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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Firefighters in Oregon reported good progress in the battle against the nation’s largest wildfire, while authorities canceled evacuation orders near a major blaze in Northern California.
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The vote on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill could be held “in a matter of days,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday, as negotiators scrambled to finish writing the legislation.
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Florida has broken a previous record for current hospitalizations due to COVID-19.
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Anger and frustration mounted in Congress over the weekend as a nationwide eviction moratorium expired during a surge in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rapper DaBaby has been cut from the final day of Lollapalooza's lineup following crude and homophobic remarks he made last week at a Miami-area music festival.
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Marcell Jacobs won the men’s Olympic 100-meter race Sunday night, crossing the line in 9.8 seconds to bring the marquee sprint gold to Italy for the first time.
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San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane denied allegations his wife made on social media that he bet on NHL games, including against his own team.
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Police say at least 10 people were wounded when two men opened fire on a large crowd in the New York City borough of Queens.
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Fauci said he doesn’t foresee additional lockdowns in the U.S. because he believes enough people are vaccinated to avoid a recurrence of last winter, but he said not enough are inoculated to “crush the outbreak” at this point.
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The U.S. won bronze five years ago in Rio de Janeiro and brought back eight players from that team.
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Police are working with prosecutors to add a second murder count against the suspected shooter.
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Two leading obstetricians’ groups on Friday recommended COVID-19 shots for all pregnant women, citing concerns over rising cases and low vaccination rates.
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Nina Derwael of Belgium won the gold medal in the uneven bars and Olympic all-around gymnastics champion Sunisa Lee added a bronze medal to her haul at the Tokyo Games.
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Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade captured the gold, and Yeo Seojeong of Korea took the bronze.
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Clergy, politicians, constituents and musicians all spoke out about the proposals to impose voter ID requirements, limit ballot drop boxes and mail voting, and strip local officials of their election authority.
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FINA banned use of the Soul Cap for natural hair in the Tokyo Games in a decision many decried as yet another example of the lack of diversity in swimming.
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The competition was so tense that on the final hole, nine players were still in the running for all three medals.
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Caeleb Dressel joins an elite club of just four other swimmers ever with at least five gold medals at one games.
The state has become the new national epicenter for the virus, accounting for around a fifth of all new cases in the U.S.
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USA Gymnastics says Biles has not decided whether to participate in Tuesday's balance beam final.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the chamber should be able to process the legislation quickly given the bipartisan support.
The NHL will reportedly investigate claims by Evander Kane’s wife that the San Jose hockey player bet on own games and tried to lose for profit.
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The president, health officials and state leaders are betting the financial incentive will spur hesitant people to get the shot just as the contagious and potentially more powerful delta variant sweeps through parts of the country — particularly those with low vaccination rates.
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She broke a 33-year-old Olympic record held by none other than Florence Griffith Joyner.
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The controversy is unfolding at a time when many Americans are at their wits’ end with pandemic restrictions and others fear their children will be put at risk by those who don’t take the virus seriously enough.
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An Omaha meat processor has recalled more than 295,000 pounds of raw beef products intended to be made into ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli.
Caeleb Dressel led right from the start and held off Hungary’s Kristof Milak to win in 49.45 seconds, breaking the mark of 49.50 that he set two years ago at the 2019 world championships.
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Katie Ledecky led all the way in a race she hasn’t lost since 2010. But she was pushed hard by Australian rival Ariarne Titmus, who claimed the silver
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The U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco, consolidates allegations made in six whistleblower complaints.
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Alexis Saborit was charged Friday with second-degree intentional murder in the knife attack on America Thayer, which happened Wednesday afternoon in Shakopee.
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Russia has been the most prominent target of the anti-doping movement after revelations that it launched a massive state-sponsored program to elude testers ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.
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The Justice Department asked for an immediate block on Gov. Greg Abbott’s order issued Wednesday, which allows the Texas Department of Public Safety to “stop any vehicle upon reasonable suspicion” that it transports migrants.
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The Colorado Department of Transportation has accounted for 108 people, including 29 in the tunnel, who were stuck on the highway overnight.
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The statement said employees who aren’t already vaccinated will have 60 days to do so and that those still working from home will need to show proof of vaccination before returning.
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The notes of the Dec. 27 call, released Friday by the Democratic-led House Oversight Committee, underscore the lengths to which Trump went to overturn the results of the election and to elicit the support of law enforcement officials and other government leaders in that effort.
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His representatives had previously only said that he had a “heart related incident” and was stable in an Albuquerque hospital after collapsing while shooting the show’s sixth and final season.
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Prosecutors dropped misdemeanor solicitation charges last year against Robert Kraft and almost two dozen other men.
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Previously, vaccinated people who got infected were thought to have low levels of virus and to be unlikely to pass it to others. But the new data shows that is not the case with the delta variant.
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Mike Lindell has publicly promoted Trump’s false allegations of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election he lost to President Joe Biden.
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Siginaw Grant died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes on Wednesday at a private care facility in Hollywood, California, said Lani Carmichael, Grant’s publicist and longtime friend.
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The space station lost control of its orientation for 47 minutes on Thursday, when Russia’s Nauka science lab accidentally fired its thrusters a few hours after docking.
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A 33-year-old Maryland woman with temporary custody of her young niece and nephew has been charged with child abuse that resulted in their deaths after officers found their severely malnourished bodies stuffed in the trunk of her car, according to charging documents.
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The SEC voted to extend invitations to Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday. For now, the schools’ arrival is four years out.
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Six passengers from a Royal Caribbean cruise have tested positive after the ship docked in the Bahamas.
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After Rapinoe scored, she turned to her teammates, folded her arms and grinned in triumph.
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An Omaha meat processor has recalled more than 295,000 pounds of raw beef products intended to be made into ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli.
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A day after a thrilling victory in the women’s all-around, Lee insisted she’s ready to start her college career at Auburn. Really ready.
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The National Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes also touched down in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday afternoon, sending trees falling and debris flying.
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Maggie Steffens got her 48th career goal in the Olympics.
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South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker won the women’s 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2 minutes, 18.95 seconds, breaking the mark of 2:19.11 set by Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen at the 2013 world championships in Barcelona.