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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The American Film Institute on Wednesday selected "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" as one of the best films of the year.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers will be without their starting running back on Sunday against the New York Giants as they look to keep their unbeaten season intact.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA has thrown its considerable heft behind efforts to get Indiana lawmakers to add LGBT civil rights protections into state law.

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt put the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun back on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo on Wednesday evening after the relic was repaired following a botched at…

Members of the state's Budget Section rejected giving dollars to Job Service North Dakota to delay layoffs amid concerns of setting a precedent by providing money to a federal agency.

There actually is a reason to tune in for Thursday night's lackluster matchup of Tampa Bay at St. Louis: Jameis Winston.

DUBLIN (AP) — The lead singer of the Irish rock band The Cranberries, Dolores O'Riordan, has pleaded guilty to assaulting three policemen and a flight attendant during an alleged psychotic epi…

NEW YORK (AP) — The PBS series "Finding Your Roots" has discovered that political television's polar opposite Bills — Maher and O'Reilly — are distant cousins.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri state lawmaker has withdrawn a bill that sought to strip scholarships from college athletes who go on strike or refuse to play for reasons unrelated to health.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican presidential debates continue to be a big television draw, with 18 million people tuning in to the confrontation from Las Vegas on Tuesday night.

HAVANA (AP) — A group of Cuban-born baseball stars once disdained by the island's government for defecting to the United States taught their craft to some of the island's youngest players on W…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is the latest state in which lawmakers are examining the booming fantasy sports betting industry and how it might be regulated.

CANASTOTA, N.Y. (AP) — The late Hector "Macho" Camacho, a three-division champion, flamboyant showman and one of boxing's most colorful characters, has been elected to the International Boxing…

NEW YORK (AP) — From adult coloring books to a new novel by Harper Lee, it was a year for unexpected hits and hits that sold well in paper editions.

NEW YORK (AP) — British playwright Lucy Prebble's "The Effect," about the relationship between science and love, will make its North American debut this spring at the Barrow Street Theatre.

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — A television reporter was doing a live update on a Minnesota bank robbery when police say the suspect returned to rob it a second time.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rights groups are lobbying rapper Nicki Minaj to cancel her upcoming concert in Angola, a southern African country often criticized for human rights abuses and corruption.

In October, mixed in with the heap of oil production numbers the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources churns out every month, was an important footnote: Oil production on the Fort Bert…

NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition features intricate drawings by an 18th-century German artist who was born without hands.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bill Cosby's attorneys have moved a defamation lawsuit by a Pittsburgh-area woman from state to federal court.

GENEVA (AP) — Fighting for their careers in soccer politics, Michel Platini plans to boycott his hearing at the FIFA ethics court on Friday while Sepp Blatter is expected to attend his on Thursday.

Central and northeastern North Dakota are under travel alerts after an overnight storm brought slick roads and heavy snow to much of the state.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Grammy Awards will celebrate a lot of new music, but its ceremony will have a familiar face up-front in host LL Cool J.

PRAGUE (AP) — Ales Vesely, a Czech artist known for his monumental sculptures, has died aged 80.