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By MARTiN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund has met with her agency’s executive board.…
Continue ReadingBy MARTiN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund has met with her agency’s executive board.…
Continue ReadingBy TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A teacher has resigned from a North Carolina charter school after telling Black…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Searching for flights on Google just got “greener.” The tech giant on Wednesday…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Court documents unsealed Wednesday allege an Alaska man threatened to hire an assassin…
Continue ReadingSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s attorney general says he has asked the state’s Government Accountability Board to review questions…
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, NC (AP) — A local governing board in North Carolina has formally apologized for the mob lynching of a Black boy unlawfully taken from a…
Continue ReadingBy MAGGIE MULVIHILL Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Drug defendants whose cases have not yet been dismissed because of misconduct at a Boston lab…
Continue ReadingMANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Activists in Nicaragua say one member of an Indigenous community has been killed and three others are missing after…
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press When whistleblower Frances Haugen this week revealed internal Facebook studies of the harms its…
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is apologizing for traveling for a vacation on a day meant to honor…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN SEEWER Associated Press COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are falling and the number of new cases per day is about to dip below 100,000 for the…
Continue ReadingSILVER CITY, N,M. (AP) — New Mexico authorities say a man on probation has been charged in the fatal beating of his wife with an ax after…
Continue ReadingBy PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Martine Moïse, the widow of Haiti’s assassinated president, has traveled…
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Health care giant Kaiser Permanente has put more than 2,200 employees nationwide on unpaid leave for choosing not to get…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN and GRANT SCHULTE OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A summer of labor unrest at U.S. food manufacturers has stretched into fall. Around 1,400…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico passed a milestone of sorts in September when the airport at the country’s biggest coastal resort, Cancun,…
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The first trial in the sweeping college admissions bribery scandal will soon be in the hands…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court has denied former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s request to have a public defender…
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has ratified the Paris climate accord, joining the global fight…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — An organization that monitors human rights in the Russian military and provides legal support for conscripts says it is ending its…
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge says Wednesday that she plans to resentence Scott Peterson to life in…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the jail brawl trial of Florida school massacre suspect Nikolas…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new trial date of April 4 has been set for the man who killed ex-NFL star Will Smith in New…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY and RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A growing number of school districts in the U.S. are using federal…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland have announced an investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse at church-run institutions…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is poised to sue government contractors and other companies who receive…
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press The receiver overseeing the Jay Peak ski area after the former owner was accused of fraud says sale discussions have…
Continue ReadingVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Virginia Beach leaders want Pharrell Williams to reconsider bringing the Something in the Water festival back next year,…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A judge says a mediator will be named to sort through claims arising from the collapse of a Florida…
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The presidents of Ukraine, Israel and Germany have inaugurated a memorial for the victims…
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