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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Air quality with what the U.S. rates as hazardous levels of pollution extended into central New York. Massive tongues of unhealthy air extended as far as Virginia and Indiana, affecting millions of people.
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The Bible removal is the highest-profile effort to remove a book from a school in Utah since the Legislature passed a law requiring school districts to create new pathways for residents to challenge “sensitive materials” and used a statute-based definition on pornography to define them.
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Peter G. Moloney, 58, of Bayport, New York, faces numerous charges, including civil disorder and assaulting police officers, according to court documents.
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The case has put Florida’s divisive stand your ground law back into the spotlight.
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Lionel Messi says he’s joining Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami after exit from Paris Saint-Germain
Lionel Messi has pulled off his latest stunning feat: He is headed to Major League Soccer, and joining Inter Miami.
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Justice Clarence Thomas, along with Justice Samuel Alito, sought an extension for up to 90 days to file their financial disclosures.
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Jay Johnston was arrested in Los Angeles on charges including civil disorder, a felony.
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Mike Pence has opened his presidential bid with an unusually forceful denunciation of former President Donald Trump over Jan. 6, Trump's temperament and abortion.
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Pope Francis is expected to remain at the hospital for several days.
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Licht replaced Jeff Zucker as CNN’s chief executive last year
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A man convicted last month in the shooting death of a father who was camping with his daughters at a Southern California park was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison.
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Scot Peterson is charged with seven counts of felony child neglect for four students who were killed and three who were wounded on the third floor of a classroom building.
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One of the victims received his diploma moments before he was shot.
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Known to few outside North Dakota, Burgum faces an immense challenge in a field dominated by Trump and the better-known governor in the race, Ron DeSantis of Florida.
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Transgender minors and some adults in Missouri will soon be banned from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries under a bill signed Wednesday by the state’s Republican governor.
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The lawsuit is not the first, and likely not the last, to be filed in the days since the building’s May 28 demise, which left three people dead, many injured and dozens displaced.
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He won the WWF championship in 1983 by defeating Bob Backlund, before losing it later to Hulk Hogan.
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The charges stem from four attacks that happened in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood from August 2007 through December 2008 — a time that authorities say Nilo lived in the city.
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Taylor Budowich, who had served as a spokesman for Trump after his presidency and now runs a pro-Trump super PAC, was to testify before a grand jury that is separate from a panel that has been meeting in Washington for months to consider charges against Trump over the retention of hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
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He released more than a dozen solo piano albums, along with soundtracks for the TV miniseries “This Is America, Charlie Brown” and “The Velveteen Rabbit.”
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A day after the City Council rejected protesters’ pleas to refuse to fund the police and firefighter training facility, the activists returned to City Hall to file a referendum petition, hoping to take the fight to the ballot box.
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At issue is a March ruling by a federal judge in Texas who said some of the preventive care requirements under former President Barack Obama’s 13-year-old health care law are unconstitutional.
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Shawn Michael Fix is one of five men charged with providing material support for an act of terrorism in the scheme to abduct the Democratic governor in 2020.
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The two actors were last on Broadway in “Kinky Boots” playing Lola.
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A new debt bill passed by Congress removed any hope that the Biden administration would extend the pause again if the Supreme Court strikes down the White House's student loan cancellation.
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Several hundred people gathered outside the school district headquarters, split between those who support or oppose teaching students about LGBTQ+ issues.
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The grand jury is in addition to a separate panel that has been meeting in Washington for months to consider charges against Trump over the retention of hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
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About 20 people ranging in age from 21 to 30 were flown by private jet to Sacramento on Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said. It was the second such flight in four days.
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Chris Christie faces an uphill battle in a party that remains deeply loyal to Trump.
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Preliminary information indicates the last air traffic control communication attempt with the airplane was at approximately 1:28 p.m., when the plane was at 31,000 feet (9,449 meters), the NTSB said.
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Giuliani said in court papers that he had a consensual relationship with Noelle Dunphy “for a few months” in 2019, during his time as former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, but denied she ever worked for him or that he pressured her into sex.
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A Missouri man who shot and killed two jailers nearly 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail was executed Tuesday evening.
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The PGA Tour and Saudi golf interests announced a commercial merger and an agreement to drop all litigation involving LIV Golf.
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Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper River, while Russian officials blamed Ukrainian military strikes in the contested area. It was not possible to verify the claims.
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Judge Robert Hinkle issued a preliminary injunction, saying three transgender children can continue receiving treatment.
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A New York state trooper was charged with manslaughter for shooting an unarmed motorist to death after he refused to get out of his car following a chase.
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A Florida sheriff says detectives must investigate self-defense claims before any criminal charges can be brought against a white woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud.
Shawn Michael Fix, 40, of Belleville, is one of five men charged with providing material support for an act of terrorism in the scheme to abduct the Democratic governor in 2020 at her northern Michigan vacation home.
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Holloway, who lived in suburban Alabama, was 18 when she was last seen during a trip with classmates to the Caribbean island of Aruba.
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Tuesday's earthquake comes as Haiti struggles to recover from heavy floods over the weekend that killed at least 45 people, injured 85 and flooded more than 13,600 homes.
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White House website highlights infrastructure, manufacturing investments as Biden pushes policy wins
The site, Invest.gov, documents roughly 32,000 infrastructure projects and more than $470 billion worth of investments.
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For about 14 hours, residents again and again took to the podium to slam the project, saying it would be a gross misuse of public funds to build the huge facility in a large urban forest in a poor, majority-Black area.
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The clerk finally unlocked the door just seconds before one of the customers was shot and killed.
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Sophie, who is the wife of Prince Edward, King Charles III's younger brother, has said she was “deeply saddened” that Holland died.
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The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, saying his recent performances in Germany were antisemitic, an assessment shared by many in Israel and the pro-Israel community.
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The prince accuses the publisher of the Daily Mirror of using unlawful techniques on an “industrial scale” to get scoops.
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Santos has defied calls to resign and has said he won’t drop his bid for a second term. He is due back in court on June 30.
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Merck said in a complaint filed Tuesday that the program does not involve genuine negotiation.
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Hamlin appeared upbeat by happily waving to the cameras pointed at him during pre-practice stretching drills.
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The agency charged that Microsoft gathered the data without notifying parents or obtaining their consent, and that it also illegally held onto the data.
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