The 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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The U.S. announced on Friday that it will provide Ukraine with $820 million in new military aid, including new surface-to-air missile systems and counter-artillery radars to respond to Russia’s heavy reliance on long-range strikes in the war.
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American basketball star Brittney Griner appeared in a Moscow-area court for trial Friday, about 4 1/2 months after she was arrested on cannabis possession charges at an airport.
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Pistorius, once a double-amputee track star who made history by running at the Olympics, became eligible for parole last year, eight years after killing his girlfriend in his home in the South African capital, Pretoria.
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Travelers seemed to be experiencing fewer delays and canceled flights early Friday than they did earlier this week.
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Bachman said all guitars are special, but the orange 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins he bought as a teenager was exceptional.
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Under the new system, the state wouldn’t authorize permits for people with convictions within the past five years for driving while intoxicated, menacing or third-degree assault.
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Julian Assange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse.
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The Detroit automaker said in a regulatory filing Friday that most of the incomplete vehicles were built in June, and that it expects most of them to be finished and sold to dealers before the end of the year.
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Families of the more than 60 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned in Texas were people seeking a better life.
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Kohl’s struggled with anemic sales before the pandemic. Sales and profits rebounded in 2021, but the department store is now battling higher costs and a pullback from its price conscious shoppers.
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A Supreme Court ruling Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution by power plants.
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Politicians and state government attorneys are trying to sort out which laws and which provisions are in force.
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Park officials say a 71-year-old woman from West Chester, Pennsylvania, and her daughter inadvertently approached the bison Wednesday.
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New York has denied required air permit renewals to a bitcoin-mining power plant on the grounds that it was a threat to the state’s climate goals.
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A Navy investigation is revealing how shoddy management and human error caused fuel to leak into Pearl Harbor’s tap water last year.
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Acting Newark public safety director Raul Malave told reporters at the scene that all of the victims are expected to survive and police are searching for a vehicle believed to have been involved in the shooting.
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The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement took effect at noon.
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The Big Ten will become the first conference to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific and builds on previous expansion into the nation’s largest media markets.
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One death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin, health officials said Thursday.
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Authorities in Texas say four migrants have died and three other people were hospitalized in another fatal human smuggling attempt.
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The truck went through the checkpoint on Interstate 35, 26 miles northeast of the border city of Laredo, Texas.
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Police say there are no signs of foul play in the case of an 8-year-old boy who was found in a rainwater sewer more than a week after going missing.
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The civil rights investigation, announced Thursday, will examine whether the NYPD’s Special Victims Division engages in a pattern of gender-biased policing, officials said.
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Ralph “Sonny” Barger was a founding member of the Oakland, California, chapter of the Hells Angels in 1957.
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Meanwhile, in the east, Russia kept up its push to take control of the entire Donbas region from Ukraine.
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The U.S. Endangered Species Act requires permission to buy or move any endangered species in captivity and prosecutors said Antle, two of his employees and owners of safari tours in Texas and California all broke the law.
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Pfizer and Moderna already were brewing and testing boosters updated against the first omicron mutant in anticipation of an October rollout.
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They were described as leaders of a scheme to kidnap Whitmer at her vacation home in 2020, trigger a civil war and prevent Joe Biden from winning the presidency.
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The companies say these moves will wipe out nearly 70% of the medical debt listed on consumer credit reports.
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If you're flying this holiday weekend, be prepared for crowded airports, full planes, and higher-than-normal chances that your flight will be delayed or even canceled.
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Biden’s statement was the latest indication that, if the party picks up a few more seats in the midterm elections in November, Democrats could seize the opportunity to pass legislation creating a nationwide right to abortion.
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U.S. Marshals say a Texas woman accused of killing professional cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson was arrested in Costa Rica.
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The court had previously turned away health care workers in Maine, who filed a similar challenge.
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A first-in-the-nation law that goes into effect for the 2022-23 school year says high schools can’t start before 8:30 a.m. and middle schools can’t start before 8 a.m.
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The high court decision less than a week ago has set off legal battles in multiple states where lawmakers have sought to ban or restrict abortion.
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A new poll shows about half of Americans say former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in what happened on Jan. 6.
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Barry Callebaut produces chocolate for multiple brands sold around the world.
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Police said no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
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Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers have ended in Qatar after failing to make significant progress.
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The committee said that it required Cipollone’s testimony after obtaining other evidence about which he was “uniquely positioned to testify.”
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The bodies were discovered Monday afternoon on the outskirts of San Antonio in what is believed to be the nation’s deadliest smuggling episode on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The California Department of Justice says it wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases.
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The National Transportation Safety Board says an Amtrak passenger train was going about 87 mph when it collided with a dump truck
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R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse.
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Donald Trump is no longer in contempt of court, a New York judge ruled Wednesday.
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Cain Velasquez's criminal trial is pending.
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A team searching a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping.
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A special French court on Wednesday found 20 men guilty of involvement in the Islamic State terrorist attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and France’s national stadium in 2015 that killed 130 people in the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history.
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Addressing the court before the sentence was announced, Parnas sobbed and apologized to people who had lost money investing in his business ventures.
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The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. calling the decision to no longer recognize a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would ultimately cost lives.