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By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — If there was a decade when the NBA nearly disintegrated under the weight of its own problems, the 1970s was that decade. It was a fight-filled, drug-addled operation that had made Black players an integral part of the show, only to be left wondering if

By INNA VARENYTSIA and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press NEVELSKE, Ukraine (AP) — The seven-year-old conflict in eastern Ukraine has all but emptied the village of Nevelske located near the line of contact between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. Only five people still live in the village. That’s down from a population of 286 in 2014.

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she is clear-eyed about her mission to force a reckoning around the nation’s self-image. But she said intense backlash to her work shows the nation is in “a very frightening time.”

SYDNEY (AP) — Four children have died and four others are in critical condition after falling from a bouncy castle that was lifted 10 meters (33 feet) into the air by a gust of wind at a school on Australia’s island state of Tasmania on Thursday. The school was holding a celebration to mark the

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has detected its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in a cleaning worker at a hospital in Jakarta. The patient has no symptoms and is being quarantined at the Athlete’s Village emergency hospital, where the patient worked. The government created the facility

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing Winter Olympics organizers say measures to prevent cross-infections between athletes and the outside world are being extended to holding their garbage inside the bubble dividing the two. Officials say that a team of special workers will be deployed to collect and transfer garbage inside the bubbles to prevent the risk of

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The largest mosque in the disputed region of Kashmir dominates its neighborhood with an imposing main gate and massive turrets. It can hold 33,000 worshippers. But Indian authorities see the mosque as a trouble spot — a nerve center for protests and clashes that challenge India’s

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City jury has heard four women detail accusations that they were teens when they became victims of a sex-abuse scheme devised by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Starting Thursday, Maxwell’s attorneys are expected to make their case that Maxwell isn’t the one to blame. The British socialite’s trial

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hospitals in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul are running out of supplies, whether it is diesel fuel to produce supplemental oxygen for COVID-19 patients, or dozens of essential drugs. Employees also have not been paid their salaries for months. The crisis in Afghanistan’s health care system has

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After a dozen years in office, one piece of unfinished business remains for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. before he retires at the end of the month. Will the prosecutor known for his caution go out with a bang by bringing criminal charges against

By SEAN MURPHY and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) — Several tightknit communities of the South and Midwest are turning to the somber task of burying their dead after tornadoes killed dozens of people across eight states. The fierce storms that started Friday night tore a path of destruction from Arkansas to

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California workplace regulators extended the state’s coronavirus pandemic regulations into next year with revisions that businesses say could worsen the labor shortage. The main change in the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board’s revised rule Thursday erases current distinctions between vaccinated and unvaccinated employees. Both