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By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are trying to shore up their slipping dominance in…
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By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are trying to shore up their slipping dominance in…
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The two co-hosts of “The View” who were abruptly pulled off the air last week before a planned…
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By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s top diplomat says Syria’s doors are open for the safe return of refugees to their…
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By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and PETER SMITH Associated Press Faith-based groups are scrambling to keep up with fast-paced developments in the Haitian…
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press The Biden administration is proposing a new rule that would shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to…
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By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Senate’s Republican leader have now had three COVID-19 shots…
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Court records show a Tennessee state senator charged with stealing $600,000 in federal grant money from a health care school…
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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar Airways says it suffered a more than $4 billion loss in revenues over the…
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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A high-ranking Roman Catholic cardinal who was placed on a ventilator after contracting…
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BOSTON (AP) — The guitar played by Johnny Ramone on all 15 Ramones albums and at nearly 2,000 live performances by the rock band sold at auction…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The dispute between Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers and its former government over…
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Poland has convicted a man of instigating a murder in 2002 and participating in subsequent cannibalism and handed…
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are getting into the fast-growing market for plant-based chicken. Beyond Meat…
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By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B superstar R. Kelly faces the possibility of decades in prison after being…
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By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer America had yet to really learn about sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in…
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PARIS (AP) — French President Macron was hit at the shoulder by an egg thrown at him by a man during an international food trade fair in the French…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — After hovering for years at lows sometimes near $1 per pound, coffee futures — the price…
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s new prime minister has appealed to the international community to stand together…
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MADRID (AP) — Law enforcement agencies from eight European countries have pounced on a Balkan crime organization allegedly running the…
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The Council of Europe has awarded its human rights prize to jailed Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova. She was arrested…
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By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Some hospitals and nursing homes in New York began removing workers Monday for failing to meet…
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By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has among the lowest rates of death nationally among pregnant women and…
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Timbaland paved his own way as a hit-making producer for elite acts like Justin…
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say representatives from Iran and Saudi Arabia have held a new round of talks…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren said Monday that he will retire on…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Azerbaijan and Armenia are marking the first anniversary of the start of their six-week war in which more than 6,600 people died and…
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Instagram is putting a hold on the development of Instagram kids, geared towards children under 13, so it can…
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With a donation of $1.5 million from author James Patterson, Scholastic Book Clubs has launched…
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By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Tuesday finally meet with members of the COVID-19 Bereaved…
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By BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The lead judge investigating last year’s massive blast in Beirut’s port…
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By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Many of the 38 members recognized by the United Nations as small island developing states are known…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCESCO FEDELI Associated Press SAN MARINO (AP) — Pope Francis has repeated the Catholic stance that abortion is…
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By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Millions of U.S. workers have changed jobs or are looking, often in pursuit of flexible hours, remote work and other…
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By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry says two Canadians detained in late 2019 who were allowed to…
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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has sought urgent clearance…
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By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Wildlife campaigners have called on the Albanian government to stop the construction of…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says two of its members died from injuries they suffered in an…
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Aboriginal man is taking Australia’s government to court to argue that Indigenous…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Princess Mako’s fiancé has returned to Japan for their marriage, which was suspended…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has put dozens of soldiers on standby to help easy fuel supply problems…
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Voters in Berlin have backed a proposal for the Berlin city government to take over about…
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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s voters have delivered their verdict. Now it’s up to party leaders to thrash out who…
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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan is traveling to Saudi Arabia.…
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By DANIEL ROCA and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — A Spanish island volcano that has buried more than 500…
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By RISHI LEKHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of Indian farmers are blocking major roads and railway tracks outside the capital of New…
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By JOE McDONALD and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Global shoppers face possible shortages of smartphones and other goods ahead of…
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BANGKOK (AP) — Seasonal monsoon rains may worsen flooding that has already badly affected about a third of Thailand. A tropical storm swept through…
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By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A strong earthquake has struck the Greek island of Crete. One person…
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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The party that narrowly beat outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc is pushing for a…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly lower as concerns about China chip away at investor optimism after a mixed…
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By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Electricity is a potent symbol of endemic corruption in Iraq, rooted in the country’s sectarian…
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By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A federal judge says the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan four decades ago can be released…
