WA redistricting panel urges high court to look at its maps
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The head of Washington state’s bipartisan redistricting commission that failed to…
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Curry scores 37, Durant season-low 19 as Warriors rout Nets
By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry had 37 points, easily winning matchup of the NBA’s top two scorers when Kevin…
Continue Reading Weah’s goal gains US bumpy 1-1 draw at Jamaica in qualifier
By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Tim Weah’s 11th-minute goal was matched by Michail Antonio’s spectacular 34-yard…
Continue Reading Staples Center is changing its name to Crypto.com Arena
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles will be renamed Crypto.com Arena on Christmas. The…
Continue Reading Japan, US set framework for talks on trade, broader ties
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Trade Representative Katharine Tai and Japan’s trade minister have agreed to work to…
Continue Reading Sudanese migrants in Israel fear deportation after coup
By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Sudanese asylum-seekers in Israel fear last year’s normalization agreement between their…
Continue Reading Companies bid $192 million in 1st Gulf oil sale under Biden
By MATTHEW BROWN and JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Energy companies have offered a combined $192 million for drilling…
Continue Reading Mississippi executes man who killed wife, terrorized family
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has executed a man who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and…
Continue Reading Correction: Northwest Storm story
SUMAS, Wash. (AP) — In a story published November 17, 2021, about flooding in the Pacific Northwest, The Associated Press misidentified the mayor…
Continue Reading Henry Montgomery, at center of juvenile life debate, is free
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Officials have released the inmate who was central to a Supreme Court case that…
Continue Reading After record low, monarch butterflies return to California
By HAVEN DALEY and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (AP) — There is a ray of hope for the vanishing orange-and-black…
Continue Reading Reviving Biden’s big bill, Democrats look to regain momentum
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic leaders are pressing ahead on President Joe Biden’s big domestic…
Continue Reading Inmate stabbed in eyeball in latest federal prison violence
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An inmate at the largest federal prison in the U.S. was stabbed in the…
Continue Reading Biden pushes electric vehicle chargers as energy costs spike
By AAMER MADHANI and TOM KRISHER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — President Joe Biden is highlighting billions of dollars in his big new…
Continue Reading Amid crypto’s Wild West, Binance says a sheriff is needed
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the cryptocurrency world, which gets likened to the Wild West of financial markets, one of the…
Continue Reading Q&A: Binance CEO on bubbles, meme coins and crypto’s swings
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, doesn’t try to explain why…
Continue Reading Rittenhouse lawyers ask judge to declare mistrial over video
By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorneys have asked the judge to declare a…
Continue Reading A decade after New Zealand mine explosion, bodies are found
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — More than a decade after a methane explosion killed 29 workers at a New Zealand coal…
Continue Reading Journalist Maria Ressa reflects on Nobel Peace Prize win
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Maria Ressa says much still remains uncertain about her life one month after her…
Continue Reading Australia aims to protect, promote critical technologies
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a plan to protect and promote…
Continue Reading US judge in Vegas begins hearings on Nevada execution plan
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge in Las Vegas has begun a series of hearings about the constitutionality of the…
Continue Reading Syria reports Israel attack south of Damascus, no casualties
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s state-run media says Israel has carried out an attack on the country’s south with two missiles targeting an…
Continue Reading Police looking for vehicles in shooting that wounded 6 teens
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police are asking the public for help in finding two vehicles believed to have been involved in a drive by shooting in a park…
Continue Reading Chile Senate rejects removing president in impeachment trial
By EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) —  The Chilean Senate has rejected an opposition-initiated impeachment process to remove…
Continue Reading South Korea pushes booster shots as COVID-19 spread worsens
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 3,187 new cases of the coronavirus, nearly matching a one-day record set in September, a…
Continue Reading Coalition launched to provide school lunches to global needy
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Over 60 governments and 50 U.N. agencies and organizations have joined forces to press…
Continue Reading China, US to ease restrictions on each other’s journalists
BEIJING (AP) — China and the U.S. have agreed to ease restrictions on each other’s journalists amid a slight easing of tensions between the…
Continue Reading Fugitive COVID loan scammers sentenced to federal prison
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles couple who were convicted of trying to steal $20 million in COVID-19 relief funds have been sentenced to federal…
Continue Reading Judge: Iraqi refugee held on murder claims can be deported
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. immigration judge in California says an Iraqi refugee initially accused of…
Continue Reading Iowa man found guilty in death of man whose body was burned
SIGOURNEY, Iowa (AP) — A 32-year-old Iowa man has been found guilty in the death of a Black man whose body was found burning in a ditch last year.…
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