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MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials are asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to lift threatened species…

By LAURA UNGAR and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press Scientists are poring over the latest data to try to understand who might win the battle of the…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A $50 million lawsuit has been filed against a utility over an explosion that killed two people and damaged several homes in…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration has reinstated a Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico…

By ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press Congressional Democrats are raising concerns that the proposed merger of Discovery and AT&T’s WarnerMedia, a…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Exxon Mobil says it has a plan for cutting greenhouse gas…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A strong storm packing high winds and extremely heavy rain across Hawaii has flooded roads and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fired CNN anchor Chris Cuomo says he’s dropping his SiriusXM radio show. The decision announced on Twitter follows a sexual…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pledging his social agenda legislation will deliver tangible…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The owners of a San Francisco restaurant have apologized for denying service to three police officers over the weekend because…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is ending its investigation into the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Denis O’Brien, who served as George Harrison’s manager for much of the former Beatle’s solo career and co-founded with…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Scientists off the coast of Georgia have spotted an endangered right whale that gave birth…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has picked 10 new astronauts, half of them military pilots, as it looks ahead…

By DREW LINDSAY of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy For a decade ending last December, ArtPlace America sprinkled $150 million…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and TOM KRISHER Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Toyota says it plans to build a $1.3 billion electric vehicle battery…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The body of the late Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday as congressional leaders honor the…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland have called on two academics to lead a study…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A cruise ship that carried at least 17 passengers and crew members with breakthrough COVID-19 infections  when it docked in New…

By BRYAN ANDERSON and GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The start of North Carolina candidate filing for U.S. House and…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers are calling on Wisconsin’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers,…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Youths have thrown petrol bombs and stones at police, who fired tear gas to disperse them, during a march in the…

By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors are no longer seeking the death penalty for the man charged in…

By ACACIA CORONADO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department has sued Texas over its new redistricting…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Putting together an entire nation’s distinctive dishes is a daunting process for anyone.…

LONDON (AP) — Two London police officers who took pictures of two slain sisters and posted them on social media have been jailed for two years and…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan district attorney says billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt has…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. Navy is suspending use of World War II-era fuel storage…

By LYNN ELBER and DAVID BAUDER Associated Press Many of 2021’s most notable moments were captured by TV, shaping and upending our expectations.…

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — In a story published December 5, 2021, about the latest gas prices survey, The Associated Press erroneously reported the…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Cold War ended 30 years ago this month, but one unresolved issue — how closely…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer The 3-year-old colt whose Kentucky Derby victory in May came under scrutiny because of a positive drug test has…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Preliminary work is underway to remove an enormous pedestal that until recently held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.…

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced Monday that he…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Voters in an extremely liberal Seattle district are deciding whether they want to keep socialist…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A British woman has testified that Ghislaine Maxwell pressured her into giving Jeffrey Epstein sexual…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Craig Wright, a computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin, prevailed in a civil…

By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DIAMNIADIO, Senegal (AP) — South Africa’s president says travel restrictions imposed on South Africa and…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister is urging people to “remain prudent” about COVID-19 over the holidays as Christmas festivities at one…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The National Museum of Afghanistan is open once again and the Taliban, whose members…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has defended a recent meeting of European populist leaders by saying that his…

By RICK CALLAHAN and DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The prosecutor overseeing the case against the student accused in last…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president has hailed the country’s military as being capable of fending off a…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Defense Ministry says it is tightening supervision over cyber exports — a move that follows a series of scandals…

LONDON (AP) — British parliamentary authorities say they are calling in the police after a newspaper reported that traces of cocaine had been found…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jerusalem municipal officials have frozen plans to build a large Jewish settlement at an abandoned airport in east Jerusalem.…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A 311-year-old school in southwest England named after the slave trader Edward Colston is to change its…

By YURAS KARMANAU The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has announced retaliatory restrictions on airlines from the European Union and…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution delaying action on requests by…

By STAN CHOE and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The blank-check company that aims to take Trump Media & Technology Group…