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By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ ruling party has conceded defeat in…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has confirmed its first five cases of the new omicron coronavirus variant…

VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has ordered a new hearing by the full court on whether to allow the Biden administration’s…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas say they’re investigating sexual assault allegations involving R&B artist Trey Songz at a Las Vegas…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer in Arizona has been fired after he was accused of fatally shooting a shoplifting suspect who…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court has blocked enforcement of parts of a trial judge’s…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Mideast envoy is warning that without quick and decisive action to address the…

PILOT MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a wildfire at Pilot Mountain State Park in North Carolina has grown to more than 1,000 acres — twice…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former Southwest Airlines employee is being sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to possessing stolen guns.…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press Washington (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to toughen testing requirements for international travelers to…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An avalanche is to blame for delaying a holiday tradition that has endured for more than 60 years in Alaska’s…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court has sided with Republicans in a redistricting ruling that…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Regulators of Texas’ oil and gas industry that buckled during February’s deadly freeze…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CNN says it is suspending anchor Chris Cuomo indefinitely pending a further review of documents…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press It’s the moment conservatives have been waiting for. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in Dobbs…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Several families of the 10 people who died from injuries in a massive crowd surge of fans at the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Eighty-six gamblers in New Jersey thought they’d found the Holy Grail of sports…

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Swift Communications is selling its local media and publishing businesses to West Virginia-based Ogden Newspapers. The…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada is banning foreign nationals from three more countries because of concerns with the omicron…

Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former football player at the University of Central Florida was fatally shot during an altercation…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A Venezuelan opposition candidate who has been leading in vote count in the governor’s race for the home state of the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court is directing the Justice Department to disclose certain redacted passages…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer BELLEAIR BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Police say serial Florida bank robber once dubbed the “I-4 bandit” has…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices considering a major abortion case Wednesday will hear from just three…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed this month claims boys and young men at a church-related farm…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal civil rights trial for the four former Minneapolis police officers indicted in the killing of George Floyd is on track…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s first-in-the-nation law requiring women on corporate boards is being…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Scientists from the United States and Europe have announced plans to create the biggest map of…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Health officials in Brazil have reported the country’s first confirmed cases of the…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department and survivors of a 2017 Texas church massacre are at odds over how much the Air Force should pay in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The European Commission has retracted internal communication guidelines that had proposed…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says no member of the National Guard will be allowed…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — An attorney representing a man accused of plowing his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee in two other cases has…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a man accused of accidentally firing a gun in his bag at the Atlanta airport has turned himself in. Police say…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are working to discredit the bipartisan system they created to run…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board has denied clemency for a man convicted of killing…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in former reality TV star Josh Duggar’s trial over federal child pornography…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and RYAN KRYSKA Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Author Alice Sebold has apologized to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials have reversed their previous position against giving coronavirus booster shots and are studying a plan to…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld California’s ban on…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a handful of states say members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker…

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A 55-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for her role in the death of a Kansas couple…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The longtime president of Belarus says his country would be ready to host Russian nuclear…

By EMILY HAYNES of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy GivingTuesday, the annual fundraising blitz on the Tuesday after…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Democratic Florida congressional candidate who lost a special election primary…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, is cooperating with…