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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Earlier Wednesday, the pontiff presided over his weekly general audience.
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The case has put Florida’s divisive stand your ground law back into the spotlight.
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Several hundred people gathered outside the school district headquarters, split between those who support or oppose teaching students about LGBTQ+ issues.
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The grand jury is in addition to a separate panel that has been meeting in Washington for months to consider charges against Trump over the retention of hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
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About 20 people ranging in age from 21 to 30 were flown by private jet to Sacramento on Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said. It was the second such flight in four days.
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Chris Christie faces an uphill battle in a party that remains deeply loyal to Trump.
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Preliminary information indicates the last air traffic control communication attempt with the airplane was at approximately 1:28 p.m., when the plane was at 31,000 feet (9,449 meters), the NTSB said.
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Giuliani said in court papers that he had a consensual relationship with Noelle Dunphy “for a few months” in 2019, during his time as former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, but denied she ever worked for him or that he pressured her into sex.
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A Missouri man who shot and killed two jailers nearly 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail was executed Tuesday evening.
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The PGA Tour and Saudi golf interests announced a commercial merger and an agreement to drop all litigation involving LIV Golf.
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Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper River, while Russian officials blamed Ukrainian military strikes in the contested area. It was not possible to verify the claims.
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Judge Robert Hinkle issued a preliminary injunction, saying three transgender children can continue receiving treatment.
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A New York state trooper was charged with manslaughter for shooting an unarmed motorist to death after he refused to get out of his car following a chase.
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A Florida sheriff says detectives must investigate self-defense claims before any criminal charges can be brought against a white woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud.
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Shawn Michael Fix, 40, of Belleville, is one of five men charged with providing material support for an act of terrorism in the scheme to abduct the Democratic governor in 2020 at her northern Michigan vacation home.
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Holloway, who lived in suburban Alabama, was 18 when she was last seen during a trip with classmates to the Caribbean island of Aruba.
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Tuesday's earthquake comes as Haiti struggles to recover from heavy floods over the weekend that killed at least 45 people, injured 85 and flooded more than 13,600 homes.
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White House website highlights infrastructure, manufacturing investments as Biden pushes policy wins
The site, Invest.gov, documents roughly 32,000 infrastructure projects and more than $470 billion worth of investments.
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For about 14 hours, residents again and again took to the podium to slam the project, saying it would be a gross misuse of public funds to build the huge facility in a large urban forest in a poor, majority-Black area.
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The clerk finally unlocked the door just seconds before one of the customers was shot and killed.
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Sophie, who is the wife of Prince Edward, King Charles III's younger brother, has said she was “deeply saddened” that Holland died.
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The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, saying his recent performances in Germany were antisemitic, an assessment shared by many in Israel and the pro-Israel community.
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The prince accuses the publisher of the Daily Mirror of using unlawful techniques on an “industrial scale” to get scoops.
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Santos has defied calls to resign and has said he won’t drop his bid for a second term. He is due back in court on June 30.
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Merck said in a complaint filed Tuesday that the program does not involve genuine negotiation.
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Hamlin appeared upbeat by happily waving to the cameras pointed at him during pre-practice stretching drills.
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The agency charged that Microsoft gathered the data without notifying parents or obtaining their consent, and that it also illegally held onto the data.
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Authorities say has been accused of committing sexual misconduct against more than 30 other women, including groping, unwanted kissing and other inappropriate behavior.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is charging Coinbase with operating its crypto asset trading platform as an unregistered national securities exchange, broker and clearing agency.
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Born in Salvador, Bahia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto became an overnight, unexpected superstar in 1964.
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On Tuesday, a ceremony was to be held at the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach, which is home to the graves of 9,386 United States soldiers.
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Bank of America runs the biggest and most successful financial chatbot under the Erica brand.
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The recent wave of voting changes have been pushed by Republican lawmakers who point to concerns over elections that have been fueled by former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
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Teams that take a 2-0 series lead in the Stanley Cup Final are 31-3 in the expansion era. The Panthers will try to buck history beginning with Game 3.
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A jury concluded last month that former President Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll but did not rape her.
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Deputies have responded at least a half-dozen times since January 2021 regarding the dispute.
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The guild, which represents over 160,000 screen actors, broadcast journalists, announcers, hosts and stunt performers, begins its negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Wednesday.
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Santos pleaded not guilty on May 10 to a 13-count indictment charging that he duped donors, stole from his campaign, lied to Congress about being a millionaire and cheated to collect unemployment benefits he didn’t deserve.
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Virginia plane crash investigators ask when pilot became unresponsive and why aircraft flew its path
Attention on the crash and its cause was heightened by its unusual flight path over Washington and a sonic boom caused by military aircraft heard across D.C. and parts of Maryland and Virginia.
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Police in Florida arrested two men over the weekend and a third on Monday suspected of going on a Memorial Day shooting spree along a beachside promenade that injured nine people.
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Britain and Denmark are playing a pivotal role in the nascent joint international plan that Biden recently endorsed after months of resisting calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for U.S. aircraft.
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“While we continue to collect evidence, I want to say this very clearly: State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement.
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After years of speculation, Apple CEO Tim Cook hailed the arrival of the sleek goggles, dubbed “Vision Pro.”
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City officials had said earlier that the three missing men had “high probability of being home at the time of the collapse.”
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The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 to approve the application by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma to establish the St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Charter School.
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FBI officials came to the Capitol on Monday to brief lawmakers about a June 2020 document that purportedly relates to Biden and his family.
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The Los Angeles socialite amassed a fortune after she and her brother sold their father’s defense and government services company after his death.
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Trump's lawyers had requested a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland to raise concerns about what they alleged was overreach by the team led by special counsel Jack Smith.
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The animal has been spotted twice in the Inyo National Forest and once in Yosemite National Park.
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The bar from the television series “Cheers” sold for $675,000 at auction over the weekend, garnering the highest bid among the nearly 1,000 props, costumes and sets from classic TV shows offered up from a collection amassed by one man over more than three decades.
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