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LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have requested permission to appeal a ruling that opened the door for his extradition…

OSSEO, Wis. (AP) — Authorities in western Wisconsin are trying to sort out multiple crashes along Interstate 94. The State Patrol said in a…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Jason Bateman has been named the 2022 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The theater…

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has announced that its forces will not advance deeper into the Tigray region. The…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A crew cutting down a dying oak at the University of Nebraska has made a surprising find — flying squirrels. A video shot by…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and MARIAM FAM Associated Press During the holidays, some faith groups and congregations across the United States work to bring…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Mona Hardin is haunted by the body-camera images of her son Ronald Greene…

By HARUNA UMAR Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Witnesses say explosions have killed several people in northeast Nigeria ahead of a visit…

CAIRO (AP) — A prominent Egyptian human rights activist has been released after serving her sentence on charges of spreading false news and…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The actor who played Kevin’s older brother in the classic Christmas movie “Home Alone” has been arrested in Oklahoma…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi authorities say they have identified the remains of a woman found following a tip from an inmate prior to his…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Mona Hardin is haunted by the body-camera images of her son Ronald Greene…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has signaled her efforts to appeal to moderate Republican and…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s 2nd congressional district has the dubious distinction of having the…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Wrkiter WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new single-family homes rose 12.4% in November, the fastest pace in seven…

By MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The official seal of the City of Atlanta shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War.…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Biden administration effort to reunite children and parents who were separated under President…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press ORLANDO (AP) — Universal Orlando is reinstating its mask requirements beginning Christmas Eve as COVID-19…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Wrkter WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices rose 5.7% over the past year, the fastest pace in 39 years as a…

BY ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Coronavirus outbreaks at Leeds and Watford have led to two Premier League matches scheduled for…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s new foreign minister has pledged to speed up efforts to get thousands of former local employees and other endangered…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Authorities say five people have died after a small passenger plane crashed in eastern…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister has apologized for a large leak of personal records from a government database of state and…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run agency says a joint Turkish and Qatari delegation is traveling to Afghanistan to discuss plans for…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, remaining at a historically…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Christmas concerts and other events have been canceled in Greece under new restrictions that include a general mask mandate…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court has again ruled to keep businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala behind bars, despite a decision from…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Union says negotiators from Iran and five world powers that are trying to revive Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s Justice Ministry says it has reached a plea deal with a powerful opposition lawmaker that will see him…

BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — Crews have extinguished a large fire at a Houston-area refinery that left four people injured. The fire started at about 1…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The Belgian government has tentatively committed to phasing out the country’s existing nuclear…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s public health agency says preliminary data suggest that people with the omicron variant…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is announcing more than $241 million in grants to bolster…

By MATT O’BRIEN and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Five teenagers were charged Thursday after the vehicle stolen at gunpoint in Philadelphia from U.S. Rep. Mary…

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A United Nations report estimates that 22 million Ethiopians will require humanitarian assistance in 2022.…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the West to “immediately” meet Russia’s…

BERLIN (AP) — Police have launched a manhunt for a 56-year-old German who went on the run this week after losing his final appeal of a murder…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats to embrace humility this…

By The Associated Press For Afghanistan, 2021 was punctuated by the chaos of a U.S. withdrawal and an uncertain next chapter. The Taliban quickly…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the best-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s state news agency says a court has sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki in absentia to four years in…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says he expects a surge in coronavirus cases around the New Year period, as the national disease control…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — U.S. officials have denied an American citizen who was arrested in Turkey for allegedly providing a fake passport to a Syrian…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jurors in the fraud trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes returned to the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Intel Corp. has apologized for asking suppliers to avoid sourcing goods from Xinjiang after the…

By MATT O’BRIEN and FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writers Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for…