AP National News

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has ushered in the holiday season with the arrival of a 79-foot Norway spruce that will serve at Rockefeller Center…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BAY HEAD, N.J. (AP) — An elite but often-underwater beach town at the Jersey Shore is looking for its own solutions…

By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The recent guilty plea by the shooter in the 2018 Parkland school slayings drew some…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It’s been a bear of a year for Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of three white men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing saw graphic photos…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is reporting a new daily high number of COVID-19 deaths, while the total number of coronavirus…

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press BREDA, Netherlands (AP) — About 100 anti-racism protesters have chanted “Kick Out Black Pete” at an…

By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — A provocative exhibit by dissident Chinese artist Badiucao has opened in the industrial…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials and the U.N. say forces loyal to the country’s internationally…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on all unvaccinated Germans to get their shots as quickly…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The top U.S. Air Force general in the Mideast says American airmen will…

By FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudanese security forces have fired live ammunition and tear gas to…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter has registered her candidacy for vice…

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GAUHATI, India (AP) — Indian police say at least five Indian soldiers and two civilians have been killed in an…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s official news agency says an Israeli married couple have been arrested for espionage after taking photographs of the…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Health Ministry says seven laborers have died after drinking alcohol they were given as a disinfectant…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police say the body of a young Syrian man has been found in the woods near the border…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Almost 200 nations have accepted a compromise deal aimed at keeping…

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities say a roadside bombing in a district that borders Afghanistan has killed two policemen. The district…

By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press KEBEMER, Senegal (AP) — The Great Green Wall that was once envisioned as a way for Africa to fight climate…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities have declined to renew a visa for a foreign journalist working for The Economist without any explanation.…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer Jaime Harrison is a man leading a party in peril. A year after seizing total control of Washington,…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer Jaime Harrison is a man leading a party in peril. A year after seizing total control of Washington,…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ $1.85 trillion package of social and climate initiatives seems afflicted by a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally to former President Donald Trump, has…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — For one day at least, everyone with power over Britney Spears was in agreement. She…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of Mexican farmers armed with rifles and shotguns have gathered in a pocket of mountain forest in southern Mexico to…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ended the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears’ life…

NEW YORK (AP) — The General Assembly of the Organization of American States has voted to condemn Nicaragua’s Nov. 7 presidential vote, saying…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California state university says its varsity baseball team engaged in an…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say three teenagers driven by racial hatred were behind hoax calls that brought…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators are looking into a complaint from a Tesla driver that the company’s “Full Self-Driving” software…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A detective says one of three teens accused of setting a house fire in Denver that killed five…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is among three states now allowing coronavirus booster shots for all adults.…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former “Apprentice” contestant who accused former President Donald Trump of sexual assault has dropped her defamation lawsuit…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is telling nursing homes to open their doors wide to visitors, easing…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press MARKS, Miss. (AP) — An impoverished county in the Mississippi Delta is celebrating the reopening of the…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A Scottsdale school board president is accused of keeping a dossier on some parents, including photos and personal…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Even for the violence-wracked Mexican state of Michoacan, people were surprised when a priest…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping chief is warning that the crisis in Africa’s Sahel region…

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who’s considered a rising star in the Republican Party, has formally launched her reelection…

By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah school district says Friday it will open an independent investigation into alleged…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s largest electric provider and global energy giant Iberdrola say they’re committed to customer…

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has pardoned a man who spent 24 years…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News Channel report on comments made by President Joe Biden were edited to remove context to make it seem like he was being…

By DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new performance arts center designed to increase public access to classical and jazz music…