Colorado’s top elections official seeks security protection
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s top elections official is asking lawmakers for $200,000 annually for guards and other security-related measures after…
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Jurors recommend death penalty in police killing case
Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — After deliberating for five hours over two days, jurors have recommended the death penalty for a man…
Continue Reading Blinken faces global challenges in round-the-world trip
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will confront a number of daunting global challenges as he…
Continue Reading Canada joins US and allies in Beijing Olympics boycott
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada is joining the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia in a diplomatic boycott of the…
Continue Reading Attorney: Dismiss Mississippi inmate’s request for execution
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An attorney for a Mississippi death row inmate is asking the state Supreme Court to…
Continue Reading $56K Alzheimer’s drug avoiding Biden’s cost curbs, for now
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new $56,000-a-year Alzheimer’s medication that’s leading to one of the biggest…
Continue Reading Julius S. Scott, author of ‘The Common Wind,’ dies at 66
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Julius S. Scott, a groundbreaking scholar of slavery and Atlantic history who wove together…
Continue Reading Florida passenger train kills man weeks after reopening
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A train belonging to Florida’s higher-speed passenger rail service struck and…
Continue Reading COVID cases spike even as US hits 200M vaccine milestone
By SOPHIA TAREEN and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The U.S. has reached a COVID-19 milestone of 200 million fully…
Continue Reading California plans to be abortion sanctuary if Roe overturned
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State lawmakers may help pay for people from other states to come to California for…
Continue Reading Meadows sues as Jan. 6 panel proceeds with contempt case
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has sued the House…
Continue Reading Jump in counties required to provide language help to voters
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The number of people in counties requiring elections officials to provide voting materials in languages other than…
Continue Reading Defense team rests in Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The defense team for fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes rested its case Wednesday…
Continue Reading High wind delays Michael Strahan’s space trip with 5 others
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — TV celebrity and former football great Michael Strahan is going to have to wait…
Continue Reading Study: Guatemala’s tortilla industry depends on girls’ labor
By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — For millions of Guatemalan families hand-made corn tortillas are indispensable with every…
Continue Reading Slovakia eases virus lockdown but not for the unvaccinated
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government has eased the current lockdown for vaccinated people and those who have recovered from…
Continue Reading Judge declares mistrial in case of pastor’s wife’s slaying
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial in the case of a man charged in the fatal 2015 shooting of an Indianapolis pastor’s wife after…
Continue Reading Disassembly work underway on Lee pedestal in Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Disassembly work on an enormous pedestal that until recently held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has commenced in…
Continue Reading Company weeds out competition, bakes 850-pound pot brownie
NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts cannabis company is celebrating National Brownie Day with what it believes is the “largest THC-infused…
Continue Reading Navy: Member of SEAL Team 8 dies after training incident
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy says that a SEAL commander has died from injuries he got during a training…
Continue Reading ‘To Die For’ inspiration Pamela Smart asks chance at freedom
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former high school employee serving a life-without-parole sentence for recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband in…
Continue Reading Judge declares mistrial after Florida juror denies verdict
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida judge declared a mistrial in a murder case after jurors failed to agree on a verdict following more…
Continue Reading Justice Dept. still probing civil rights era police killings
By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Justice Department has closed its investigation of Emmett Till’s slaying, yet agents…
Continue Reading Tom Jory, AP editor who led vote-count efforts, dead at 77
By JERRY SCHWARTZ Associated Press Tom Jory, an editor who played a vital role in one of The Associated Press’ most crucial functions —…
Continue Reading US businesses advertised near-record 11 million open jobs
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted 11 million open jobs in October, nearly matching a record high…
Continue Reading Man lynched in Pakistan buried in native Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The body of a Sri Lankan factory manager who was tortured and set on fire by a mob in Pakistan for alleged blasphemy has…
Continue Reading Father’s Nazi past haunts Chilean presidential frontrunner
By FRANK JORDANS and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writers BERLIN (AP) — A recently revealed identification card shows that the German-born…
Continue Reading Bosnian security chief accused of corruption in weapons sale
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia’s security minister has been formally charged with malfeasance and corruption over the irregular sale…
Continue Reading Report: Chinese hackers targeted Southeast Asian nations
By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A U.S.-based private cybersecurity company says it has uncovered evidence Chinese hackers, likely…
Continue Reading Flood insurance costs rise in areas once deemed lower risk
By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A revamped federal flood insurance program means higher rates for many…
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