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By DAVID KLEPPER and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Facebook says it removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to an effort to spread unfounded claims…

LONDON (AP) — British police say they are investigating a video which appeared to show a group of men spitting at a bus full of Jewish people…

PRAGUE (AP) — Petr Uhl, a Czech journalist who was one of the country’s leading communist-era dissidents and human rights activists, has died…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is reporting that many parts of the country were hit by supply chain…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s new cases of COVID-19 have nearly doubled in just one day. The numbers…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a safety alert to subway systems and commuter railroads over a…

By RONALD BLUM and STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writers IRVING, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have released video of follow-home robbers targeting a mother with a baby in a stroller after she opened the…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky author Ed McClanahan has died at his home at the age of 89. McClanahan was a friend of counterculture icon Ken…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A person in California has become the first in the U.S. to have an identified…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s governor is honoring the state’s first Black poet laureate, a creative…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Rep. Peter DeFazio, the longest serving U.S. House member in Oregon’s history, is retiring. The 74-year-old Democrat is the…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The head of Visa says he believes the pandemic caused a permanent shift of how consumers…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the Federal Reserve can’t be sure that…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization is hailing steps by its member states to launch work…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — An 11-year-old girl who survived a Michigan plane crash that killed her father and three other people has been released…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda deployed foot soldiers inside Congolese territory, intensifying a military…

DALLAS (AP) — Marcus Lamb, CEO and founder of the conservative Christian Daystar Television Network who was outspoken against COVID-19 vaccines,…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska is asking a judge to toss out statements he made to federal authorities who were…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A Miami judge says a summer trial is likely for lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages from the…

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A Swedish company that provides customer care call centers and other services to businesses is building its North American…

By PARKER PURIFOY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a crowded scene outside the Supreme Court, where hundreds of abortion debate…

The four teenagers killed by a fellow student at Oxford High School in Michigan are being remembered for their commitment to athletics, art and…

BERLIN (AP) — A court has ruled that German authorities are justified in banning three pornographic websites based in Cyprus from operating in…

By EMILIO MORENATTI Associated Press LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — A fresh river of lava from the volcano on Spain’s La Palma…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian health officials have confirmed a third known case of the omicron coronavirus…