AP National News

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are trying to force a public showdown over their sweeping elections…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a Texas man with providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah group has hosted a conference for Saudi opposition figures in its…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal and Morocco have signed an agreement setting out legal guidelines for Moroccans to live and work in the European…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Authorities who investigated a 2019 mass shooting that left nine dead in Dayton, Ohio, say they found no evidence…

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — The Belgian city of Antwerp has put its faith in monkey business to put kids at ease for their first COVID-19 jab. With the…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Richard R. Buery, Jr., is starting his first full year as CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, but he is no stranger…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal records show a severely corroded pipeline ruptured and spilled…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Thousands of people in Mississippi continue to be jailed for long periods while…

By MATTHEW DALY and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Biden administration says it will hold its first offshore wind auction…

LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been arrested in the 2019 robbery, kidnapping and shooting deaths of two men whose bodies were found hours…

RED OAK, Iowa (AP) — A 12-year-old Iowa girl who was struck and killed by a police vehicle that was headed to an apartment fire had been on her way…

By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Teachers Union has narrowly backed an agreement dictating COVID-19…

By The Associated Press A passenger arrested in Honduras for damaging the cockpit of an American Airlines jet during boarding has been released by…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Parliament lawmakers have called for a committee to investigate rights abuses by…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has broken up an Iranian spy ring that recruited Israeli women via social media. The women agreed to photograph…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin International Film Festival is going to take place next month in person despite…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith, Lady Gaga and Ben Affleck landed individual nominations for the 28th Screen Actors Guild…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, it didn’t even register as a threat. Then it seemed like a temporary annoyance.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has given the green light to a lawsuit by an American woman who says…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities investigating the disappearance of a woman who was reported missing found a headless human torso in a freezer that…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Protesters opposing COVID-19 restrictions in Bulgaria have clashed with police as they were trying to storm the Parliament…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prayers and the compelling need to bury the dead have filled a Bronx…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ health minister says the nation is changing its compulsory quarantine rules for school children in an effort…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany say they have rescued 65 children from their abusers over the past two years as part of an investigating into…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Court officials say the trial for a Wisconsin man accused of killing and dismembering his parents has been postponed because…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s leader believes that the detention of the man who has headed both of Denmark’s spy agencies at…

By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — A government officials says a prominent Cameroon lawyer and opposition member of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation jumped at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years last month, a 7% spike from a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Grant Hill’s path to the NBA Hall of Fame had plenty of pain along with all the highlights. Hill has a deal with Penguin Press…

NEW YORK (AP) — The next book in Ibram X. Kendi’s prolific and award-winning publishing career is a picture story with a hopeful message. Penguin…

PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor says a suspect in the 2012 slayings of a British-Iraqi family vacationing in the French Alps and a cyclist has…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s medical community has scored a victory after a court ordered that a regional…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian and Chinese military commanders are meeting to discuss withdrawal of troops from a key…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The head of the International Energy Agency has blamed Russia for worsening Europe’s…

GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus infections in the last week jumped by about 55%, although the number of deaths remained stable, the…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is increasing federal support for COVID-19 testing for schools in a bid…

By COLIN BERESFORD of NerdWallet Applying to college is rarely easy, but applicants this year are faced with one additional challenge: creating a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Allegations that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s staff held a “bring your own booze” garden…

By ISABEL DEBRE and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The British Council says an Iranian employee arrested in…

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds 2021 was an unusual year for the automotive industry. While customer demand for new cars rebounded from the economic…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized for attending a garden party during Britain’s first…

By DAVID KEYTON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s government says it has earmarked some 6 billion kronor ($661 million) for a…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A land mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and FRANK JORDANS BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president has called for a debate over plans for compulsory coronavirus…

By HASSAN BARISE Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A car bomb has exploded outside the international airport in Somalia’s capital of…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has reiterated warnings that Russia is facing a new surge of coronavirus…

By ALICE FUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s legislature has convened for the first time since elections last month that were held…

BEIRUT (AP) — Austria’s foreign minister says the European Union wants to help Lebanon escape its economic meltdown – but only if the…

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — With life in Kazakhstan’s largest city starting to return to normal after anti-government protests turned violent,…