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By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The head of Lebanon’s largest Christian parliamentary bloc says a 15-year-old alliance with…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 16-year-old with autism recently got the chance to meet the first mice in the world engineered…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The remains of South African archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — States across the country are taking steps to try to deter the thefts of catalytic…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military junta wants to extend its rule for five more years and put off the next…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Mask requirements are returning in some school districts that had dropped them. Some are planning to vastly ramp…

By RAF CASERT and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Draft European Union plans that would allow nuclear and gas energy to remain…

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Thousands of people in the capital of the Netherlands have defied a ban and…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An official in a Lebanese rescue group says a mother and her three children died in their sleep…

HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (AP) — A line of severe storms damaged homes, knocked out power and downed trees in parts of the southern United States late…

By ILAN BEN ZION and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Egyptian officials are pushing for Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus has veered off a mountain highway in Nepal, leaving at least seven dead and about a dozen injured. A government…

By ANDREW MELDRUM and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Firefighters are battling a major blaze at South Africa’s…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says an unidentified person has crossed the heavily fortified…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Experts say the winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s front range was rare. But similar events…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, COLLEEN LONG, JACQUES BILLEAUD and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many rioters who stormed the U.S.…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, COLLEEN LONG, JACQUES BILLEAUD and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many rioters who stormed the U.S.…

By THOMAS PEIPERT, BRITTANY PETERSON and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Search teams are looking for two missing people in…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is planning televised…

MONROE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana federal judge has ruled that President Joe Biden cannot require teachers in the Head Start early education program…

By PAUL DAVENPORT Associated Press Authorities in New Mexico say icing on a cable caused two tram cars to get stuck high up in the Sandia Mountains…

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Members of the Russian and Czech Republic world junior hockey teams were removed from a New Year’s Eve flight from…

Authorities say rapper Kodak Black has been arrested on a trespassing charge Saturday in South Florida. The Broward Sheriff’s Office says Black was…

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Brian “Red” Hamilton was in the middle of moving equipment on the Vancouver Canucks’ bench…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a New York City police officer’s skull was broken when he was shot New…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida are searching for two people who burned a part of Key West’s famous Southernmost Point buoy early New…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say arrests have been made in the shooting death of an off-duty Cleveland police officer during a carjacking.…

CHICAGO (AP) — The year 2021 ended as one of the deadliest on record in recent years in Chicago. According to statistics released by the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight march in the capital of Kyiv to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, the…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Investigators say three people were killed and four others wounded after several people at a Mississippi party started…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has rejected Prince Andrew’s attempt to block the progression of a lawsuit by…

BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — Police say a woman wanted in the fatal shooting of one police officer and the wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces and an armed criminal gang clashed in the restive southeastern…

CHICAGO (AP) — The winter that took its time getting to the Midwest has begun to finally arrive on the first day of the new year. The National…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Holocaust survivor Gertrude Pressburger has died at age 94. She became famous during…

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of empty, parked cars go up in flames in France each New Year’s Eve, set afire by young revelers. But that much lamented…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Former Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Reeves has died at the age of 77. His family…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press LOVETTSVILLE, Va. (AP) — A year after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, the United States is split in…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press LOVETTSVILLE, Va. (AP) — A year after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, the United States is split in…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Alabama has a chance to repeat. Georgia has a chance for revenge. The rematch is set,…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Amid a wave of COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant, dozens of colleges are making plans to move…

BERLIN (AP) — Exploding fireworks killed a man in Germany and another in Austria on New Year’s Eve. A 37-year-old man died in Hennef near…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of people chanting anti-American slogans have rallied in the Iraqi capital to mark the anniversary of the killing of a…

By ZARAR KHAN and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — South Asian archrivals India and Pakistan have exchanged lists of each other’s…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has used his New Year’s Day appearances to encourage people to…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been remembered at his funeral for…