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By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says coronavirus infections in the country have spiked to a new record high since…

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Williams was the eyes of the public throughout Ghislaine Maxwell’s monthlong…

By NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6 riot was an insurrection with a 360-degree view. The Associated Press compiled a…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor has pardoned the Black man whose 1892 arrest for refusing to leave…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Around three dozen Democrats were trapped in the House gallery on Jan. 6 after the rest…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the lawmakers who were trapped in the upper…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has reported a major drop in COVID-19 infections in the northern city of Xi’an, which…

By J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When the U.S. Capitol came under siege a year ago, Associated Press photographer J. Scott…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Beneath the glare of television cameras, it seemed hard not to see the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for what it…

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia officials are defending their response to the snowy gridlock that…

By MATTHEW LEE and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Germany say that Russia’s military buildup near…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging concern but not alarm as the United States set records for daily…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities have announced a two-week ban on flights from the United States and seven other…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia and Japan will sign a treaty on Thursday to increase defense and security cooperation in a move that has been hailed as…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia is experiencing rising COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations and long queues at testing centers as it continues to…

LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — A German shepherd named Tinsley successfully led New Hampshire state police to the site of its owner’s rollover crash.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico City say a judge has ordered a former political boss held in jail pending trial on sex-trafficking…

U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence says she plans to retire from Congress at the end of her term, becoming the 25th House Democrat to decide against seeking…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State fire officials say Pacific Gas & Electric power lines sparked last summer’s Dixie Fire in Northern California…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Reigning “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider was robbed at gunpoint over New Year’s weekend in Oakland, California.…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say they have found the mother of a baby found abandoned in a…

MIAMI (AP) — Rapper Pooh Shiesty has pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge in Florida and avoided a possible life sentence. Court records show…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Some Democratic California lawmakers want to make it easier for people to sue gun-makers…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A rabbi who was badly wounded in a deadly antisemitic attack at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Southern California has been…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An anthology of the late Norman Mailer’s writing that Random House allegedly had scheduled…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are explaining why they recently shortened their COVID-19 isolation and…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An FBI dive team has joined the search for a 3-year-old San Antonio girl reported missing two weeks ago. Lina Sardar Khil was…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. military says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the sea, its…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, recently defended his lack of public appearances during the omicron surge,…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has canceled a press conference he had planned to hold in Florida on…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the U.S. led-coalition in Syria struck several launch sites for…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Authorities in Panama continue to search for two Americans who went missing when the small plane they were traveling in splashed…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah tech entrepreneur and onetime prominent figure in state Republican politics resigned from the board of the company he…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former hermit in New Hampshire whose cabin in the woods burned down after nearly three…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury has ended the suspense surrounding the fraud trial of former Theranos CEO…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. new vehicle sales rebounded slightly last year from 2020′s dismal numbers, but were still about…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican Larry Elder is bypassing a possible rematch with California Gov. Gavin Newsom…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln deployed this week from San Diego under the command of Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, the first woman to lead a…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A family that was stuck on Interstate 95 and other roads in Virginia by a snowstorm says they went more than 18 hours…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say 97 hostages, mostly women and children, have been rescued more than…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. public health officials are investigating how civilians have been affected by the leakage of…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge has ruled that thousands of documents related to security during the construction in North Dakota of the…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A rural Alaska man who threatened to kill Alaska’s two U.S. senators in a series of…

PARIS (AP) — The French national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into a car explosion last week ahead of the…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a 30-year-old man who alleged that the…