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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press LWERA WETLAND, Uganda (AP) — The excavator grunts in the heart of the wetland, baring its teeth. There are…
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press LWERA WETLAND, Uganda (AP) — The excavator grunts in the heart of the wetland, baring its teeth. There are…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The killing and deportation of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 1900s is being remembered in Southern California.…
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By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $1.6 million to the family of a…
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada Democratic U.S. senator is looking to Congress to ensure mining companies can use…
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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials won’t be allowed to use environmental, social and governance factors in…
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama and Mississippi closed most government offices Monday for Confederate Memorial Day as efforts have stalled to…
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Fort Wayne police say an officer whose vehicle fatally injured a pedestrian in a crosswalk was disciplined for four…
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By JOSH BOAK and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has honored the nation’s best teachers. He says they go…
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HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s fuel shortages have increased dramatically with authorities suspending activities, including a concert by the…
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By Clarissa Ward and Mick Krever, CNN On a rainy Sunday afternoon, a handful of protesters gather outside an upscale Parisian apartment complex.…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tucker Carlson has been ousted by Fox News, where he hosted the conservative cable network’s most popular program. Carlson is the…
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong undersea earthquake has sent streams of people fleeing to higher ground in western Indonesia before the tsunami…
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JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a chemical company has been ordered to pay $16 million and sentenced to two…
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GASTONIA, N.C (AP) — As the bullet pierced his lung and liver, the only thing Jamie White could think about was getting his 6-year-old daughter to…
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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new Attorney General Gentner Drummond plans to ask the state’s…
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By Michelle Watson, Claudia Dominguez, Taylor Romine and Kyung Lah, CNN Advocacy groups sued the Missouri Attorney General Monday after he announced…
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By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The $787.5 million settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems spared executives and on-air…
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Bed Bath & Beyond is stripping down its big blue signs, clearing out aisles of linens and closing hundreds of…
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Elementary students lined up behind a white curtain in the middle of a grand gymnasium at their school in northern…
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By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN The breathtaking dancing shimmer of the aurora borealis and its counterpart in the southern hemisphere,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN When quakes rumbled on Mars and a meteorite smacked into the red planet during the past four years, NASA’s InSight…
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Bryan Mena, CNN US manufacturers have now mostly worked their way through their backlogged orders — and that means job cuts could be on the horizon…
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By Melissa Alonso, CNN Two empty homes overlooking a canyon slid off their foundations Saturday in Draper, Utah, prompting the evacuations of two…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The life cycle of plastic begins underground, where oil and gas are extracted from deep below the surface of the planet. These…
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By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed legislation banning abortion in almost all…
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The owner of a Catholic clinic challenging Colorado’s new ban on unproven treatments to reverse…
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By Martha Shade, CNN It all seems so daunting: plastics in the ocean, dying coral reefs, entire species being wiped out — but don’t click…
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Home buyers have proved to be mortgage rate sensitive, with home sales over the past year tanking as rates have surged, and improving during periods…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ginnie Newhart, who was married to comedy legend Bob Newhart for six decades and inspired the classic ending of his…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. has brought the sister of an American imprisoned in Russia to the U.N. Security…
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By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — An independent union won the right to bargain at a U.S. auto parts manufacturer in central…
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By Mark Morales and Caroll Alvarado, CNN Myles Cosgrove, one of the Louisville Metro Police officers involved in the 2020 shooting of Breonna Taylor,…
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Depositors at First Republic Bank pulled more than $100 billion in deposits out of the bank during…
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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The prosecutor in Atlanta investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies…
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Crabcakes, beef short ribs and a newfangled banana split have made the cut for this…
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer An appeals court has upheld Apple’s exclusive control over the distribution of iPhone apps. In its ruling…
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN began informing employees of layoffs Monday, which are job cuts that are taking place throughout its corporate…
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Danny Masterson drugged then raped three women at his Hollywood-area home between…
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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge is weighing whether to severely limit the government’s use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires…
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By SUE OGROCKI and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) — Police say a man shot a 20-year-old student on the campus of Rose State…
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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill to cut taxes in Kansas by nearly $1.4 billion…
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By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A bird strike sparked an engine fire on a plane shortly after takeoff from an Ohio airport on Sunday. The strike…
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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will use this week’s celebratory state visit by South Korean President…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Inspectors from the Mexican Navy say they have found 11,520 tequila bottles bound for export that actually contained…
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By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter accounts operated by authoritarian governments in Russia, China and Iran are benefiting…
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By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A bipartisan congressional group from Nevada and California asked the Biden administration Monday…
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has met with the president of Taiwan to discuss mutual trade and investment initiatives and other…
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By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has begun facilitating the departure of private U.S. citizens…
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BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — Federal prison officials say singer R. Kelly has been moved from a Chicago correctional center to a medium-security facility in…
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will remain as a defendant in a civil lawsuit…
