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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The leader of the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. signed legislation Saturday to ban smoking in many indoor locations, including the tribe’s casinos. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez calls the ban “a monumental achievement and bold step in the right direction to promote healthy living” among the Navajo

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking on Twitter whether he should sell 10% of his stock in the electric-vehicle company amid pressure in Washington to increase taxes on billionaires like him. Some Democrats have been pushing for billionaires to pay taxes when the price of the stocks they hold

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking on Twitter whether he should sell 10% of his stock in the electric-vehicle company amid pressure in Washington to increase taxes on billionaires like him. Some Democrats have been pushing for billionaires to pay taxes when the price of the stocks they hold

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana appeal court has thrown out the 90-year prison sentence for a drunken driver who struck nine bicycle riders near a Mardi Gras parade route in 2019, killing two of them. The state 4th Circuit Court of Appeal said the judge who sentenced Tashonty Toney

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s ruling presidential council says it has suspended the county’s chief diplomat, accusing her of not coordinating foreign policy with the council. The three-member council acts as Libya’s president and its decree Saturday says it also has barred Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush from traveling abroad pending an investigation into what it describes

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — As this year’s U.N. climate talks go into their second week, negotiations on key topics are inching forward. Officials are upbeat about the prospects for tangible progress in the fight against global warming. But it remains to be seen whether officials can agree on a series

By ERALDO PERES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press GOIANIA, BRAZIL (AP) — Tens of thousands of fans of Brazilian country music singer Marília Mendonça have gathered to pay tribute to the 26-year-old Latin Grammy winner. Mendonça and four other people died in a plane crash Friday on their way to a concert. Mourners lined up

By The Associated Press Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will miss Sunday’s game at Kansas City after being placed in the NFL’s COVID-19 protocol. Because he is unvaccinated, he must stay isolated for at least 10 days.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday granted an emergency stay of the requirement by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration that those workers be vaccinated by Jan. 4,

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ interior minister says his French counterpart has agreed to help initiate talks with French-speaking African countries for a deal to take back their citizens whose asylum applications have been rejected. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Saturday that French counterpart Gerald Darmanin made the pledge during a visit. Nouris said “the

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — As this year’s U.N. climate talks go into their second week, negotiations on key topics are inching forward. Officials are upbeat about the prospects for tangible progress in the fight against global warming. But it remains to be seen whether officials can agree on a series

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Two missing Oregon women were found in an Idaho forest Friday, the mother dead from the elements and the disabled daughter alive with their broken down vehicle. The Spokesman Review reports a hunter discovered the mother’s body in the Solitaire Saddle area of the Panhandle National Forest and reported it

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — As this year’s U.N. climate talks go into their second week, negotiations on key topics are inching forward. Officials are upbeat about the prospects for tangible progress in the fight against global warming. But it remains to be seen whether officials can agree on a series

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is disputing Nick Rolovich’s statements that the Democrat targeted the former Washington State University football coach with his statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all public employees. The Spokesman Review reports Inslee spokesperson Mike Faulk said of the coach: “He’s just wrong.” That’s in response to Rolovich’s 34-page

RUSTAVI, Georgia (AP) — Hundreds of protesters are rallying outside a prison in Georgia to demand that the country’s incarcerated former President Mikheil Saakashvili be transferred to a private clinic because he is weakening while on a hunger strike. Saakashvili declared the hunger strike hours after being put in the prison in Rustavi, south of

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The leader of North Macedonia’s center-right opposition VMRO-DPMNE party says he has secured a majority in Parliament to submit a no confidence vote against the leftist cabinet after a small ethnic Albanian party announced it has left the ruling coalition.  Hristijan Mickoski has set Monday as the deadline dateline for

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Tens of thousands of climate activists are marching through Glasgow, Scotland, for a second day of protests outside the U.N. climate summit.  Climate protests were also held Saturday in other cities across Europe, including London, Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin, Copenhagen, Zurich and

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Crowds have gathered in Warsaw any in many other Polish cities Saturday to protest restrictive abortion law that critics say has led to a recent death of a woman with troubled pregnancy. The protesters are holding portraits of the woman, 30-year-old Iza, who died in hospital from septic shock. Her family