AP National News

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces are casting ballots, two days before the rest of the nation votes in…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish police have confiscated a high-performance luxury car after its new owner was caught speeding as he drove it home…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, KIKO ROSARIO and VANESSA GERA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov…

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has called for a new national system to manage…

By AMANDA SEITZ and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all Americans agree that the rampant spread of misinformation is a…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer There aren’t too many announcer/analyst teams that get to reach 100 games together, but Fox’s Gus Johnson and Joel…

BEIJING (AP) — China saw a major dip in travel over the past week’s National Day vacation. People staying home appeared to have chosen the…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An energy crisis is looming over India as coal stockpiles grow perilously low, adding to…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs begin voting in a parliamentary election with polls showing Prime Minister Andrej Babis, a…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press ABU DIS, West Bank (AP) — Israel is holding the remains of dozens of Palestinians killed over the course of the…

By PADMANANDA RAMA and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal is pushing President Joe Biden to…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has restored two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision…

By ERIC TUCKER, MARY CLARE JALONICK, ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will not block the handover…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortions in Texas can resume under a federal judge’s ruling, but for how long? A conservative…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer A student debt forgiveness program with notoriously complex eligibility rules is getting an overhaul from the…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, MATTHEW BROWN and AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Coast Guard investigators say an underwater…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will not again help Democrats extend the…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the leading agencies in the government’s fight against COVID-19 is finally on the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added just 194,000 jobs in September, a second straight tepid gain and…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court is temporarily allowing the nation’s toughest abortion law to…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Opal Lee’s dream of seeing Juneteenth become a federal holiday was finally realized…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A former Australian prime minister has accused China of being a bully and expressed…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A malfunction caused West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to become trapped in the elevator at the governor’s mansion. The…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has blocked portions of the largest proposed residential housing…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say Northern California wildfires may have killed hundreds of giant sequoias,…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Spanish-language countdown will be included for the first time in the “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Afghan man already facing charges in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a New York Times reporter and another…