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis A Black Texas couple has been reunited with their newborn daughter after authorities removed the baby and placed her in foster…
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By Michelle Watson, CNN A suspect is in custody and one person is dead after a shooting at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma, the…
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By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say two explosions at a counterterrorism police facility in northwest Pakistan have…
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ROME (AP) — The fatal beating of a hospital psychiatrist, allegedly by a former patient, has sparked calls in Italy to improve mental health care.…
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By Mark Morales and Caroll Alvarado, CNN Myles Cosgrove, one of the Louisville Metro Police officers involved in the 2020 shooting of Breonna Taylor,…
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge has ruled that the city’s elected prosecutor was not in contempt of court as a…
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CNN fired longtime host Don Lemon on Monday following his short and disastrous run as a morning…
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By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A mob in the Haitian capital beat and burned 13 suspected gang members to death with…
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Western diplomats slammed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for his country’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine…
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News on Monday ousted prime-time host Tucker Carlson, whose stew of grievances and political…
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By MARK PRATT Associated Press Prosecutors say the driver of an SUV that crashed into a Massachusetts Apple store, killing one man and injuring…
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By KRUTIKA PATHI and JOE McDONALD Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India will be the most populous country, eclipsing an aging China, by…
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FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A local official in Michigan has been sentenced to six months of house arrest after she pleaded no contest to…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Celebrities, professional athletes and other high-profile Twitter users are once again being verified by the social media…
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By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Miles of empty fields where you might expect a build-up of armor. Tank tracks that emerge in the mud from nowhere, and lead…
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By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After years of paying low rates for savers, banks are finally offering better interest on deposits.…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from oil and gas companies that are fighting lawsuits from state and local governments…
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By AMY BETH HANSON and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republicans persisted in forbidding Democratic transgender lawmaker…
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump ran for and served as president, over a dozen women publicly accused him of…
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By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Former Minnesota officer Kimberly Potter has been released from prison after serving 16 months of a two-year sentence in…
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By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A hearing is being held to determine whether two New York City Police officers should face…
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By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer NAPLES, Italy (AP) — It’s a celebration more than three decades in the making and Napoli fans are not waiting…
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By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, is leaving next month. As…
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday welcomed to the Oval Office the three Tennessee…
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Banks are paying up for savers’ deposits in a much bigger way than they have in a long time.…
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN The World Health Organization has elevated the fast-growing Omicron sublineage XBB.1.16 as a new variant of interest, and says…
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By RAF CASERT and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The four biggest groups in the European Union’s legislature have added more…
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U2 is familiar with rocking out in major sporting arenas and stadiums, but the…
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By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has given a craft beer enthusiast a $4,360 fine for violating a law on…
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Hundreds of foreign nationals have been safely evacuated from Sudan where continued fighting threatens to plunge the African…
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WELDON SPRING, Mo. (AP) — A man was shot to death by a police officer in suburban St. Louis early Monday after allegedly pulling a gun while being…
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By KIA BREAUX Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — On April 13, the nightmare that I’d worried about ever since we moved into our…
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By The Associated Press SHAKOPEE, Minn. (AP) — Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who said she mistook her gun for a Taser when she…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A yacht carrying three Russians and two Egyptians has reportedly gone missing…
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By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he was expelled from Colombia hours…
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By ELLEN DENNIS, The Seattle Times EVERETT, Wa. (AP) — Terrica Purvis squinted through goggles as her hands carefully guided a pipette full of…
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By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer NAPLES, Italy (AP) — It’s a celebration more than three decades in the making and Napoli fans are not…
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president says the starvation deaths of dozens of followers of a pastor is akin to terrorism. He said the pastor,…
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of $2.24 trillion, with a sharp rise in…
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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Some 1,200 migrants have arrived since Sunday on a tiny Italian island. The Italian Coast…
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By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The body of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain’s fascist Falange…
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By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Having the right amount of financial confidence, or belief in our money-related abilities, can help us make better…
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By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister has called on Jordan to bring to justice a Jordanian…
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By DAVID RISING Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian-appointed authorities in Crimea say the military has fended off a Ukrainian strike on…
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By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Former Minnesota officer Kimberly Potter has been released from prison after serving 16 months of a two-year sentence in…
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By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A country renowned for its cuisine is turning to pots and pans to express its discontent with…
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By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A group of Western European nations led by Germany and France are committing to massively ramp up…
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With Florida legislators barring even the mention of being gay in classrooms and similar…
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ready for “all-out war,” leaders of the far-right Proud Boys…
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A key measure of German business optimism rose in April for the seventh month in a row amid lower natural gas prices and…
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