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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The persistence of mass shootings in the United States highlights the limits of congressional action.
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A monster storm system tore through the South and Midwest on Friday.
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|By The Associated Press and FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Press
Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis.
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|By The Associated Press and TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer
The NBA will have labor peace for years to come.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL R. SISAK
Trump’s indictment came after a grand jury probe into hush money paid during the 2016 presidential campaign to squelch allegations of an extramarital sexual encounter.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press
A tornado plowed through Little Rock and surrounding areas on Friday afternoon, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles and tossing debris on roadways as people raced for shelter.
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|By The Associated Press and DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer
The game lived up to the hype surrounding it, much to the delight of the sellout crowd of over 19,000 fans.
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|By The Associated Press and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press
The word “drag” doesn't appear in the new law, which instead changed the definition of adult cabaret in Tennessee to mean “adult-oriented performances that are harmful to minors.”
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|By The Associated Press and STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer
Alexis Morris scored 27 points and had two of her misses in the fourth quarter turned into putback baskets by Angel Reese in a big run as LSU rallied to beat top-seeded Virginia Tech 79-72 in the national semifinal game Friday night.
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President Joe Biden during his visit to a Mississippi town ravaged by a deadly tornado vowed that the federal government is “not leaving” until the area is back on its feet.
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Hundreds of young people gathered on the lawn of the Vermont Statehouse on Friday as part of a nationwide series of events to help build support for transgender rights amid what they denounced as an increasingly hostile climate.
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The body of a 2-year-old Florida boy who had been the subject of a frantic search after his mother was slain was found Friday in a lake in the jaws of an alligator, police said.
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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after six weeks of inpatient treatment for clinical depression, with plans to return to the Senate when the chamber resumes session in mid-April, his office said Friday.
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Attorneys for several insurance companies are appealing a federal judge’s decision to uphold the confirmation of a $2.4 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan for the Boy Scouts of America.
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Tate, a divisive internet personality, spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking,
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and RANDALL CHASE
Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled that neither Fox nor Dominion Voting Systems had presented a convincing argument to prevail on whether Fox acted with malice without the case going to a jury.
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Two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed Wednesday night, killing all nine soldiers aboard the two aircrafts.
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The city of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights signed a “court-enforceable settlement agreement” Friday to revamp policing in the city where George Floyd was murdered by an officer nearly three years ago.
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Family and friends of Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of three children who were killed in a school shooting in Nashville this week, remembered her Friday as a “shining light” and said farewell to a girl who loved art, music, animals and snuggling with her older sister on the couch.
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Sophia Negroponte, 30, of Washington, D.C., was convicted in January of second-degree murder in the 2020 death of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and SOPHIE AUSTIN
The decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows California to require truck manufacturers to sell an increasing number of zero-emission trucks over the next couple of decades.
Updated: 17 hours ago
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As Donald Trump fought his way to victory in the 2016 presidential campaign, key allies tried to smooth his bumpy path by paying off two women who had been thinking of going public with allegations of extramarital encounters with the Republican.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ELENA BECATOROS and HANNA ARHIROVA
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Bucha, a town near Kyiv, stands as a symbol of the atrocities the Russian military has committed since its full-scale invasion began in February 2022.
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A codefendant in the case against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on a movie set in New Mexico was convicted Friday of unsafe handling of a firearm and sentenced to six months of probation.
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In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge on Thursday voided a U.S. Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan, more than a year after he took the little girl away from the Afghan couple raising her. But her future remains uncertain.
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Biden’s answer on Friday was the same each time: No comment, no comment, no comment.
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The March 24 blast at R.M. Palmer killed seven of Borges’s co-workers and injured 10.
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The U.S. Department of Justice said it’s seeking to hold the company accountable for “unlawfully polluting the nation’s waterways."
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The leader of Belarus spoke during his state-of-the-nation address on Friday, amid escalating tensions over the conflict in Ukraine.
Updated: 19 hours ago
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Pope Francis is expected to be discharged on Saturday from the Rome hospital where he is being treated for bronchitis as his recovery proceeds in a “normal” way, and the pontiff even had pizza for dinner, the Vatican said.
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Mental health problems, especially among enlisted men under 29, mirror concerns in schools and colleges, which are also increasingly tapping campus ministry for counseling. The isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated depression and anxiety for many.
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Medicare and Social Security will run short of money to pay full benefits within the next decade, an annual report released Friday warns.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and jENNIFER PELTZ
Former President Donald Trump was indicted on charges involving payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, his lawyers confirmed Thursday.
Updated: 22 hours ago
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Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that consumer prices rose 0.3% from January to February.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
Pistorius, who made history by running against able-bodied athletes at the 2012 Olympics, was convicted of murder for the Valentine’s Day 2013 shooting of Reeva Steenkamp.
Updated: 23 hours ago
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Russia’s Federal Security Service has accused Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, of trying to obtain classified information.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and TOM KRISHER and FATIMA HUSSEIN
More EVs and parts will be manufactured in the U.S. over time, creating a domestic supply chain and more jobs, the Biden administration said.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2023 at 12:22 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press
Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 11:46 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and JILL COLVIN Associated Press
Trump is expected to surrender to authorities next week on charges connected to hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to women who alleged extramarital sexual encounters.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 10:26 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and TRAVIS LOLLER and ADRIAN SAINZ
Heartbreaking new details continued to emerge about the lives of the three adults and three 9-year-old students who police say were killed during the shooting Monday at The Covenant School.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 10:00 PM CDT
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Trump faces a string of other inquiries as he campaigns for another term in 2024.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 9:18 PM CDT
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The high-stakes gambler who opened fire on a concert crowd on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 60 and injuring hundreds more, was angry over how the casinos were treating him despite his high-roller status, according to FBI documents made public this week.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 9:17 PM CDT
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U.S. authorities on Thursday said they arrested a Washington state man who made more than 20 “swatting” calls around the country and in Canada, prompting real emergency responses to his fake reports of bombs, shootings or other threats.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 9:14 PM CDT
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Gwyneth Paltrow won her court battle over a 2016 ski collision at a posh Utah ski resort after a jury decided Thursday that the movie star wasn’t at fault for the crash.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 9:01 PM CDT
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Russian media says a court in Moscow ordered a Wall Street Journal reporter to remain behind bars pending an investigation on spying charges.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 8:51 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and KIMBERLEE KRUESI and TRAVIS LOLLER
One caller told a dispatcher that she could hear gunshots as she hid in the closet of the The Covenant School’s art room.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 8:16 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
House Republicans on Thursday approved a sprawling energy package that seeks to undo virtually all of President Joe Biden’s agenda to address climate change.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 6:47 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MARÍA VERZA and MARK STEVENSON
Officials say the six include three officials from the National Immigration Institute, two private security guards contracted by the agency and the person accused of starting the fire.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 6:27 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and LINDSAY WHITEHURST and STEFANIE DAZIO
The Maryland base was locked down after the person was reportedly seen near the base’s housing area, according to the base’s Facebook page.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 5:46 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and FREIDA FRISARO
Officials say the plan is to transport Lolita by plane to Pacific waters off Washington state, where she will initially swim inside a large net while trainers and veterinarians teach her how to catch fish.
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