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New Amazon lease for NY space renews debate over failed deal

NEW YORK — Amazon has signed a lease for a new office space in Manhattan that will house more than 1,500 employees, less than a year after pulling out...
20:57 7 December 2021

Evans’ 3 TDs lead No. 20 App State to Sun Belt title, 45-38

BOONE, N.C. — Darrynton Evans scored three touchdowns and 20th-ranked Appalachian State repeated as Sun Belt Conference champions with a 45-38 victory...
20:55 7 December 2021

Protests erupt as Russia seeks closer ties with Belarus

MINSK, Belarus — The leaders of Russia and Belarus spent more than five hours Saturday in sensitive talks on deepening ties between the two allies — a...
20:22 7 December 2021

Pentagon chief plans to shift US focus to China and Russia

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday he still plans to shift the American military’s focus to competing with China and Rus...
20:12 7 December 2021

House impeachment report looks at abuse, bribery, corruption

WASHINGTON — Previewing potential articles of impeachment, the House Democrats on Saturday issued a lengthy report drawing on history and the Founding...
19:43 7 December 2021

Nobel literature winner dreams of a new narrative style

STOCKHOLM — Nobel Literature Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk says she thinks a new sort of fiction may be needed to counteract the modern era's tendency t...
19:36 7 December 2021

No. 18 Baylor beats No. 12 Arizona 63-58 in freebie for fans

WACO, Texas — MaCio Teague scored 19 points, Freddie Gillespie had 17 points and 13 rebounds and No. 18 Baylor defeated No. 12 Arizona 63-58 on Saturd...
19:35 7 December 2021

Chiefs head into Patriots showdown with ground game in flux

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs will head into arguably their biggest game of the season Sunday in New England with the very real possibilit...
16:58 7 December 2021

Protests subside, but economic aftershocks rattle Haitians

Port-au-Prince — The flaming barricades are mostly gone, protesters have largely dissipated and traffic is once again clogging the streets of Haiti’s ...
16:34 7 December 2021

AP FACT CHECK: Trump and the people he forgets he knew

WASHINGTON — When certain associates and acquaintances of President Donald Trump get into hot water, he forgets he ever knew them. Various figures fro...
16:24 7 December 2021

Nobel laureate: Face up to climate change, no escaping Earth

STOCKHOLM — An astronomer who shares this year's Nobel physics prize for discovering a planet outside the Earth's solar system is taking issue with pe...
16:12 7 December 2021

Chicago chief’s firing again rattles confidence in force

CHICAGO — The unceremonious firing of Chicago's police superintendent just weeks before his retirement has rattled a department that, under his leader...
15:57 7 December 2021

AP PHOTOS: St. Nicholas and devils parade in Czech villages

VALASSKA POLANKA, Czech Republic — Dozens of people in grim reaper and devil costumes accompany St. Nicholas on his journey through the village of Val...
15:29 7 December 2021

US figure skater Chen wins 3rd Grand Prix Finals in a row

TURIN, Italy — American figure skater Nathan Chen won the Grand Prix Finals for the third season in a row Saturday, beating Olympic gold medalist Yuzu...
14:05 7 December 2021

Voting site reopened in Georgia after grassroots fight

HAZLEHURST, Ga. — When local election officials shut down a polling site in a predominantly black area of a rural Georgia county, displaced voters cou...
13:27 7 December 2021

Pro-government protesters denounce Hong Kong ‘rioters’

HONG KONG — Only after finding safety in numbers, joining hundreds of other pro-government protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday, did Reddy Lin drum up ...
12:14 7 December 2021

Venice tide barriers pass another test, but skeptics remain

VENICE, Italy — Floated along by barge , one of the 10-ton barriers designed to relieve Venice’s perennial flooding looks like a giant plaything: an o...
10:02 7 December 2021

AP PHOTOS: Ukraine war prisoners struggle to rebuild lives

KYIV, Ukraine — For Anna Sergeyeva, rebuilding her life after surviving a week of captivity and torture in Ukraine was often more of a struggle.
9:46 7 December 2021

Cavaliers defend rookie coach John Beilein amid skid

CLEVELAND — Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson battled Orlando's big men and then defended his rookie coach.
7:43 7 December 2021

Lebanon’s journalists suffer abuse, threats covering unrest

BEIRUT — Lebanese journalists are facing threats and wide-ranging harassment in their work — including verbal insults and physical attacks, even death...
5:49 7 December 2021

No malarkey: Biden courts Iowans, balances national campaign

STORM LAKE, Iowa — Minutes after Joe Biden met Cathy Buxengard, he commandeered her cellphone to talk with her 99-year-old mother about her service as...
5:11 7 December 2021

No. 1 Louisville pulls away from Pittsburgh, 64-46

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jordan Nwora scored 19 points, Malik Williams had 13 points and 11 rebounds off the bench, and No. 1 Louisville used a 17-4 second-h...
4:21 7 December 2021

Thunder hit buzzer-beater to force OT, then top Timberwolves

OKLAHOMA CITY — Chris Paul scored a season-high 30 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder pulled off an improbable 139-127 overtime victory over the Min...
4:12 7 December 2021

Russian foreign minister to meet with Pompeo in DC next week

WASHINGTON — Russia's foreign minister will visit Washington next week for talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, U.S. officials said Friday.
3:07 7 December 2021

Haley: Killer ‘hijacked’ Confederate flag meaning for some

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in an interview that a man who gunned down nine worshipers at an African American church in 2015 “hijacked...
2:46 7 December 2021

Federal workers could win parental leave in space force swap

WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill leaders are nearing agreement in negotiations on an annual defense policy bill that would extend 12 weeks of paid parental l...
2:33 7 December 2021

No. 4 Michigan tops Iowa 103-91 despite 44 points from Garza

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Franz Wagner led a balanced scoring effort for No. 4 Michigan with 18 points, and the Wolverines opened Big Ten play with a 103-91 ...
2:07 7 December 2021

Elon Musk cleared of defamation in ‘pedo guy’ tweet trial

LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk defeated defamation allegations Friday from a British cave explorer who claimed he was branded a pedophile when the Tesla CEO ...
2:07 7 December 2021

Klobuchar gaining traction in Iowa with Midwest sensibility

INDIANOLA, Iowa — Quick with a joke and unsparing in her mockery of President Donald Trump, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her Midwest sensibility s...
1:37 7 December 2021

Buttigieg calls on McKinsey to release list of his clients

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is calling on his former employer McKinsey & Co. to release a list of the clients he...
1:24 7 December 2021