Siya’s Springboks are exactly what Mandela envisioned
SOMERSET WEST, South Africa — Black and white, they sat together on the edge of the dusty township street where Nelson Mandela once lived and watched ...
Teacher accused of segregating students on political beliefs
FOUR OAKS, N.C. — North Carolina school officials are investigating a Spanish teacher who has been accused of segregating students based on their reli...
Biden defends his ‘vision’ against Warren’s indirect attacks
DES MOINES, Iowa — Bristling at Elizabeth Warren's suggestions that he's a milquetoast moderate with small ideas, presidential candidate Joe Biden cou...
Rudy Boesch, early fan favorite on ‘Survivor,’ dies at 91
Rudy Boesch, a retired tough-as-nails Navy SEAL and fan favorite on the inaugural season of "Survivor," has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's ...
Crews make progress on large Southern California wildfire
LOS ANGELES — Authorities lifted evacuation orders for a farm community Saturday as firefighters make progress on a large wildfire in Southern Califor...
Airbnb bans ‘party houses’ after California shooting kills 5
ORINDA, Calif. — Airbnb's CEO said the company was taking actions against unauthorized parties in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Halloween party h...
Blast in Syrian town held by Turkey-backed gunmen kills 13
ISTANBUL — A car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town along the border with Turkey on Saturday killing 13 people, Turkey's Defense Ministry said.
Colorado to vote on sports betting, and water could benefit
DENVER — Colorado residents will decide Tuesday whether to legalize sports betting and tax it to help conserve the state's most precious resource: wat...
Fitbit buy is Google’s latest step into gadgetry
Google's acquisition of wearable pioneer Fitbit may be a bold plunge into health and fitness technology. But it's also just the latest step in the int...
Gretchen Carlson wants to speak freely about Fox News tenure
NEW YORK — When Gretchen Carlson heard that NBC News was considering letting people out of their non-disclosure agreements involving alleged sexual mi...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump puffs up Islamic State raid and more
WASHINGTON — Seeing U.S. forces track down and kill the Islamic State's leader wasn't enough for President Donald Trump. He puffed up and told a story...
Houston mayor’s race: crime, flooding, Trump are all issues
HOUSTON — As Houston's mayor seeks a second term, he's hoping to use residents' antipathy toward President Donald Trump to help him beat his biggest c...
Illinois marijuana law aims to undo harm of war on the drug
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — When lawmakers crafted the law legalizing marijuana in Illinois, they tried to make sure it would right what many see as past wron...
German minister appeals for European unity amid challenges
BERLIN — Germany's foreign minister appealed Saturday for European countries to unite in the face of global challenges such as climate change and migr...
Migrants endure rape and torture on route through Yemen
RAS AL-ARA, Yemen — Zahra struggled in the blue waters of the Gulf of Aden, grasping for the hands of fellow migrants. Hundreds of men, women and teen...
Iran student leader says he regrets 1979 US Embassy attack
TEHRAN, Iran — His revolutionary fervor diminished by the years that have also turned his dark brown hair white, one of the Iranian student leaders of...
ASEAN meeting grapples with trade war, territorial disputes
NONTHABURI, Thailand — Malaysia's prime minister has urged leaders in Southeast Asia to use the sway of their shared market of 650 million people and ...
Is the anti-Trump suburban revolt escalating? Watch Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. — Republican state Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant wanted to avoid talking about President Donald Trump as she courted voters this week on Ridgef...
The Latest: Trump cites impeachment in Miss. campaign pitch
JACKSON, Miss. — The Latest on President Donald Trump campaigning in Mississippi (all times local):
Why vote GOP in Mississippi? Trump cites impeachment inquiry
TUPELO, Miss. — President Donald Trump lashed out Friday at Democrats for a vote this week formalizing the House impeachment inquiry as he urged rally...
Nicaragua court convicts ex-student in New York killing
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A Nicaraguan court on Friday convicted a dual U.S.-Nicaraguan citizen of killing a nursing student in New York state after an unu...
Juvenile charged with shooting Chicago trick-or-treater, 7
CHICAGO — A 15-year-old boy was charged Friday night with attempted murder in the suspected gang-related shooting of two people on Chicago's West Side...
1 dead as Israel hits Gaza after rockets fired across border
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed a Palestinian man Saturday as aircraft pounded militant sites in response to barrages of roc...
The Latest: Utility re-energized power line before fire
LOS ANGELES — The Latest on California fires (all times local):
Greta Thunberg call to fight global warming cheers LA rally
LOS ANGELES — Greta Thunberg, Sweden's 16-year-old climate-change activist, joined fellow teenagers from throughout California Friday in telling a che...
South Dakota Keystone XL opponents point to N. Dakota spill
Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline in South Dakota were making their case against a handful of water permits this week in a process so contentious ...
Ex-officer gets 12 years in naked man’s fatal shooting
DECATUR, Ga. — A former Georgia police officer convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, naked man was sen...
UAW leaders send Ford contract to ratification vote
DETROIT — A United Auto Workers leadership group has voted to send a proposed contract with Ford to members for a ratification vote.
Reports: US launches review of China-owned video app TikTok
Multiple published reports say that the U.S. government has launched a national-security review of the China-owned video app TikTok, popular with mill...
Halloween terror: 4 killed at Northern California party
ORINDA, Calif. — Four people were killed and several wounded at a Halloween night party shooting at a Northern California home rented on Airbnb by a w...