Amid polarization, minority party lawmakers face penalties
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Republicans removed the state’s only nonbinary legislator from House committees…
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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Republicans removed the state’s only nonbinary legislator from House committees…
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By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A novel treatment using supercharged immune cells appears to work against tumors in children with a rare kind…
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media” on the social media site,…
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By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe say they’ve taken…
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An appliance delivery man has been sentenced to life in prison for beating a 75-year-old woman to death and setting…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bob Lee, a technology executive who created Cash App and was currently chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally…
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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police say SWAT officers are responding to a domestic incident at the Trump International Hotel and Tower, located in the…
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By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An atheist and secular humanist is suing the agency that runs West Virginia’s…
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By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2022 Los Angeles police shot and killed 14 people — 60% of everyone struck by…
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By SARA BURNETT, TODD RICHMOND and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The victory by Democratic-backed candidate Janet…
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By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Mike Pence said Wednesday that the former vice president will not…
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MILAN (AP) — Romelu Lukaku’s management company has reacted with outrage after the Inter Milan forward was shown a second yellow card and then…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he opposes the charges brought against former U.S. president Donald Trump. President Andrés…
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By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican governors in Indiana and Idaho have signed into law bills…
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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Two Native Hawaiian men sentenced to prison for a hate crime in the brutal beating of a…
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules that limit emissions of mercury and…
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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (AP) — A near-century old abortion ban that fueled one of the largest ballot drives in…
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By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump stepped into a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday afternoon, his usual bravado was…
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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten…
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Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers in Montana are advancing legislation that would alter next year’s U.S. Senate…
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By LEA SKENE, BRIAN WITTE and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the…
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The candidates vying against former President Donald Trump for the White House in 2024 are…
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By MICHAEL BLOOD, LISA MASCARO and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has welcomed…
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GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government says it’s ordered cuts to the bonuses of top executives of Credit Suisse worth tens of millions combined as…
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By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is expected to testify in a London courtroom in June in one of his phone hacking…
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By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the creators of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” initially set out to adapt the book that…
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CHICAGO (AP) — Three firefighters were injured, one critically, while battling a blaze in a high-rise building on Chicago’s North Side on…
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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government has terminated the national state of disaster it…
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By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press Lewis Capaldi’s first album went multiplatinum and led to chart-topping hits, sold-out stadiums, and a Grammy…
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MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge orders that a Moroccan man held for killing a church officer in January in the southern city of Algeciras be examined…
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Starting next year, anyone in Idaho who provides gender-affirming medical care for…
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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has emerged as one Ukraine’s most ardent supporters during Russia’s invasion…
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By LIZZIE KNIGHT Associated Press Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and…
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department says it has tentatively settled a lawsuit over the 2017 mass shooting…
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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday he has “no doubt” that Russia has…
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DETROIT (AP) — An electric Ram pickup truck with up to 500 miles of range per charge is among the new vehicles being introduced Wednesday at the…
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By DAVID BILLER and LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and invaded a daycare center…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology says a freshman state lawmaker in Ohio falsely claimed to have graduated from the…
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesman has defended Berlin’s record on delivering arms to Ukraine after the vice chancellor…
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker in North Carolina announced Wednesday…
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — UEFA member federations have been given a historic chance to vote for female candidates against male opposition for the…
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By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish Foreign Ministry official says Turkey has closed its airspace to flights to and…
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TOKYO (AP) — The International Tennis Federation will play tournaments this year in China. This takes place despite no known resolution to the case…
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By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Officials say more than 60 self-exiled members of a Chinese Christian church who were…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Pres TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police have arrested two men who posted a video on social media showing one eating pickled…
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An opposition politician who ran against authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in the controversial 2020…
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By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A heated debate in Spain triggered by a 68-year-old celebrity who was reported to have used a…
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BEIJING (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to “engage China toward a shared responsibility for peace” in Ukraine when he…
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A fencing World Cup event in Poland has been canceled because the sport’s governing body decided last month to let Russians…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized Wednesday in intensive care because of a…
