Health officials urge Americans to stay home during the holiday season and consider getting virus tests if they travel.

ATLANTA (AP) — Health officials urge Americans to stay home during the holiday season and consider getting virus tests if they travel.

Who, when and how? A look at the UK's vaccination rollout

LONDON (AP) — British regulators have become the first to authorize the COVID-19 vaccine developed by American drugmaker

Son of Venezuela's Maduro emerges, runs for congress

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — For most of his life, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's only son has lived quietly in the shadow of his father, trying to dedicate himself to music even as he took tentative steps into…

Putin orders 'large-scale' vaccination of doctors, teachers

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered the start of a “large-scale” COVID-19 vaccination of doctors and teachers late next week with the Sputnik V shot, which has yet to complete advanc…

Dutch police: 3 injured in stabbing in store in The Hague

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Three staff members were injured in a stabbing and fire at a supermarket in a busy shopping street in The Hague on Wednesday, police said. A suspect was later arrested and was being qu…

Iran's president opposes bill that would boost enrichment

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday expressed his opposition to a bill approved by parliament the previous day to suspend U.N. inspections and boost uranium enrichment, saying it would …

Man pleads guilty to killing woman after remains found

LANCASTER, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to killing a woman whose remains were found six months after she disappeared, according to court records.

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FBI agent shot, Ohio homicide suspect killed in Louisiana

PINEVILLE, La. (AP) — An FBI agent was wounded, an Ohio homicide suspect was killed and the woman he was accused of abducting was found safe following a shooting at a Louisiana hotel while the agent was executing a…

UN calls on humanity to end 'war on nature,' go carbon-free

As an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its “war on nature” and commits to a fut…

OAS nations pressure ICC prosecutor to act on Venezuela

NEW YORK (AP) — The leadership of a broad coalition of Western Hemisphere nations on Wednesday accused the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor of failing to take swift action on allegations that Venezue…

Stocks ease below records in early trading on Wall Street

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening moderately lower on Wall Street, edging below the record highs they set a day earlier. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% shortly after the opening bell Wednesday. Technology stocks had some o…

St. Paul police chief: Officer shouldn't have shot Black man

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A St. Paul officer who shot and wounded a Black man who emerged naked from a dumpster while being sought in connection with a sexual assault failed to measure up to department standards, the …

Olympic fans from abroad may have health tracked by app

TOKYO (AP) — A mobile app could be among the measures used to track the health of fans from abroad if they are permitted to attend next year's Tokyo Olympics.

Israeli lawmakers take a step toward new national elections

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel took a major step toward plunging into its fourth national election in under two years on Wednesday as lawmakers — supported by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main coalition partner — p…