Bill Clinton is hospitalized with a fever but in good spirits, spokesperson says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a…
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As TikTok bill steams forward, online influencers put on their lobbying hats to visit Washington
AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are facing their latest lobbyists — online influencers from TikTok. The platform is once again…
Continue Reading Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against…
Continue Reading Adnan Syed’s lawyers seek to reduce his prison sentence
Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Attorneys for Adnan Syed, whose legal case was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial,” are seeking to…
Continue Reading Major storm pounds California’s central coast, blamed for man’s death and partially collapsing pier
Associated Press SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A major storm pounded California’s central coast on Monday, bringing flooding and high surf that was…
Continue Reading New Jersey fines firms $40K for sports betting violations
Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators have handed out $40,000 in fines to two sportsbooks and a tech company…
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Legendary drug lord Fabio Ochoa is deported to Colombia and walks free after 20 years in US prisons
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South…
Continue Reading Harris Dickinson toys with ambiguity in ‘Babygirl,’ and keeps a secret from Nicole Kidman
AP Film Writer The English actor Harris Dickinson has been making waves in Hollywood since his feature film debut seven years ago in the indie…
Continue Reading Diversion and youth prevention are a focus of West Virginia’s initial opioid settlement awards
Associated Press Child advocacy centers, recovery housing and diversion programs in West Virginia will receive grants as part of the initial round of…
Continue Reading Burt, the huge Australian crocodile who had a cameo in ‘Crocodile Dundee,’ dies at 90
Associated Press Burt, the huge crocodile that rose to fame with a cameo in the movie “Crocodile Dundee” and continued to impress visitors with…
Continue Reading A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can’t take it back on his own
Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will…
Continue Reading Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is not expected to announce a decision on his future over the holidays
Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A source says embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not expected to announce a decision on his future…
Continue Reading Community remembers teacher killed in Wisconsin school shooting as Christian with Southern roots
Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Family and friends are saying their final farewells to a substitute teacher killed in a school shooting in…
Continue Reading Prosecutors: Brooklyn businessman will plead guilty to conspiracy charge in case against Mayor Adams
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Brooklyn real estate magnate working with a Turkish government official to funnel…
Continue Reading President-elect Trump wants to again rename North America’s tallest peak
Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to revert the name of Alaska’s Denali back to Mount McKinley. Trump’s…
Continue Reading The family of a teenager fatally shot by police during a no-knock raid sues Alabama city
The Associated Press/Report For America MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The mother of a 16-year-old who was shot by SWAT police during a no-knock, predawn…
Continue Reading Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee’s long-awaited report on Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations,…
Continue Reading Starbucks strike expands, closes nearly 60 US stores
AP Business Writer A five-day strike by Starbucks baristas had closed 59 stores as of Monday afternoon, according to the union organizing the…
Continue Reading Officer fatally shot in a North Carolina supermarket, suspect in custody, police say
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer has been fatally shot in a North Carolina supermarket and a suspect has been taken into…
Continue Reading Company official charged in 2022 oil-chemical discharge into Michigan’s Flint River
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A chemical company official has been charged in connection with the unauthorized discharge of oil that left a miles-long dark,…
Continue Reading Judge reinstates Ecuador’s vice president after deeming her suspension unconstitutional
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — An Ecuadorian judge has reinstated Vice President Verónica Abad to her role and lifted the five-month suspension imposed…
Continue Reading Nigerian agency ‘failed completely’ to clean up oil damage despite funding, leaked files say
Associated Press As it crossed the Niger Delta in 2021, a satellite imaged acres of bare land. The site outside the city of Port Harcourt was on a…
Continue Reading FAA probes holiday drone show accident that injured a boy in Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it has launched an investigation into why several drones collided and…
Continue Reading Hundreds march in Croatia for safer schools after a student is killed in a knife attack
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Hundreds walked in silence in Croatia’s capital on Monday, seeking action after a pupil was killed and three other…
Continue Reading UN publishes new death toll for massacre of older people and Vodou religious leaders in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United Nations has raised the death toll of a recent massacre in which dozens of older people and Vodou religious…
Continue Reading Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden’s death row commutations
Associated Press COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row…
Continue Reading One of the world’s most active volcanoes — Hawaii’s Kilauea — is erupting again
HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) — Lava is bubbling through the crust of one of the world’s most active volcanoes, which is Kilauea,…
Continue Reading Marianne Jean-Baptiste tests our limits of empathy in ‘Hard Truths’
AP Film Writer Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy in Mike Leigh’s…
Continue Reading Former NFL great Michael Vick introduced as Norfolk State’s football coach
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Michael Vick has been introduced as Norfolk State’s football coach, a homecoming for the former NFL star and a splashy,…
Continue Reading Former Greek royal family expresses ‘deep emotion’ after regaining citizenship
Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Members of Greece’s former royal family have expressed “deep emotion” after being granted Greek…
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