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By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing growing pressure to ease up on pandemic restrictions, the White House is insisting it is…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A Greek TV comedian has been given a suspended prison sentence after being convicted of posting on the internet sex…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Several members of Italy’s Carabinieri paramilitary police force called for the deaths or…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction against a South Dakota rule that would…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police officers are facing increasingly heated and baseless…

By ROB GILLIES and TOM KRISHER Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A blockade of the bridge between Canada and Detroit by protesters demanding an end…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — NBC can breathe a sigh of relief after Shaun White reached the final of the halfpipe. The…

MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala. (AP) — A Jewish high school student in Alabama says he was reprimanded after publicly revealing that a history teacher had…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — A former member of the USA Climbing team has been arrested on investigation of three counts of third-degree child rape.…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A new report says cyber criminal gangs are getting increasingly adept at hacking and…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Authorities in Kosovo have suspended the restoration of an old house…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania authorities say a man has shot and killed two people at a home in the state capital, Harrisburg. The suspect…

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press Authorities say a former American Idol contestant has been charged with driving under the influence resulting in…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian police say they have found eight migrants in life-threatening conditions hidden inside a narrow wooden pallet box that had…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The lawyer for a prominent Ugandan writer and government critic who accused the security…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says that three Palestinians sneaked up to an Israeli construction vehicle near the Gaza security fence and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. agency that oversees legal immigration services is reverting its mission statement to refer to the country as “a…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The state of Minnesota has agreed to pay $825,000 and change several policies to settle a lawsuit brought by journalists who say…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Samsung is trying to reclaim lost ground in the coveted high end of the smartphone…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine family that long ago gave up on a lost family cat is being reunited more than six years and 1,500 miles later.…