AP National News

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Zion National Park in Utah will soon require reservations to hike a famed trail…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey statehouse requirement for visitors to show proof of COVID-19 or a negative…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday named “Drive My Car,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s three-hour…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year has been ruled…

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is upset that her beloved Mariah Carey Christmas album has gone missing. But she was…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal appeals judges are weighing whether former President Donald Trump can be held liable in…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The documentary “Flee” uses animation to tell the true tale of a refugee’s journey from…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief of the National Guard has tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from an…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Botswana scientist who may well have discovered the omicron variant of the coronavirus…

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jurors who will hear testimony in former Minnesota police officer Kim…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five…

By ALAN SUDERMAN, ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked using…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A troubled Chinese developer struggling under $310 billion in debt has warned it may run out of…

By THOMAS PEIPERT and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Denver’s winter has started with a whimper, and the parched mountains to…

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s foreign minister has sharply criticized a system of deterring migrants from reaching European shores that she argues has so…

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian zoo says that a pair of hippopotamuses in its care have been placed in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19.…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Far-right activist Ammon Bundy says time he has spent campaigning to be Idaho’s next governor should count toward his…

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has paid her respects to Jewish and Polish victims of World World II. Her gestures came the day before she is…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has signaled it might be willing to let…

PRAGUE (AP) — The outgoing Czech government is planning a vaccine mandate for the elderly and some groups of professionals. Health Minister Adam…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is asking the White House to cut back a big Medicare premium hike…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two Iowa teenagers charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One racing team has apologized for the way the team…

By AAMER MADHANI, ELLEN KNICKMEYER, NOMAAN MERCHANT and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has pledged to make…

By KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge won’t dismiss the 25-count murder indictment against a doctor accused of…

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man has been convicted in the fatal shooting of two teens he found smoking marijuana inside a vehicle in his garage.…

CARLISLE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say an Iowa high school basketball player has been arrested following an apparent assault on an opposing player…

By TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — A folding massage table used by financier Jeffrey Epstein was carried into a Manhattan courtroom and set up in front of…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The family of a man shot and killed last year by an Oklahoma City police officer is suing the city and two officers involved…

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle, a city known for soggy weather, has seen its wettest fall on record. The National Weather…

By YURAS KARMANAU The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The leading human rights group in Belarus says a court has sentenced a neighborhood…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Growth in the services sector, where most Americans work, hit an all-time high in…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has at least one thing in common with thousands of parents and…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that war-crimes lawsuits against a Libyan military…

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors say DNA recovered from the interior of a conch shell thought to have been used as a weapon in the 2001…

MOSCOW (AP) — More regions of Russia have made COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for residents age 60 and over as the country tries to control…

CHICAGO (AP) — A civil rights attorney has joined Jelani Day’s mother to demand the FBI take charge of an investigation into why the Illinois…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The new omicron variant appears to be driving a dramatic surge in South Africa, providing…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a double album from Alicia Keys and a posthumous one from Juice Wrld, Sandra…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kenny Gorelick, known to millions as Kenny G, has been one of the most beloved — and…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South African scientists are warning that the new omicron variant may be causing more…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The Census Bureau is working to increase the public’s confidence in the numbers it gathered during the 2020…

By JACK JEFFERY and MAHMOUD ILLEAN Associated Press UMM AL-FAHM, Israel (AP) — Police have shot and killed a man in an Arab town in northern Israel…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will not designate any country as a currency manipulator, but…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of being part of a Libyan extremist group and extorting money through…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Computer forensics experts have testified that a computer used by Josh Duggar at work contained child pornography behind…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Officials say diplomats negotiating in Vienna to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world…