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By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Vulnerable Democrats from Nevada to New Hampshire are promising to make abortion a…

BOSTON (AP) — A former college track and field coach accused of setting up sham social media and email accounts in an attempt to trick female…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration is issuing new directives and recommendations…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A lawyer for the parents of a Georgia Tech student killed by a campus police officer four years…

CAIRO (AP) — A Libyan court has ruled that a son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi can compete in next month’s presidential…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A University of Florida professor has filed a grievance against the school, saying…

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Grantmakers are increasing spending on education, hoping to turn the…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Prosecutors are recommending a three-month prison sentence for a North Carolina woman accused of bringing her…

By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The official Art Basel show is back in Miami with all its eccentric glory, a dizzying list of…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The lay head of a new Portuguese Catholic Church committee on child sex abuse is urging victims to come forward but…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks is fighting an expanded effort to unionize its stores. The effort comes even as a union vote proceeds…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer New government autism numbers suggest more U.S. children are being diagnosed with the developmental condition and…

NEW YORK (AP) — The United Nations headquarters in New York City was locked down for several hours after a man was seen pacing outside with what…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press RANYA, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurds seem to make up the majority of Middle Eastern migrants seeking to move to Europe…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Two Georgia election workers have filed a defamation lawsuit against a conservative website. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial have gotten a psychologist’s overview of how sexual predators gradually lure and ensnare…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Scientists are using human stem cells to create a structure that mimics a pre-embryo and can serve as a research…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 60 organizations are urging the U.N. General Assembly to establish an…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The omicron variant of COVID-19 has been discovered in at least five…

By LORI HINNANT and MARIA CHENG Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The global initiative to share coronavirus vaccines fairly already scaled back its…

By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Travelers through Milan’s main train station can take a break this week among reproductions of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it’s halting the use of a controversial phone tracking technology to trace possible cases of the new coronavirus…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States, European Union, Britain and Canada are slapping simultaneous sanctions on dozens of officials, organizations and…

CAMDEN, Ala. (AP) — Residents of a west Alabama county are remembering a retired sheriff’s deputy who was killed in the line of duty. Madison…

By LEE KEATH Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior international aid official says Afghanistan is being hit by multiple crises that…

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Baltimore County police say they’ve solved a 40-year-old homicide of a teenage girl. The department announced Wednesday that…

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Utah police say a man wanted by police was fatally shot and two officers were wounded in a shootout in a suburban…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A man accused of putting razor blades and screws in pizza dough at supermarkets in Maine and New Hampshire has been…

By BERNARD McGHEE Associated Press They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service. But both…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A ball planned for the first Black mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, has been canceled amid concerns its circus theme…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned officials to strictly observe industrial safety…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A late-season wildfire pushed by strong winds has ripped through a tiny central Montana…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer PARIS (AP) — The sister of a man who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is asking seven-time Formula…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military has deployed coastal defense missile systems near the Kuril Islands, a…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts have replaced a broken antenna outside the International…

CALLAHAN, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a 57-year-old Florida man who served as the music minister at a church is accused of fatally shooting his wife…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British and Irish governments are expressing optimism that a thorny spat between the U.K. and…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin says someone is responsible for the shooting on a New Mexico film set that…

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

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s news agency says 10 people have been killed and one injured after an attack on a bus carrying workers in an…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal officials say a mayor in Puerto Rico accused of awarding 50 contracts worth nearly $10 million to an asphalt…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Migrants seeking to enter the United States will again have to stay in Mexico as they await…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ education minister is pledging to protect the country’s teachers and schools from “bullying” following an…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Country music star Kelsea Ballerini had no intentions of starting a new job as an author…

By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Five-time NBA All-Star Kevin Love is being honored by a Boston foundation for his work on and off…

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — Quarantine exemptions have been given to hundreds of people arriving in Switzerland from Canada so women’s World…

HUMBOLDT, Tenn. (AP) — A teenager has been charged in a fatal shooting following a pair of basketball games at a Tennessee high school. Authorities…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The holidays have always been defined by disappointing out-of-stock messages on the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has accelerated its vaccination campaign with pop-up sites…