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ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press VALBUENA, Spain (AP) — Police in Spain are investigating the robbery of 45 valuable bottles of wine from an upscale private collection. The thieves checked in as guests at a luxurious hotel, dined at its Michelin-starred restaurant and later deceived an employee to sneak into a massive cellar, where they hand-picked

ATLANTA (AP) — Longtime Atlanta news anchor Jovita Moore has died after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. She was 53. WSB-TV, where Moore had worked since 1998, announced Friday that Moore died Thursday night from glioblastoma. “After a nearly 7-month battle with an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer, our colleague

By DAVID McHUGH and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — The global economy is giving leaders of the Group of 20 countries a lot to talk about at their summit this weekend in Rome. The presidents and prime ministers representing 80% of the global economy will confront a recovery hampered by an energy crunch

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Toyota says it is investing $461 million into its first U.S. plant to add new technology, increase production flexibility and reduce its carbon footprint. The announcement Friday didn’t include new jobs at the central Kentucky facility, but officials said 1,400 temporary jobs would be converted into permanent positions. The company said

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s environment minister has pledged to retaliate if France carries through on threats to block U.K. ships from French ports. He warned Friday that “two can play at that game’’ in the worsening dispute rooted in Britain’s departure from the European Union. Britain summoned the French ambassador

By JOHN RABY Associated Press KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia was at the forefront of U.S. state rollouts when coronavirus vaccines became available in January. Those days are a distant memory. Only about half of West Virginia residents are fully vaccinated. According to federal health data, the number of doses administered per capita in

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Witches and warlocks, ghosts and ghouls can breathe a little easier this Halloween: Coronavirus cases in the U.S. are generally on the decline, and trick-or-treaters can feel safer collecting candy. And while a new poll indicates Halloween participation is rebounding but still short of

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has forced the closure of the U.S. Embassy’s Public Diplomacy and USAID offices in a move that comes amid the tensions with the U.S. and its allies over Belarusian authorities’ crackdown on protests. Samantha Power, the U.S. Agency for International Development’s administrator, said Friday that

By JOSH BOAK, ZEKE MILLER and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden says Pope Francis told him he’s a “good Catholic” and should keep taking Communion when the world’s two most prominent Roman Catholics met at the Vatican on Friday. Some conservatives have called for Biden to be denied the sacrament

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara for a year, expressing concern at the breakdown of the 1991 cease-fire between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front and calling for a revival of U.N.-led negotiations. The vote on

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is challenging  G-20 leaders to overcome “dangerous levels of mistrust” among themselves to urgently and jointly tackle climate change and vaccine inequality with the developing world. Guterres spoke to reporters in Rome on Friday on the eve of the Group of 20 summit

BERLIN (AP) — German police say they have found an Iraqi man dead inside a small truck near the Polish border in a suspected people-smuggling effort gone wrong. Police said Friday they found the body after officers spotted about 30 people getting out of the truck near the eastern town of Goerlitz. The 42-year-old driver

By LISA MASCARO and SARA BURNETT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois says he will not seek reelection next year. Kinzinger is a critic of Donald Trump’s who is on the panel investigating the deadly Capitol attack. The military veteran was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — One of several legal challenges to North Carolina’s contentious voter ID law is on hold amid a dispute over whether two justices on the state Supreme Court should recuse themselves. The state NAACP’s request that Phil Berger Jr. and ex-Sen. Tamara Barringer be disqualified further

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Puneeth Rajkumar, a leading star of southern Indian regional cinema, has died after a massive heart attack. He was 46. Rajkumar was a lead actor in 29 movies and also appeared on television, where he was the host of India’s version of “Who Wants to be

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Merriam-Webster has added 455 new words to its venerable dictionary. The list includes a number of abbreviations and slang terms that have become ubiquitous on social media. Among them are dadbod, amirite, TBH and FTW. The coronavirus pandemic also contributed new terms to the lexicon, such as super-spreader, long COVID and

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In a story published October 28, 2021, about a Saudi Arabian investment forum, The Associated Press misstated the name of the program. It is the Future Investment Initiative, not the Foreign Investment Initiative. It also misstated the name of the location. It is the King Abdullah Financial District, not Economic

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Four weeks after an oil spill off Southern California’s coast, surfers have been allowed to return to the waves and people can play in the surf. But fishermen still can’t put lines in the water along the coast. California has prohibited fishing in an area

By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s reached a “historic” framework with congressional Democrats on his sweeping but scaled-back domestic policy plan. But Biden still must secure votes from a few skeptical fellow Democrats. Biden announced the framework at the White House after he

WEST PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The King of Rock n’ Roll is back in the building. An Elvis Presley bust that was swiped from a central Illinois saloon has been returned after the story of its theft attracted international attention. The Peoria Journal Star reports that employees at Jimmy’s Bar found the missing bust Thursday