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Saudi crown prince in 1st visit to Qatar after embargo ended

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Saudi Arabia's crown prince visited Qatar on Thursday, his first trip to Doha since the kingdom rallied other Arab states to end their yearslong rift and embargo of ...

Dec 09, 2021

UK Prime Minister Johnson's wife gives birth to baby girl

LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie have announced the birth of a baby girl. Johnson's office says a healthy baby, the couple's second child together, was born in a ...

Dec 09, 2021

Father, son arrested in wildfire that threatened Lake Tahoe

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A father and son were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of starting a massive California wildfire that destroyed many homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee Lake ...

Dec 08, 2021

Meadows sues as Jan. 6 panel proceeds with contempt case

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday sued the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection as the chairman of the panel pledged to move ...

Dec 08, 2021

Congress set to change military sexual assault prosecutions

WASHINGTON (AP) - After years of debate, Congress is on track to change how the U.S. military handles sexual assault cases, by taking some authority out of the hands of commanders and instead using in...

Dec 08, 2021

Coast Guard diver pulls body from car above Niagara Falls

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - A U.S. Coast Guard diver lowed from the sky Wednesday braved frigid rapids to get to a car submerged in water near the brink of Niagara Falls, only to find it was too late t...

Dec 08, 2021

Murdaugh killings in South Carolina unsolved 6 months later

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - More than six months after the wife and son of a prominent South Carolina lawyer were gunned down at the family's estate, their killings remain unsolved. But while little is said...

Dec 08, 2021

The AP Interview: CDC chief says omicron mostly mild so far

NEW YORK (AP) - More than 40 people in the U.S. have been found to be infected with the omicron variant so far, and more than three-quarters of them had been vaccinated, the chief of the CDC said Wedn...

Dec 08, 2021

COVID cases spike even as US hits 200M vaccine milestone

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 reached 200 million Wednesday amid a dispiriting holiday-season spike in cases and hospitalizations that has hit even ...

Dec 08, 2021

Woods to make return from car crash at PNC Championship

Ten months after his right leg was badly damaged in a car crash, Tiger Woods is returning to competition next week with 12-year-old son Charlie in the PNC Championship. "Although it's been a long and ...

Dec 08, 2021