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PLANTERSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities are still searching for a 3-year-old boy who went missing in Texas on Wednesday afternoon. Christopher…

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado father has been sentenced to 48 years in prison in the 2012 disappearance of his 13-year-old son. The Durango…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police have acknowledged for the first time that their officers were involved in violent pushbacks of migrants,…

By ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities have discovered 642 Central American migrants in six trailers…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Top science advisers to President Joe Biden are calling for a new “bill of rights” to guard against…

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Now that schools are back in session, parents are mastering this year’s new school…

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Motorcycle gang members got into a shootout on a Florida interstate, leaving a woman riding with the instigator near death.…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African travel agencies are reporting a surge in reservations for travel to and from…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will return 26 African artworks to Benin later…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman has been convicted of manslaughter in the death of her newborn son whose body was discovered in a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff says he will not enforce the county’s vaccine mandate in his agency. Sheriff Alex Villanueva…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is phasing out its program for gifted and talented…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Lawyers say the second hearing in a bitter custody dispute over a 6-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy is over.…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH, SCOTT BAUER and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An investigation by The Associated Press has found…

By SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) — Authorities in Maryland say two staff members have been fatally shot inside an…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Newly released documents from the investigation of a woman accused of conspiring to kill her…

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Iowa’s head football coach, Kirk Ferentz, and…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy says a submarine that collided with an unknown underwater object in the…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters and numerous studies credit forest thinning projects with helping to save…

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s company lost more than $70 million on his Washington, D.C.,…

By ZEKE MILLER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of…

By RAGAN CLARK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After reevaluating friendships and emotions during the pandemic, James Blake channeled his…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nobel literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah has criticized the “lack of compassion” of…

By The Associated Press Journalists, human rights groups and other activists enthusiastically welcomed the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace…

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian magistrate has rejected the release on bail of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son, who was arrested this week in…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a Christmas album from Norah Jones and the return of “Succession,”…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV AND HRVOJE HRANJSKI Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Nobel Peace Prize sometimes recognizes groundbreaking efforts to…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The president of San Jose State University has announced her resignation after the California university last month agreed…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” with Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell…

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio told the director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons that he’s “deeply concerned” over the failure to protect…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s parliament has approved four bills that enshrine in law the country’s rules and procedures on blood…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Get tested. Wear a mask. Don’t get too close. Not your typical court…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers U.S. stock indexes are closing lower Friday after a weak jobs report sparked…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press MATANZAS, Cuba (AP) — At the end of the 19th century in Cuba, a new musical genre and dance emerged. The…

BERLIN (AP) — A 100-year-old man on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II has told a German…

CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — The state attorney general’s office says a former Georgia state lawmaker and university regent has pleaded guilty to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the top Belarusian diplomat in the country after Polish authorities alleged that…

BERLIN (AP) — The junior partner in Austria’s governing coalition is calling on Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s party to replace him with an…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Years after a Kentucky lawyer orchestrated a $600 million fraud, his clients remain…

LONDON (AP) — Britain says it it will offer new vaccinations to thousands of people who volunteered for trials of the Novavax coronavirus vaccine,…

PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — A second spill in less than two weeks at a U.S. Steel plant in northwest Indiana sent an oily sheen onto a Lake Michigan…

BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister says more rounds of talks with his country’s regional archrival Saudi Arabia are needed to improve…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges have decided to ask the United Nations Secretary-General for information on who…

By DAVID BILLER and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Inflation has come roaring back in Brazil and surpassed 10% for the first…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily coronavirus death toll has hit a new record amid the country’s sluggish…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH, SCOTT BAUER and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An investigation by The Associated Press has found…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Colombian national police officer who was part of an elite unit that worked closely with U.S.…

ROME (AP) — The northern Italian city of Turin will host the next edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in the spring. Turin Mayor Chiara…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis won’t be attending the upcoming U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Francis said in a recent…

By ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — Tata Sons, India’s oldest and largest conglomerate, will be the new owner of the country’s debt-laden national…