Why your favorite catalogs are smaller this holiday season
Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — While retailers hope to go big this holiday season, customers may notice that the catalogs arriving in…
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Magic can’t save ‘Harry Potter’ star Rupert Grint from a $2.3 million tax bill
LONDON (AP) — Former “Harry Potter” film actor Rupert Grint faces a 1.8 million-pound ($2.3 million) bill after he lost a legal battle with the…
Continue ReadingZelenskyy says NATO offer for Ukraine-controlled territory could end ‘hot stage’ of war
Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says an offer of NATO membership to territory under Kyiv’s control…
Continue ReadingAn Israeli strike in Gaza kills World Central Kitchen workers. Israel says 1 was an Oct. 7 attacker
Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed five people, including…
Continue ReadingPoland’s prime minister visits defensive fortifications on border with Russia
Associated Press DABROWKA, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has traveled to his country’s border with the Russian region of Kaliningrad to…
Continue ReadingCounting is underway in Ireland’s election as 3 parties battle for top place
Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Vote counting is underway in Ireland’s national election. An exit poll suggests the contest is a close-fought race…
Continue ReadingVietnam approves $67 billion high-speed railway project between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city
Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has approved the construction of a high-speed railway connecting the capital Hanoi in the north with…
Continue ReadingTaiwan’s president arrives in Hawaii for a 2-day stop in the US as part of South Pacific visit
Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te has arrived in Hawaii for a two-day transit in the U.S. as part of a trip to the…
Continue Reading8 arrested after blast disrupts Kosovo water and power supplies
Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A powerful explosion has damaged a water canal and temporarily cut water and power supply to Kosovo’s…
Continue ReadingProtesters gather for third night of demonstrations after Georgia announces suspension of EU talks
Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Protesters gathered across Georgia on Saturday night in a third straight night of demonstrations against…
Continue ReadingAfter entering Aleppo, Syrian insurgents advance to a nearby province. Assad says he’ll defeat them
Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of Syrian insurgents took over most of Aleppo on Saturday, establishing positions in the country’s…
Continue ReadingFace facts: Statues of stars like Kane and Ronaldo don’t always deliver. Sculptors offer advice
AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — One art critic compared the new Harry Kane bronze statue to a bulging-jawed comic strip character. The infamous…
Continue ReadingIceland votes for a new parliament after political disagreements force an early election
Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Icelanders are electing a new parliament after disagreements over immigration, energy policy and the…
Continue ReadingIn Bolivia’s scrappy highlands, proud Indigenous Cholas take the runway by storm
Associated Press VIACHA, Bolivia (AP) — In the huddled market stalls, sprawling farms and pulsing parties of Viacha, a scrappy town southeast of…
Continue ReadingWhat to know about the plastic pollution crisis as treaty talks conclude in South Korea
Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global plastic…
Continue ReadingLebanese fishermen hope ceasefire with Israel means normal life returning
Associated Press TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah brought hope for normality back to many in southern Lebanon on…
Continue ReadingRomania’s parliamentary vote risks being overshadowed by presidential race chaos
Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Hundreds of protesters gathered in Bucharest after a far-right populist unexpectedly won the first round…
Continue ReadingHeavy snow blankets parts of the US during busy holiday travel weekend
Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The first big snowfall of the season blanketed towns along Lake Erie on Saturday in the middle of the hectic…
Continue ReadingEmboldened ‘manosphere’ accelerates threats and demeaning language toward women after US election
Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — In the days after the presidential election, Sadie Perez began carrying pepper spray with her around campus. Her…
Continue ReadingStealth destroyer to be home for 1st hypersonic weapon on a US warship
Associated Press The U.S. Navy is making progress in deploying its first shipborne hypersonic weapon. Workers at a Mississippi shipyard have finished…
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