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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is celebrating Christmas the way millions of Americans do: surrounded by family, the White House said. But unlike most Americans, he released a brief video in which his wife, Melania, joined him to "...

CHICAGO (AP) — The good news for many in the Northeast and Midwest was that it has been a white Christmas. The bad news was that a blizzard swept into parts of New England and bitter cold enveloped much of the Midwest. Even the usually rainy P...

The U.S. government says it has negotiated a significant cut in the United Nations budget. The U.S. Mission to the United Nations said on Sunday that the U.N.'s 2018-2019 budget would be slashed by over $285 million. The mission said reductions...

ATLANTA (AP) — When Adele MacLean joined others in an Atlanta park to feed the hungry the Sunday before Thanksgiving, she left with a citation and a summons to appear in court. The case was dropped when she showed up in court earlier this month, b...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian election officials on Monday formally barred Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president, prompting calls from him for a boycott of next year's vote. The Central Election Commission decided unanimously t...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's president announced on Christmas Eve that the Central American country will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, becoming the first nation to follow the lead of U.S. President Donald Trump in ordering the c...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's president announced Sunday night that he granted a medical pardon to jailed former strongman Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, corruption and the sanctioning of death squads. Presid...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said it is a "pipe dream" for the United States to think it will give up its nuclear weapons, and called the latest U.N. sanctions to target the country "an act of war" that violates its sovereignty. The U.N. S...

WASHINGTON (AP) — To hear Donald Trump talk, you'd think Barack Obama was the president who stole Christmas. Although Trump doesn't generally single him out by name on this subject, the president's meaning is unmistakable when he declares, as he h...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Tens of thousands of villagers in the southern Philippines spent their Christmas morning in emergency shelters Monday as the region dealt with the aftermath of a powerful storm that left more than 150 people dead. T...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University plans to offer an online bachelor's degree in homeland security, beginning next spring. The Board of Regents on Wednesday approved the proposal to offer students an overview of homeland security with a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Regulators and scientists say the number of 3.0 magnitude or stronger earthquakes in Oklahoma is declining. The Oklahoma Geological Survey reports the number of quakes of at least that magnitude during 2017 was 294 through m...

CORONA, N.M. (AP) — The State Land Office has issued a lease to a subsidiary of a California-based energy company to build a wind farm on trust land in New Mexico. Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn announced the 50-year lease late last week, saying C...

MOROVIS, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three days before Christmas, Doris Martinez and daughter Miriam Narvaez joined their neighbors in a line outside city hall in Morovis, a town of 30,000 people still living without electricity in the mountains of central P...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he's relying on daily physical therapy, medication and prayer to manage Parkinson's disease, but he showed few signs of slowing down Monday as he carried on a decades-old Christmas tradition with a sermon t...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Earlier this month, with homicides at a near-record high in Ohio's capital and biggest city, the Columbus police chief declared a "call for action, and a call for peace" in hopes of reducing the killing. "This holiday season i...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A technical school in Kansas will be offering a practical nursing program to help alleviate the state's shortage of nurses. The Salina Area Technical College will begin offering the program starting next fall for up to 40 s...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman with Down syndrome has been hired at a hospital through a program that aims to find paid employment for people with developmental disabilities. Tabby Hedgcorth, 24, is a dishwasher at Cox Medical Center in Spr...

WINONA, Minn. (AP) — Myrna Engh loved to travel, loved spending time with her friends in Las Vegas. Her stuffed pork chops and jambalaya were too good for this world, say those who would know. And even in her twilight years, her late 70s, Engh l...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A 6-year-old Hawaii boy's moving letter to Santa Claus asking the jolly figure to remove his grandmother's cancer and to bring them a few new things did not go unanswered. Xaymien Kela also asked Santa for "a new bed for us" a...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A team of college students is getting attention from internet companies and Congress after developing a browser extension that alerts users to fake and biased news stories and helps guide them to more balanced coverage. The pl...

DANNEBROG, Neb. (AP) — In 1941 Lois Margaret Frandsen of Dannebrog sent a Christmas card to her cousin, Janice "Neicie" Hansen, who was living at a military base with her new husband in Spokane, Washington. The card pictured a Scottish man in a k...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas students will have to undergo CPR training to graduate high school starting next fall. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the state Board of Education approved the new requirement earlier this month. Kansas will b...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A couple from Louisburg is celebrating four Christmas miracles. Kaitlin and Josh Hartman are preparing to bring home four healthy babies from Overland Park Regional Medical Center next month. The Kansas City Star reports t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man has been imprisoned for killing a pedestrian on July 4 last year. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Jason Patterson, of Topeka, was given two years and 10 months Tuesday. He'd pleaded guilty to reckless involuntary m...