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Hong Kong pro-democracy rally cut short by police tear gas

HONG KONG — Thousands took to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in a new wave of pro-democracy protests, but police fired tear gas after some demonstrators h...
12:30 1 December 2021

Century ago and today, Baghdad street a front line in revolt

BAGHDAD — When discontented Iraqis sought independence from British occupation in 1920, Baghdad’s most prestigious new boulevard, Rasheed Street, was ...
3:37 1 December 2021

Biden launches Iowa trip with focus on Trump, rural America

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Joe Biden launched an eight-day bus tour of Iowa on Saturday projecting confidence, ignoring his many Democratic presidential c...
3:15 1 December 2021

Powerful storm pushes into Midwest with heavy snow and winds

Wintry weather bedeviled Thanksgiving weekend travelers across the United States Saturday as a powerful and dangerous storm moved eastward, dumping he...
2:16 1 December 2021

Londoners fought back to curtail carnage in bridge attack

LONDON — Even in times of shared, senseless tragedy, an uplifting moment sometimes emerges.
0:47 1 December 2021

Authorities: 2 kids dead, 1 missing after truck swept away

TONTO BASIN, Ariz. — The bodies of two young children were found Saturday, but searchers were still looking for a third child who went missing after a...
20:34 30 November 2021

Relic thought to be from Jesus’ manger arrives in Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — A tiny wooden relic that some Christians believe to be part of Jesus' manger arrived Saturday in its permanent home in the bibl...
19:09 30 November 2021

Focus on early release of terror convict in London stabbings

LONDON — UK counterterrorism police on Saturday searched for clues into how a man imprisoned for terrorism offenses before his release last year manag...
16:33 30 November 2021

Fiat Chrysler, auto union reach tentative deal on contract

DETROIT — The United Auto Workers and Fiat Chrysler reached a tentative agreement Saturday on a new four-year contract, which includes a total of $9 b...
16:30 30 November 2021

Vietnam receives last of 39 remains of trafficking victims

DO THANH, Vietnam — The last remains of the 39 Vietnamese who died while being smuggled in a truck to England last month were repatriated to their hom...
9:48 30 November 2021

Peru’s Keiko Fujimori leaves prison after top court ruling

LIMA, Peru — Supporters cheered late Friday as once-powerful opposition leader and two-time Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori left the pr...
3:52 30 November 2021

Trump to decide if he wants lawyers at impeachment hearings

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked President Donald Trump on Friday to say whether he’ll send his attorneys to participa...
3:06 30 November 2021

UK police: Bridge attacker had been jailed for terror crimes

LONDON — A man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people Friday in London, killing two in what police are treating as a terrorist attack be...
1:14 30 November 2021

Cardinals’ Josh Shaw suspended for betting on NFL games

Arizona Cardinals cornerback Josh Shaw has been suspended through at least the end of the 2020 season for betting on NFL games on multiple occasions t...
23:29 29 November 2021

Belated bill to help solve indigenous cold cases gains steam

FARGO, N.D. — A bill originally meant to help law enforcement investigate cold cases of murdered and missing indigenous women that has floundered in C...
23:00 29 November 2021

Head start on holiday deals tempers Black Friday frenzy

NEW YORK — Black Friday enthusiasts woke up before dawn and traveled cross-state to their favorite malls in search of hot deals, kicking off a shorten...
22:03 29 November 2021

Agency cited sprinkler need months before high-rise fire

MINNEAPOLIS — The agency that manages public housing in Minneapolis noted a need for sprinklers in older high-rise apartments months before a massive ...
20:49 29 November 2021

Family of slain journalist presses Malta’s PM to resign

VALLETTA, Malta — The family of a journalist who was killed by a car bomb in Malta is urging Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to resign, after his...
18:18 29 November 2021

Iraqi prime minister to resign in wake of deadly protests

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister announced Friday that he would submit his resignation to parliament, a day after more than 40 people were killed by se...
17:40 29 November 2021

The Latest: London mayor: No one else wanted over stabbings

LONDON — The Latest on an incident in London Bridge (all times local):
16:58 29 November 2021

Alaska governor marks 1st year in office amid turmoil

JUNEAU, Alaska — Last December, poor weather scrambled Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s inaugural plans, a bumpy start to a turbulent year marked by budget...
15:15 29 November 2021

Party like a spy: Spookstock is intel world’s hush-hush bash

WASHINGTON — Sometime earlier this year, one of the most elite social events in Washington took place, but without any fanfare or news coverage.
14:45 29 November 2021

Hong Kong protesters seek British support; campus siege ends

HONG KONG — Hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists rallied Friday outside the British Consulate, urging the city’s former colonial ruler to emu...
13:57 29 November 2021

Rod Stewart: Rocker turned model railroad builder

LONDON — Rod Stewart, known for decades as a consummate crooner, rocker, fashion plate and tongue-in-cheek sex symbol, is adding a new element to his ...
13:18 29 November 2021

Publisher says he’s hearing interest in nonprofit turn

NEW YORK — The publisher of the nation’s first daily newspaper to be granted nonprofit status says he’s since heard from a “few dozen” lawyers and new...
12:13 29 November 2021

Eurozone unemployment’s falls to lowest rate since July 2008

LONDON — Unemployment across the 19-country eurozone has fallen to its lowest rate since July 2008 even though growth is cooling in the face of headwi...
10:50 29 November 2021

Thai court fines Philip Morris $39.7 million for tax evasion

BANGKOK — A court in Thailand has found the local unit of tobacco giant Philip Morris guilty of evading taxes by under-declaring the value of cigarett...
9:39 29 November 2021

Impact of WTO protests in Seattle still felt 2 decades later

SEATTLE — Nancy Haque worried about the conditions in sweatshops around the world. For Lynne Dodson, it was the possibility of attacks on public educa...
6:09 29 November 2021

Trump impeachment drive has similarities to Wisconsin recall

MADISON, Wis. — A divisive leader drove the opposition to extreme measures. The political climate was toxic — with little civil debate or middle groun...
5:04 29 November 2021

Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone dead at 101

TOKYO — Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a giant of his country’s post-World War II politics who pushed for a more assertive Japan wh...
4:48 29 November 2021