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MADRID (AP) — Spain has started a new evacuation operation to extract more Afghans and their families left behind following the Taliban takeover of…

By ADAM GELLER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press When a 37-year-old data scientist went before Congress  to accuse Facebook of pursuing profit…

MOSCOW (AP) — A plane carrying skydivers has crashed shortly after takeoff in central Russia, killing 15 of the 22 people aboard. The L-410, a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Opposition voters in Hungary are choosing between two opposition politicians hoping to…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say an actor has died in an accident during a scene change at Moscow’s Bolshoi theater. The reports cited…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — FaceTime calls seem to be working in the United Arab Emirates, an apparent loosening of long-standing…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s nuclear chief says the Islamic Republic has produced more than 120 kilograms (265 pounds) of 20% enriched uranium.…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Germany’s lame-duck chancellor, Angela Merkel, has received a warm welcome on a farewell…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Family members say Abdul Qadeer Khan, a controversial figure known as the father of Pakistan’s…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press XINJIANG, China (AP) — Four years after Beijing launched a brutal crackdown that swept up to a million or more…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president has vowed to defend the island from China’s rising pressure for…

By KATHLEEN FOODY and WILSON RING Associated Press Monday’s federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis have voted in parliamentary elections held months ahead of schedule as a concession to…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kim Kardashian West, sporting a hot pink catsuit, skewered everyone from her mom’s…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Seth Small made a 28-yard field goal as time expired and Texas A&M stunned…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican Sen. Charles Grassley and Gov. Kim Reynolds have embraced Donald Trump’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published Oct. 9, 2021, about the death of historian Martin Sherwin, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is the first state to require large department stores to display products like…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law directing regulators to eventually ban the…

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected of gravely injuring a metro Phoenix sheriff’s deputy has been shot and wounded by a homeowner with…

HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a man died after he tried to hit people on a sidewalk with his truck, crashed against a building and then…

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities are interviewing a passenger who prompted the pilot of a Republic Airways flight to stop the aircraft short of its…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s presidency says a Colombian nun who was kidnapped more than four years ago by…

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) — Maryland police have announced first-degree murder charges against a man for shooting two staff members of a senior…

PLANTERSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Texas boy who was missing for four days was found alive in a wooded area Saturday and…

JERUSALEM (AP) — German Chancellor has landed  in Israel for a final visit before she leaves office. Angela Merkel arrived Sunday evening at…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of Raymond T. Odierno, a retired Army general who commanded American and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Defenders of Mexico’s Valle de Guadalupe wine-producing valley are protesting unfettered development they say threatens…