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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — bell hooks, the author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Essence Festival is planning its return to New Orleans next summer after a two-year…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge has delayed the murder trial of a former police officer who is charged with fatally shooting a Black woman…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — New test results show that the amount of lead in Benton Harbor, Michigan’s drinking water…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin are said to be sharply divided over Democrats’ huge…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s minister of innovation and digitalization has resigned following a…

ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has announced a $10.2 billion incentive plan in an attempt to attract global chipmakers and…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The countries behind a U.N. agreement on weapons have been meeting this week on the thorny issue of…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Adrienne Warren had studiously avoided touching a Tony Award her entire stage career. On…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman told deputies she gave her boyfriend “just enough” poison in his lemonade to shut him up and then…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Simu Liu tweeted in 2014 asking Marvel for an Asian American superhero, he wasn’t…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have met with their counterparts from five former Soviet republics, including Ukraine, with an eye toward…

DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen’s Audi luxury brand is recalling 289,000 SUVs in the U.S. because water can get into a control computer under the back…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said he made France’s economy stronger and sought to show he…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says a public inquiry into Britain’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic will be led by a retired judge and…

BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a Minnesota grocery delivery driver accused of running over bags of food she had dropped off in a Twin Cities…

By The Associated Press Captain Kirk finally made it into space this past year. William Shatner was part of the new wave of civilian travelers…

By ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Harry’s Bar in Paris is celebrating the 100th birthday of the bloody mary, the vodka-tomato juice…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota has undertaken a reckoning with its troubled…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams named Keechant Sewell, a Long Island police official, as…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Housing advocates say evictions are increasing around the country, several months after a federal…

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected appeals in the case of a neo-Nazi convicted of supporting a group that carried out the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing questions about his future after almost 100…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police have searched the home of Ciro Gomes, a left-wing politician…

By MARGERY A. BECK and MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A powerful storm system is blowing through the Great Plains and…

Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A teacher in South Florida has been fired for repeatedly refusing to wear a mask. The school board in…

CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says it has launched a coronavirus vaccination campaign for stranded migrants in war-torn Yemen. It says the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court has ordered that former President Jacob Zuma should go back to…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The multimillionaire businessman who forced South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster into a GOP…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Americans slowed their spending from October to November but still continued to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has registered the highest rate of COVID-19-related deaths since April amid a continuing high rate of new infections.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The young adult daughter of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny received a standing ovation from European Union…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine health department says it has detected the country’s first cases of the omicron strain of the…

Police in Germany’s Bavaria region say they have destroyed some 1.5 metric tons (1.65 U.S. tons) of cocaine with a street value of about 270…

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Two zebras running loose since they escaped a Maryland farm about four months ago have been caught. The Washington Post…

LONDON (AP) — A British activist has lost a legal challenge at the U.K.‘s highest court to the government’s policy of not allowing…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Health officials in Cambodia say the country has confirmed its first case of the omicron variant in a 23-year-old…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish prosecutors say a Croatian national has been released because the suspicion against him of being drunk on the…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine group has thrived during the COVID-19…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leaders of four political parties set to join forces in the next Dutch ruling…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Rerouting, rebooking, diverting, you name it. Making last-minute flight changes can be an enormous stressor amid an…

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog and Iran have reached a deal to…

PARIS (AP) — Human rights activists with Amnesty International have urged the French soccer federation to pay attention to rights violations of…

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds Edmunds Top Rated Awards are bestowed annually upon the best vehicles of the year. The winners aced their Edmunds track…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s military says pirates are suspected of taking six hostages from a container ship in international waters…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union drugs regulator said Wednesday that people 18 and older can receive a booster shot for the Johnson…