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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A sheriff's office in Michigan says the parents of a teen accused of killing four students in a shooting at a high school have been caught early Saturday.
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U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian planning is underway for a possible military offensive against Ukraine that could begin as soon as early 2022 and would include an estimated 175,000 personnel, according to an administration official.
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A green, folding massage table used by financier Jeffrey Epstein was brought into a Manhattan courtroom and set up in front of a jury on Friday to bolster allegations he teamed up with British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to sexually exploit underage victims.
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Honda says in documents posted Friday by U.S. safety regulators that the hood latch striker can become damaged and separate from the hood.
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Air Guard members who report for their monthly drill this weekend will be allowed to participate and will be paid — whether they are vaccinated or not, but those without shots will have the opportunity to get the vaccine when they report to their base, according to Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek.
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Broward Sheriff’s officials said authorities were called after the threat in a student group chat late Wednesday.
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President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law the stopgap spending bill that will keep the federal government running through Feb. 18, after congressional leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates.
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Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey Easterling remains astonished by the Confederate history still memorialized on the storied academy’s campus.
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The Senate has passed a stopgap spending bill that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates.
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Nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump were ordered Thursday to pay Detroit and Michigan a total of $175,000 in sanctions for abusing the court system with a sham lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results.
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Jussie Smollett’s legal team suggested Thursday that a star state witness who testified that the former “Empire” actor recruited him and his brother to stage a fake attack isn’t credible and that he was trying to further his career and make money off his relationship with the actor.
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Congressional leaders reached agreement Thursday on a stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government running through mid-February, though a temporary shutdown was still possible with some Senate Republicans holding out over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for some workers.
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The holiday season continues with the 99th National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington, where President Joe Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks.
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A psychologist told the jury that abusers often groom their victims in a progression that includes giving presents, building a sense of trust and gradually introducing more sexualized talk.
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A man accused of putting razor blades and screws in pizza dough at supermarkets in Maine and New Hampshire has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison.
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The man, who appeared to be in his 60s, was taken into custody without incident at around 1:30 p.m., about three hours after police said he was first spotted outside a security checkpoint on Manhattan’s First Avenue.
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Kellogg’s workers who have been on strike since Oct. 5 will vote on the new contract Sunday.
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OPEC and allied oil-producing countries have decided to maintain the amount of oil they pump to the world even as the new omicron variant casts a spikey shadow of uncertainty over the global economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
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About 70,000 asylum-seekers have been subject to the policy, which President Donald Trump introduced in January 2019 and which Biden suspended on his first day in office.
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The chairman of the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection says the committee has interviewed about 250 people so far.
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Among other things, the lawsuit says Gateway Pundit and the Hofts conducted a “campaign of lies” that led to online and in-person harassment against the two women.
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Teams decided to force the long-anticipated confrontation during an offseason rather than risk players walking out during the summer, as they did in 1994.
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Police are asking for the public’s help in finding witnesses or others who may have information on the daytime robbery.
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Airlines are being required to gather information about some passengers that will help with contact tracing if they develop COVID-19.
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The defense at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is trying to cast doubt on a key accuser’s allegation that the British socialite helped financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually the woman for years, starting when she was 14.
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Chicago police detective Kimberly Murray described how she took a report from the former “Empire” actor the morning of the January 2019 attack at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Conservative Republicans in the House and Senate who are opposed to Biden’s vaccine rules want Congress to take a hardline stand against the mandated shots, even if it means shutting down federal offices over the weekend.
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The strategy released Wednesday on the annual commemoration of World AIDS Day is meant to serve as a framework for how the administration intends to shape its policies, research, programs and planning over the next three years.
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ABC News has released a clip in which Alec Baldwin tells George Stephanopoulos that he did not pull the trigger on a gun that went off on a New Mexico film set, killing a cinematographer.
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A disinformation network with ties to China used hundreds of fake social media accounts — including one belonging to a fictitious Swiss biologist — to spread an unfounded claim that the U.S. pressured scientists to blame China for the coronavirus, Facebook said Wednesday.
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Scientists in South Africa are bracing for a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases following the recent discovery of the new omicron variant.
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LaMarr Hoyt, 1983 AL Cy Young Award with the Chicago White Sox has died after a long battle with an illness. He was 66.
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New York City’s troubled jail system is facing more turmoil: the suspension of hundreds of corrections officers for failing to meet a Tuesday night deadline to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Jurors in former reality TV star Josh Duggar’s trial on child pornography charges can hear evidence that he admitted to molesting four girls nearly 20 years ago, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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The wild movements are partly the result of investors struggling to handicap how much damage the newest coronavirus variant will do to the economy.
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According to WSB-TV, Field Training Officer Henry Laxson was fatally shot, along with two women and the suspected shooter.
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The manufacturing sector has recorded 18 straight months of growth going back to spring of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic broke.
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Any eligible customers can opt into fee-free overdraft at any times, the bank said.
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A former football player at the University of Central Florida was fatally shot during an altercation with his father.
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Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the shooting.
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The NBA recommends that coaches and players who are vaccinated receive a booster shot as soon as possible.
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The Biden administration is expected to take steps in the coming days to toughen testing requirements for international travelers to the U.S., amid the spread of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus.
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Wall Street’s losses deepened on Tuesday after the head of the Federal Reserve said it will consider shutting off its support for financial markets sooner than expected.
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Former Chicago police detective Michael Theis testified Tuesday at Smollett's trial.
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A woman testified on Tuesday that she had repeated sexual contact with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when she 14 and that Ghislaine Maxwell was there when it happened.
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Author Alice Sebold has apologized to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that was the basis for her memoir “Lucky.”
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Biden is facing the threat of the new omicron strain of the coronavirus and dealing with high levels of inflation even as vital parts of his agenda are still awaiting congressional approval.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also said no federal pay will be provided to those Guard members who fail to comply with the vaccine mandate.
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Police say a man accused of accidentally firing a gun in his bag at the Atlanta airport has turned himself in.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department exercised a search warrant at the home of rock star Marilyn Manson, in a sexual assault and domestic violence investigation that dates back from 2009 to 2011.