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November 12, 2019

Tourists, Venetians slosh through flooded lagoon city

Tourists and Venetians alike donned high boots and took to strategically placed raised walkways on Tuesday to slosh through ...

November 12, 2019

Zimbabwe says 200 elephants have now died amid drought

More than 200 elephants have died amid a severe drought, Zimbabwe's parks agency said on Tuesday, and a mass relocation of ...

November 12, 2019

Report: Election vendors are 'prime targets,' need oversight

The private companies that make voting equipment and build and maintain voter registration databases lack any meaningful ...

November 12, 2019

France hosts world leaders to address global challenges

French President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders have called for greater international cooperation to ease the world's ...

November 12, 2019

The Latest: EU asks UK to name commissioner even temporarily

The Latest on Britain's Dec. 12 election and the country's impending departure from the European Union (all times local): ...

November 12, 2019

Air quality sinks to 'severe' in haze-shrouded New Delhi

A thick gray haze blanketed India's capital on Tuesday, with authorities attempting to reduce the pollution by sprinkling ...

November 12, 2019

Winds fan ferocious fires in Australia's most populous state

Ferocious wildfires were burning at emergency-level intensity across Australia's most populous state and into Sydney's ...

November 12, 2019

Rare deer-like species photographed for first time in wild

A tiny deer-like species not seen by scientists for nearly 30 years has been photographed in a forest in southern Vietnam, ...

November 12, 2019

Winter already? Snow, deep freeze from Rockies to East Coast

An arctic air mass that brought snow and ice to an area stretching from the Rocky Mountains to northern New England on Monday ...

November 12, 2019

Mini Mercury skips across sun's vast glare in rare transit

Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit. Stargazers used ...

November 11, 2019

Safety officials probing records of work on Southwest jets

Southwest Airlines says it will speed up inspections of dozens of used planes it bought from foreign airlines after federal ...

November 11, 2019

Rebirth, angst and the 'new normal' of California wildfires

Tina Chandler walks outside her home and sniffs the air. "Do you smell smoke?" she asks. Even when the scent is no longer ...

November 11, 2019

Group says misinformation on the rise on Facebook

In a story Nov. 6 about misinformation on Facebook, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a false story about ...

November 11, 2019

Scientific groups remove job posts over LGBTQ policy at BYU

Two well-known scientific groups have dropped job postings from their websites from Brigham Young University because of the ...

November 11, 2019

The most destructive hurricanes are hitting US more often

Big, destructive hurricanes are hitting the U.S. three times more frequently than they did a century ago, according to a new ...

November 11, 2019

Uber CEO walks back comment on Saudi writer's slaying

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is being criticized for calling the murder of a Washington Post columnist "a mistake" and ...

November 11, 2019

Havana celebrates 500th anniversary facing dire challenges

Havana has been ruled by Spanish colonial governors, American-backed strongmen and communist revolutionaries. It's an ...

November 11, 2019

China's auto sales fall 5.8% in October

China's auto sales fell 5.8% from a year earlier in October as demand for electric cars plunged, an industry group reported ...

November 11, 2019

Egypt says it's unearthed large animal mummy, likely a lion

Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities says local archeologists have unearthed the mummy of an unusually large animal, most likely ...

November 11, 2019

Australian state declares emergency due to wildfires

Australia's most populous state declared a state of emergency on Monday due to unprecedented wildfire danger as calls grew ...