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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Petito, who vanished while on a cross-country trip in a converted camper van with her boyfriend, is the subject of a nationwide search.
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France recalls its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in submarine deal backlash, the French foreign minister says.
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The storm is expected to weaken Saturday night as it approaches eastern Canada.
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Federal officials said Friday they will investigate a fiery Tesla crash that left two people dead in South Florida.
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A judge formally approved a plan Friday to turn OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma into a new company no longer owned by members of the Sackler family and with its profits going to fight the opioid epidemic.
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The persistent attempts by Trump and others to rewrite the narrative around the violence and panic of the day, and the ever-increasing volatility around the politics of the 2020 election have made it impossible to predict what may happen.
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Suspected of killing his wife and acquitted of killing neighbor, New York millionaire Robert Durst has been convicted of his best friend’s murder.
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For days after the Aug. 29 strike, Pentagon officials asserted that it had been conducted correctly, despite numerous civilians being killed, including children.
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A special prosecutor on Friday announced the charge against former Lonoke County sheriff’s deputy Sgt. Michael Davis in the fatal shooting of Hunter Brittain.
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Sotheby’s announced Friday — appropriately on Constitution Day — that in November it will put up for auction one of just 11 surviving copies of the Constitution from the official first printing produced for the delegates to the Constitutional Convention and for the Continental Congress.
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Using firing operations to burn out flammable vegetation and other matter before the wildfire arrives in the Giant Forest is one of several ways firefighters can use their nemesis as a tool to stop, slow or redirect fires.
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In his first public comments on the conversations, Gen. Mark Milley said such calls are “routine” and were done "to reassure both allies and adversaries in this case in order to ensure strategic stability.”
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The ground stop order was lifted before 8 a.m. at the airline’s request, according to an advisory issued by the FAA.
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The fires forced the evacuation of Sequoia National Park this week, and additional areas in the town of Three Rivers outside the main entrance were ordered evacuated Thursday.
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Police in North Port, Florida, where the couple lived, say Laundrie is a “person of interest” in in the missing person case for Petito. He’s not been charged, but he’s also not cooperating.
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The case against the attorney, Michael Sussmann of the Perkins Coie law firm, is just the second prosecution brought by special counsel John Durham in two-and-a-half years of work.
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Jane Powell, the bright-eyed, operatic-voiced star of Hollywood’s golden age musicals who sang with Howard Keel in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and danced with Fred Astaire in “Royal Wedding,” has died. She was 92.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court has cleared the way for Minneapolis to vote on the future of policing in the city where George Floyd was killed.
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Hundreds of birds migrating through New York City this week died after crashing into the city’s glass towers, a mass casualty event spotlighted by a New York City Audubon volunteer’s tweets showing the World Trade Center littered with bird carcasses.
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A new study ties the COVID-19 pandemic to an “alarming” increase in obesity in U.S. children and teenagers.
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In the first group of Afghan evacuees, nearly 37,000 people will be resettled across the United States.
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The 28-year-old was fatally beaten and two other people were injured in the fight before the suspects fled in an SUV, police said.
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Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will split “Jeopardy!” hosting duties for the remainder of 2021.
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A judge ruled Thursday that the will of the late Prince Philip should remain secret to protect the “dignity” of his widow Queen Elizabeth II, who is Britain’s head of state.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday posted much of the evidence that it will ask outside experts to consider at Friday’s meeting.
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A member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has pleaded guilty and will cooperate with investigators against his fellow extremists, marking another win for the Justice Department in its major conspiracy case stemming from the attack.
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The International Game Fish Association has recorded the world record for a white catfish catch to be 19.3 pounds (8.75 kilograms) for a fish caught in 2005 in California.
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Idaho expands health care rationing statewide amid a massive increase in the state’s number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
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The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MeriTalk shows that 64% of Americans say their social media activity is not very or not at all secure.
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The 74-year-old singer-songwriter had been due to play cities in Britain and Europe this year as part of the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour.
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Wednesday’s launches underscored a return of the tensions between the rivals amid a prolonged stalemate in U.S.-led talks aimed at stripping North Korea of its nuclear weapons program.
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It’s the first chartered passenger flight for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a big step in space tourism by a private company.
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The White House offered Wednesday to connect Nicki Minaj with one of the Biden administration’s doctors to address her questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, after the Trinidadian-born rapper’s erroneous tweet alleging the vaccine causes impotence went viral.
Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivered remarks during a joint virtual event where they detailed the new alliance, called AUKUS.
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Religious objections, once used sparingly around the country to get exempted from various required vaccines, are becoming a much more widely used loophole against the COVID-19 shot.
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Ex-US House Speaker Dennis Hastert has reached a tentative settlement over payments to a man who accused him of child sex abuse.
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The Biden administration says wolves may need protections restored in the western U.S. after states make it easier to kill them.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom cruised to victory in the recall election Tuesday, boosted by healthy turnout among an overwhelmingly Democratic electorate
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The Biden administration has begun notifying governors and state refugee coordinators about how many Afghan evacuees from the first group of nearly 37,000 arrivals are slated to be resettled in their states.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday posted much of the evidence its advisory panel will consider.
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President Joe Biden’s “build back” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society — a prodigious effort to tax the rich and shift money into projects and programs touching the lives of nearly every American.
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Prosecutors at the sex trafficking trial of R. Kelly have played video and audio recordings for the jury they say back up allegations he abused women and girls.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed the 3rd-degree murder conviction of an ex-Minneapolis cop who killed an Australian woman in 2017.
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North and South Korea tested ballistic missiles hours apart Wednesday in a display of military might that is sure to exacerbate tensions between the rivals at a time when talks aimed at stripping the North of its nuclear program are stalled.
The Pentagon says it is further investigating the strike, but it has no way to do so on the ground in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, severely limiting its ability to gather evidence.
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Just over half, or 54%, of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the CDC.
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He hypothesized that the “virulence of uncertainty” was due to the diversity of COVID-19 vaccines, the quick approval time and the plethora of “arguments that created this division,” and fear.
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Nearly 3 million consumers took advantage of a special six-month period to sign up for subsidized health insurance coverage made more affordable by the COVID-19 relief law, President Joe Biden said Wednesday.
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The proposed settlements would bring the fund for abuse claimants to almost $1.9 billion.
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A judge said a property sale with a land swap would enable victims to be compensated while also allowing for a memorial at the site honoring the 98 victims.