The Associated Press

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Updated: 9 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and BILL BARROW
The former president, who is 10 months into home hospice care and hasn’t been seen in public since September, stayed Monday night at The Carter Center, CEO Paige Alexander said, steps from where the former first lady lay in repose.
Ransomware attack prompts multistate hospital chain to divert some emergency room patients elsewhere
Updated: 16 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and JONATHAN MATTISE
Ardent Health Services said it cannot yet confirm the extent of any patient health or financial information that has been compromised.
Hunter Biden offers to testify publicly before Congress, setting up a potential high-stakes face-off
Updated: 48 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Hunter Biden’s lawyer called the inquiry a “fishing expedition.”
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By The Associated Press
They got trapped on Nov. 12, when a landslide caused a portion of the 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) tunnel they were building in Uttarakhand state in India to collapse about 200 meters (650 feet) from the entrance.
In new challenge to indictment, Trump’s lawyers argue he had good basis to question election results
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ERIC TUCKER
A defense motion filed late Monday in federal court in Washington asserts that Trump was not obligated to accept at face value the judgments of government officials who found no widespread fraud in the election.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
Israel has repeatedly vowed to resume the war with “full force” to destroy Hamas once it's clear that no more hostages will be freed under the current agreement's terms.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The list of the accused contained many familiar names from past #MeToo scandals and a few new ones.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press
The Biden administration underscored to the Israelis that they must operate with far greater precision in southern Gaza than they did in the north, officials said.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Gershkovich is the first American reporter to be charged with espionage in Russia since 1986.
Suspect in shooting of 3 men of Palestinian descent near the University of Vermont pleads not guilty
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KATHY McCORMACK
He appeared in court Monday by video from jail, speaking only to confirm his identity.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
“Magic, Wonder and Joy” is the theme this year, the Bidens’ third in the White House.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and SARA CLINE
Family, friends, fans and veterans of the music world mourned the loss of the Grammy-nominated singer who was considered a musical powerhouse and an integral part of New Orleans’ music legacy.
Blinken will return to Israel and the West Bank to discuss further extensions of the Gaza cease-fire
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW LEE
Blinken will travel to Israel and the West Bank after attending Ukraine-focused meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday in Brussels and Skopje, where foreign ministers from NATO and the Organization for Peace and Security in Europe are gathering.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and TIA GOLDENBERG, JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY
The deal for two additional days of cease-fire, announced by Qatar, raised hopes for further extensions, which also allow more aid into Gaza.
Pope Francis getting antibiotics intravenously for lung problem, limiting appointments, Vatican says
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Pope Francis himself on Sunday revealed that he was suffering from the inflammation problem, explaining why he didn’t keep his weekly window appointment to greet people in St. Peter’s Square.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and HALELUYA HADERO
Adobe Analytics, which tracks online shopping, expects consumers to spend between $12.0 billion and $12.4 billion on Monday, making it the biggest online shopping day of all time.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and DEE-ANN DURBIN
Airlines were eager to avoid the meltdowns that marred travel last December when severe winter storms knocked out thousands of flights and left millions of passengers stranded.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JENNIFER PELTZ
Donald Trump’s company no longer prepares the sweeping financial statements that New York state contends were full of deceptive numbers for years, an executive testified Monday at the former president’s civil fraud trial.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The comedian revealed on social media Monday that he’s recovering after surgery, wiping out planned shows for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JOSH BOAK
The announcement comes after supply chain problems fueled higher inflation as the United States recovered from the pandemic.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Accounts that haven’t been used for a long time are more likely to be compromised.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The billionaire met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who scolded him over content on the platform previously known as Twitter, and joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a tour of the Kfar Azza kibbutz.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 10:59 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
Delilah and her baby are in good condition as the calf is now able to stand upright and walk.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 8:39 AM EST
|By The Associated Press and LEANNE ITALIE
2023 marks Merriam-Webster’s 20th anniversary choosing a top word.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 1:16 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
The complaint also alleges the company knew, but never disclosed, it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only acted on a fraction of those accounts.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2023 at 11:17 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
In three years of dating one of the things the couple bonded over is their shared love of hunting.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2023 at 9:37 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
A landslide in southeast Alaska tore down a wooded mountainside, smashing into homes in a remote fishing village.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2023 at 7:30 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
Hamas for the first time says it will seek to extend the deal by looking to release a larger number of hostages.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2023 at 7:26 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Meta communications director Andy Stone was put on the wanted list in February 2022, but authorities made no related statements at the time and no news media reported on the matter until this week.
Republicans want to pair border security with aid for Ukraine. Here’s why that makes a deal so tough
Updated: Nov. 26, 2023 at 6:40 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES
A small, bipartisan group in the Senate is taking the lead and working to find a narrow compromise that can overcome a likely filibuster by winning 60 votes.
Biden says 4-year-old Abigail Edan was released by Hamas, and hopes more U.S. hostages will be freed
Updated: Nov. 26, 2023 at 6:20 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG
Abigail Edan’s transfer is the first successful release of an American hostage since the start of the truce between Israel and Hamas.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2023 at 5:26 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
He skipped his weekly Sunday appearance at a window overlooking St. Peter's Square, a day after the Vatican said he was suffering from a mild flu.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2023 at 4:02 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
In their main habitat the population density of Mexican axolotls has plummeted 99.5% in under two decades, according to scientists behind the fundraiser.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2023 at 8:40 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press
The deal has allowed critical humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and given civilians their first respite after seven weeks of war.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2023 at 8:26 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, is expected to survive serious injury after being stabbed by another inmate at a federal prison in Arizona, the Minnesota attorney general’s office said Saturday while denouncing the attack.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2023 at 2:22 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Honda is recalling select 2023-2024 Accord and HR-V vehicles due to a missing piece in the front seat belt pretensioners, which could increase injury risks during a crash.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2023 at 10:32 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
Pope Francis went to the hospital Saturday for tests after he came down with the flu, but the results ruled out any respiratory problems, the Vatican said.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2023 at 12:11 AM EST
|By The Associated Press and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer
The nation’s largest retail trade group expects shoppers will spend more this year than last year.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2023 at 8:57 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2023 at 7:48 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The wreck prompted widespread concern on both sides of the border.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2023 at 6:42 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and WAFAA SHURAFA, BASSEM MROUE and DAVID RISING Associated Press
The truce-for-hostages deal was reached in weeks of intense indirect negotiations, with Qatar, the United States and Egypt serving as mediators.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2023 at 4:42 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Tiffany Haddish was arrested Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence, police said.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2023 at 3:24 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Kentucky officials and crews with rail operator CSX were working Friday to remove train cars and spilled material at the site of a derailment that sparked a chemical fire earlier in the week and prompted home evacuations in a nearby small town.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2023 at 1:58 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
Pistorius testified at his murder trial that he killed Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was a dangerous intruder hiding in his bathroom.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2023 at 10:36 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
London was welcomed via surrogate, Hilton’s representative confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2023 at 10:21 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Kentucky's governor declared a state of emergency in the state.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2023 at 10:07 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and WAFAA SHURAFA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press
The war has leveled vast swaths of Gaza, fueled a surge of violence in the occupied West Bank and stirred fears of a wider conflagration across the Middle East.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2023 at 9:37 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Local police are now handling the case as a traffic investigation.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2023 at 6:07 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in the state Supreme Court in Manhattan by a woman known in the documents only as Jane Doe alleges that the actor groped her against her will.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2023 at 12:12 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The parade starts on Manhattan’s upper west side and makes its way alongside Central Park in front of big crowds and a national television audience before ending up in front of Macy’s flagship store on 34th Street.