AP National News

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Scientists from the United States and Europe have announced plans to create the biggest map of…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a handful of states say members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Health officials in Brazil have reported the country’s first confirmed cases of the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court is directing the Justice Department to disclose certain redacted passages…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department and survivors of a 2017 Texas church massacre are at odds over how much the Air Force should pay in…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board has denied clemency for a man convicted of killing…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The Gucci family is not pleased with the depiction of their relatives in the new film “House of Gucci,” starring…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says no member of the National Guard will be allowed…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld California’s ban on…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — An attorney representing a man accused of plowing his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee in two other cases has…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a man accused of accidentally firing a gun in his bag at the Atlanta airport has turned himself in. Police say…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are working to discredit the bipartisan system they created to run…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Author Alice Sebold has apologized to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The longtime president of Belarus says his country would be ready to host Russian nuclear…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s interior minister has applied freshly adopted regulations and declared area…

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A 55-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for her role in the death of a Kansas couple…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Leave it to Mel Brooks to blurb his own memoir. There, along with laudatory quotes from Billy Crystal,…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of TV’s “Dr. Oz Show,”…

By FARES AKRAM Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Hamas official says Gaza’s rulers have reached an agreement by which Qatar…

BAGHDAD (AP) — The final results announced by Iraq’s electoral commission have confirmed Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as the biggest winner in…

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has officially joined the centrist Liberal…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A suburban Detroit office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell has been broken into and ransacked, with memorabilia…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROSEMOUNT, Minn. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday went to Minnesota to  pitch his completed infrastructure deal…

German investigators have searched offices of accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and the homes of current and former employees in a probe of…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 14-year-old Philadelphia boy waiting for a bus to take him home from school was shot 18 times and killed Monday afternoon,…