Case against Netanyahu includes billionaire witnesses
JERUSALEM — Israel’s attorney general on Monday officially submitted his indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, laying...
Kemp expected to pick Loeffler to succeed Isakson in Senate
ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has decided to appoint a Republican donor and financial services executive for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by...
Tech aims to predict problems on power lines before disaster
LOS ANGELES — B. Don Russell wasn’t thinking about preventing a wildfire when he developed a tool to detect power line problems before they cause equi...
21 die in Syria as airstrike targets market, school shelled
BEIRUT — A suspected Syrian government airstrike on a market in a northwestern rebel-held town killed 13 civilians on Monday while Turkish artillery s...
California Gov. Newsom to campaign in Iowa for Kamala Harris
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will travel to Iowa to campaign for Sen. Kamala Harris as she tries to rebound amid a critical stret...
Vigil for London stabbing victims as politicians trade blame
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn paused Monday to honor the two people killed in th...
Bullock becomes 3rd governor to drop presidential campaign
HELENA, Mont. — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock ended his Democratic presidential campaign Monday, becoming the third Western governor boasting executive e...
Zelenskiy: Allies ‘can’t go blocking’ aid at time of war
WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview Monday that he didn't speak with President Donald Trump "from the position o...
Lawsuit: Ex-Cardinal McCarrick abused boy in Newark in 1990s
NEWARK, N.J. — A lawsuit alleges that former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick abused a teenage boy in the 1990s when he was leader of the ar...
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 8-14
Dec. 8: Singer Jerry Butler is 80. Drummer Bobby Elliott of The Hollies is 78. Actress Mary Woronov (“Eating Raoul,” “The Munsters” films) is 76. Acto...
Poland’s Nobel-winning writer to support art, civil rights
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Nobel Prize winning writer Olga Tokarczuk says she is starting a foundation to promote Polish literature as well as human ri...
NY Philharmonic to cut 500 seats in $550 million renovation
NEW YORK — The capacity of the New York Philharmonic's much-maligned concert hall at Lincoln Center will be reduced by more than 500 seats as part of ...
US construction spending falls 0.8% in October
WASHINGTON — Spending on U.S. construction projects fell 0.8% in October, dragged down by declines in apartment and multi-family homebuilding.
New Nissan CEO reaffirms alliance, promises revival
TOKYO — Nissan’s new chief executive, Makoto Uchida, reaffirmed on Monday the importance of the Japanese automaker’s alliance with France’s Renault as...
The Latest: UN chief disappointed by climate action so far
MADRID — The Latest on the COP25 climate summit in Madrid (all times local):
Spacewalking astronauts add new pumps to cosmic detector
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts attached new pumps to a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Monday in a bid ...
Playing catch up: Premier League round to air live in UK
LONDON — Before Clive Tyldesley clambers up to the Old Trafford gantry and picks up his microphone to be part of a landmark week in Premier League bro...
Global markets steady at start of busy economic data week
LONDON — Global stock markets traded in fairly narrow ranges Monday as investors awaited developments on the U.S.-China trade talks front and a raft o...
Defense budgets set to dominate yet another NATO summit
BRUSSELS — Despite pleas to set aside bickering over military spending so the issue doesn’t dominate a third NATO summit in a row, the United States i...
NATO under friendly fire as leaders ready for London summit
BRUSSELS — NATO leaders will gather in London on Tuesday as the world’s biggest military alliance, marking its 70th birthday, battles with one of the ...
Dictionary.com chooses `existential’ as word of the year
NEW YORK — Climate change, gun violence, the very nature of democracy and an angsty little movie star called Forky helped propel “existential” to Dict...
New higher-speed Florida train has highest US death rate
MIAMI — After Richard Branson announced his Virgin Group would partner with Brightline, Florida’s new higher-speed passenger rail service, a train whi...
Liz Weston: It’s time to let go of shame over your debt
Many of us feel bad about our debt. Most of us probably shouldn’t.
Correction: Burkina Faso-Church Attacked story
In a story Dec. 2 about an attack in Burkina Faso, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an attack on a convoy carrying employees of a mining...
Judiciary panel to take reins on Trump impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee is moving to the forefront of President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, starting with a hearing Wednesd...
UN chief urges countries not to surrender on climate fight
MADRID — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries Monday not to give up in the fight against climate change, as representatives from ne...
China urges rollback of US tariffs, Huawei exec’s release
BEIJING — China’s foreign ministry on Monday urged Canada to free an executive of telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies held for more than a yea...
Germany: Merkel’s party rejects full overhaul of coalition
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is rejecting a root-and-branch renegotiation of the agreement underpinning Germany’s government after the ju...
France pays homage to 13 soldiers killed in Mali air crash
PARIS — In its biggest military funeral in decades, France is honoring 13 soldiers killed when their helicopters collided over Mali while on a mission...
Philippine capital warned as strong typhoon approaches
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ main island, including the national capital, Manila, is under a tropical cyclone warning for a typhoon forecast...