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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…

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…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Maria Ressa says much still remains uncertain about her life one month after her…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a plan to protect and promote…

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…

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…

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…

By EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) —  The Chilean Senate has rejected an opposition-initiated impeachment process to remove…

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…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Over 60 governments and 50 U.N. agencies and organizations have joined forces to press…

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…

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…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. immigration judge in California says an Iraqi refugee initially accused of…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Mark McCloskey, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, has been photographed…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press The upcoming verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial for shooting three men during street unrest in…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi state auditor says retired NFL player Brett Favre has missed a…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Ohio man sent to prison for driving his car into a crowd of counterprotestors during a white nationalist rally in Virginia…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter says she will quit the real estate appraiser…

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.…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden last month announced a deal to operate the Port of Los Angeles around…