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By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writers BOSTON (AP) — Vivian Kargbo thought her daughter’s Boston school district was…
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By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writers BOSTON (AP) — Vivian Kargbo thought her daughter’s Boston school district was…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Roslyn moved off Mexico’s Pacific coast Friday night, with forecasters predictng a weekend landfall between the…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding an immediate…
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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Eager Republican volunteers are knocking on doors in Georgia, trying to…
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Politically connected billionaires from Russia and Venezuela are at the center of a 49-page…
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By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The decapitated body of a high school teacher was left on grotesque display at a school in central…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. deputy secretary-general says the trampling of women’s rights and “deeply…
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SYDNEY (AP) — The disappearance of a young Belgian backpacker in Australia three years ago remains a mystery after an inquest ended without a…
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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are struggling to find immediate practical solutions on…
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LONDON (AP) — It’s a British cliché that a week is a long time in politics. Liz Truss proved it true on Thursday when she became the…
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By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Liz Truss became prime minister on a promise to open a new era of growth by shaking…
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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is again shining her star power on Democrat Stacey Abrams’s bid for governor in…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk plans to lay off most of Twitter’s workforce if and when he becomes owner of the social media company, according…
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Republican secretary of state candidate Kim Crockett says the Minnesota Legislature…
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the part of a New York law that makes it a crime for people to carry guns in places of…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote Friday on a resolution that would demand…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles was found guilty Thursday of five counts of sexually abusing…
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The major freight railroads appear unwilling to give track maintenance workers much more than…
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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An American woman who fled the U.K. claiming diplomatic immunity after she was involved in a fatal…
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed an effort by six Republican-led states to block the Biden…
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury of nine men and three women has been selected in the Los Angeles rape and sexual…
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By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A transgender woman activist who had spent over two decades in the United States…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Roslyn has formed off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and forecasters expect it will strengthen to a hurricane…
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Alberto Fernández of Argentina is objecting to allegations by a contestant in the local version of the…
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PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a Princeton University student from Ohio who went missing near campus roughly a week ago has been found…
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By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is shutting down a subsidiary that’s been selling fabrics for nearly 30 years. The…
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — He was a famous moviemaker. She was a publicist working a film premiere where he was a VIP…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bolivia’s former interior minister has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder bribes that a Florida-based company paid him in…
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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The troubled Los Angeles City Council appears headed into a long power struggle, as two…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson will be honored as next year’s MusiCares Persons of the Year, celebrating the legacy of Motown…
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By ANGELO FICHERA The Associated Press A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee on Thursday voted that the agency should…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities in New York have charged seven people with harassing a Chinese national living in the U.S. to try to force him…
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a special grand jury investigating whether…
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A shooting at a Cleveland barber shop has left five people wounded. City police say the shooting at the IFixUgly shop occurred…
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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press ADA, Okla. (AP) — Many of the 39 Native American tribes based in Oklahoma have played a role in state politics for…
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, MATTHEW DALY and AARON MORRISON Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The federal government is investigating whether…
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The spooky, sublime stop-motion animation worlds of Henry Selick are feasts for the eye that can…
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A controversial transfer of juvenile prisoners to a temporary facility at Louisiana’s…
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By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The personal health information of up to 3 million patients in Illinois and Wisconsin may…
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By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON and DAVID SHARP Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Somali Americans who fled war and famine are seeking to join the…
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A cell biologist who has spent the past eight years as provost at Duke University has been named president of the…
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By TERRY TANG Associated Press More than 60 years after Anna May Wong became the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk…
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed…
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON and BEN FINLEY Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Police say they believe the shooting rampage that left five dead in North…
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By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan lawmakers have agreed to set aside $20 million to settle a lawsuit by thousands of people who…
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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Experts with the U.N.’s top human rights body have decried Israel’s occupation of territories…
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MERCED, Calif. (AP) — The younger brother of a man charged in the kidnapping and killing of a family in central California pleaded not guilty…
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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens of others when he…
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania has been a central part of Joe Biden’s political identity for years.…
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By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will provide travel funds and support for troops and their dependents who seek…
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By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Thursday that Iranian troops are “directly engaged on…
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By EDOUARD TAKADJI and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chadian security forces opened fire on anti-government…
