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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Saban was joined by NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, a fellow West Virginia native, in a Jan. 13 letter penned to the Democratic senator ahead of the Senate’s debate of the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. The Senate took up the bill Tuesday.
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Gary Chambers is seen dressed in a suit, sitting in a tufted wingback chair in an open field and puffing away.
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Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia face strong criticism from Black leaders and civil rights organizations for failing to take on what the critics call the “Jim Crow filibuster.”
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Three police officers have been charged with manslaughter and reckless endangerment after firing their weapons in the direction of a crowd of people exiting a high school football game outside of Philadelphia.
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A man accused of killing three people and wounding three others in an April shooting at a bar in Wisconsin has been found guilty on all charges.
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The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection issued a new batch of subpoenas Tuesday to some of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, including Rudy Giuliani, as the committee inches closer to the former president.
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A Kansas prosecutor said Tuesday that he won’t file criminal charges over the death of a Black 17-year-old who became unresponsive while being restrained facedown for more than 30 minutes following an altercation with staff at a Wichita juvenile center in September.
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The FBI and other federal government agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyber threats through tools other than criminal indictments.
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The 2022 Grammy Awards will shift to an April show in Las Vegas after recently postponing the ceremony due to growing concerns with the rise of the omicron variant.
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He was born in León on Feb. 11, 1909, Guinness World Records said.
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Louie Anderson is being treated for cancer in a Las Vegas hospital, a spokesman for the actor and comedian said.
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Truist expects the changes will result in customers paying $300 million less in fees annually by 2024.
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Los Angeles County prosecutors filed the charges in October, but they came to light only last week.
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Public health officials have warned it is highly unlikely COVID-19 will be eliminated and say it will continue to kill people, though at much lower levels, even after it becomes endemic.
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Florida prosecutors accepted Hannah Roemhild’s plea during a brief hearing Tuesday with the 32-year-old singer appearing by Zoom from her home state.
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Ivermectin is approved for use by people and animals for some parasitic worms, head lice and skin conditions. The drug is not approved for treating COVID-19.
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Biden has found out, as all his predecessors have, that events beyond his control would shape his time in office and the public’s assessment of him.
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Omicron, already dominant in many countries, can infect those who have been vaccinated or had previously been infected by the virus.
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Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker said he let the gunman in Saturday because he appeared to need shelter. He said the man was not threatening or suspicious at first. Later, he heard a gun click as he was praying.
In December, the U.S. Supreme Court kept the law in place and allowed only a narrow challenge against the restrictions to proceed.
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The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the Amazon warehouse in central Illinois where he worked has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
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The single-vehicle crash on Interstate 210 happened at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Pasadena, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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King’s example, and his insistence on nonviolent protest, continues to influence many activists pushing for civil rights and social change.
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Russia’s top diplomat angrily rejected U.S. allegations that Moscow was preparing a pretext to invade Ukraine, as Russian troops that are amassed near the Ukraine border launched more drills Monday.
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Funeral services were held Monday for nine children and three adults who died in a Philadelphia fire five days into the new year, the deadliest blaze in the city in more than a century.
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The massive winter system brought similar conditions to the Southeast on Sunday.
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Black diamonds, also known as carbonado, are extremely rare, and are found naturally only in Brazil and Central Africa.
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Milley, who has received the COVID-19 vaccine and a booster shot, tested positive on Sunday.
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The tennis star was deported from Australia over its required COVID-19 vaccination.
Police in England arrested two teenagers in their investigation into an armed British national holding four people hostage at a Texas synagogue.
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South Korea’s military says North Korea fired at least one projectile into the sea in its fourth weapons launch this month.
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One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Charles McGee, who flew fighter combat missions over three wars, has died.
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Highway patrols were reporting hundreds of vehicle accidents, and a tornado ripped through a trailer park in Florida. More than 1,200 Sunday flights at Charlotte Douglas International were canceled.
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A Bronx community is gathering to pay final respects to perished loved ones, a week after a fire filled a high-rise apartment building with thick, suffocating smoke that killed 17 people, including eight children.
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Prosecutors charged the leader of the far-right militia group known as the Oath Keepers, along with 10 other members or associates, with seditious conspiracy.
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Some notable numbers from Biden’s first year in office.
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Nursing homes were the lethal epicenter of the pandemic early on, before the vaccine allowed many of them to reopen to visitors last year. But the wildly contagious variant has dealt them a setback.
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The FBI says there’s no immediate indication the suspect had connections to any broader plan, but its investigation “will have global reach.”
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Union Pacific says it is concerned about the cargo thefts and has increased patrols and utilized additional technologies to combat them.
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Satellite images show a 3-mile-wide plume of ash, steam and gas rising into the air 12 miles high.
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The man believed responsible fled the scene but turned himself in to transit police a short time later,
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Ralph Emery, who became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television, died Saturday, his family said. He was 88.
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By Friday, the fast-moving storm had already dropped heavy snow across a large swath of the Midwest, where travel conditions deteriorated and scores of schools closed or moved to online instruction.
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Baldwin was an actor and co-producer, and the search warrant for his phone sought text messages, images, videos, calls or any other information related to the movie.
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Authorities say a fire near a New Jersey chemical plant with flames and smoke visible for miles in the night sky has spread to multiple buildings in the complex, threatening to reach the plant’s chemical storage area.
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The lawsuit cleared a hurdle after a judge earlier this week refused Andrew’s request to have it dismissed.
Every infection provides a chance for the virus to mutate, and omicron has an edge over its predecessors.
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The White House is pushing ahead with efforts to prod people to get COVID-19 shots after the Supreme Court put a halt to the administration’s sweeping vaccinate-or-test plan for large employers.
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Authorities say a pilot and a passenger are presumed dead after the crash of a helicopter in a south Louisiana marsh.
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North Korea on Saturday said it test-launched ballistic missiles from a train in what was seen as an apparent retaliation against fresh sanctions imposed by the Biden administration.