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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…

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…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago has dropped its lawsuit against the police union over a COVID-19 vaccine…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has broken its daily record for coronavirus infections for a second…

YELLOW BLUFF, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect and sheriff’s deputy are dead after a domestic call in Alabama erupted in gunfire. The…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Organizers for GivingTuesday say American donors gave $2.7 billion during Tuesday’s giving day. The…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say DNA and genome sequencing have identified a body found decades…

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…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carlos Santana has successfully undergone a heart procedure and is canceling several Las Vegas shows planned for December. The…

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…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom says in no uncertain terms that he thinks shoplifters should be…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Police were looking for a man dubbed the “snake burglar” who wriggled his way through a Southern California business…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The state of Hawaii says a laboratory has detected petroleum product in a water sample from an…

By JOE McDONALD, SAM McNEIL and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Laos, an isolated, mountainous nation of 7 million people wedged…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses held a “family” celebration of Hanukkah at the White…

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…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles branch of Planned Parenthood chapter has been hit by a data breach involving about 400,000 patients, but the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has been asked in arguments to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.…

BOSTON (AP) — A California couple accused of paying $25,000 to cheat on their son’s college admissions test has abruptly agreed to plead guilty.…

By The Associated Press Airlines are being required to gather information about some passengers that will help with contact tracing if they develop…