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 Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand flights to Cuba, take steps to loosen restrictions on U.S. travelers to the island, and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island.
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Signs of Republican resistance are mounting over a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine.
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A clampdown on Chicago teens’ access to a popular downtown park and an earlier weekend curfew following the fatal shooting of a teenager has revived longstanding accusations that City Hall cares more about the city’s sparkling lakefront and downtown over neighborhoods where hundreds have been killed or hurt by gun violence.
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Karine Jean-Pierre is crediting “barrier-breaking people” who came before her for making it possible for a Black, gay, immigrant woman like herself to hold one of the most high-profile jobs in American government.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has given the strongest hint yet that he would like to pay less for Twitter than his $44 billion offer made last month.
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President Joe Biden is thanking Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his country’s “moral leadership” in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Starbucks said Monday it will pay the travel expenses for U.S. employees to access abortion and gender-confirmation procedures if those services aren’t available within 100 miles of a worker’s home.
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A group of voters who challenged U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection said Monday they have filed an appeal of the Georgia secretary of state’s decision that she can appear on the ballot.
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The Columbian newspaper reports police in Vancouver uncovered footage of the 29-year-old man peeing into a bag of milkshake mix as they were executing a search warrant on his phone as part of a child pornography investigation.
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Ely Hydes said the incident occurred May 9, but the bridge still was open until The Detroit News reached out to the state Transportation Department on Sunday.
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The Voyager Scholarship will grant $50,000 to rising juniors to cover tuition costs over two years as well as a $10,000 grant and Airbnb credit to fund a summer experience designed by the student.
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The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak.
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The Biden administration is publicly heralding that achievement as this year’s midterm politics intensify.
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Olivia Rodrigo and Kanye West, known as Ye, took home the most awards with six during an earlier non-televised ceremony.
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Police say by the time they arrived on the scene the parishioners had the suspect hog-tied and in custody.
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Police said that a 17-year-old was taken into custody after the shooting and a weapon was found on the teen. Charges are pending.
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The victims of Saturday's grocery store shooting in Buffalo, New York, include a retired police officer and a church deacon.
President Joe Biden is citing the Buffalo shootings in calling for national unity as a remedy for “the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America."
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The shootings late Saturday and early Sunday followed a night of violence in which 21 people were shot.
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Police in Texas said two are dead and three are injured after a shooting at a Houston flea market.
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Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki has urged Japan’s central government to do more to reduce the U.S. military presence in the southern island group as it marked the 50th anniversary of its return to Japanese rule.
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Finland’s government has declared a “new era” is underway after announcing its intention to seek NATO membership, hours before Sweden’s governing party backed a plan to join the trans-Atlantic alliance amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Police reported the alleged shooter is in custody.
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Police say the driver struck a woman walking her dog and kept going, dragging her more than 8 miles to the parking lot of a hotel.
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The trial of 21-year-old Russian Sgt. Vadim Shyshimarin is the first of dozens of war crimes cases that Ukraine’s top prosecutor says her office is pursuing.
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Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest in the early hours of Sunday in a clear show of popular support for the war-ravaged nation that went beyond music.
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More than 380 events were set from Maine to Hawaii, with the largest gatherings expected in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and other big cities, organizers said.
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A video posted on Zelenskyy’s Telegram account showed McConnell, R-Ky., and Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Cornyn of Texas greeting him in the capital.
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A small plane has crashed on a bridge near Miami, striking an SUV and bursting into flames.
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None of the injuries from either shooting Friday night were believed to be life-threatening.
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The conservative Thomas described the leak as an unthinkable breach of trust.
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A Chicago musician is hoping for the return of a violin made in 1758 that was stolen from her family’s home while they were sleeping.
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Abby Finkenauer’s bid to clinch the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Iowa wasn’t supposed to be so fraught.
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A federal judge has blocked part of an Alabama law that makes it a felony to give gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors.
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Four cadets at the Air Force Academy may not graduate or be commissioned as military officers later this month because they have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, and they may be required to pay back thousands of dollars in tuition costs, according to Air Force officials.
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The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.
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Attorneys for Young Thug, the Atlanta rapper arrested under an indictment accusing him of co-founding a violent street gang, have filed an emergency motion seeking to have him granted bond.
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Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in such films as “The Right Stuff,” “The Player” and “Tremors,” has died. He was 79.
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Ukrainian authorities, meanwhile, opened the first war crimes trial of the conflict, in proceedings that will be closely watched by international observers eager to ensure atrocities are fairly prosecuted.
The White House released financial disclosure reports for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday showing that the president’s personal finances have changed little since last year.
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McFarlane, who lived in Washington, died Thursday from complications of a previous illness at a hospital in Michigan, where he was visiting family, according to a family statement.
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President Joe Biden is looking to nudge southeast Asian leaders to be more outspoken about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Elon Musk said Friday that his planned $44 billion purchase of Twitter is “temporarily on hold” pending details on spam and fake accounts on the social media platform.
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Phil Mickelson withdrew Friday from the PGA Championship, electing to extend his hiatus from golf following his incendiary comments about a Saudi-funded rival league he supports and the PGA Tour he accused of greed.
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Mourners hoisted Palestinian flags and chanted “Palestine, Palestine.” Police accused the crowd of incitement and violence and say officers were “forced to act.”
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The bankruptcy filings of Infowars, Prison Planet TV and IW Health last month delayed the lawsuits filed in Texas and Connecticut. Jones has already lost the defamation lawsuits, and the filings came a week before a jury in Texas was set to begin considering how much money Jones should pay the families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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Biden encouraged communities to spend more on public safety and crime prevention before the summer months, which typically bring a spike in violent crime.
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The train had just pulled out of the station at Herzogenrath near the border with the Netherlands and was heading for the western German city of Aachen when the man began attacking fellow passengers “randomly and arbitrarily,” state interior minister Herbert Reul said.
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A judge imposed the sentence on RaDonda Vaught after she apologized to relatives of the victim, Charlene Murphey, and said she’ll be forever haunted by her mistake.
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As a federal judge weighs Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to halt a civil investigation into his business practices, a lawyer for the New York attorney general’s office said Friday that evidence found throughout the three-year probe could support legal action against the former president, his company, or both.