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Dispute over rules erupts on impeachment’s first full day

WASHINGTON — A rancorous dispute over rules marked the first full day of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
0:48 22 January 2022

United Airlines boosts profit on more revenue, cheaper fuel

United Airlines reported Tuesday that higher revenue and cheaper fuel helped boost its fourth-quarter profit by nearly 40%, to $641 million.
22:43 21 January 2022

Trump in Davos: Talking up economy, brushing off impeachment

DAVOS, Switzerland —
22:38 21 January 2022

Neighbor wanted Hawaii cop killing suspect evicted years ago

HONOLULU — A next door neighbor of a handyman accused of stabbing a woman and killing two Hawaii police officers before setting his home and neighborh...
22:26 21 January 2022

AP Was There: Census 2000 gets warm welcome in snowy Alaska

America’s decennial census begins Tuesday in rural Alaska, as it has out of tradition and necessity since the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in...
21:47 21 January 2022

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Davos remarks rife with distortion

WASHINGTON — On a rarefied world stage in the Swiss Alps, President Donald Trump cited accomplishments on clean air that aren't real, a level of econo...
21:41 21 January 2022

Weinstein defense points to ‘loving emails’ as openings near

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein's lawyers want to use intimate emails from his accusers to try to convince jurors in his rape trial that any contact was c...
21:33 21 January 2022

Washington man is 1st in US to catch new virus from China

SEATTLE — The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident w...
20:57 21 January 2022

Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Hundreds of Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. were sent...
20:51 21 January 2022

Feds to let states tap opioid funds for meth, cocaine surge

WASHINGTON — Alarmed by a deadly new twist in the nation's drug addiction crisis, the government will allow states to use federal money earmarked for ...
16:43 21 January 2022

Review: Love and fear drive migrants in `American Dirt’

“American Dirt,” Flatiron Books, by Jeanine Cummins
15:51 21 January 2022

UK Labour contest down to 4 contenders after Phillips quits

LONDON — One of the five contenders to lead Britain’s main opposition Labour Party dropped out of the race on Tuesday after struggling to build moment...
15:50 21 January 2022

The Latest: Trump calls new EU chief ‘very tough negotiator’

DAVOS, Switzerland — The Latest on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (all times local):
14:56 21 January 2022

Global stocks slide on growing concern about China virus

BEIJING — Stock and oil prices fell Tuesday as concern about the potential impact of a Chinese disease outbreak increased and a rating agency cut Hong...
13:28 21 January 2022

AP PHOTOS: Auschwitz, 75 years after its liberation

OSWIECIM, Poland — On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland. The Germans had already fled we...
11:31 21 January 2022

IMF downgrade of growth outlook ups pressure on India’s Modi

NEW DELHI — A decision by the International Monetary Fund to downgrade its economic growth forecast for India is adding to pressure on Indian Prime Mi...
10:28 21 January 2022

Survivor stories spotlight Auschwitz liberation anniversary

JERUSALEM — Shortly before they were rounded up by Nazi troops in Belgium and deported to Auschwitz in 1942, the parents of three-year-old Maurice Glu...
6:30 21 January 2022

2020 hopefuls stuck in Washington deploy surrogates for help

DES MOINES, Iowa — Steve Sovern had low expectations for a recent event he hosted to support Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign. Iowans are lege...
5:37 21 January 2022

As virus spreads, anxiety rises in China and overseas

WUHAN, China — Face masks sold out and temperature checks at airports and train stations became the new norm as China strove Tuesday to control the ou...
2:57 21 January 2022

Suspect in Hawaii officers’ deaths described as unhinged

HONOLULU — A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when he stabbed a woman and killed two officers before...
1:46 21 January 2022

McConnell proposes swift impeachment trial with long days

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday proposed a condensed, two-day calendar for each side to give opening statements in Presi...
23:52 20 January 2022

Migrants scuffle with Mexican troops along border river

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Hundreds of Central American migrants waded across the Suchiate River into southern Mexico on Monday in a new test of U.S. Pr...
23:50 20 January 2022

Prince Harry hopes for calmer future, but not much chance

LONDON — Prince Harry says he's taking a “leap of faith’’ as he steps back from royal duties in an attempt to build a more peaceful life — one free of...
18:07 20 January 2022

Protests or not, politics and Olympics are intertwined

More than a half-century later, Tommie Smith and John Carlos are cemented into Olympic lore — their names enshrined in the Olympic Hall of Fame in the...
17:04 20 January 2022

Suspected serial killer stayed under the radar, but how?

CHICAGO — When a police detective said last week that a man suspected of strangling a suburban Chicago teen in 1976 may have killed as many as a dozen...
15:34 20 January 2022

Homes burn after shooter kills 2 Honolulu officers

HONOLULU — A man shot and killed two police officers Sunday as they responded to a home in a leafy neighborhood beneath the rim of a famed volcanic cr...
3:37 20 January 2022

Mostert lifts 49ers to Super Bowl with 37-20 win vs Packers

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — From No. 2 pick in the draft to one of the last two teams standing.
3:25 20 January 2022

Democrats navigate sensitive gender politics as voting nears

DES MOINES, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidates spent the weekend grappling with how to address questions surrounding sexism and gender bias as ...
2:51 20 January 2022

Trump thanks farmers for backing him through China trade war

AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump thanked farmers Sunday for supporting him through a trade war with China as he promoted a new North American tr...
1:17 20 January 2022

Libya players agree to respect arms embargo, push cease-fire

BERLIN — Countries with interests in Libya's long-running civil war agreed Sunday to respect a much-violated arms embargo, hold off on military suppor...
19:33 19 January 2022