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By AMY BETH HANSON, MARTHA BELLISLE and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press JOPLIN, Mont. (AP) — An Amtrak train that derailed in rural Montana over the…
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By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gen. Mark Milley has been the target of more political intrigue in two…
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By COLLIN BINKLEY and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are promising historic investments across all levels of education…
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By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A cyclone flooded parts of India’s eastern coast with heavy rains and uprooted thousands…
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By LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators have blocked a bill to keep the U.S. government funded and…
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MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Sam is a powerful Category 3 storm in the Atlantic but it poses no threat to land as it loops northward in the Atlantic. The…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian share are mostly higher, but skepticism about the regional economic outlook tempered the…
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Rolling Stones are touring again, this time without their heartbeat, or at least their…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Two women are among candidates for Japan’s governing party leadership for the first time in 13…
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LANSING, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities say three people have died in the crash of a small plane in southern West Virginia. The Federal Aviation…
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney tells CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that she was wrong to have…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army says it found a 43-acre (17.4-hectare) marijuana farm in the northern border state of Chihuahua. The army said…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Several thousand students and political activists have marched through downtown Mexico City to demand authorities find out what…
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A hospital spokeswoman says six people who were wounded in a mass shooting at a Tennessee supermarket are no longer in…
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BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian Communist Party unexpectedly won a municipal election in the Alpine country’s second biggest city Sunday, according to…
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Fire officials in Rochester are investigating a fire that damaged the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. Firefighters…
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A north Florida sheriff’s deputy who was recently shot twice during a traffic stop has died. Nassau County Sheriff Bill…
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By The Associated Press The deadly Amtrak derailment in north-central Montana of the Empire Builder, traveling from Chicago to Seattle, is being…
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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen have released 10 students in Nigeria’s north nearly three months after they…
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Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police officers shot and killed an armed man in front of dozens of witnesses, many of whom had…
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LONDON (AP) — Thousands of British gas stations have run dry, as motorists scrambled to fill up amid a supply disruption due to a shortage of truck…
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Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline went up by a penny over the past two weeks, to $3.25 per…
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Associated Press REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are gaining the upper hand on a forest fire that displaced thousands of people near Shasta…
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Utah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe has died in a shooting at house party less than a year after teammate Ty Jordan was killed in an accidental…
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MAKOTI, N.D. (AP) — The first car jumping attempt in five years by North Dakota’s version of Evil Knievel ended in disaster when the car driven…
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CHICAGO (AP) — A former Northwestern University professor is set to stand trial in the stabbing death of his boyfriend as part of what prosecutors…
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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Legislature will consider whether to try to impeach Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg for a car crash last year…
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WOODSON TERRACE, Mo. (AP) — The FBI has opened an investigation into the arrest of a Black man in Missouri during which cellphone video shows three…
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Dear Evan Hansen” may have been a hit on Broadway, but the filmed adaptation of the Tony-winning show is off to a…
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By ARIJETA LAJKA Associated Press HOLBROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Mourners are paying their respects to Gabby Petito, whose death on a cross-country trip has…
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By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel regarded as the architect of the 1994…
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By MARIA VERZA Associated Press CIUDAD ACUÑA, México (AP) — Some of the thousands of Haitian migrants who briefly formed a camp in the Texas…
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By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — On this rainy Sunday morning, the fashion crowd filed into a richly upholstered movie theater for a…
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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — They spent weeks in the captivity of gunmen in forests ringing Nigeria’s troubled…
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in two Indian coastal states are on high alert with evacuations and preparations underway as a cyclone hit the eastern…
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By TODD RICHMOND and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S.…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The deputy leader of Britain’s main opposition party is refusing to apologize for calling the…
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By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press The Taliban want a seat at the United Nations and international recognition of their rule over Afghanistan. The group…
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By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As political muscle goes, big doesn’t automatically translate to power. That’s the…
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By ALBERTO ARCE and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — This is the Port-au-Prince that awaits Haitian deportees: An…
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HELSINKI (AP) — Police in Norway have reported dozens of disturbances and violent clashes including mass brawls in the Nordic country’s big…
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By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Many of the law enforcement changes enacted by states after George Floyd’s death have…
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — What will it cost to enact President Joe Biden’s massive expansion of social programs? Congress…
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists and pro-government media say warplanes have attacked Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria,…
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LA PALMA, Canary Islands (AP) — A massive ash cloud from an erupting volcano has prevented flights in and out of the Spanish island of La Palma.…
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By EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland briefly celebrated electing a female-majority parliament Sunday — before a…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCESCO FEDELI Associated Press SAN MARINO (AP) — Residents in the tiny republic of San Marino have voted overwhelmingly…
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is urging North Korea to restore dormant communication hotlines, a day…
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