Associated Press ROVANIEMI, Finland (AP) — Shuffling across icy ground on a cold December afternoon, lots of tourist groups poured into Santa Claus…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government says it will tax large digital platforms and search engines unless they…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The Biden administration has announced it is raising tariffs on solar wafers, polysilicon and some tungsten…
Continue ReadingPROVO, Utah (AP) — Trevin Knell had a season-high 22 points and a career-high 10 rebounds, five other teammates reached double figures in scoring,…
Continue ReadingOTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Drake Batherson had three goals and an assist, and the Ottawa Senators beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-1 Wednesday night for their…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s picking Kari Lake as director of Voice of America,…
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SAN LUCAS, Calif. (KION-TV) — Within the small town of San Lucas, clean drinking water has become something not readily available to residents. That…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASARAWA, Nigeria (AP) — Growing demand for the lithium used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage has created a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASARAWA, Nigeria (AP) — Dressed in a faded pink dress, 6-year-old Juliet Samaniya squats under scorching skies to chip at a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal linked…
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PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (KION-TV) — The future of the Monarch butterfly is up in the air as their population has seen a decline in recent years,…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Woody Allen’s former personal chef has filed a lawsuit against the filmmaker and his wife Soon-Yi Previn. In it, the chef, Hermie…
Continue ReadingAP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA and the league’s players union met in person Wednesday to discuss a new collective bargaining…
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PINNACLES, Calif. (KION-TV) — CAL FIRE BEU confirmed to KION that a small, 20-by-20 spot fire broke out on the hiking trail Bear Gulch in Pinnacles…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — The Paris Olympics says it was far less polluting than recent Games but is not claiming to have been “carbon…
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The government of Argentina has accused its Venezuelan counterpart of continually harassing six members of the political…
Continue ReadingBy Gawon Bae, Jerome Taylor, Helen Regan and Lex Harvey, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea’s ruling party has thrown its support…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Gunmen have shot to death a state judge outside a court building in the violence-wracked Pacific coast resort of Acapulco in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two men have been freed after their convictions were overturned in a 2009 double homicide whose…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — A team from rugby league hotspot Papua New Guinea will enter the National Rugby League from 2028 after officially being granted a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his martial law decree as an act of governance and denied…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writers Bill Belichick had seemingly been waiting for the right opportunity to return to an NFL sideline. Instead, the six-time Super…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Embattled Japanese automaker Nissan has tapped Jeremie Papin as its chief financial officer in a major management…
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — A ten-year-old boy has been killed in a shooting attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats failed Wednesday to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach has died at age 82. He served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa. He…
Continue ReadingAP Basketball Writer The West Coast Conference is suing Grand Canyon University over breach of contract after the school changed course and decided…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Justin Herbert is dealing with an ankle injury for the second time this season. The Chargers quarterback…
Continue ReadingBy Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to undergo an additional medical procedure on Thursday…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A person accused of accosting U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace in a Capitol Office building pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A southeast Louisiana official allegedly committed perjury by failing to disclose…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina House Republicans have enacted legislation that erodes some powers of several statewide…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. in the 2022 killing of Jimmy “Jay”…
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer DALLAS (AP) — Juan Soto gets free use of a luxury suite and up to four premium tickets behind home plate for regular-season and…
Continue ReadingDANBURY, Conn. (AP) — A woman serving time at a federal prison in Connecticut managed to escape for about 45 minutes before being captured. Federal…
Continue ReadingVICTORIA, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a twin-engine propeller plane has crashed onto a Texas highway and split in two, damaging cars and sending…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The leaders of Ethiopia and Somalia have agreed to hold “technical talks” to resolve a dispute sparked…
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Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer ZURICH (AP) — Saudi Arabia scored a major win in its campaign to attract major sports events to the kingdom when it was formally…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by media outlets challenging a new Louisiana law that…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers in Florida have filed two bills that would roll back gun…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire in…
Continue ReadingChronicle of Philanthropy BEND, OREGON (AP) — Research shows Americans are frustrated with what they perceive as aloofness and gridlock within…
Continue ReadingAP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — At this point the past two seasons, the San Francisco 49ers were fighting for playoff positioning…
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Park, Elizabeth Wolfe, Josh Campbell and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Weeks of mysterious drone sightings across New Jersey are…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search and a missing persons…
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer The new film “September 5″ is a fictionalized account of ABC’s live coverage of the hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search and a missing persons…
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Hannah Kobayashi “has been found safe,” her family said Wednesday, more than a week after…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The suspect in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO plans to fight extradition to New York to face murder…
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