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By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider is adding to her list of bragging rights. She’s…
Continue ReadingBy LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider is adding to her list of bragging rights. She’s…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The third straight Pixar feature film will go straight to Disney+, the Walt Disney Co. announced Friday. “Turning Red” will…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON Associated Press CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A Marine Corps battalion commander has testified that in retrospect he would have…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, one of former President Donald Trump’s most…
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO NEW YORK (AP) — Companies that would be affected by a Biden administration vaccine-or-testing requirement for workers…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sidney Poitier made history — on the screen and off. He opened up possibilities for…
Continue ReadingBy PATTY NIEBERG and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colorado (AP) — In Colorado and other states hit by natural disasters this…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan legislative leader is denying allegations that he raped his future…
Continue ReadingBy LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — At least one person was missing and presumed dead as snow turned to rain and deluged the…
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers rookie running back Najee Harris helped Ben Roethlisberger win last Monday night in what was likely the…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include new albums from Elvis Costello and The Lumineers, and John Cena reprises his…
Continue ReadingBy DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil is already one of the countries most devastated by COVID-19 and it’s…
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The principal of a Philadelphia school that lost five current or former students in a house…
Continue ReadingJAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Members of an Alabama high school marching band that led off this year’s Tournament of…
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press The state of Vermont says investment management company Merrill has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle allegations…
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Coast Guard has announced new safety rules following a deadly blaze that…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of a memoir by Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona is correcting a passage about a…
Continue ReadingTULSA, Okla. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a former Oklahoma police officer to 25 years in prison for the 2014 killing of his daughter’s…
Continue ReadingBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Former Birmingham News publisher Victor Hanson II has died. Son Victor Hanson III says his father died in his sleep Friday…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Attendance at this week’s CES gadget show in Las Vegas fell more than 75% compared to its previous in-person event two years…
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police in Haiti say two journalists were killed by gang members while reporting in a conflictive area south of…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys for three former Minneapolis officers who are charged in the death of George Floyd are asking…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not often that Ted Cruz finds himself having to mend fences with the right. But that was…
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sex trafficking at the 2020 Super Bowl in South…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press President Joe Biden’s administration is giving state and local governments greater flexibility in spending…
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has announced an amnesty for some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas abortions clinics that were unable to stop the nation’s most restrictive…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the fastest years of job creation in U.S. history stumbled at the finish line in…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press President Joe Biden enters the midterm election year of 2022 determined to address what economists call a “supply”…
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