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By MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — When he was acquitted of murder for shootings during unrest in Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse went from staring at possible life behind bars to red-hot star of the right. He taped an exclusive interview with Tucker Carlson and went with his mom to visit

PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says four suspected traffickers were arrested on suspicion of being linked to a deadly migrant boat sinking in the English Channel that killed at least 31 people. Two of the suspects appeared in court Wednesday, and all four are suspected of a link to the sunken boat, Interior Minister

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Officials say a Palestinian man was critically wounded after Israeli settlers pelted his car with stones as he drove through the occupied West Bank, causing him to veer off the road and crash. A Palestinian Authority official said Wednesday the man lost control of his vehicle when rocks hurled by

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities say they will allow 500 members of the Gaza Strip’s tiny Christian community to enter Israel and the occupied West Bank to celebrate Christmas. Israel has in the past allowed Gazans to exit the blockaded territory for Christmas, though the practice was frozen last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new government report suggests U.S. abortions may be inching up after a long decline. However, the report is incomplete and officials so far are cautious about calling it an upward trend. In 2017, national abortion statistics reached their lowest level since the 1973 U.S.

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Pres TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s deputy foreign minister has canceled meetings with Belgian officials after a decision by Brussels to begin labeling products made in Jewish West Bank settlements. Idan Roll said Wednesday on Twitter he was scrapping meetings with the Belgian Foreign Ministry and parliament during a visit

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors have convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery. He was the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their Georgia neighborhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice. The

PARIS (AP) — At least 27 migrants bound for Britain died when their boat sank in the English Channel in an unusually deadly sinking on the dangerous crossing, according to a French police official. A joint French-British operation to search for survivors was still under way Wednesday evening. About 50 people were believed to be

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s appropriate that at the center of a film called “The Humans” is Richard Jenkins, a character-actor everyman extraordinaire. The film, directed by Stephen Karam from his Tony-winning play, is a starry ensemble led by a typically humble yet tour-de-force performance by Jenkins. The 74-year-old

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz is set to become post-World War II Germany’s ninth chancellor, crowning a career that has seen him serve in a string of top government posts, after leading his party to an election comeback that appeared hugely unlikely just a few months ago. The 63-year-old on

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Regulators have given approval to a plan by the Tennessee Valley Authority to bury toxin-laden coal ash in southeast Memphis. A spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation told The Commercial Appeal on Tuesday that the federal utility received final approval last week. TVA plans to have a contractor

DENVER (AP) — A federal judge has ordered two lawyers who filed a class action lawsuit alleging the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump to pay more than $180,000 in attorney’s fees for the defendants. U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter said the lawsuit was a publicity stunt to manipulate “gullible members of

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is moving ahead with plans to build a massive Jewish settlement on the site of a long-abandoned airport. The Palestinians had hoped the airport would one day service their future capital in east Jerusalem. It’s one of several settlement projects that are advancing despite criticism from

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks turned mixed on Wall Street Wednesday as the market continues an unsettled period of trading ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. The S&P 500 slipped less than 0.1%. The benchmark index, which set a record high last Thursday, was being pushed and

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Many Brazilians felt bearish about the new Wall Street-inspired bull sculpture outside the stock exchange, and didn’t have to wait long for it to crash: The statue has been removed a week after it was installed. The exchange had hoped to bestow the rundown city center

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The Biden administration approved an offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island and New York as part of a plan to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Wednesday it approved the construction and operations of the South Fork

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish riot police have dispersed a protest in Istanbul by demonstrators denouncing the government’s economic policies and the surging cost of living. The protesters, mostly members of left-wing groups, were starting to gather in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district on Wednesday, when police intervened. The protesters were chanting slogans calling for President Recep Tayyip

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 1,000 anti-vaccine demonstrators have rallied in the Ukrainian capital to denounce coronavirus restrictions, in the second such protest this month. The protesters, many of them members of radical nationalist groups, gathered outside the parliament building Wednesday and marched across downtown Kyiv carrying placards reading

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is already a veteran at surprising the world in just three years in power. He has done it again this week by announcing that, after a year of waging war, he would now lead it

LONDON (AP) — Collins Dictionary has chosen the term NFT as its word of the year after surging interest in the digital tokens that can sell for millions of dollars brought it into the mainstream.  NFT is short for non-fungible token. Collins defines it as “a unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is