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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Ed Ames, the youngest member of the popular 1950s singing group the Ames Brothers, who later became a successful actor in television and musical theater, has died. He was 95.
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President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an “agreement in principle” late Saturday as they raced to strike a deal that to limit federal spending and resolve the looming debt crisis ahead of a June 5 deadline.
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Two horses have died the past two days following injuries at Churchill Downs, the 11th and 12th fatalities over the past month at the home of the Kentucky Derby.
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Despite his call for his supporters to protest the proceedings, there was no sign of an organized effort to support Paxton by late morning.
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This year some 950 men and women are expected to take part in the graduation ceremony in West Point, New York.
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Christina Harnish, also known as Christina Stallings, and William Rice were sentenced Friday in the killing of Megan Tilman.
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The collision Thursday afternoon outside the prime minister’s official residence and offices set off an intense security response.
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A Kansas paramedic has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman while she was taking a cocktail of painkillers and sedatives.
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The Nationals outscored the Royals in a high-scoring series opener Friday at Kauffman Stadium.
Updated: 24 hours ago
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The treasury secretary renewed her warning in a letter to Congress that inaction on raising the borrowing limit would “cause severe hardship.”
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 7:34 PM CDT
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Paxton decried the impeachment proceedings as “political theater” that will “inflict lasting damage on the Texas House,” adding to his earlier claims that it’s an effort to disenfranchise the voters who returned him to office in November.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 6:59 PM CDT
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The LSU women's team and the Connecticut men's team were honored at the White House.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 6:45 PM CDT
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Child welfare advocates worry such measures represent a coordinated push to scale back hard-won protections for minors.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 4:51 PM CDT
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The ruling by Judge Clifton Newman came just about 24 hours after Gov. Henry McMaster signed the bill.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 4:29 PM CDT
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Government officials say chemical fire retardant is sometimes crucial to slowing the advance of dangerous blazes.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 4:10 PM CDT
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U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Jessica Watkins, of Woodstock, Ohio, to eight years and six months behind bars and sentenced Kenneth Harrelson, of Titusville, Florida, to four years in prison.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum expected to announce GOP campaign for president, Republican allies say
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 4:00 PM CDT
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Burgum, first elected in 2016, was reelected in 2020 and is eligible to run for governor again in 2024.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 3:41 PM CDT
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Supporters of an Indianapolis doctor voiced frustration Friday with the Indiana medical board’s decision that she violated patient privacy laws when she talked with a newspaper reporter about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 3:13 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and TERRY TANG and SAM METZ
Sam Bateman and the three women followers scheduled to appear for their arraignment were arrested last year and charged with kidnapping and impeding a federal investigation. Prosecutors earlier this month expanded the group's charges.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 2:44 PM CDT
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The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 2:34 PM CDT
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Patrick Xavier Clark had been free on a $1 million bond when a grand jury in Houston indicted him on Thursday.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 2:05 PM CDT
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After a mother posted about it in an online neighborhood group, she found other concerned parents whose kids had also brought the book home.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 1:58 PM CDT
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Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Friday.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 1:18 PM CDT
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The holiday is observed in part by the National Moment of Remembrance, which encourages all Americans to pause at 3 p.m. for a moment of silence.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 1:17 PM CDT
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Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink says it’s gotten permission from U.S. regulators to begin testing its device in people.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 12:57 PM CDT
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Images on social media showed Waters firing an imitation machine gun while dressed in a long black coat with a red armband.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 11:27 AM CDT
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Gershkovich, a 31-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested in March while on a reporting trip in Russia.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 11:07 AM CDT
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The Senate voted 33-1 in favor of a resolution that officially proclaimed their innocence.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 9:53 AM CDT
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The index, which the Federal Reserve closely monitors, showed that prices rose 0.4% from March to April, much higher than the 0.1% increase the previous month.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 9:32 AM CDT
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Chris Beaty, 38, was shot and killed May 30, 2020 during unrest in Indianapolis following the death of George Floyd.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 9:23 AM CDT
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Durham is expected to appear on June 20 in a closed-door session with the House Intelligence Committee and will testify publicly the following day before the House Judiciary Committee.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 9:15 AM CDT
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A mountain lion studied by biologists in wilderness areas near Los Angeles has given birth to three healthy kittens.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 8:28 AM CDT
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The action against Morris & Dickson Co. that threatens to put it out of business came two days after an Associated Press investigation.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 5:28 AM CDT
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Twelve people were taken to hospitals for treatment, according to the Transportation Ministry.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 5:26 AM CDT
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Leaders of Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature have backed off a threat to sue the state’s Democratic governor for vetoing parts of a GOP education funding bill.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 2:04 AM CDT
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A judge sentenced Patrick Nicholas to nearly 46 years in prison for the killing of Sarah Yarborough, who was found fatally strangled on campus in 1991.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 12:19 AM CDT
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The charge stems from the Sept. 14, 2021, death of Charles Sharp III, who called 911 to report he had spotted two burglars in his backyard.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 11:50 PM CDT
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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s complaint asked the licensing board to impose “appropriate disciplinary action” but doesn’t specify a requested penalty.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 10:32 PM CDT
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been under FBI investigation for years over accusations that he used his office to help a donor and was separately indicted on securities fraud charges in 2015, but has yet to stand trial.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 9:58 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and GRACE GARCES BORDALLO and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press
Chainsaws buzzed Friday as neighbors helped each other clear toppled trees and began cleaning the wreckage of Typhoon Mawar, which walloped Guam as the strongest typhoon to hit the island in over two decades but appeared to have passed without leaving death or massive destruction in its wake.
Anniversary of George Floyd’s killing: Changes were made, but short of ‘reckoning’ on racial justice
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 9:20 PM CDT
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For more than nine minutes, a white officer pressed his knee to the neck of Floyd, a Black man, who gasped, “I can’t breathe.”
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 8:44 PM CDT
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A zebra has died after running into a containment fence post in its enclosure at a zoo in Milwaukee.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 7:33 PM CDT
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Six of the company's employees landed Thursday morning at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico after a flight that included a few minutes of weightlessness.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 7:22 PM CDT
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President Joe Biden on Thursday announced what he said is the most ambitious and comprehensive undertaking by the U.S. government to fight hate, bias and violence against Jews, outlining more than 100 steps the administration and its partners can take to combat an alarming rise in antisemitism.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 7:04 PM CDT
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A defiant House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the debt ceiling standoff was “not my fault” as Republican negotiators and the White House failed to finish out talks.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 5:25 PM CDT
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A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday said she will dismiss a lawsuit that the stars of 1968′s “Romeo and Juliet” filed over the film’s nude scene, finding that their depiction could not be considered child pornography and they filed their claim too late.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 5:07 PM CDT
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Stewart Rhodes is the first person charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy, and his sentence is the longest that has been handed down so far in the hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 4:02 PM CDT
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The outcome could threaten efforts to control flooding on the Mississippi River and protect the Chesapeake Bay, among many projects, wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh, breaking with the other five conservatives.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 3:48 PM CDT
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A West Virginia man has been charged with threatening a Little League baseball umpire.
On 3rd anniversary of George Floyd’s death, Biden stops GOP-led effort to block DC police reform law
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 3:21 PM CDT
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The law was part of a push to reform policing nationwide and passed in the wake of the police killing of Floyd in 2020 in Minneapolis.