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By LINDSEY BAHR Associated Press For the film buff in your life, there are plenty of gift options that go beyond a ticket to the movies. Those in Los Angeles, or planning a trip to Hollywood, might enjoy a ticket to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to check out Bruce the shark from “Jaws.”

By KRISTIN SHAW Edmunds Cadillac unveiled the CT4-V Blackwing as a new-for-2022 version of the CT4 sedan, which the luxury brand debuted in 2020. As the Blackwing, Cadillac’s sporty sedan can hold its own against European rivals. That includes the ferocious BMW’s M3, which has been a staple in the German brand’s lineup for decades.

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday that a missile strike in Polish farmland that killed two people appeared to be unintentional and was probably launched by air defenses in neighboring Ukraine. Russia had been bombarding Ukraine at the time

By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Six weeks before taking power, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday told a packed crowd at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt that his administration would crack down on illegal deforestation and thrust Latin America’s largest and most populous nation to the

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto urged lawmakers not to remove presidential terms limits from the country’s constitution, dismissing comments by a legislator that there should be no such limits on a capable leader. Kenya’s constitution says a president can only serve for two terms, and many Kenyans

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran. That’s according to a Mideast-based defense official and an Israeli official who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — A passenger ferry carrying 271 people has caught fire off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali but there are no immediate reports of casualties and evacuation efforts are ongoing. The ferry was carrying 236 passengers and 35 crew members when it caught fire in the Bali Strait on Wednesday. Dozens of

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Wednesday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait has put to death seven prisoners in a rare mass execution in the small, oil-rich nation despite international criticism. The state-run KUNA news agency confirmed the executions took place Wednesday, despite an international outcry.  It identified those killed as three Kuwaiti men, one

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer 90% of counties in the United States suffered a weather-related disaster between 2011-2021, according to a report published on Wednesday. The authors of the report found that some counties experienced as many as 12 disasters over that ten-year period and that the U.S. had 20 disasters that cost at

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western backers of Ukraine threw their weight Wednesday behind an investigation into why and how a missile that Poland said was Russian-made came down in Polish farmland, killing two people, when Russia was savaging the Ukrainian power grid with missiles

By ADAM SCHRECK and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Members of the Group of 20 leading economies have ended their summit in Indonesia with a declaration of firm condemnation of the war in Ukraine and a warning that the conflict is making an already delicate world economy worse. The closing statement

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Jimmy Johnson won two Super Bowls as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys and a national championship at Miami. He’s in the Pro Football, College Football and NAB Broadcasting halls of fame. In his view, Johnson’s biggest success has nothing to do with football. The 79-year-old Johnson describes

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Qatar’s decision to launch itself into hosting the 2022 World Cup was a head-scratcher from the start. Why, some wondered, would a Middle Eastern emirate with fewer than 3 million people and little soccer tradition want to host the sport’s biggest event? Skeptics say the country wanted to use

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran. That’s according to a Mideast-based defense official who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday on condition of anonymity

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatari World Cup organizers have apologized to a Danish television station whose live broadcast from a street in Doha was interrupted by officials who threatened to break camera equipment. Tournament organizers acknowledge journalists from the TV2 channel “were mistakenly interrupted” late Tuesday. Reporter Rasmus Tantholdt was speaking live to a news

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities locked down a major university in Beijing on Wednesday after finding one COVID-19 case as they stick to a “zero-COVID” approach despite growing public discontent. Peking University students and faculty were not allowed to leave the grounds unless necessary and classes on the main campus

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Government ministers are returning to Egypt to take over negotiations at this year’s U.N. climate talks, providing diplomats with the political backing they need to clinch credible agreements that would help prevent disastrous levels of warming in the coming decades. Talks in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh got

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — European stock benchmarks mostly edged higher in early trading Wednesday after Asian shares finished generally lower. Investors have been jittery over global risks after Poland said a Russian-made missile killed two people there. France’s CAC 40 edged up 0.1% in early trading to 6,650.25, while Germany’s

By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Members of the Group of 20 leading economies have ended their meeting by declaring that most of them strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and warning that the conflict is intensifying fragilities in the world’s economy. The summit’s closing declaration Wednesday is noteworthy in highlighting