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 nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan has begun a new round of naval drills with South Korean warships.
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The winner, or winners, of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.
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The U.S. Navy has held a joint drone drill with the United Kingdom in the Persian Gulf. The drill Friday tested the same unmanned surveillance ships that Iran twice has seized in recent months in the Middle East.
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The death toll from a Russian missile attack on apartment blocks in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has risen to 11 and the city has been hit again by missiles and — for the first time — by explosive-packed drones.
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Ian dumped rain for hours as it lumbered across the state, sending waterways spilling over their banks and into homes and businesses far inland from where Ian made landfall.
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Authorities say the suspect in the kidnapping and killing of a central California family was a former employee who had a longstanding dispute with them.
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The government’s jobs report for September is expected to show that employers added 250,000 jobs last month.
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President Joe Biden said Thursday that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in the eight-month invasion of Ukraine.
Updated: 11 hours ago
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Isaak Olson was expelled under an academy regulation that barred cadets from having “any maternal or paternal obligation or responsibility,” according to the lawsuit.
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Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker remained defiant Thursday after successive reports alleging that he encouraged and paid for the 2009 abortion of a woman and later fathered a child with her.
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An armed man accused of shooting and wounding one person and who then barricaded himself inside a room at a suburban Detroit hotel surrendered Thursday night and was taken into custody, Michigan State Police said.
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The number of recorded storm-related deaths rose Thursday to at least 101 in the eight days since the storm made landfall in southwest Florida.
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Tenuta died Thursday afternoon at home in Los Angeles, with her family around her, publicist Roger Neal told The Associated Press.
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Miller died in her hometown of Blanchard, Oklahoma, of complications from Parkinson’s disease, according to Universal Music Group, owner of Capitol Records, which released most of her hits.
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Zimmerman said he believed Rhodes spoke on the phone with the agent about the logistics of a September 2020 rally that then-President Donald Trump held in North Carolina.
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Elon Musk’s lawyers said Thursday that Twitter is refusing the Tesla billionaire’s renewed $44 billion bid for the social media company and have asked a Delaware court to halt an upcoming trial.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KATHLEEN FOODY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI
While CommonSpirit Health confirmed it experienced an “IT security issue” earlier this week, the company has remained mum when pressed for more details about the scope of the attack.
Updated: 12 hours ago
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Officials reported the two men said they were fleeing compulsory military service.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
The designation is expected to come next week, when the president will join other elected officials in Colorado.
Updated: 13 hours ago
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Brad Pitt’s lawyer said Thursday that he will continue to respond in court to allegations from ex-wife Angelina Jolie that he abused her and choked one of their children on a flight in 2016, saying he has taken responsibility for his actual actions but not aspects of her story that are not true.
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The FBI estimates violent crime rates didn’t increase substantially last year, though they remained above pre-pandemic levels.
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Jeremy Joseph Bertino, 43, has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation of the role that Proud Boys leaders played in the mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a federal prosecutor said.
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A towering amusement ride in central Florida’s tourism district where a Missouri teen fell to his death will be taken down because of the accident, the owner said Thursday.
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At least 66 clinics have stopped providing abortions in 15 states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Kevin Spacey is heading to court to defend himself in a lawsuit filed by Anthony Rapp, the actor who was the first in a string of people to publicly accuse the “House of Cards” star of sexual misconduct.
Updated: 14 hours ago
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Franks was among six anti-government extremists who were charged in federal court with conspiracy and other crimes.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MARCIA DUNN
The SpaceX capsule pulled up to the station a day after launching into orbit. The linkup occurred 260 miles (420 kilometers) above the Atlantic, just off the west coast of Africa.
Updated: 15 hours ago
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President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana under federal law, as his administration takes a dramatic step toward decriminalizing the drug and addressing charging practices that disproportionately impact people of color.
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A Connecticut jury is expected to hear closing arguments Thursday in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ defamation trial over his calling the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School a hoax.
Updated: 15 hours ago
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Picollo’s decision to fire manager Mike Matheny and pitching coach Cal Eldred upon the club’s return to Kansas City was expected.
Updated: 16 hours ago
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The firing came after it was reported that Crimson Elizondo had been hired by the Uvalde school district following one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.
Updated: 17 hours ago
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Rochester Mayor Malik D. Evans said in a statement that the agreement was “the best decision” for the city.
Updated: 17 hours ago
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Asked for its response, the FBI said it intended to respond to the oversight committee first. It declined to comment specifically on the whistleblower’s allegation or to provide its own tally of disciplinary cases and how many of them involved sexual misconduct.
Updated: 19 hours ago
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The 82-year-old was cited for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory,” the Nobel committee said.
Updated: 19 hours ago
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has scheduled its next hearing for Oct. 13, pushing the investigation back into the limelight less than three weeks before the midterm election that will determine control of Congress.
Updated: 19 hours ago
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The Burmese python, one of the world’s largest snakes, is considered a vulnerable species in its native Asia and is invasive in Florida, where it threatens native animals.
Updated: 20 hours ago
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The victim's brother contends that the family was not given enough notice about a court hearing last month.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer
Wagner reacted with bemusement when asked about the protester’s complaint.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer
James, who has spoken in the past about wanting to eventually own an NBA franchise — with Las Vegas on his mind — has sent another crystal-clear message to Commissioner Adam Silver.
Updated: 22 hours ago
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Cherelle Griner said her wife, a two-time Olympic gold medalist who was playing in Russia during the WNBA offseason, is afraid of being forgotten by the United States.
Updated: 23 hours ago
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Local election offices across the U.S. have seen the movement spawned by former President Donald Trump that spreads false election narratives arrive on their doorsteps.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 3:05 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The owner of a sports memorabilia auction house says he has offered $2 million to the fan who caught Aaron Judge’s American League-record 62nd home run.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 1:41 AM CDT
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The former chief security officer for Uber has been convicted of trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers accessed millions of customer records from the ride-hailing service.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 9:49 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The latest reporting undercuts Walker's claims that he didn't know who the woman was. The Daily Beast says that the woman was so well known to Walker that, according to her, they conceived another child together years after the abortion.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 9:28 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
North Korea launched two ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Thursday, as the United States redeployed one of its aircraft carriers near the Korean Peninsula in response to the North’s recent launch of a powerful missile over Japan.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 8:37 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and COLLEEN SLEVIN
A lawyer for Jack Phillips on Wednesday urged Colorado’s appeals court — largely on procedural grounds — to overturn last year’s ruling in a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 8:37 PM CDT
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A Texas death row inmate whose case redefined the role of spiritual advisers in death chambers nationwide was executed Wednesday, despite the efforts of a district attorney to stop his lethal injection.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 8:30 PM CDT
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Eric Weinberg, an executive producer and writer for the hit TV show “Scrubs” and many others, has been charged with sexually assaulting five women that he lured to photo shoots and there could be many more victims.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 7:26 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
An 85-year-old Iranian-American detained for six years in Iran on what the U.S. says were specious espionage charges left the country and was flown to Oman and then to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday for urgent medical treatment.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 6:54 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and DREW COSTLEY
Widespread drought that dried up large parts of Europe, the United States and China this past summer was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study.
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