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Europe’s bishops mark Auschwitz anniversary denouncing hate

WARSAW, Poland — Europe's Catholic bishops are marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a statement denouncing anti-Semitism a...
9:08 25 January 2022

Democrats speak to history with exhaustive impeachment case

WASHINGTON — At times it seemed like few senators in the chamber were really listening. But the House Democrats presenting the impeachment case agains...
5:38 25 January 2022

GOP shows little desire for witnesses ahead of critical vote

WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Senate appear unmoved by the Democratic push for witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial despite persi...
5:33 25 January 2022

Genocide charge dents halo of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi

BANGKOK — When Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi walked into the International Court of Justice last month, she gambled the remaining shreds of her hard-won ...
5:10 25 January 2022

Bob Marley’s kids celebrate late reggae icon’s 75th birthday

LOS ANGELES — At a celebration for Bob Marley’s 75th birth anniversary, the late icon’s children — famous in their own right — gathered to tell storie...
4:27 25 January 2022

House is given tape of Trump calling for ambassador’s ouster

NEW YORK — An associate of Rudy Giuliani has provided congressional investigators with a recording of President Donald Trump saying he wanted to get r...
3:34 25 January 2022

2 killed, 20 injured when warehouse explosion shakes Houston

HOUSTON — A massive explosion Friday leveled a warehouse in Houston, killing two workers, damaging nearby buildings and homes and rousing frightened r...
1:49 25 January 2022

AP Exclusive: Feds plan to move Epstein warden to prison job

WASHINGTON — The warden in charge when Jeffrey Epstein ended his life in his jail cell is being moved to a leadership position at another federal corr...
1:38 25 January 2022

Trial highlights: Dems cry cover-up, Trump hails activists

WASHINGTON — From the floor of the Senate, Democratic impeachment prosecutors said Friday that Trump tried to cover up his actions with Ukraine, anoth...
0:51 25 January 2022

Fiat Chrysler denies union bribery allegations in GM lawsuit

DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler is moving to dismiss a racketeering lawsuit filed by rival General Motors, denying allegations that it bribed union officials ...
0:32 25 January 2022

At least 18 dead, hundreds hurt as quake hits eastern Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked a sparsely-populated part of eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 18 people, injuring more th...
0:04 25 January 2022

California OKs highly questioned LA County voting system

California’s secretary of state on Friday approved Los Angeles County’s new publicly owned computerized voting system — a first of its kind for the na...
23:46 24 January 2022

The big lesson from the Bezos hack: Anyone can be a target

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — You may not think you're in the same league as Jeff Bezos when it comes to being a hacking target. Probably not, but you — and just...
23:43 24 January 2022

Pompeo heads to Ukraine next week to meet with president

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Ukraine next week, making his first trip to the country at the heart of President Donald Trump'...
23:38 24 January 2022

3 Americans killed in Australia all had military backgrounds

DENVER — Growing up in a small rural community on Colorado's plains, Ian McBeth went to work as a ranch hand in neighboring Nebraska at 14 and was a s...
23:35 24 January 2022

For businesses, virus in China fans fear and uncertainty

China’s worst health crisis in years has sparked fear and uncertainty for businesses from North America to Asia that depend on trade in the affected r...
23:01 24 January 2022

Doubts loom over nominating process for Grammy Awards

LOS ANGELES — Questions have loomed for years around the nominations process for the Grammy Awards, but the doubts reached a new level this week after...
22:57 24 January 2022

US says e-commerce firms need to do more about fake goods

WASHINGTON — E-commerce has unleashed an increasing torrent of fake merchandise upon the world and private companies and the U.S. government must do m...
22:50 24 January 2022

Pentagon: 34 troops suffered brain injuries in Iran strike

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran's missile strike this month on an...
22:46 24 January 2022

Brother says teen charged in Utah slaying of 4 still loved

GRANTSVILLE, Utah — A Utah teenager who authorities say killed his mother and three younger siblings is still loved and part of the family, his older ...
22:27 24 January 2022

Stocks fall as fears about deadly virus grow; Dow drops 170

Stocks are closing with broad losses as increased fears that an outbreak of a deadly virus could spread more widely rattles markets. The S&P 500 h...
21:16 24 January 2022

Review: Haden Triplets sustain tradition of sibling harmony

The Haden Triplets, "The Family Songbook” (Trimeter Records)
20:56 24 January 2022

Actress Rosie Perez says she was told of Weinstein rape

NEW YORK — "Do the Right Thing" actress Rosie Perez testified Friday that fellow screen star Annabella Sciorra told her in the mid-1990s that Harvey W...
20:45 24 January 2022

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false assurance about troops in Iraq

WASHINGTON — At first, President Donald Trump stated inaccurately that no U.S. troops were injured in the Iranian missile attack against them in Iraq....
20:33 24 January 2022

Schiff sets tone of impeachment case, says ‘right matters’

WASHINGTON — For a few gripping minutes, Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment prosecutor against President Donald Trump, had made the restless Senat...
19:40 24 January 2022

2 lawyers on Trump defense team shared Epstein as a client

WASHINGTON — Two of the lawyers on President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team have shared another client: Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr both he...
19:10 24 January 2022

At 84, Cajun musician Doug Kershaw still going strong

NEW ORLEANS — As 84-year-old Cajun music legend Doug Kershaw looks back, he's still looking ahead too — fiddling, singing, writing and performing as t...
18:50 24 January 2022

Career Border Patrol official picked to lead agency

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday named a 27-year Border Patrol veteran who has forcefully advocated for the president's agenda to lead ...
18:42 24 January 2022

Tweets urge calls to Supreme Court for fair Senate trial

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court doesn't have a public comment line for its own work, much less the Senate's.
18:15 24 January 2022

Top EU officials sign Brexit deal in closed door ceremony

BRUSSELS — The leaders of two of the European Union’s main institutions on Friday signed the divorce agreement governing Britain’s departure from the ...
18:01 24 January 2022