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By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Ginkgo trees have survived as a species virtually unchanged for 200 million years, and…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Ginkgo trees have survived as a species virtually unchanged for 200 million years, and…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT BURNS and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has pulled off its biggest day of evacuation flights of…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is beginning her term in office with plenty of challenges. But she also is starting with…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been given the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval, meaning it has…
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Governor David Ige is asking people not to visit the islands. He said it’s not a good time to travel to the islands and…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has granted clemency to six people, including the driver in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery whose…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A man who helped Rudy Giuliani try to unearth damaging information about President Joe Biden in Ukraine is expected to plead guilty…
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press HANOI (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has delivered a sharp rebuke to China for its incursions in the…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — One of the notorious Arellano Felix brothers has been deported from the United States back to Mexico after serving most of a…
Continue ReadingSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in El Salvador is warning against swimming off that country’s Pacific coast beaches, citing…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — A Haitian Justice official has appointed a new judge to oversee the investigation into the killing of…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press New York (AP) — The former president of El Salvador’s soccer federation has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to a corruption…
Continue ReadingLEWISBURG, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice won’t be moonlighting as the coach of a boys high school basketball team where he already…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican politician who was one of several unsuccessful aspirants for the presidency in the 2018 elections has fled the…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has honored the 2020 WNBA champions Seattle Storm at the White House. In…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A psychiatrist has recommended that a mentally ill Danish man accused of starting a Colorado…
Continue ReadingISABELLA, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have ordered more evacuations near a quickly spreading wildfire that’s one of several burning in northeastern…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say global warming makes the kind of extreme rainfall that caused deadly flash flooding…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The delivery of a report on the 2020 vote count to Arizona state Senate…
Continue ReadingSTONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — The board that oversees a park near Atlanta have voted for a new logo that excludes the park’s giant mountainside…
Continue ReadingLOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Drone pilots, beware. Authorities at one of the nation’s top nuclear weapons laboratories issued a warning Monday…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former football great Herschel Walker has registered to vote in Georgia, a possible prelude to him…
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are bringing back their voting bill with no changes…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The speedy Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has revived alarms about a resurgent al-Qaida and new…
Continue ReadingBY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A U.N. official says a boat crowded with dozens of migrants capsized off Libya and at least 17 people…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As opera houses around the country warily resume indoor performances, two of the biggest…
Continue ReadingKING GEORGE, Va. (AP) — Dozens of headstones from a historic African American cemetery in the nation’s capital that were used as erosion control…
Continue ReadingBy TATIANA POLLASTRI and MAURICIO SAVARESE FRANCO DA ROCHA, Brazil (AP) — A fire blamed by Brazilian authorities on an illegal candle balloon is…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A rural Tennessee community was pummeled with up to 17 inches (43 centimeters) of rain…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY, GEOFF MULVIHILL, CAMILLE FASSETT and LARRY FENN Associated Press The Biden administration says the historic amount of federal…
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