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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Airlines are being required to gather information about some passengers that will help with contact tracing if they develop COVID-19.
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The defense at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is trying to cast doubt on a key accuser’s allegation that the British socialite helped financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually the woman for years, starting when she was 14.
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Chicago police detective Kimberly Murray described how she took a report from the former “Empire” actor the morning of the January 2019 attack at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Conservative Republicans in the House and Senate who are opposed to Biden’s vaccine rules want Congress to take a hardline stand against the mandated shots, even if it means shutting down federal offices over the weekend.
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The strategy released Wednesday on the annual commemoration of World AIDS Day is meant to serve as a framework for how the administration intends to shape its policies, research, programs and planning over the next three years.
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The clock ticked down toward the expiration of Major League Baseball’s collective bargaining agreement at 11:59 p.m. EST and a likely management lockout ending the sport’s labor peace at 9,740 days over 26 1/2 years.
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ABC News has released a clip in which Alec Baldwin tells George Stephanopoulos that he did not pull the trigger on a gun that went off on a New Mexico film set, killing a cinematographer.
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A disinformation network with ties to China used hundreds of fake social media accounts — including one belonging to a fictitious Swiss biologist — to spread an unfounded claim that the U.S. pressured scientists to blame China for the coronavirus, Facebook said Wednesday.
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Scientists in South Africa are bracing for a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases following the recent discovery of the new omicron variant.
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LaMarr Hoyt, 1983 AL Cy Young Award with the Chicago White Sox has died after a long battle with an illness. He was 66.
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New York City’s troubled jail system is facing more turmoil: the suspension of hundreds of corrections officers for failing to meet a Tuesday night deadline to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Jurors in former reality TV star Josh Duggar’s trial on child pornography charges can hear evidence that he admitted to molesting four girls nearly 20 years ago, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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The wild movements are partly the result of investors struggling to handicap how much damage the newest coronavirus variant will do to the economy.
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According to WSB-TV, Field Training Officer Henry Laxson was fatally shot, along with two women and the suspected shooter.
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The manufacturing sector has recorded 18 straight months of growth going back to spring of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic broke.
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Any eligible customers can opt into fee-free overdraft at any times, the bank said.
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A former football player at the University of Central Florida was fatally shot during an altercation with his father.
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Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the shooting.
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The NBA recommends that coaches and players who are vaccinated receive a booster shot as soon as possible.
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The Syracuse men's basketball team improved to 4-3 and handed Indiana their first loss of the year in a 2OT, 112-110 victory.
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The Biden administration is expected to take steps in the coming days to toughen testing requirements for international travelers to the U.S., amid the spread of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus.
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Wall Street’s losses deepened on Tuesday after the head of the Federal Reserve said it will consider shutting off its support for financial markets sooner than expected.
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Former Chicago police detective Michael Theis testified Tuesday at Smollett's trial.
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A woman testified on Tuesday that she had repeated sexual contact with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when she 14 and that Ghislaine Maxwell was there when it happened.
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Author Alice Sebold has apologized to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that was the basis for her memoir “Lucky.”
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Biden is facing the threat of the new omicron strain of the coronavirus and dealing with high levels of inflation even as vital parts of his agenda are still awaiting congressional approval.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also said no federal pay will be provided to those Guard members who fail to comply with the vaccine mandate.
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Police say a man accused of accidentally firing a gun in his bag at the Atlanta airport has turned himself in.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department exercised a search warrant at the home of rock star Marilyn Manson, in a sexual assault and domestic violence investigation that dates back from 2009 to 2011.
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Lawmakers say the records could shed light on the events leading up to the insurrection and Trump's efforts to delegitimize an election he lost.
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The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.
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Viruses mutate constantly. To find and track new versions of the coronavirus, scientists analyze the genetic makeup of a portion of samples that test positive.
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Gunowners’ rights groups have been trying to get firearms cases before a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court and immediately promised to seek the high court’s review.
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A Houston man has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison after he was accused of using federal COVID-19 relief funding on a Lamborghini, a Rolex watch and trips to strip clubs.
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As supply chain bottlenecks create shortages on many items, some charities are struggling to secure holiday gift wishes from kids in need.
Duggar, who appeared in TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” was charged in April with two counts of downloading and possessing child pornography.
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An Alabama woman who says she was falsely arrested for shoplifting at a Walmart and then threatened by the company after her case was dismissed has been awarded $2.1 million in damages.
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The drive to become a republic began more than two decades ago and culminated with the island’s Parliament electing its first ever president last month.
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Police ruled the 45-year-old man's death an accident.
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The victims were found Sunday night in a home in the city of Lancaster in the high desert Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles.
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Tiger Woods is hopeful of playing golf again, just not very much. He says he's not even at the halfway point of a return.
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Transcripts released Monday shed new light on CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s behind-the-scenes role advising his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in the face of sexual harassment allegations that forced him from office.
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While the latest order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus took effect Nov. 8, city officials spent the past three weeks providing business owners the information and resources business they need to comply.
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Elizabeth Holmes described herself as the abused puppet of her former lover and business partner Sunny Balwani in tearful testimony on Monday, part of her attempt to refute accusations that she lied about a flawed blood-testing technology she had hailed as a major breakthrough.
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Prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision that overturned Bill Cosby’s conviction.
The outcome of the study, which began in March at Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s direction, reflects a complex security picture facing the Biden administration, which fully withdrew from Afghanistan in August but is increasingly concerned about countering China in the Asia-Pacific region and Russia in Europe.
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The rare move was first announced on Monday by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which spearheaded the union organizing movement. A National Labor Relations Board spokeswoman confirmed the decision.
The charges against her stem from allegations of four women who say she and Epstein victimized them as teens from 1994 to 2004.
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A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection will vote Wednesday to pursue contempt charges against a former Justice Department official, seeking criminal charges against a defiant witness for a second time after holding former White House aide Steve Bannon in contempt last month.
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Designer Virgil Abloh, a leading fashion executive hailed as the Karl Lagerfeld of his generation, has died after a private battle with cancer. He was 41.