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By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic congressional leaders backed by the White House have announced they…

By EDITH M. LEDERER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France’s top diplomat says there is a “crisis of trust” in the…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Youth activists are hoping to turn up the heat on governments with the first large-scale…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments on December 1 in Mississippi’s bid to have the…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri official is asking the state Supreme Court to suspend the law licenses of a St. Louis couple who gained national…

BEIRUT (AP) — Rescue workers and a war monitor say a drone strike has hit a vehicle traveling on a rural road in rebel-controlled northwestern…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal law enforcement officer was arrested carrying a gun…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety regulator has opened an investigation into a…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say an inmate has died at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, bringing the…

By ISABEL DEBRE and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a series of…

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Police say two students have been wounded in a shooting at a Virginia high school and a suspect is in custody. Newport…

By SALLY HO Associated Press It was a United Nations speech that got attention like few others — a plug for vaccines, young people and the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Many of Broadway’s biggest lights — including Kristin Chenoweth, Lin-Manuel Miranda,…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some families just love leftovers. What’s easier than reheating and digging into…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a Tennessee man wanted for questioning in a homicide case was killed in an exchange of gunfire with officers.…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at the R. Kelly sex trafficking trial ended their case after calling dozens of witnesses…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Union’s top court has ordered Poland to pay a daily fine of 500,000 euros ($586,000) until it complies…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will begin conducting weekly, random COVID-19 tests of unvaccinated students in…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Even after his death, a Missouri police officer has helped a fellow officer in a time of need. Twenty-two-year-old…

LONOKE, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas sheriff’s deputy charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting a teenager has been released on $15,000…

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say four famous giant sequoias were not harmed by a wildfire that reached the edge of Giant Forest in…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Donald Trump’s indicted corporate finance chief told a judge Monday he has…

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the German Bishops’ Conference has defended the pope’s decision to allow the archbishop of Hamburg to stay on at…

NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit ‘The View’ studio on Friday for her sixth appearance on the daytime chat show — but…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Supreme Court has refused to suspend a government decision allowing a former Venezuelan spymaster to be extradited to the…

BERLIN (AP) — The German Journalists Association on Monday condemned attacks by police against reporters covering a far-left protest in the eastern…

WARSAW, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say authorities killed a man who fired at officers in northern Kentucky over the weekend. State police are…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Environmental protesters pressuring the British government to insulate all homes within a decade have…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have begun moving asylum-seekers living in a squalid camp on the island of Samos into a new facility on the…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal investigation is underway after arson damaged a historic Kansas City, Missouri, church that now serves a…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major easing of pandemic travel restrictions, the U.S. will allow foreigners to fly into the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s Constitutional Court has thrown a lifeline to the ruling African National…

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a Houston police officer was killed and another was wounded during a shooting that also killed a 31-year-old man who…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — The crisis in Afghanistan has reopened painful wounds for many of the 2 million Vietnamese…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The lawyer for U.S. journalist Danny Fenster, jailed in Myanmar for almost four months, says his…

HENRICO, Va. (AP) — Striking union members have voted to accept a new four-year collective bargaining agreement with snack company Mondelez…

By KRISTI EATON Associated Press TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) — It was used as a central set in the 1983 movie, “The Outsiders.” A low-slung white…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted two Syrian brothers of holding leading roles in the Jabhat al-Nusra extremist group in…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Abandoned coal mines in the U.S. have been polluting rivers and streams for decades, but…

LONDON (AP) — London’s subway has opened two new stations in the network’s first expansion since the 1990s. It’s an expansion that Mayor…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Guinness World Records has certified two Japanese sisters as the world’s oldest living identical…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to protect workers and communities from extreme heat. The…

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have announced the birth of their daughter. The baby,…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, will resume exports and…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s intellectual property agency says innovation marched forward last year despite the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The foreign ministers of Israel and Sweden held their first phone call in seven years, a move hailed as the “relaunching of…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has apologized to Algerians who fought alongside French colonial forces in Algeria’s war for…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” for saving hundreds of his countrymen…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities were seeking a suspect in a shooting that claimed the life of the grandson of Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson, police…