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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Police say before he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his long-simmering plans for the attack.
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Massachusetts on Wednesday reported a rare case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada, and health officials are looking into whether it is connected to small outbreaks in Europe.
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Convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been freed from prison after serving much of a seven-year prison sentence for lying to hedge fund investors and cheating investors in a drug company.
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President Joe Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and has authorized flights to import supplies from overseas.
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Already, the case has prompted some National Guard members in Texas to unionize.
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First daughter Ashley Biden has tested positive for COVID-19.
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Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign did not authorize a lawyer to meet with the FBI and provide information that was meant to cast suspicions on rival candidate Donald Trump and possible connections to Russia.
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The U.S. government’s road safety agency has dispatched a team to investigate the possibility that a Tesla involved in a California crash that killed three people was operating on a partially automated driving system.
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The House is moving toward swift passage of legislation that would devote more federal resources to preventing domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
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New York would require state police to seek court orders to keep guns away from people who might pose a threat to themselves or others under a package of executive orders and gun control bills touted Wednesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul in the aftermath of a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket.
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has tested positive for coronavirus.
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The military routinely disposed of tires, batteries, medical waste and other materials in open burn pits during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A senior Biden administration official says U.S. intelligence shows that it’s a “genuine possibility” that North Korea will conduct another ballistic missile test or nuclear test around President Joe Biden’s visit to South Korea and Japan that begins later this week.
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Qualifying films are allowed to premiere in theaters and on a streaming service.
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COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.
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Federal officials are bracing for another difficult hurricane season. President Joe Biden on Wednesday received a briefing about what Americans can expect this year.
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A woman attacked by a mountain lion in Northern California says her dog jumped to her defense and was badly wounded in protecting her.
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Workers at a Target store in Christiansburg, Virginia, have withdrawn their request with federal union regulators for a union election.
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Some U.S. moms looking for baby formula that is in short supply are dealing with another layer of stress - people asking why they don't just breastfeed.
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The lawsuit involved Sacha Baron Cohen and the dispensary, Massachusetts-based Solar Therapeutics Inc.
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In February 2020, the Trump administration signed an agreement with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, in which the U.S. promised to fully withdraw its troops by May 2021.
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Earlier this month, the Lander went into safe mode and ceased most functions.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday that authorities were prepared for an anticipated increase in migrants crossing the border from Mexico, days before a public health order is set to end after being used to turn people away nearly 2 million times without a chance to seek asylum.
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The chairman of a creditors committee that negotiated the agreement on behalf of the surviving victims and others said it would hold the Archdiocese of Santa Fe accountable for the abuse and result in one of the largest diocese contributions to a bankruptcy settlement in U.S. history.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 7:51 PM CDT
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The Justice Department is suing longtime Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn to compel him to register as a foreign agent because of lobbying work he performed at the behest of the Chinese government during the Trump administration.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 6:36 PM CDT
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Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee’s chairman, said Tuesday that the Justice Department had made the request as part of its ongoing criminal investigation into the attack. But he said it was “premature” for the committee to share its work at this point because the panel’s probe is ongoing.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 6:23 PM CDT
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Musk earlier tweeted that his plan to buy Twitter was on hold as he tried to pinpoint the number of fake accounts on the social media platform.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 5:16 PM CDT
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A judge has suspended Michigan’s dormant ban on abortion, saying it likely violates the state constitution.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 5:05 PM CDT
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The funding would increase FDA staffing focused on the formula shortage to boost inspections, prevent fraudulent products from getting onto store shelves and acquire better data on the marketplace, lawmakers said.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 4:17 PM CDT
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House investigators are unlikely to call former President Donald Trump to testify about his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 3:46 PM CDT
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The Fed’s increases in its benchmark short-term rate typically lead, in turn, to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, including for mortgages, auto loans and credit cards.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 3:39 PM CDT
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A federal judge on Tuesday struck down Tennessee’s first-of-its-kind law requiring businesses to post special signs if they allow transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 2:20 PM CDT
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Far fewer Americans said “I do” during the first year of the pandemic when wedding plans were upended, a new report finds.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 2:15 PM CDT
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The three known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are receiving a $1 million donation from a New York philanthropic organization.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 1:58 PM CDT
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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Lee Lewis, the late country singer Keith Whitley and music executive Joe Galante will join the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 12:59 PM CDT
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Authorities say an 11-year-old girl is the fifth person to die from her injuries in a crash caused by a vehicle that police had tried to stop in the minutes before it hit a van carrying seven family members.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 11:04 AM CDT
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A Missouri prosecutor is seeking to vacate the conviction of a man who spent nearly two decades behind bars for the 1998 death of his mother — a crime he and others insist he did not commit.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 10:57 AM CDT
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Ronald Moultrie, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said the Pentagon was also trying to destigmatize the issue and encourage pilots and other military personnel to report anything unusual they see.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 7:12 AM CDT
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The White House announced Tuesday that U.S. households can request an additional eight free at-home tests to be shipped by the U.S. Postal Service.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 6:37 AM CDT
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The referral of Sen. Wendy Rogers of Flagstaff to the Ethics Committee was in lieu of the immediate expulsion that Democratic lawmakers were planning, GOP Majority Leader Rick Gray said. Due process considerations require no less than an ethics investigation, he said.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 7:28 PM CDT
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The Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand flights to Cuba, take steps to loosen restrictions on U.S. travelers to the island, and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 6:43 PM CDT
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Signs of Republican resistance are mounting over a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 6:13 PM CDT
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A clampdown on Chicago teens’ access to a popular downtown park and an earlier weekend curfew following the fatal shooting of a teenager has revived longstanding accusations that City Hall cares more about the city’s sparkling lakefront and downtown over neighborhoods where hundreds have been killed or hurt by gun violence.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 5:53 PM CDT
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Karine Jean-Pierre is crediting “barrier-breaking people” who came before her for making it possible for a Black, gay, immigrant woman like herself to hold one of the most high-profile jobs in American government.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 5:44 PM CDT
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has given the strongest hint yet that he would like to pay less for Twitter than his $44 billion offer made last month.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 5:14 PM CDT
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President Joe Biden is thanking Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his country’s “moral leadership” in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 4:23 PM CDT
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Starbucks said Monday it will pay the travel expenses for U.S. employees to access abortion and gender-confirmation procedures if those services aren’t available within 100 miles of a worker’s home.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 3:33 PM CDT
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their first meeting since getting into a bench-clearing scuffle last month in St. Louis. With severe thunderstorms in the evening forecast, the game was postponed a little more than 3 1/2 hours before it was supposed to begin.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 1:47 PM CDT
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A group of voters who challenged U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection said Monday they have filed an appeal of the Georgia secretary of state’s decision that she can appear on the ballot.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 12:49 PM CDT
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The Columbian newspaper reports police in Vancouver uncovered footage of the 29-year-old man peeing into a bag of milkshake mix as they were executing a search warrant on his phone as part of a child pornography investigation.