AP National News

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is challenging  G-20 leaders to overcome…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — One of several legal challenges to North Carolina’s contentious voter ID law is on…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Puneeth Rajkumar, a leading star of southern Indian regional cinema, has died after a massive…

By LISA MASCARO and SARA BURNETT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois says he will not seek reelection…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Attorneys for Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who was in charge of weapons on the movie set where Alec Baldwin fatally shot…

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Merriam-Webster has added 455 new words to its venerable dictionary. The list includes a number of abbreviations and…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s annual investment forum has drawn over a thousand participants, with…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Four weeks after an oil spill off Southern California’s coast, surfers have been…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A growing number of state prison systems are outfitting guards with body-worn…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has condemned gangs and…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president is pleading with citizens to get vaccinated as daily infections…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The rapper Fetty Wap has been arrested in New York City on federal drug charges. The rapper, whose…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has found a close colleague of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of treason…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A large spider native to East Asia has spun its thick, golden web on power lines, porches and…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis voters are deciding whether to replace the city’s police force with a new…

WEST PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The King of Rock n’ Roll is back in the building. An Elvis Presley bust that was swiped from a central Illinois saloon…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wages and salaries jumped in the three months ending in September by the most on…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As South Africa heads to crucial local elections, the country has been…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers slowed their spending to a gain of just 0.6% in September, a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s far-right group leader has vowed to hold a new form of Independence March Nov. 11 after Warsaw Appeals Curt…

AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Security officials say at least 11 civilians were killed when a ballistic missile launched by…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government is proposing a record budget for 2022 to bolster an economic recovery following the…

By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United States representative to the United Nations stressed the importance of Mali’s…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Members of Philadelphia’s largest transit workers union have reached a tentative contract…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TONG-HYUNG KIM Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in has given Pope Francis a statue of a…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch data protection watchdog has issued a damning report on the country’s tax…

BERLIN (AP) — German broadcaster Deutsche Welle says its online service and several other news portals have been blocked by Belarus. DW said Friday…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Massive amounts of volcanic pumice pebbles spewed from an undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean…