Hong Kong tycoon given 13 months jail for Tiananmen vigil
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has sentenced activist and business tycoon Jimmy Lai to 13 months in jail for urging participation in last…
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Death toll rises to 7 in Sicily gas leak blast, 2 missing
MILAN (AP) — Firefighters said Monday that rescue workers in Sicily have recovered four more bodies in the rubble of buildings that collapsed…
Continue Reading Cargo ship collision off Sweden leaves 1 dead, 1 missing
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — One person has been found dead and another is missing after two cargo ships collided…
Continue Reading Officials: Military leader killed in fighting for Yemen city
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemeni officials say a senior military commander was killed in clashes between government forces and…
Continue Reading Hungary’s media, health experts seek more COVID-19 data
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — As coronavirus infections and deaths soar in Hungary, the country’s journalists and…
Continue Reading The AP Interview: Taliban seek ties with US, other ex-foes
By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A top Taliban leader says Afghanistan’s new rulers are committed in principle to…
Continue Reading After UAE law change, out-of-wedlock babies still in shadows
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has decriminalized premarital sex in a bold…
Continue Reading ‘A way we resist’: Quilts honor victims of racial violence
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A quilt exhibit at Jackson State University honors dozens of lives…
Continue Reading Golden Globes announce nominations to a skeptical Hollywood
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Snoop Dogg has read the nominations for the 79th Golden Globes. After nine months of widespread…
Continue Reading Jan. 6 panel votes for contempt charges against Mark Meadows
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has…
Continue Reading Big California storm dumps snow, drenches parched regions
By JANIE HAR and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Motorists spun out on whitened mountain passes and residents wielded…
Continue Reading ‘Y’all pray for Mayfield’: Town grieves in tornado aftermath
By CLAIRE GALOFARO AP National Writer MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Survivors of one of the devastating tornadoes that cut a long path of destruction…
Continue Reading China marks 84th anniversary of Nanking Massacre in WWII
BEIJING (AP) — China is marking the 84th anniversary of the 1937 Nanking Massacre, in which it says 300,000 civilians and disarmed soldiers were…
Continue Reading Sheriff: 1 dead, 13 injured in shooting at vigil in Texas
BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — A sheriff says one person has died and at least 13 others were injured in a drive-by shooting during a candlelight vigil near…
Continue Reading Thousands without heat, water after tornadoes kill dozens
By BRUCE SCHREINER and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor says at least 74 people were killed in the…
Continue Reading White House group’s annual Christmas ornament honors LBJ
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Historical Association is honoring President Lyndon Johnson with its 2021…
Continue Reading California proposes reducing incentives for rooftop solar
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians who decide to install home solar panels and storage systems would get…
Continue Reading Jurors at Potter trial see differences between gun, Taser
By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors in the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer charged…
Continue Reading Boy charged in Michigan school deaths to stay in adult jail
By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has declined to move the 15-year-old charged…
Continue Reading Miss Universe is India’s Harnaaz Sandhu, 70th winner
By ARIEL SCHALIT Associated Press EILAT, Israel (AP) — Harnaaz Sandhu of India was crowned the 70th Miss Universe, topping a field of some 80…
Continue Reading Australia and South Korea sign defense deal as leaders meet
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia and South Korea have signed a $720 million defense deal as South Korean President Moon Jae-in became the first…
Continue Reading Top US diplomat says China needs more ambitious climate goal
BEIJING (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat in China says the countries had a very good year for collaboration on dealing with climate change, but…
Continue Reading North Korea’s Kim at critical crossroads decade into rule
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Since taking power after his father’s death in 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un…
Continue Reading Judge, grandma, outdoorsman among those killed by twisters
By TRAVIS LOLLER and SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Among the dozens of people killed by twisters that ripped through the…
Continue Reading Israeli forces kill Palestinian during West Bank operation
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man during clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus. The official Palestinian…
Continue Reading Planning questions emerge at tornado-destroyed candle plant
By DYLAN LOVAN and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — The Mayfield Consumer Products factory was the third-biggest employer…
Continue Reading South African president tests positive for COVID, mildly ill
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is receiving treatment for mild COVID-19 symptoms…
Continue Reading Tornado survivor: ‘Not knowing is worse than knowing’
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Autumn Kirks and her boyfriend, Lannis Ward, were both working the night shift at a candle…
Continue Reading EU lawmaker Androulakis elected Greek socialist leader
By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s third-largest group in parliament has elected a European Parliament lawmaker…
Continue Reading Inflation is painfully high, but some relief may be coming
By STAN CHOE and CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Inflation is painfully high, but this hopefully is close to as bad as it gets.…
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