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By PAUL WISEMAN and JOSH BOAK The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is pressing its case for a new approach to global…
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By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet President Biden derided “junk fees” during his State of the Union Address, calling out airline seat selection fees in…
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By ADIL KHAN Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Veterinarians said they performed a critical procedure to save a sick elephant at a zoo in…
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By COLLEEN LONG and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland next…
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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A judge has ruled that the Dutch government cannot order Amsterdam’s Schiphol…
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A top Bosnian government official and two others have been convicted and given prison sentences over the…
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have announced the first $196 million of grants in a $1 billion program to repair and replace aging and…
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Congressman Jim Clyburn is backing a former staffer in her effort to lead South Carolina’s…
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says soccer bodies and clubs should do more to tackle racist abuse of players. He says…
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By RAHIM FAIEZ and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan…
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BERLIN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says it has agreed to sell the remainder of its catering business to European private equity group Aurelius…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mostly lower Thursday as investors turned their attention to upcoming…
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By DANICA KIRKA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British media says the husband of former Scottish first minister and Scottish…
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States has flown nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the Korean Peninsula again…
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BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany surged in February, posting their third successive increase in another promising…
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By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s outgoing prime minister, Sanna Marin, says she will resign as the leader of her…
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials and media reports say a Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board has sunk off…
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By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In her final speech to New Zealand’s Parliament, Jacinda Ardern describes in…
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By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In October, an officer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elite personal security service…
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By JAMEY KEATEN and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of UBS has voiced confidence that the Swiss bank will succeed in a…
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By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won new pledges of deeper…
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s main opposition party has decided to oppose the government’s model for…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea this month will begin weekly tests of sewage produced by its major cities…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Wednesday following a decline on Wall Street after reports on the…
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By BASSEM MROUE and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Suspected Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks have killed two Iranian…
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By JIM SALTER and SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press GLEN ALLEN, Mo. (AP) — A tornado ripped through southeastern Missouri before dawn on Wednesday,…
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By ISABEL DeBRE and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Violence resumed for a second straight night in Jerusalem on Wednesday when…
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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Repairing coral reefs after boats run aground. Shielding native forest trees from a killer fungus…
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two trailblazing ride-hailing services are heading toward uncharted territory as they…
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By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer Whatever people think of Donald Trump, it’s undeniable that he can still command attention. That was obvious…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, who is being sought for war crimes for…
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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The moment will be historic — a U.S. House speaker meeting with the president of…
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By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s central bank surprised economists on Wednesday by imposing an…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican judge ordered that three Mexican immigration officials, a private security guard and a Venezuelan migrant be held for…
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By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press KINNAUR, India (AP) — The pickup truck jostled away from the roaring Sutlej River and up…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stormy Daniels must pay nearly $122,000 of Donald Trump’s legal fees that were racked up in connection with the porn…
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By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The coverup is worse than the crime, the expression goes.…
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By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Initial results show two of the more moderate Denver mayoral candidates in the…
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By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America The North Dakota Senate passed a series of bills on Monday that would restrict transgender…
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By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has purchased a three-year supply of a leading abortion medication in…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — An Indigenous anti-mining activist has been killed in a violent part of western Mexico. Authorities confirmed Tuesday that…
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Speculation is rising in the North Carolina legislature that a Democrat is about to…
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Investigators recovered “black boxes” from two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters that crashed last week in…
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PANAMA CITY (AP) — A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off Panama’s Pacific coast near the town of Boca Chica. The U.S. Geological…
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DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A fifth suspect has been arrested in a March 4 mass shooting at a 16th birthday party in suburban Atlanta. Douglas County…
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By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal complaint has accused the South Carolina agency tasked with…
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hours of breathless news coverage of Donald Trump’s arraignment represented history for the…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has announced a deal to buy 13 of the power plants operated by the Spanish company Iberdrola in the country…
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By JOHN HANNA and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill to impose some of the nation’s broadest bathroom…
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By BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The three-week manhunt for a former top aide to Maryland’s governor has ended…
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