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By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Democrats are poised to approve new congressional district maps that would give Democratic…

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A prosecutor has ruled that a police officer who shot and paralyzed a man in downtown Waterloo, Iowa, in April acted legally…

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A military judge has issued a reprimand for a Marine lieutenant colonel and ordered him to forfeit $5,000 in pay for his…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Police departments that are requiring officers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are running…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Three months after creation of a commission to identify cybersecurity risks in state government, Missouri Gov. Mike…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Constitutional Court says it will examine the legality of parliament’s…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Amazon’s audiobook service Audible and phone apps for reading the holy books of Islam and Christianity…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A watercolor by Vincent van Gogh that was seized by the Nazis during World War II will be sold…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has ruled in favor of the release of communications between leaders in the…

By ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he would prefer to slash the length of the new…

AURORA, Ind. (AP) — Authorities have pulled from the Ohio River in southeast Indiana an SUV that belonged to an Ohio mother missing since 2002…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency on Friday expressed deep concern about legislation Poland adopted this week allowing the…

SOUTHLAKE, Texas (AP) — A Texas school district administrator told teachers that if they have books about the Holocaust in their classrooms, they…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis says he wouldn’t accept an offer to try to create a new government after his centrist ANO…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Customers of Ecuador’s largest bank continue to experience service disruptions following a cyberattack on the institution…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost has became only the second woman to lead one of…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has taken her fight with the head of the city’s police officers union…

BEIJING (AP) — China has sent three astronauts to its space station for a record-setting six-month stay for the country. The spacecraft blasted off…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The attorneys for prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh have released medical…

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — Investigators say a man on a motorcycle who fired on officers as they tried to pull him over was shot and killed on a South…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has denied a request by dozens of scientists and others at Los…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Democrat who will likely become New York City’s next mayor says he does not intend to…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been indicted on obstruction of justice…

ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit woman has been ordered to find another home for her four African caracals after one of the wild cats…

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Charise Castro Smith, the first Latino woman to co-direct a Walt Disney Animation Studios…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has rejected a Supreme Court stay request from the St. Louis-based natural gas company Spire Inc. to…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Six female former lawmakers and judges from Afghanistan have been received by Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis,…

By RUSS BYNUM and AARON MORRISON Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — As three white men prepare to stand trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery,…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press EPECUEN, Argentina (AP) — The Argentine spa town of Villa Epecuen was a mecca of tourism for much of the…

By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta mayoral candidates are talking about affordable housing, hoping to stave off…

BERLIN (AP) — Pharmaceutical company Pfizer and biotechnology company BioNTech have requested to have their coronavirus vaccine licensed for…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s beloved puffins suffered one of their worst years for reproduction in decades…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Court has consented to the extradition to the United States of ex-Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez’s former nurse,…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry says a Russian warship has prevented a U.S. Navy destroyer from…

CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago man who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $831,000 from a charity he ran for kids with disabilities and…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest against police brutality…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The number of people in Puerto Rico who identified as “white” in the most recent…

By SIAN WATSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — During the pandemic, shock rocker Alice Cooper replaced touring with tap dancing. The 73-year-old…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of U.S. health advisers has endorsed booster doses of Johnson…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s caretaker prime minister says his country has set the future decarbonization of the economy as a priority in…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s central bank says financial risks from China Evergrande Group’s debt problems are “controllable” and unlikely to…

ST. HEDWIG, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a flash flood from the remnants of Hurricane Pamela swept a woman and a young girl to their deaths in a…

By JO KEARNEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LEIGH-ON-SEA, England (AP) — A long-serving member of Parliament was stabbed to death during a…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s new national airline has made its inaugural flight and unveiled its new name and logo.…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African police say they have arrested 56 people who will likely face charges…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans continued to spend at a solid clip in September even while facing sticker…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says there must be no rush in officially recognizing the…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court has summoned the country’s attorney general and a former navy…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European Union agencies are launching a year-long operation to crack down on fraud targeting the bloc’s…