrenching…

BEIJING (AP) — A distillery in southwestern China is aiming to tap a growing taste among young Chinese for whisky in place of the traditional…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed…

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — Beyoncé’s childhood home caught fire early on Christmas morning in Houston. The family that currently lives there escaped…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been targeted with another swatting attempt at her Georgia…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of…

By The Associated Press The actor Kamar de los Reyes has died in Los Angeles. A publicist representing his wife says de los Reyes died Sunday at age…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — Christmas Day meant the same as any other for thousands of migrants walking through…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The president of Belarus says Russia has completed its shipments of short-range, tactical nuclear weapons to his country,…

Conditions were mostly nice this year for travelers flying ahead of and on Christmas, but some naughty disruptions again plagued those flying with…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whose country’s relations with Russia grew tense this year, says that when…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Christmas carries more than spiritual weight for many Ukrainians this year: for the first time, the country is observing it as…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift celebrated Christmas Day by watching her boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce…

By ABDELRAHMAN ZEYAD and HOGIR ABDO Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Turkey has intensified its airstrikes against Kurdish groups in Syria…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iranian state media say that an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood has killed a…

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool soccer star Mohamed Salah says he “shares the pain” of grieving families at Christmas amid the Israel-Hamas…

MOSCOW (AP) — Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Shipping firm Maersk says it is preparing to allow vessels to resume sailing through the Red Sea. It comes at the start…