Fluidity and autumnal hues hit Paris menswear week
PARIS — Fluidity graced the menswear catwalks in Paris as fall-winter crescendoed through the weekend, with shows from houses such as Jacquemus and He...
Away winter blues! Netherlands marks National Tulip Day
AMSTERDAM — Winter blues 0, joyful color 1.
UK treasury chief: Some businesses may hurt after Brexit
LONDON — The British government has announced plans for special events on the night of Jan. 31 when the country officially leaves the European Union b...
Libya’s eastern-based forces move to halt oil exports
BENGHAZI, Libya — A move by Libya's east-based forces to choke off oil exports from its territory threatens to throttle much of the country’s oil prod...
Harry, Meghan to quit royal jobs, give up ‘highness’ titles
LONDON — Goodbye, your royal highnesses. Hello, life as — almost — ordinary civilians.
Riots in Lebanon’s capital leave more than 150 injured
BEIRUT — Police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets in Lebanon's capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters amid some of the worst ...
Buttigieg trying now to make it to SC for MLK Day events
FLORENCE, S.C. — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, who has been criticized for his slow outreach to blacks and other minorities, is tr...
Thousands gather for Women’s March rallies across the US
WASHINGTON — Thousands gathered in cities across the country Saturday as part of the nationwide Women's March rallies focused on issues such as climat...
Impeachment lands Sen. Collins in familiar spot: crosshairs
WASHINGTON — Facing perhaps her toughest reelection fight, veteran Sen. Susan Collins has parachuted into familiar terrain — the heart of a hot-button...
Facing Senate trial crunch, Dems blitzing Iowa, early states
NEWTON, Iowa — As a winter storm barreled down on Iowa, Elizabeth Warren’s campaign team struggled with whether to scrap a town hall scheduled at the ...
Rare coin of Britain’s King Edward VIII fetches record $1.3M
LONDON — One of the world's rarest coins, a gold piece bearing the image of Britain's King Edward VIII before his abdication, has sold for 1 million p...
Boy arrested after shooting that killed 4 in small Utah town
A boy armed with a gun killed three children and a woman inside a Utah home, then accompanied a fifth victim to a hospital, where he was arrested, pol...
Going primetime: “The Jump” serving as pregame for ABC games
ESPN has gone through many pairings and approaches trying to build a pregame show during its 18 seasons broadcasting the NBA. This time it's using a s...
2020′s first big test? Not Iowa, but a tiny Texas House race
KATY, Texas — Beto O'Rourke is livestreaming again. Joe Biden and Julián Castro are making their presence felt. Mike Bloomberg has knocked on doors an...
LGBT activists say new bills target transgender youth
SALT LAKE CITY — At the urging of conservative advocacy groups, Republican legislators in more than a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on t...
Cities can’t opt out of legal pot under new state proposal
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico would legalize recreational marijuana sales without exceptions for dissenting cities and counties under a rebooted proposa...
Splits in France’s strike movement trigger fears of violence
PARIS — A French government minister warned that seditious groups bent on violence were hijacking the protest movement against pension reform that has...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s compulsive claims of ‘biggest’ ever
WASHINGTON — Size matters to President Donald Trump. So much that he exaggerates continually, sometimes spectacularly, the size of what he does.
Scientists seek rare species survivors amid Australia flames
Australia’s unprecedented wildfires season has so far charred 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers) of brushland, rainforests, and national ...
China reports 4 more cases in viral pneumonia outbreak
BEIJING — Four more cases have been identified in a viral pneumonia outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that has killed two people and promp...
Amid hacking fears, key caucus states to use app for results
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Two of the first three states to vote in the Democratic presidential race will use new mobile apps to gather results from thousands ...
US to screen airline passengers from China for new illness
NEW YORK — Three U.S. airports will screen passengers arriving from central China for a new virus that has sickened dozens, killed two and prompted wo...
Chicago flights halted; plane slides off Kansas City taxiway
CHICAGO — The Federal Aviation Administration halted all flights in and out of Chicago's O'Hare Airport for hours Friday night due to a sprawling wint...
Winfrey details her decision to withdraw from Simmons film
NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey said Friday that Russell Simmons attempted to pressure her about her involvement with a documentary in which several women de...
Virginia’s highest court upholds weapons ban at gun rally
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's highest court on Friday upheld a ban on firearms at a pro-gun rally in the state's capital next week, an event that authori...
3 more linked to neo-Nazi group arrested in Georgia
WASHINGTON — Three men linked to a violent white supremacist group known as The Base were charged with conspiring to kill members of a militant anti-f...
Witherspoon, Washington team in front of and behind camera
PASADENA, Calif. — Tired of others influencing her career choices, Reese Witherspoon launched her own production company eight years ago. She has been...
Iowa Democrats treat Warren-Sanders dust-up as ‘Who cares?’
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ann Stromquist watched this week’s Democratic presidential debate like the research scientist she is. She studied the candidates' an...
Billionaire Bloomberg is granted financial disclosure delay
WASHINGTON — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won't have to publicly disclose his finances until late March, well after voters in more than a dozen state...