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In Lake Placid, a miracle from 40 years ago still inspires

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — The woman had been waiting for her opportunity for more than an hour, which was no big deal bec...
19:33 20 February 2022

No conspiracy this time: Dan Brown writing children’s book

NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Brown’s next book will have a lighter, more musical touch. The “Da Vinci Code” author is working on ...
19:28 20 February 2022

Bloomberg campaign spending tops $409 million

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has plunged over $400 million of his personal fortune into his ca...
19:05 20 February 2022

Irony prevails at Benetton, transparent femininity at Prada

MILAN (AP) — The frills are on at Milan Fashion Week, where “pretty” is womenswear watchword of the next cold weather se...
18:21 20 February 2022

Irish lawmakers meet as wrangling to form government goes on

LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s parliament convened Thursday for the first time since an election two weeks ago that left three ...
17:25 20 February 2022

New colobus monkey makes debut at St. Louis Zoo

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Zoo has a new resident, and boy is he cute.The zoo announced Thursday that Teak, a black ...
17:22 20 February 2022

Israel confirms ultra-Orthodox draft figures were inflated

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Thursday it found “serious, systemic failures” in its own reporting that infl...
16:37 20 February 2022

Meet the rising stars of ‘West Side Story’ on Broadway

NEW YORK (AP) — When a new revival of “West Side Story” opens on Broadway, it will make history. The musical sees 33 you...
16:29 20 February 2022

Conflict of interest fears cast shadow over EU budget talks

BRUSSELS (AP) — As European Union leaders deliberated over their 1 trillion-euro ($1.1 trillion) budget Thursday, lawmak...
15:57 20 February 2022

H.R. McMaster book `Battlegrounds’ coming out in April

This book covered released by HarperCollins shows “Battlegrounds” by Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. The book, by President Dona...
15:03 20 February 2022

WH report says economy accelerated under Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new White House report says the U.S. economy is growing faster than expected, even though the annual...
14:00 20 February 2022

Morgan Stanley to buy E-Trade for $13 billion

NEW YORK (AP) — Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced it would buy the online brokerage E-Trade for roughly $13 billi...
13:38 20 February 2022

Police: Lesotho’s prime minister to be charged with murder

MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will be charged with the June 2017 killing of his estrang...
13:34 20 February 2022

Swiss prosecutors charge Al-Khelaifi in FIFA bribery case

GENEVA (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi was charged Thursday by Swiss federal prosecutors in conn...
13:18 20 February 2022

ASEAN diplomats praise China’s handling of virus outbreak

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Southeast Asia’s top diplomats praised China’s handling of the virus outbreak and pledged Thursda...
12:44 20 February 2022

For Napoli fans, the team is a religion and Maradona is god

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — When Lionel Messi climbs up the steps from the moat surrounding the field at the San Paolo Stadium ...
12:04 20 February 2022

Weather and protests hamper Ukraine quarantine efforts

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine’s effort to evacuate more than 70 people from China over the outbreak of a new virus faced setback...
11:45 20 February 2022

1 trillion euros: worth a big, long fight at the EU summit

BRUSSELS (AP) — Everything is set for the EU’s bruising trillion-euro summit.Leaders from the European Union’s 27countri...
11:41 20 February 2022

Messi demands calm after chaotic 2 months for Barcelona

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona has been hit recently by a series of setbacks on the field and conflicts inside the cl...
11:30 20 February 2022

Looted 18th century crown returned to Ethiopia after decades

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A rare and looted crown from the 18th century was returned to Ethiopia on Thursday after it...
11:29 20 February 2022

Israeli PM’s rival denies wrongdoing amid probe reports

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s leading opposition figure Benny Gantz denied wrongdoing on Thursday after media reports said I...
8:33 20 February 2022

Virus limits next Tokyo Olympic test event to Japanese-only

TOKYO (AP) — A test event for the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for later this month that would have involved some non-Japane...
7:06 20 February 2022

Mississippi man accused of killing 8 tears up during trial

MAGNOLIA, Miss. (AP) — Testimony from a Mississippi woman whose son and nephew were two of the eight victims killed in a...
6:48 20 February 2022

2 former cruise ship passengers with virus die in Japan

TOKYO (AP) — Two elderly passengers taken off the Diamond Princess cruise ship because they were infected with a new vir...
6:37 20 February 2022

Egypt’s once-reviled street dogs get chance at a better life

CAIRO (AP) — Karim Hegazi spends his days in a Cairo clinic taking care of animals long considered a menace in Egypt.Str...
5:42 20 February 2022

AP PHOTOS: Olympic bidder Sapporo has erratic snowfall

SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — After two months of almost no snow, Japan’s northern city of Sapporo was overwhelmed with the whit...
5:19 20 February 2022

Asian stocks mixed after Wall Street rises to record

TOKYO (AP) — Shares were mixed Thursday in Asia after Wall Street recovered to record highs, but worries persist about d...
4:42 20 February 2022

‘Black in Space’ looks at final frontier of civil rights

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In 1959, Ronald Erwin McNair walked into a South Carolina library. The 9-year-old aspiring astr...
4:18 20 February 2022

Bolton: Testimony wouldn’t have changed impeachment outcome

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday denounced the House’s impeachment proc...
3:57 20 February 2022

Qantas cuts flights to Asia amid virus outbreak

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s Qantas announced Thursday it will slash flights to Asia as the coronavirus crisis cuts into th...
3:44 20 February 2022