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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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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The tennis star was deported from Australia over its required COVID-19 vaccination.
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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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Deputies said two people were found with gunshot wounds and both were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Tribal health officials have changed how the term “fully vaccinated” is defined by making it two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine plus a booster shot.
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Gov. Ducey's office did not announce that he was using cash from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act.
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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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Yee announced her decision in a statement that did not explain her reasoning except to say that “there is additional work to be done” as treasurer.
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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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Another reason the family chose to appear in Arizona is to send a message to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat.
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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.
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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.
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U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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North Korea on Friday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles in its third weapons launch this month, officials in South Korea said, in an apparent reprisal for fresh sanctions imposed by the Biden administration for its continuing test launches.
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So far, the Marine Corps has received 3,350 requests for religious exemptions to the mandatory vaccine as of Thursday, and denied 3,212. No information about the two specific approvals was provided, due to privacy reasons.
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Netflix is raising prices for its video streaming customers in the U.S. and Canada, less than a year and a half since its last price increase, as competition from other streaming services increases.
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Fifty-nine-year-old Thomas Holifield of Michigan City is charged with murder in the June 1 methanol poisoning death of 64-year-old Pamela Keltz.
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On Monday, fans of White will be poised to donate to animal welfare charities and shelters as part of what’s been dubbed the #BettyWhiteChallenge.
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A federal judge on Friday ordered Martin Shkreli to return $64.6 million in profits he and his company reaped from inflating the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim and barred him from participating in the pharmaceutical industry for the rest of his life.
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A district attorney says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton violated the state’s open records laws by withholding or failing to retain his communications relating to his appearance at a pro-Donald Trump rally that preceded the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last year.
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Starting on Jan. 19, the website COVIDTests.gov will provide tests at no cost, including no shipping fee, the White House announced Friday.
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Fire department video shows someone carrying the alert dog out of the home.
President Joe Biden will hold a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, the eve of the one-year anniversary of his inauguration.
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The Biden administration is threatening to recoup COVID-19 relief funds sent to Arizona over state provisions that it says discourage families and school districts from following federal guidance recommending face coverings in schools.
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When the three arrived at the departure gate, the flight crew decided they shouldn’t be allowed on because they were acting belligerent.
Federal prosecutors have charged four people in connection with the robbery and killing of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer and allege the suspects are tied to a street gang.
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The court’s orders Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases was a mixed bag for the administration’s efforts to boost the vaccination rate among Americans.
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Navient, a large student loan servicer, has settled allegations of predatory lending practices for $1.85 billion, Pennsylvania’s attorney general announced Thursday.
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California’s governor on Thursday rejected releasing Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan from prison more than a half-century after the 1968 slaying left a deep wound during one of America’s darkest times.
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Months after requesting documents from more than a dozen social platforms, the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas targeting Twitter, Meta, Reddit and YouTube after lawmakers said the companies’ initial responses were inadequate.
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A far-right social media personality who calls himself “Baked Alaska” was sentenced to 30 days in jail for misdemeanor convictions arising from an encounter in which authorities say he shot pepper spray at an employee at an Arizona bar.
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Texas wants Planned Parenthood to return more than $10 million in payments for low-income patients.
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Federal Judge Fernando M. Olguin had dismissed Spencer Elden’s lawsuit on Jan. 4 after a missed deadline, but gave him permission to file an amended version.
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The only way to prove whether Mars ever had or still has microbial life, according to Steele, is to bring samples to Earth for analysis.