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GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Police say three teenagers were killed and a fourth was critically wounded when another teen opened fire inside a Dallas-area…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy warship remains in port at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, with about two…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan in New Orleans has given birth to a healthy male baby, but his twin brother died in…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities say bird flu has killed thousands of migratory cranes and forced farms to kill over 500,000 chickens to…

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Severe weather sweeping parts of the U.S. has brought frigid temperatures to the Pacific…

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia says it is unhappy with the U.S. decision to revoke duty-free access for the East African…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says crews wrapping up the removal of a giant pedestal that once…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A leading conservation biologist who is credited with popularizing the term “biological diversity” has died. Thomas Lovejoy…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria has called Israel’s plans to double the number of settlers living in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has seized the former embassy and diplomatic offices of Taiwan, saying they belong to China.…

LONDON (AP) — A British police chief has written to apologize to the family of former professional soccer player Dalian Atkinson who died after a…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The sister and lawyer of a French tourist jailed in Iran last year say that he has begun a hunger…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A truck driver sentenced to 110 years for an explosive crash that killed four people in…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government has blocked Mother Teresa’s charity from receiving foreign funds, saying…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ authorities have released a draft document proposing amendments to the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A man charged with fatally shooting two men at a busy restaurant in Kentucky has pleaded not guilty. News outlets report…

By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Flight cancellations that disrupted holiday travel stretched into Monday. Staffers calling out…

By DÉBORA REY and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It’s been a year since Argentina legalized elective…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — English sparkling wine has been winning respect and an audience in recent years. Globally, English…

By KWASI GYAMFI ASIEDU Associated Press WEDOWEE, Alabama (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic church faces a clergy shortage. The number of priests has…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — French investigators say they have detained a man suspected of supplying authorities in…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has completed three full days of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s government minister for public security says he is now under round-the-clock protection after coming under threats from…

BOSTON (AP) — Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who advanced the provocative theory that human behavior such as war and altruism…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators have stepped up a series of investigations into multiple engine fires that…

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden insists that he strongly believes in the rights spelled out…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — New Year celebrations are approaching and across the world there is an urge to party. But the desire…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When Ohio House legislative aide Adam Headlee got his hands on a new set of trading…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court has rejected an appeal filed by Iran-backed factions contesting the results of parliamentary elections held in…

LONDON (AP) — British police say they are investigating a video linked to a man armed with a crossbow who was arrested at Windsor Castle on…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan lawmakers are meeting to discuss the many challenges that forced a postponement this month of…

BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin court says none of the parties has appealed against the verdict in the diplomatically sensitive trial of a Russian man who…

By HOLDEN LEWIS of NerdWallet IBuyers are one of the few true innovations to hit the real estate industry in recent years. Yet consumers haven’t…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat says talks between Russia and the United States on Moscow’s demand…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he has decided to veto a media bill that would have forced U.S.…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has extended the prison term handed to an activist who investigated Stalin-era repression to 15 years. Yuri Dmitriyev…

By MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking…

By ALEX SCHULLER and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Negotiators from Iran and five world powers have resumed negotiations on restoring…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s legacy is reverberating among young South…

BEIJING (AP) — Delta Air Lines says new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has postponed its verdicts on two charges against ousted…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are trading mixed, as optimism set off by a rally on Wall Street was dampened by…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is undertaking a comprehensive examination of the stories told by its 2,500…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The metrics are ugly for many television, digital and print news organizations: after…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares are mixed at the outset of the last trading week of the year as countries…