Ex-judicial candidate disciplined for anti-Muslim comments
MIAMI — A retired Florida lawyer and former judicial candidate has been disciplined by the Florida Supreme Court for making disparaging comments on so...
South Carolina to rent out former Turner family beach house
ST. PHILLIPS ISLAND, S.C. — Guests will soon be able to rent a beach house that once belonged to billionaire Ted Turner's family on a private South Ca...
Forest ecologist helps refashion Barbie dolls as scientists
SALT LAKE CITY — When Nalini Nadkarni was a kid, she’d run home from school, climb into one of the eight maple trees in her parents’ backyard and spen...
California’s Gov. Newsom had ‘baptism by fire’ in 1st year
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — During his inaugural address last January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom made only a passing reference to wildfires and never ment...
French unions behind strikes get public funds
PARIS — As France's strikes entered their 26th day Monday, some in the country are questioning if the labor unions that are driving the crippling stop...
Global shares mixed as investors eye NKorea, China-US trade
TOKYO — Global shares were mixed Monday as Chinese benchmarks surged on expectations of lower financing costs following a policy decision by the count...
Fred Graham, pioneering legal affairs journalist, dies at 88
WASHINGTON — Fred P. Graham, who covered the Supreme Court and momentous legal affairs of his era for The New York Times, CBS News and Court TV, has d...
Liz Weston: When leasing a car is the more frugal option
If you need a car, the most frugal option is to buy one that’s 2 to 3 years old, pay cash and drive it until the wheels fall off.
Police, victims warn against firing guns on New Year’s Eve
Kaitlyn Kong thought she had been punched hard in the abdomen as she stood among thousands of people in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, as the new ...
Sudan sentences 27 to death for torturing, killing protester
CAIRO — A court in Sudan on Monday sentenced 27 members of the country's security forces to death for torturing and killing a detained protester durin...
2020 Watch: Messy primary finally meets election year
ATLANTA — The presidential politics calendar turned to 2020 nearly a year ago. This week, the actual date catches up. What we’re watching as the prese...
Putin weighs future options as he marks 20 years in power
MOSCOW — As Russian President Vladimir Putin marks two decades in power , he boasts about his achievements but remains coy about his political future ...
New Year’s fireworks OK’d in Sydney as wildfire risk worsens
PERTH, Australia — Sydney will set off its iconic New Year's fireworks display after being granted an exemption to a total fire ban Monday as other Au...
Congressman John Lewis says cancer is his latest battle
ATLANTA — As a civil rights activist at 25, John Lewis was beaten so badly his skull was fractured and the TV images from an Alabama bridge in the 196...
After brain surgery, Jimmy Carter returns to hometown church
PLAINS, Ga. — Former President Jimmy Carter publicly appeared Sunday at the Georgia church where he worships for the first time since undergoing brain...
In Afghanistan, jailed Taliban await peace, their freedom
PUL-E-CHARKHI, Afghanistan — Thousands of Taliban prisoners jailed in Afghanistan as insurgents see a peace deal being hammered out between the United...
As robots take over warehousing, workers pushed to adapt
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. — Guess who's getting used to working with robots in their everyday lives? The very same warehouse workers once predicted to be los...
Police: Parishioners kill man who fatally shoots 2 at church
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — A man pulled out a shotgun at a Texas church service and fired on worshippers Sunday, killing two people before he was shot ...
Jewish leaders urge action after another ‘senseless’ attack
NEW YORK — When a suspect walked into the home of a rabbi celebrating Hanukkah and stabbed five celebrants it was the latest in a week of anti-Semitic...
US strikes hit Iraqi militia blamed in contractor’s death
WASHINGTON — The U.S. carried out military strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed ...
NTSB: Poor condition of wreckage will slow plane crash probe
The lack of a distress call and flight data recorder coupled with mangled and charred wreckage will make finding the cause of a fiery airplane crash i...
Buttigieg critiques Biden’s ‘judgment’ on Iraq War vote
KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday called former Vice President Joe Biden’s vote to authorize the Iraq War p...
Polish PM accuses Putin of lying about outbreak of WWII
WARSAW, Poland — Poland's prime minister said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been lying in remarks blaming Poland for the outbreak o...
Putin thanks Trump for helping foil terrorist acts in Russia
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with President Donald Trump on Sunday to thank him for information that Putin said helped Russia foil ...
Sports editor apologizes for tweeting ‘scalps’ after game
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — A sports editor for a New Mexico newspaper apologized this week after using “scalps” in a tweet to describe a high school basketb...
5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration in latest attack on Jews
MONSEY, N.Y. — A knife-wielding man stormed into a rabbi's home and stabbed five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community no...
‘Skywalker’ rises again; ‘Little Women’ go big at box office
LOS ANGELES — “Star Wars” was still rising in the last weekend of the year, while “Little Women” broke big at the box office.
Trump faces raft of foreign policy challenges in new year
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump starts the new year knee-deep in daunting foreign policy challenges at the same time he'll have to deal with a lik...
The King reigns: LeBron James is AP’s male athlete of decade
He left Cleveland for Miami, finally became a champion, went back to his beloved northeast Ohio, delivered on another title promise, then left for the...