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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...
19:08 2 December 2021

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...
19:04 2 December 2021

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...
18:47 2 December 2021

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...
18:18 2 December 2021

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...
18:14 2 December 2021

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...
18:06 2 December 2021

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...
18:05 2 December 2021

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...
17:58 2 December 2021

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...
17:51 2 December 2021

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...
17:31 2 December 2021

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...
16:23 2 December 2021

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 ...
16:22 2 December 2021

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.
15:03 2 December 2021

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...
14:55 2 December 2021

The Latest: UN chief disappointed by climate action so far

MADRID — The Latest on the COP25 climate summit in Madrid (all times local):
14:19 2 December 2021

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 ...
14:09 2 December 2021

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...
13:40 2 December 2021

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...
13:19 2 December 2021

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...
13:14 2 December 2021

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 ...
13:07 2 December 2021

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...
13:00 2 December 2021

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...
12:45 2 December 2021

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.
12:41 2 December 2021

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...
12:17 2 December 2021

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...
12:05 2 December 2021

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...
11:03 2 December 2021

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...
10:58 2 December 2021

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...
9:32 2 December 2021

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...
9:17 2 December 2021

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...
7:26 2 December 2021