School chief: Discipline not needed for boy before shooting
By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The superintendent of a Michigan school district says no discipline…
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Jury nearly complete for Potter trial in Daunte Wright death
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jury for the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in…
Continue Reading Asian markets mixed after Wall St decline, virus unease
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after a turbulent day on Wall Street as traders tried to forecast…
Continue Reading Japan retracts new flight bookings ban after criticisms
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan says it has retracted a ban on new incoming international flight bookings to defend against…
Continue Reading New US ambassador to New Zealand seeks to work with China
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The new U.S. ambassador to New Zealand says he wants to find areas of common ground…
Continue Reading Rockin’ around the Christmas tree: Rockefeller tree lit up
NEW YORK (AP) — The holly, jolly, best time of the year has gotten a light-filled launch. The towering Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center has…
Continue Reading Chicago drops police union lawsuit over vaccine mandate
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago has dropped its lawsuit against the police union over a COVID-19 vaccine…
Continue Reading US defense chief slams China’s drive for hypersonic weapons
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — America’s defense chief has rebuked China, vowing to confront its…
Continue Reading South Korea breaks daily virus record for 2nd straight day
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has broken its daily record for coronavirus infections for a second…
Continue Reading Alabama gunfire: Suspect, deputy killed; another deputy hurt
YELLOW BLUFF, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect and sheriff’s deputy are dead after a domestic call in Alabama erupted in gunfire. The…
Continue Reading GivingTuesday: Record $2.7B raised during day of generosity
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Organizers for GivingTuesday say American donors gave $2.7 billion during Tuesday’s giving day. The…
Continue Reading DNA matches body to Alaska man last seen alive in 1979
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say DNA and genome sequencing have identified a body found decades…
Continue Reading UN chief says aid and flights resuming to Ethiopia’s Tigray
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief had a piece of good news in the midst of Ethiopia’s year-long war…
Continue Reading Carlos Santana has heart procedure, cancels December shows
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carlos Santana has successfully undergone a heart procedure and is canceling several Las Vegas shows planned for December. The…
Continue Reading Prosecute shoplifters under existing laws, governor says
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom says in no uncertain terms that he thinks shoplifters should be…
Continue Reading Slithering ‘snake burglar’ steals thousands from CA salon
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Police were looking for a man dubbed the “snake burglar” who wriggled his way through a Southern California business…
Continue Reading Hawaii: Petroleum detected in tap water near Pearl Harbor
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The state of Hawaii says a laboratory has detected petroleum product in a water sample from an…
Continue Reading Laos-China railway to launch as debt to Beijing mounts
By JOE McDONALD, SAM McNEIL and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Laos, an isolated, mountainous nation of 7 million people wedged…
Continue Reading Ex-sheriff, facing life for rapes, pleads guilty to bribery
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former five-term Louisiana sheriff has pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge less than a month after a state jury…
Continue Reading Bidens, Harris, Emhoff celebrate Hanukkah at White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses held a “family” celebration of Hanukkah at the White…
Continue Reading Justices’ abortion remarks: Is it time to overturn Roe?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has been asked in arguments to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.…
Continue Reading Suspect in Waukesha parade carnage says he feels ‘demonized’
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The man accused of driving his SUV through a suburban Milwaukee parade, killing six people and injuring dozens, says he feels…
Continue Reading Auto workers likely to approve direct election of leadership
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Members of the United Auto Workers union apparently will approve picking their leaders in direct…
Continue Reading Fossil footprints puzzle scientists: Bear or ancient human?
By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Prehistoric footprints that have puzzled scientists since the 1970s are getting a second…
Continue Reading Dems renew push for gun-control bills after Oxford shooting
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats are vowing to push new gun-control legislation and to revive stalled bills in…
Continue Reading Wind-pushed fires force evacuations, burn homes in Montana
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Hundreds of people in the central Montana town of Denton have been forced to flee flames pushed by strong winds.…
Continue Reading Ex-child actor in ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ shot, killed
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans woman who played a supporting role as a former child actress in the Oscar-nominated film “Beasts of the Southern…
Continue Reading Prosecutor: No charges in goalie Kivlenieks’ fireworks death
NOVI, Mich. (AP) — No criminal charges will be filed in the fireworks-related death of Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks at a…
Continue Reading California water districts to get 0% of requested supplies
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Water agencies in drought-stricken California that serve 27 million residents…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: Why was Michigan suspect charged with terrorism?
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan prosecutors are charging a teen with terrorism in a deadly mass shooting at his…
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