How long is the sermon? Study ranks Christian churches
NEW YORK — How long should a sermon be?
Patients rally in Ecuador for legal use of medical cannabis
QUITO, Ecuador — Unrelenting pain in her hips and weeks of insomnia left Nelly Valbuena desperate for relief from her metastatic breast cancer.
Review: Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ is a new classic
LOS ANGELES — There is a wild urgency to Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” that hardly seems possible for a film based on a 150-year-old book. But such is...
Supreme Court won’t revive homeless camping ban in Idaho
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will not review an appellate decision that makes it harder for cities to keep homeless people from sleeping on the stre...
Review: A fictional look at the role of ‘oppo’ research
“Oppo” (Ecco/Harper Collins), by Tom Rosenstiel
Turkey deploys surveillance drone in northern Cyprus
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has dispatched a surveillance and reconnaissance drone to the breakaway north of ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus am...
WWII allies, Germany mark 75 yrs since Battle of the Bulge
BASTOGNE, Belgium — Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany together marked the 75th anniversary of one of the most important battles in Wor...
Stocks mostly rise on Chinese report, US-China trade deal
BEIJING — Global stock markets mostly rose Monday on a positive economic report from China, last week's long-awaited U.S.-Chinese trade deal, and grea...
French pension reform architect resigns as strikes drag on
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron's government suffered a blow Monday when the key architect of the pension overhaul resigned over alleged conf...
Sharing a family meal can help those with dementia connect
Long before Tim Hollingsworth earned the James Beard Foundation's Rising Star Chef of the Year award and served as chef de cuisine at French Laundry,...
AP Exclusive: Birmingham mayor backing Biden for president
The mayor of Alabama’s largest city is endorsing Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination just weeks after the vice president m...
China’s Xi says HK had its grimmest year since handover
BEIJING — Hong Kong has faced its "grimmest and most complex year” since the former British colony was returned to China, President Xi Jinping said Mo...
2020 Watch: Can Warren change the narrative?
NEW YORK — Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:
US says it won’t accept North Korea-set nuclear deadline
SEOUL, South Korea — A senior U.S. diplomat said Monday that Washington won’t accept a year-end deadline set by North Korea to make concessions in sta...
A tattoo at a time, Afghan woman takes on society’s taboos
KABUL, Afghanistan — A female tattoo artist, a rarity in ultra-conservative Afghanistan, is taking a big risk with every customer she takes on.
Turbulence shakes Democrats going into final debate of 2019
CLINTON, Iowa — Seven Democratic presidential candidates will stand on stage this week in Los Angeles, a pool of survivors who have withstood almost a...
In reversal, Hallmark will reinstate same-sex marriage ads
NEW YORK — The Hallmark Channel, reversing what it called a “wrong decision,” said Sunday it will reinstate commercials featuring same-sex couples tha...
Five aides to party-switching House lawmaker resign
WASHINGTON — Five aides to a House Democrat who plans to become a Republican are resigning, saying his party switch “does not align with the values we...
Sackler-owned opioid maker pushes overdose treatment abroad
The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of antidote for opioid overdoses. “Be prepar...
Egypt’s el-Sissi says militias hold Libyan gov’t ‘hostage’
CAIRO — Libya’s U.N.-supported government is held hostage by “armed and terrorist militias” in the capital, Tripoli, Egypt’s leader said Sunday.
Disappointment as marathon climate talks end with slim deal
MADRID — Marathon U.N. climate talks ended Sunday with a slim compromise that sparked widespread disappointment, after major polluters resisted calls ...
‘Jumanji’ ends ‘Frozen 2’ hot streak to claim top spot
LOS ANGELES — “Jumanji: The Next Level” puts “Frozen 2” on second-place ice, while Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” opened with one of the worst box ...
Man whose info found on Jersey shooter nabbed on gun charge
KEYPORT, N.J. — A New Jersey man whose number was found in the back pocket of one of the perpetrators of last week's fatal attack on a Jewish market h...
75 years on, Battle of the Bulge memories bond people
THIMISTER-CLERMONT, Belgium — As a schoolboy three quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshif...
Anna Karina, the icon of French New Wave cinema, dies at 79
PARIS — Anna Karina, the French New Wave actress who became an icon of the cinema in the 1960s and was the muse of Jean-Luc Godard, has died. She was ...
Retiring Farmers Union president: Family farms still viable
BISMARCK, N.D. — As Roger Johnson prepares to step down after 11 years leading the National Farmers Union group, he’s well aware of the many challenge...
No letup for UK lawmakers: Johnson presses ahead with Brexit
LONDON — There will be no letup for U.K. lawmakers worn out after Britain’s bruising election campaign. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to begin “...
Greta Thunberg, German railway company in tweetstorm
BERLIN — Climate activist Greta Thunberg and Germany's national railway company created a tweetstorm Sunday after she posted a photo of herself sittin...
Police targets of both love and anger at Hong Kong rallies
Several thousand people, some making heart signs with their hands, turned out in Hong Kong on Sunday in an unusual display of support for the police f...
Strong quake kills 1, collapses building in Philippines
DAVAO, Philippines — A strong earthquake jolted the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least one person and causing a three-story building to ...