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By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have expanded their interim Cabinet by naming more ministers and deputies,…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel, Germany’s first female chancellor, has been praised by many for her pragmatic…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Eight hatchlings from one of the world’s rarest crocodile species have been found in a wildlife sanctuary in eastern…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Senior politicians in Germany have expressed shock over the weekend killing of a young gas station…

By BRIAN INGANGA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a Nairobi slum named Korogocho, which means “crowded shoulder to shoulder” in…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It’s an image that has come to symbolize America’s chaotic end to 20 years of war in…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter said Monday it will pay $809.5 million to settle a consolidated class action…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has begun a key hearing that could determine whether the Boy Scouts of…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its…

By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is rolling out new COVID-19 rules for travelers flying into the…

By JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Joe Biden has used his first address before the U.N. General…

By JULIE WATSON, JUAN A. LOZANO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The route for Haitian migrants camped under a bridge in a…

By JOE McDONALD and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s “zero tolerance” strategy of trying to isolate every case and…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, MARIA VERZA and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — U.S. officials say many Haitian migrants camped in a small…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis is deciding the fate of a Missouri law that puts sweeping…

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Jones caught three of Aaron Rodgers’ four touchdown passes and rushed for a…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A human rights group is urging Thailand not to deport a transgender woman to her home country of Malaysia, where she…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Holliday, the Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The estates of two South Carolina women who drowned while locked in the back of a sheriff’s department van during…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A European Parliament trade official says Australia’s cancellation of a French…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America The Democratic speaker of the Oregon House has rescinded a deal she made with Republicans to share…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge has set a March 8 trial for five men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. U.S. District…

By MANUEL RUEDA and ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia and Nicaragua have presented arguments before the International…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kentucky man pardoned by President Donald Trump after his conviction in a 2012 bribery plot…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer A ransomware attack has forced a cooperative of Iowa corn and soy farmers to take their computer systems offline.…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have ordered outlying parts of a coastal resort town near Athens evacuated after a large wildfire broke out…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the U.S. will take in 125,000 refugees and their families next year, fulfilling an earlier pledge…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and CLAUDIA TORRENS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who authorities say made internet threats to kidnap, injure and kill…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Two major California water agencies have settled a dispute that once threatened to derail a multi-state agreement…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan lawmaker who got a personal protection order against another lawmaker has filed some unflattering text messages in…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana’s largest electric utility used a “bubble…

By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas gamer whose online dispute with another player sparked a deadly hoax call…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested a pilot in connection with brutal attacks on women in…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is relying on a contested Trump-era policy as it disperses thousands of…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A date has been set for the trial of a former Fort Worth police officer who was charged with murder after shooting a Black…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Federal authorities say they’re examining the fatal shooting of a Black man by a Georgia state trooper last year during…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Cpl. Walter Smead was finally laid to rest near his rural upstate New York hometown.…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians are scrambling to find jobs, food and housing…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Rebecca Kleefisch has tested positive for COVID-19…

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Republican Dean Heller says he is running for governor of Nevada. The former U.S.…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A San Antonio doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law has been sued…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an 87-year-old woman has been found dead in a freezer at her Southern California home and investigators…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD THE GEO BARENTS (AP) — Charities say two humanitarian vessels have rescued around 190 Europe-bound migrants,…

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — Police say four people whose bodies were found in an abandoned SUV in western Wisconsin were killed in St. Paul, Minnesota,…

By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press Oklahoma has scheduled its first executions since it put lethal injections on hold six years ago following a series…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The retired conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice leading a Republican-ordered…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday said he planned to toss several convictions against the…

ROME (AP) — A Rome court has rejected a request by Venezuela to extradite its former oil czar to face corruption charges, citing the country’s…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Videos have emerged from three days of voting in Russia’s parliamentary election showing…