8.7% hike to Social Security checks won’t cut it, some fear
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general has asked a judge to bar the Trump Organization from selling or transferring any of its assets…
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STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford University apologized for limiting the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s after a task force commissioned…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 9 million people and families who did not receive their advance child tax credit…
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By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s plea…
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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook parent Meta struck back in its legal battle with federal regulators over its proposed…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Yemen is blaming Houthi rebels for the failure to renew a…
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The lack of some benefits most American workers can readily count on, like paid sick leave and…
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MERCED, Calif. (AP) — The California man accused of kidnapping and killing an 8-month-old baby, her parents and uncle earlier this month has…
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A Purdue University student has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of his roommate, whose body was found by…
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former official at Yale University’s medical school has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison for…
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By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Russian-born analyst who provided the bulk of the information for a flawed dossier…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Cuba Gooding Jr.’s forcible touching case faded to black Thursday with no jail time for…
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By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s parliament has passed a contentious bill that amends press…
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former student at the University of Puerto Rico has been sentenced to more than a year in federal prison after…
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By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police say a veteran patrol officer is dead after being shot during an exchange of…
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KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Shipments of nuclear waste from the U.S. Department of Energy’s site in eastern Idaho to a…
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee has taken the extraordinary action of…
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Netflix next month will unveil the first version of its video streaming service…
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BOSTON (AP) — A heartfelt letter written by author John Steinbeck offering paternal advice to his teenage son who was experiencing love for the…
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By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Congress has approved a constitutional reform that allows the armed forces to…
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will not rebuild a…
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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden’s visit to California and Oregon this week comes…
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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The president of Michigan State University announced his resignation…
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By BETH HARRIS Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Gabby Giffords will serve as grand marshal of the 134th Rose Parade. The former Democratic…
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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has approved a U.S.-mediated maritime border demarcation proposal with Israel. President…
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile and hundreds of artillery…
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By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The Antarctic ozone hole last week peaked at a moderately large size for the third straight year — bigger than…
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By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer The ball used when Diego Maradona scored his “Hand of God” goal against England at the 1986 World Cup has been…
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By MATT LEE and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia bombarded Ukraine this week, military observers were left wondering…
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — At age 82, Ted Koppel is equipped to take the long view when discussing what divides Americans. The…
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By ROB MAADDI and STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writers Three people with knowledge of the agenda tell The Associated Press there is no plan to vote on…
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By RENATA BRITO and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS (AP) — A much-anticipated report by the European Union’s anti-fraud watchdog into…
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “A Wrinkle in Time,” the classic sci-fi coming-of-age tale celebrating its 60th…
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press Hearings are again on hold in the state of Missouri’s effort to shut down a Christian boarding school whose staff…
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The company that provided medical services at a Wisconsin jail has been found guilty in the 2016 dehydration death of an inmate.…
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By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The sex abuse trial of actor Kevin Spacey hit a snag Thursday when the judge…
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By The Associated Press No. 5 Michigan hosts No. 10 Penn State with Big Ten championship race and College Football Playoff stakes. The winner…
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are returning to Washington to be honored for their…
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By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s leader has launched the country’s first home-grown COVID-19 shot.…
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Associated Press Samsung Electronics has been granted an exception that will allow it to continue to temporarily maintain its memory-chip production…
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By MELISSA MURPHY AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Angel City FC founding investor Alexis Ohanian says there needs to be a safe work environment in…
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By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of millions of older Americans will see a major increase in benefits this January when a new…
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By PAMELA HASSELL Associated Press On the eastern end of Long Island, New York, lies a trove of art venues and a rich cultural scene to explore at…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates reached their highest level in more than two decades this…
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By TALIA RICHMAN and TRISHA POWELL CRAIN The Dallas Morning News and AL.com DALLAS (AP) — As schools across the South grapple with teacher…
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By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Palestinian president has used a meeting with Vladimir Putin to say his leadership…
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukrainian entries are dominating the shortlist to win to European Union’s top human rights prize. The Christian Democrat,…
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By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The war in Ukraine has heightened fears about nuclear exposure — and interest in iodine…
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By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The managing director of the International Monetary Fund urged global policymakers to stop…
