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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Experts say if Smollett is convicted, he will likely be placed on probation and ordered to perform community service.
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Johnson was asked in the House of Commons whether the U.K. will join the United States, Australia and Lithuania in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Games.
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Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said a new tree would be installed.
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Two views of the Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright will collide in opening statements at her manslaughter trial.
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For its part, Instagram announced on Tuesday that it launched a feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the platform.
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Pfizer said early lab tests have suggested COVID-19 boosters provide protection against the omicron variant.
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The California Supreme Court ruled a year ago that his jury was improperly screened for bias against the death penalty.
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Kellogg’s workers rejected a contract offer Tuesday that would have provided 3% raises, so 1,400 workers at the company’s four U.S. cereal plants will remain on strike.
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A company once owned by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli will pay up to $40 million to settle allegations that it jacked up the price of a life-saving medication by roughly 4,000% after obtaining exclusive rights to the drug, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday.
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Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, disrupting access to many popular sites.
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Lawyers say the 48-year-old is an innocent victim of a corrupt police detective, who was found to have lied and tampered with evidence.
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The witness was identified only by her first name, Carolyn, and took the witness stand on Tuesday.
The diplomatic boycott comes as the U.S. attempts to stabilize turbulent relations with Beijing, even as it maintains a tough approach toward trade and conflicts.
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Duggar, 33, is charged with receiving and possessing child pornography and faces up to 20 years in prison on each count if convicted.
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Congressional leaders have reached a deal to lift the nation's debt limit.
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The bombing killed more than 2,300 U.S. troops. Nearly half were Marines and sailors serving on the USS Arizona, a battleship moored in the harbor.
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The former "Empire" actor is on trial on charges that he lied to Chicago police about an anti-gay, racist attack on himself.
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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors, the latest in a string of victories for Republican-led states pushing back against Biden’s pandemic policies.
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Oxford Community Schools Superintendent Tim Throne has said a third party will investigate.
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In an abrupt reversal, an attorney for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said his client will not cooperate with a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, citing a breakdown in negotiations with the panel.
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Noncitizens still wouldn’t be able to vote for president or members of Congress in federal races, or in the state elections that pick the governor, judges and legislators.
Instagram on Tuesday launched a feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the photo-sharing platform and announced other tools aimed at protecting young users from harmful content on the Facebook-owned service.
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The former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence is cooperating with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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The utility issued a statement denying responsibility in response to the lawsuit's claim that it was negligent.
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The three officers were asked to leave shortly after they sat down, with the incident sparking an outcry and calls to boycott the eatery.
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The killing galvanized the civil rights movement after Till’s mother insisted on an open casket, and Jet magazine published photos of his brutalized body.
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Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said the investigation’s findings will determine whether school officials will be charged in last Tuesday’s attack at Oxford High School.
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California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes is leaving the House at the end of this year to lead former President Donald Trump’s effort to launch a social media platform intended to rival Twitter.
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The company partnering with Trump Media & Technology Group acknowledged the inquiries in a filing it made with regulators on Monday.
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Biden’s domestic policy package was passed by the House of Representatives last month along a largely party-line vote. The roughly $2 trillion measure awaits action in the Senate.
The woman — testifying at Maxwell’s sex-abuse trial in New York City using the pseudonym “Kate” to protect her privacy — described one episode during the mid-1990s at Epstein’s Palm Beach, Florida estate where Maxwell left out a schoolgirl’s outfit with a pleated skirt for her to wear for the financier.
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The body of the late Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday as congressional leaders honor the former Republican presidential candidate and World War II veteran who served in Congress for 36 years.
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A religious group based in Ohio announced Monday that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted.
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A World War II veteran from Alabama who survived COVID-19 last year will be honored on his 105th birthday Friday with the French Legion of Honor in recognition of his service.
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British parliamentary authorities are calling in the police after a newspaper reported that traces of cocaine had been found at numerous sites in Parliament.
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A nurse said she initially thought the 57-year-old man was an amputee and had mistakenly offered the wrong arm. She lifted his shirt and saw a silicone arm.
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The Russian cyber spying unfolded, as always, mostly in the shadows as the U.S. government was consumed in 2021 by a separate, eminently “noisy” and headline-grabbling cyber threat.
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Russell plans to return to Pearl Harbor on Tuesday for a ceremony in remembrance of the more than 2,300 American troops killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that launched the U.S. into World War II.
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A Detroit-area artist whose studio was where the parents of the Oxford High School student charged in a deadly shooting were found by police is cooperating with authorities and didn’t know the couple had stayed overnight, his attorney said Sunday.
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The next battleground could be a shifting cat-and-mouse fight in state legislatures and in next year's elections across the country.
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The Kennedy Center Honors has returned to tradition this year with a real-life gala and the presence of the president for the first time since 2016.
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CNN suspended Cuomo earlier this week after details emerged about how he assisted his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as the politician faced sexual harassment allegations.
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U.S. health officials say that while the omicron variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading in the country, early indications suggest it may be less dangerous than delta, which continues to drive a surge of hospitalizations.
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A 43-year-old man died after he was shot during an alleged home invasion in an Omaha suburb early Saturday.
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Sunday that his administration will remove an enormous pedestal that until earlier this year held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond.
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Cincinnati will play Alabama and Michigan will face Georgia on New Year’s Eve after being selected to the College Football Playoff as a historic field of four was set Sunday.
A third party will investigate events at Oxford High School that occurred before a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded, the Michigan district’s superintendent said.
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Jackson performed on the Opry beginning in 1956 and was still appearing on the show in 2010.
The push for shots is expected to grow more intense as vaccinated Americans are urged to get booster shots to combat the omicron variant.
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Much remains unknown about omicron, including whether it is more contagious, as some health authorities suspect, whether it can thwart vaccines and whether it makes people as sick as the original strain.