‘Who is she?’ - US Treasury chief takes swipe at Thunberg
DAVOS, Switzerland — As one of the executive producers of the last Mad Max movie, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might have been interested in...
Williamson’s 22 in debut not enough for Pelicans vs. Spurs
NEW ORLEANS — Zion Williamson scored the final point of his first NBA regular season game as a packed and standing crowd belted out chants of “M-V-P!”
Trial highlights: Democrats roll out case as senators fidget
WASHINGTON — House prosecutors faced fidgeting senators as they rolled out their case against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, the trial's previou...
Big 12 suspends 4 players from KU-KSU brawl 25 games total
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Big 12 suspended four players from Kansas and Kansas State a combined 25 games Wednesday for their roles in a melee that spilled ...
Lebanese Cabinet faces multiple challenges, growing unrest
BEIRUT — Lebanon's new government made up of appointees nominated by the Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies got down to business Wednesday, a day a...
New rules could bump emotional-support animals from planes
The days of passengers bringing their pets on airplanes as emotional-support animals could be ending.
AP-NORC poll: Public doubts Senate trial will be revealing
WASHINGTON — Americans are sharply divided along party lines about whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office, and they doubt the Se...
Schiff takes conciliatory tone after Roberts’ admonishment
WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment manager, took a conciliatory tone at President Donald Trump’s Senate trial on Wednesday after Chie...
Weinstein rape trial opens, marking milestone for #MeToo
NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein went on trial Wednesday in a landmark moment for the # MeToo movement, with prosecutors painting him as a sexual predator ...
Saudi crown prince’s WhatsApp linked to Bezos phone hack
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The cellphone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was hacked in what appeared to be an attempt by Sau...
Holding court in Davos, Trump distracted by impeachment
DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump held court in the snow-capped Alps for two days, showcasing the American economy to world leaders and glob...
Chinese city stops outbound flights, trains to fight virus
BEIJING — Chinese state media say the city of Wuhan is shutting down outbound flights and trains as the country battles the spread of a new virus that...
DC claims inaugural committee spending enriched Trump family
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s inaugural committee spent more than $1 million to book a ballroom at the Trump International Hotel in the nation's capital...
Watchdog files FEC complaint against pro-Sanders nonprofit
WASHINGTON — The watchdog group Common Cause filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, alleging that Our Revolution, a poli...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false account of Ukraine episode
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump gave a false account Wednesday of some of the circumstances that got him impeached.
‘Naughty boy’: Monty Python star Terry Jones dies at 77
LONDON — Terry Jones, a founding member of the anarchic Monty Python troupe who was hailed by colleagues as “the complete Renaissance comedian" and “a...
Trump says he’s open to witnesses as trial rules are set
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate plunged into President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial with Republicans abruptly abandoning plans to cram opening argume...
Russia-Poland feud over history clouds Auschwitz anniversary
WARSAW, Poland — Over the next several days, world leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the...
AP EXPLAINS: How India ended up in turmoil over citizenship
NEW DELHI — India has been embroiled in protests since December, when Parliament passed a bill amending the country's citizenship law. The new law pro...
Virus prompts temperature checks, extra cleaning at airports
BEIJING — Many countries are checking the temperatures of arriving airline passengers and adopting precautionary quarantine procedures in response to ...
At 90, Alaska Native woman is 1st counted in US Census
TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years in the windswept western wilds of Alaska, born to a nomadic family who lived in mud home...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Backatcha: Thunberg returns Trump’s climate jibe
DAVOS, Switzerland — Greta Thunberg isn't easily intimidated.
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 ...
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...
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...