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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Official: Base shooter watched shooting videos before attack
PENSACOLA, Fla. — A US official says the Saudi student who fatally shot three people at a Florida naval base had hosted a dinner party the night befor...
Reddit bans accounts, suspects possible UK vote interference
LONDON — The prospect of Russian interference in Britain's election flared anew Saturday after the social media platform Reddit concluded that people ...
Ceremony to remember those killed in Pearl Harbor attack
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — More than 2,000 people are expected at a ceremony Saturday to remember those killed when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor 78...
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...
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...
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...
Q&A: Does a manufacturing slump threaten the US economy?
WASHINGTON — Defying fears and predictions, the U.S. economy is still shrugging off President Donald Trump’s trade conflicts.
Impeachment collides with funding deadline, testing Congress
WASHINGTON — The impeachment drama is dominating Washington, but leading figures such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still have their day jobs to do.
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Pearl Harbor shooting unfolded in 23 seconds in packed area
HONOLULU — The U.S. Navy sailor who fatally shot two people at Pearl Harbor before killing himself was unhappy with his commanders and had been underg...
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.
‘Typo’ may have overvalued Utah home at nearly $1B
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah officials say a possible dropped phone resulted in a typo that overvalued a home for almost $1 billion.
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 ...
‘All roads lead to Putin’: Impeachment ties Ukraine, Russia
WASHINGTON — House Democrats are bringing the impeachment focus back to Russia as they draft formal charges against President Donald Trump.
Man who offered $500 for killing an ICE agent is acquitted
BOSTON — A man who tweeted that he would give $500 to anyone who would kill a federal immigration officer was acquitted Friday in a case that centered...
US firms keep hiring, easing worries of weakening economy
WASHINGTON — American businesses have complained for years that they can’t find the workers they need to fill available jobs. November’s robust hiring...
Trump complains low-flow toilets are flush with problems
WASHINGTON — When it comes to toilets, President Donald Trump just wants to let it flow.
Evidence tampering alleged in police chief firing case
CHICAGO — A female Chicago police officer who was reportedly seen on video drinking with and kissing the now-fired police superintendent the night he ...
Melania Trump befriends 18-year-old former leukemia patient
WASHINGTON — The first time Caoilinn McLane met Melania Trump she had no idea it wouldn't be the last time.
Cowboys for Trump group now says sand wasn’t from monument
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Iconic gypsum sand that the group Cowboys for Trump had said was from White Sands National Monument in New Mexico and was sent to ...