Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
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Haiti is once again struggling with a spike in gang-related kidnappings.
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The decision by at least five defendants to defend themselves is bound to create a host of challenges, particularly for those behind bars.
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A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station.
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A 35-year-old man was arrested and has been charged.
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A lawyer says New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19.
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The victim's parents have opposed Eric Smith's release in the past and have lobbied for parole reforms.
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An 11th-hour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the U.S.
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Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil suffered broken ribs after falling off the stage at a concert Friday in Tennessee, his guitarist told the crowd in a video circulated widely on social media.
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The Harris County constable deputies were working at the 45 North Bar and Lounge when they responded to a disturbance outside the business around 2:15 a.m., Jones said.
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Framed by the Capitol, President Joe Biden paid tribute Saturday to fallen law enforcement officers and honored those who fought off the Jan. 6 insurrection at that very site by declaring “because of you, democracy survived.”
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Police say witnesses reported two suspects left the scene in a white sedan.
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An Associated Press review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rule-making activities under the last three presidents found at least 13 safety rules past due, including a rear seat belt reminder requirement that was to be implemented by 2015.
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The U.S. Defense Department said Friday that it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August.
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Clinton, 75, was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening for a non-COVID-19-related infection, Angel Ureña said in a statement.
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U.S. health officials are setting the stage for a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign for younger children, inviting state officials to order doses before the shots are authorized.
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At a change-of-command ceremony at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin applauded her historic rise, calling her a “legend of a leader.”
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In the recording, Gina Peddy told the teachers to remember a new Texas law that requires teachers to present multiple perspectives when discussing “widely debated and currently controversial” issues. She said: “And make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.”
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The Alisal Fire in the Santa Ynez Mountains west of Santa Barbara grew only slightly since Thursday morning to 26.4 square miles, and containment of the blaze jumped to 41%, up from 5% 24 hours earlier. The improved situation allowed authorities Thursday evening to reopen U.S. 101, the region’s main highway, and a rail line that runs next to the highway. They had been closed since Monday.
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The new policy will apply to both international air and land travel.
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The flight-control system automatically pushed down the noses of Max jets that crashed in 2018 in Indonesia and 2019 in Ethiopia. The pilots tried unsuccessfully to regain control, but both planes went into nosedives minutes after taking off. Most pilots were unaware of the system, called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, until after the first crash.
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Cher has sued the widow of her former musical partner and ex-husband Sonny Bono over royalties for Sonny and Cher songs including “I Got You Babe.”
Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized for a non-COVID-related infection.
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Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago, his lawyers announced Thursday.
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Workers were emboldened to demand more this year after working long hours throughout the pandemic and because companies are facing worker shortages.
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President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill raising the nation’s debt limit until early December, delaying the prospect of an unprecedented federal default that would cause economic disaster.
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Louisiana State University has removed the chair of its Department of French Studies.
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The average score of Louisiana’s high school seniors on the ACT college readiness test fell for a fourth year in a row and remains among the lowest in the nation.
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Gary Paulsen, the acclaimed and prolific children’s author who often drew upon his rural affinities and wide-ranging adventures for tales that included “Hatchet,” “Brian’s Winter” and “Dogsong,” has died at age 82.
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Federal regulators say they are cracking down on “an explosion” of businesses’ use of fake reviews and other misleading messages to promote their products and services on social media.
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Former President Donald Trump is slated to return to New York City to provide a videotaped deposition in a case about his security team’s crackdown on a protest during the early days of his presidential campaign in 2015.
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Old Person was elected to the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council in 1954 and served for over 60 years. He was chairman of the business council for over 50 years, the tribe said, making him the longest serving elected tribal official in the country.
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The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it will ask its outside experts to meet in late November to scrutinize Merck’s pill to treat COVID-19.
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Workers in protective gear have been combing the sand for oil washing ashore.
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A South Dakota woman was convicted of manslaughter Friday in the death of her newborn son whose body was discovered in a ditch 40 years ago.
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Attorneys for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, its onetime attorney Rudy Giuliani and conservative media figures asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems who argues he lost his job after being named in false charges as trying to rig the 2020 election.
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Facebook will expand its policies on harassment to remove more harmful content, the company said Wednesday in its latest change following congressional testimony from a whistleblower who faulted the social media giant for not doing enough to stop such content.
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Safety advocates say the investigation into the faulty ARC inflators has taken too long, and vehicles with them should have been recalled faster.
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The Phoenix Mercury evened the WNBA Finals in Game 2 with a 91-86 win over the Chicago Sky.
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The suspect is charged with negligent manslaughter and unsafe storage of a firearm. He is being held without bond.
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Civil rights activist, retired Chicago professor and historian Timuel Black has died at the age of 102.
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed a former Justice Department lawyer.
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The proposal for expanding social services and fighting climate change is being chiseled to about $2 trillion, all paid for with higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
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Norwegian police say several people have been killed and others injured by a man armed with a bow and arrow near the Norwegian capital, Oslo. Acting Prime Minister Erna Solberg called the attack “gruesome” and said it was too early to speculate on the man’s motive.
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She faces 39 criminal charges, including misdemeanor counts of sexual battery and child molestation and providing alcohol to minors.
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Supply chain issues have hampered the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Louisiana’s top school board has agreed to shelve letter grades for public schools this year because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Hunters in Louisiana can now use their smartphones to tag and validate deer and turkey immediately after killing one.
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A judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that alleged fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the 2020 election.
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The nation's most restrictive abortion law is driving many women from Texas to seek services as far away as Oklahoma and Kansas.