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AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When SmileDirectClub shut down a year ago, scores of existing customers of the teeth-straightening company were…
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Olympics leader Bach talks up working with President-elect Trump toward 2028 Los Angeles Games
AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — IOC president Thomas Bach says Olympic leaders are “very confident and relaxed” about working with the incoming…
Continue Reading Total number of Texas fans caught and punished for throwing bottles in Georgia game: Zero
AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The University of Texas investigation into the bottle-throwing incident that disrupted the Texas-Georgia game…
Continue Reading Digging resumes in the search for a woman in a Pennsylvania sinkhole
Associated Press Digging crews resumed work early Thursday in the effort to locate a woman who authorities fear died after falling into a sinkhole…
Continue Reading Kosovo’s parliament speaker ejects ethnic Serb lawmakers because of their truancy
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s parliament speaker has ejected several lawmakers of the ethnic Serb minority from the chamber because of their…
Continue Reading Work-life balance isn’t working for women. Why?
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — About half of working women reported feeling stressed “a lot of the day,” compared to about 4 in 10 men,…
Continue Reading Russia’s top military officer gave his US counterpart advance notice of Mediterranean Sea drills
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s top military officer called his U.S. counterpart to give advance warning of Russia’s drills in the…
Continue Reading Historic images of Native Americans by a Swiss artist find their way back to North Dakota
Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than two dozen historic prints that depict Native American life and culture on the Upper Missouri River…
Continue Reading As data centers proliferate, conflict with local communities follows
Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, VA. (AP) — The sprawling, windowless warehouses that hold rows of high-speed servers powering almost everything the…
Continue Reading AP’s top songs of 2024: ‘Texas Hold ‘Em,’ ‘Not Like Us,’ ‘Igual Que Un Ángel’ and more
AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ten of the best songs of the year, as determined by Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman, in no particular…
Continue Reading Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy bring Trump’s DOGE to Capitol Hill
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy spent several hours Thursday swapping ideas with…
Continue Reading AP’s top albums of 2024: Beyoncé, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Mk.gee and more
AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman has chosen 10 of the best albums of 2024. They’re not in any…
Continue Reading NASA’s stuck astronauts hit 6 months in space. Just 2 more to go
AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Known across the globe as the stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the six-month…
Continue Reading Bahamian police chief resigns after US indicts officers in ‘massive’ drug trafficking case
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The police commissioner of the Bahamas has resigned after two officers and a sergeant were recently indicted in a U.S.…
Continue Reading Waymo unveils plan to bring its robotaxi service to Miami
AP Technology Writer Waymo is gearing up to bring its robotaxi service to Miami which will accelerate an expansion that’s been happening while…
Continue Reading Maternal mortality review panels are in the spotlight. Here’s what they do
AP Science Writer Efforts to reduce the nation’s persistently high maternal mortality rates involve state panels of experts that investigate…
Continue Reading Consumer Reports survey finds electric vehicle reliability improving but lagging gas models
AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The reliability of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids has dramatically improved, narrowing a wide gap with…
Continue Reading Pakistani court indicts former Premier Imran Khan over May 2023 attacks on military posts
Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and dozens of his…
Continue Reading Sierra Leone begins nationwide rollout of Ebola vaccine a decade after deadly outbreak
Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine. The campaign, which…
Continue Reading Poland PM Donald Tusk names security and energy as EU priorities during Warsaw’s presidency
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has named security, energy and competitiveness as the priorities for his…
Continue Reading Germany hands over Australian ancestral remains held by museums for over 100 years
Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Five sets of ancestral remains from Australia that had been in German museum collections since the 19th century have…
Continue Reading US applications for jobless benefits rise last week but remain at low levels
AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week but remains at historically healthy levels. Jobless…
Continue Reading EU chief in Uruguay for final talks on a huge trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc
Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has arrived in Uruguay for the final stages in years-long…
Continue Reading Special Kosovo court orders arrest of 3 war veterans
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Judges of a European Union-backed court have ordered the arrest of Kosovo’s three other war veterans on alleged offenses…
Continue Reading US first lady Jill Biden in the capital of the United Arab Emirates on her last solo foreign trip
Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Jill Biden has used a tour of the United Arab Emirates’ capital to praise efforts to…
Continue Reading After Trump’s win, Russian disinformation aims to drive a wedge between the US and Ukraine
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia is spreading disinformation to American audiences in an effort to erode U.S. support for Ukraine as…
Continue Reading On its way out, the Biden administration renews a push for airline-consumer protections
AP Airlines Writer The Biden administration has only seven weeks left in office, but officials are still trying to enact consumer-protection…
Continue Reading Senior UK military commander warns of a ‘third nuclear age’
Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s armed forces has warned that the world stands at the cusp of a “third nuclear age,’’…
Continue Reading Indonesia arrests a Chinese man wanted by Beijing over money laundering charges
Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have arrested a Chinese man sought by Beijing for allegedly helping transfer and…
Continue Reading France’s Macron vows to stay in office till end of term, says he’ll name a new prime minister soon
Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to stay in office until the end of his term in 2027 and said he will name…
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