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By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland is directing U.S. attorneys across the nation to swiftly…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There may be a plethora of adjectives to describe music superstar T-Pain, but boring is…

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say the death of a 3-year-old boy who died after plunging from the 17th floor window of a Chicago apartment building is…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An Oregon-born gray wolf that thrilled biologists as it journeyed far south into California was found dead after…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Many Brazilians felt bearish about the new Wall Street-inspired bull sculpture outside the…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and HOPE YEN Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A $9 billion highway widening project being proposed in the Houston area could…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says conditions in Alabama prisons have not improved since…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are denying most permits for the controversial oil and gas extraction process known as fracking,…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — More than 2,000 people have rallied in Belgrade against Serbian government policies that they say favor investors over the…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press After three men were convicted in the murder of her son, Ahmaud Arbery’s mother said she never thought she’d…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three women who volunteered to investigate a 2011 massacre of 193 people later found out that they themselves had been…

By ASHRAF IDRIS Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese government official says he was kept in isolation for nearly a month after being…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With a nearly 8-hour documentary series, filmmaker Peter Jackson reexamines the…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Officials say a Palestinian man was critically wounded after Israeli settlers pelted his car with stones as he drove…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The killing got captured on video and shared around the world. It showed Ahmaud Arbery running…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The NFL and Rams owner Stan Kroenke will pay $790 million to settle a lawsuit filed by St. Louis…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz is set to become post-World War II Germany’s ninth chancellor, crowning a career that…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Regulators have given approval to a plan by the Tennessee Valley Authority to bury toxin-laden coal ash in southeast Memphis.…

DENVER (AP) — A federal judge has ordered two lawyers who filed a class action lawsuit alleging the 2020 presidential election was stolen from…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is moving ahead with plans to build a massive Jewish settlement on the site of a…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The Biden administration approved an offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island and New York as part of…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 1,000 anti-vaccine demonstrators have rallied in the Ukrainian capital to…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s government has approved the purchase of 12 used Rafale fighter jets from France worth about 1 billion euros to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities say they will allow 500 members of the Gaza Strip’s tiny Christian community to enter Israel and the…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A statue on the University of Michigan campus of legendary football coach Glenn “Bo” Schembechler has been vandalized…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is already a veteran at…

LONDON (AP) — Collins Dictionary has chosen the term NFT as its word of the year after surging interest in the digital tokens that can sell for…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is reporting its highest number of new daily COVID-19 infections since July amid a surge in cases across Europe.…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Ahmaud Arbery was at a crossroads, his life stretching out before him, his troubles…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that nullified a…

ATLANTA (AP) — State environmental regulators are proposing a $3 million fine for the Hyundai Glovis Co. logistics and shipping firm after a cargo…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Russian gas giant Gazprom says it has has granted Moldova a two-day extension to…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Interpol says its member countries have adopted a resolution calling on nations to urge local online end-to-end encryption…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge says no phones, laptops or recording devices will be allowed at next week’s child pornography trial of…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Palestinian man who was seeking an…

By MICHEL SPINGLER and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died when their boat sank in the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up in Chicago, Broadway star Brittney Mack faithfully watched the Macy’s…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government says it will seek support in parliament to reintroduce mandates for wearing face masks in public…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian and Western officials are worried about a Russian military buildup near Ukraine,…

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. mortgage rates were mixed this week. The average rate on the benchmark 30-year, fixed rate home loan…

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Subway sandwich chain co-founder Peter Buck has died. He was 90. Subway says Buck died on Nov. 18 at a hospital in Danbury,…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s prosecutors have brought terror charges against a local man who had allegedly joined the Islamic State group in…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s energy regulator is looking to appoint an administrator to oversee the latest business…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says the massive spike in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks is threatening the…

LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s government says Ethiopia has ordered four of six Irish diplomats working in Addis Ababa to leave the country because of…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Authorities in Cyprus say they will deny access to indoor areas such as shopping malls, restaurants and supermarkets to…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. sales of new homes edged up 0.4% last month, coming in below expectations as housing…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Milton Andrew Munson’s obituary recalled his life as an Air Force veteran, a pharmacist, husband and father, and as a…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are doing the main thing that drives the U.S. economy — spending — but…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — This Met Opera season alone has been an impressive run of roles for Ryan Speedo Green, whose…