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By TERRY WALLACE and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Free-speech advocates are asking the Supreme Court to overturn a…
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By BRIAN SLODYSKO and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz rolled onstage inside of an inflatable orb, put on a…
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss took office last month with hopes and promises of reinvigorating…
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joni Mitchell had so much fun at her surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival this…
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By TED SHAFFREY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On Thursday morning, photographers and videographers hovered outside in the walkway between two…
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By LISA RATHKE Associated Press A town employee who quietly lowered the fluoride in a Vermont community’s drinking water for years has resigned…
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By BRIAN SLODYSKO and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz rolled onstage inside of an inflatable orb, put on a…
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By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — With Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer as part of the ownership group, the Seattle Kraken were…
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report and Pentagon data show that suicides across the active duty U.S. military…
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By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Two Sudanese officials say tribal clashes in the country’s southern Blue Nile…
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By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — When the United Kingdom walked out of the European Union two years ago, Brexit supporters…
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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the music world’s most articulate and introspective performers, Lucinda Williams, has a memoir coming out next spring. The…
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SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Water managers and officials on the Rio Grande are hopeful more federal money will reach their…
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — On paper, Oregon’s newly created 6th Congressional District would appear…
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By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — France, Portugal and Spain say they have agreed to substitute a proposed gas pipeline connection…
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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A Russian diplomat says the International Committee of the Red Cross has conducted at least five…
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TORONTO (AP) — A judge has sentenced musician Jacob Hoggard to five years in prison after he was found guilty earlier this year of sexually…
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By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Court documents show a convicted felon who was released from prison after his key trial…
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By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 150 years after slaves were freed in the U.S., voters in five states will…
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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in September for the eighth month in a row, matching the pre-pandemic…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Reporter WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates inched up this week ahead of another expected rate…
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Finance ministers of major Pacific Rim economies have pledged to combat inflation and seek…
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BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany ruled Thursday that driving an SUV isn’t itself a reason for imposing higher fines for traffic infractions.…
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CINCINNATI (AP) — A community is mourning a youth football coach who was killed in a shooting in Cincinnati after practice had finished. Jermaine…
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The man who accosted Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin at a campaign event in western New York will be released…
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By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press ARAÇUAI, Brazil (AP) — After Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro boosted welfare payments in August by 50%,…
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By TAMER FAKAHANY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It’s not a war, Vladimir Putin said then — and says now. It’s a “special military…
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By TERRY TANG Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — If not for the coronavirus pandemic, Feng-Feng Yeh might never have learned about a…
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By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has found contaminated medicines that are suspected of being linked to the…
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By NICOLAE DUMITRACHE AND STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Several thousand protesters in Romania have joined an…
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By SABRA AYRES and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian troops appeared Thursday to be girding for a major…
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s defense secretary revealed Thursday that a Russian fighter jet released a missile near an RAF aircraft operating in…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The president of Iran’s national Olympic committee has claimed that competitive…
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By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press Most Americans are used to casting their ballot for a single person for each office. But Alaska’s races will…
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By KANIS LEUNG and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A superyacht linked to sanctioned Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov has left Hong Kong…
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A top World Health Organization official says Uganda’s Ebola…
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By KRISTA LARSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses being given in…
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BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers from two junior governing parties have slammed plans for Chinese shipping group COSCO to take a major stake in the operator…
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By DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Gas stoves in California homes are leaking cancer-causing benzene, researchers found in a new study published on…
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By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet RV delivery is a growing trend that allows travelers to enjoy all of the conveniences of staying in an RV without…
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By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Households and businesses across Europe have struggled with high electricity prices for months,…
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By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers have begun debating a proposed constitutional amendment…
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By GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Officials in Malawi have exhumed the bodies of 26 suspected Ethiopian migrants from a…
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official has suggested that a fire that destroyed a shelter for…
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says that Russia’s war in Ukraine must not lead to a “worldwide renaissance” for coal. His…
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By DAVID SHARP Associated Press JAY, Maine (AP) — Families are looking forward with dread as winter approaches with high energy costs and tight…
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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s president has begun formal consultations with the aim of quickly giving the…
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden says the “rest of the world is looking” to see who holds control of…
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