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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury spared Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz from the death penalty Thursday…
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DAVENPORT, Fla. (AP) — A bulletproof vest saved a sheriff’s deputy who was shot in the chest while investigating a report of a family…
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA says that despite “unprecedented challenges” caused by the war in Ukraine, supply chain…
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — Qatar’s emir has thanked Vladimir Putin for what he said was Russia’s support with organizing the upcoming World Cup.…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week but remains…
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BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Karen Nix tells her story of surviving hurricanes Katrina and Ida while living with cerebral palsy. She was working…
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By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government has accused Washington of “Cold War thinking.” The government appealed…
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BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer When the inevitable hurricanes threaten New Orleans, it’s hard for India Scott to figure where to go. In the…
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BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — In a story published October 13, 2022, about the killings of two police officers in Bristol, Connecticut, The Associated…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s Fascist past and its future governed by a party with neo-fascist origins have come to an…
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By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s internet censors have moved quickly to scrub social media posts after reports that banners…
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A senior member of the British government has rejected suggestions that Prime Minister Liz Truss…
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PARIS (AP) — French gas network operator GRTgaz says it has started conveying gas to Germany via pipeline for the first time, as Berlin strives to…
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By SARAH EL DEEB, ANASTASIIA SHVETS and ELIZAVETA TILNA Associated Press An Associated Press investigation has found that Russia’s strategy to take…
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By SARAH EL DEEB, ANASTASIIA SHVETS and ELIZAVETA TILNA Associated Press Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement in circles like a trapped animal.…
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets surged Friday after Wall Street rebounded from a slump caused by…
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By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Ms. Foundation for Women’s new Birth Justice Initiative, designed to support grassroots organizations led by…
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By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Latvia has rejected as “absurd” claims by Amnesty International that it is violently…
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers elected a new president in a key step toward ending a year-long political…
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A bomb threat against an gas processing facility in central Norway briefly forced the suspension of the production and…
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is hosting a summit to help speed up construction projects tied to the roughly $1…
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s police say they have found the body of a suspect who allegedly fatally shot two people the previous day in…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president has accused the U.S. of conducting a “failed policy of…
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BEIRUT (AP) — A bus bombing in a suburb of Damascus has killed 18 Syrian soldiers. Syrian state media citing a military source reported that the…
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By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO’s secretive Nuclear Planning Group has met as the alliance presses ahead with plans to hold a…
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By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — For decades North Korea has threatened to turn enemy cities into a “sea of fire,” even as it…
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By JIM GOMEZ and AARON FAVILA Associated Press CAPAS, Philippines (AP) — Truck-mounted launchers blasted off rockets and U.S. stealth fighter jets…
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other…
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NOORIABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a bus fire killed at least 18 flood survivors, including eight children and nine women. The…
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By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Two judges on India’s top court have differed over a ban on the wearing of the hijab, a…
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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — With its dozens of “revolving door” governments, Italy might give the impression that…
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say a group of Jewish settlers has rampaged through a town in the northern West Bank. They say the crowd…
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By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press They show up at the first signs of protest in Iran — men in black, riding motorcycles, often wielding guns or…
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia toddler who was reported missing by his mother last week is believed to be dead, and she is a suspect in his death,…
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish operator of an oil pipeline says it is repairing damage that caused a leak earlier this week to the main source of…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says that the U.S. had urged the kingdom to postpone a decision by…
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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The candidates for Michigan governor have criticized each…
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By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s becoming clearer that New York City’s recovery from the pandemic will be drawn…
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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes are to…
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By SABRA AYRES Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s allies vowed Thursday to supply the besieged nation with advanced air defense…
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNA Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Denny Dalliance had long worried about what would happen if he…
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By AMY TAXIN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bricia Lopez has welcomed people of all walks to dine at her family’s…
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By BRIAN MELLEY and DON THOMPSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The effort by three Latino politicians to maximize their influence in Los…
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Flood warnings have been issued, hundreds of homes have been evacuated, thousands more…
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By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Americans from across the political spectrum say misinformation is increasing political extremism and hate crimes,…
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By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI, ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee voted unanimously to subpoena former…
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By JEFF AMY Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Ga. (AP) — In an uphill fight against a 30-year incumbent, Republican congressional candidate Chris West…
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By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian leaders are pressing the U.S. and Western allies for air defense…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Social Security recipients will get an 8.7% boost in their benefits in 2023, a…
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