The Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
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Moscow-backed separatists have been pounding eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region, and claim to have captured a railway hub, as Ukrainian officials plead for the sophisticated Western weapons they say they need to stop the onslaught.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, a day after a high-profile meeting with the visiting prime minister of New Zealand.
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More than 1,200 flights were canceled as of 2 p.m EST Saturday, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
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Ruth Whitfield, at 86, is the oldest of the 10 people killed.
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The attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead in a fourth-grade classroom was the nation’s deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade.
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The Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired the 2013 horror movie “The Conjuring” has been sold to a Boston developer.
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The quick settlement means that potentially years of court battles will be avoided.
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Much has changed since Sandy Hook and the NRA is not the powerhouse it once was, but an expansive view of gun rights is woven so tightly into the fabric of conservatism it might not matter.
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Henry “Enrique” Tarrio poses a danger to the public that cannot be mitigated by home detention and banning him from using social media, a judge said.
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Earlier in the day, Kapler used his personal blog to discuss the deaths of the 19 children and two teachers killed in Uvalde.
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Authorities say three people were shot and wounded on Friday in a suburb west of Chicago.
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The gathering comes just three days after the shooting in Uvalde. Hundreds of protesters shouted their anger at the NRA outside the meeting.
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A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face during a flight, breaking her teeth, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison.
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A California man pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to blow up the state Democratic Party’s headquarters in what prosecutors said was the first in a planned series of politically-motivated attacks after the defeat of former President Donald Trump.
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A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign hid his partisan interests from the FBI as he pushed “pure opposition research” related to Donald Trump and Russia in the weeks before the election, a prosecutor asserted Friday during closing arguments of the attorney’s trial.
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Attorneys for the families who lost relatives in last year’s collapse of a Florida condominium tower that killed 98 people reached a $1.02 billion settlement Friday, providing a speedy resolution to lawsuits that could have dragged on for years.
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That reflects what Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra says was an overestimate in costs of covering a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug.
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Georgia’s secretary of state is expected to appear next week before a special grand jury in an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to meddle in the 2020 election in the state.
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Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who worked a security contractor at a Navy base when he joined the pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, was also convicted of disorderly conduct and other misdemeanors.
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Pottstown Borough Manager Justin Keller confirmed in a press conference that the explosion occurred Thursday just after 8 p.m. in Pottstown, about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
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A woman charged in Idaho with killing her two youngest children and her new husband’s previous wife will be tried alongside her husband and their trial has been delayed until early next year because the judge says that will give her lawyers enough time to effectively prepare a defense.
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A federal judge dismissed Trump’s lawsuit that had sought to block New York’s civil investigation of his business practices.
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During a public briefing on Friday, the U.N. health agency said there are still many unanswered questions about how the current epidemic arose.
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The report also showed that consumer spending rose by a healthy 0.9% from March to April, outpacing the month-to-month inflation rate for a fourth straight time.
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The 18-year-old man who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in Texas left a digital trail that hinted at what was to come.
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The United States has won the latest round of a legal battle to seize a $325-million Russian-owned superyacht in Fiji, with the case now appearing headed for the Pacific nation’s top court.
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A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun legislation.
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Top Southern Baptists have released a previously secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse.
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The amount of time that elapsed has stirred anger and questions among family members, who demanded to know why police did not storm the place and put a stop to the rampage more quickly.
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A California parole panel has recommended the release of Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel.
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, made a visit to a memorial site for the victims of the deadly elementary school shooting in Texas.
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The girls were among 19 students killed Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom Tuesday at the school in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde and began to kill.
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Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, keyboardist for British synth pop giants Depeche Mode for more than 40 years, has died at age 60.
The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” -- and deflect any blame for -- the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
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Alan White, the longtime drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes who also played on projects with John Lennon and George Harrison, has died. He was 72.
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Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.
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Twitter shareholders have filed a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of engaged in “unlawful conduct” aimed at sowing doubt about his bid to buy the social media company.
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Republicans on Thursday blocked debate on a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on difficult questions surrounding hate crimes and gun safety.
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Pandemic-weary U.S. residents are confronting high gas prices as they decide whether to travel this Memorial Day weekend.
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Carnival Cruise Line says a painting project is to blame for an odor that affected some cruise ship passengers and prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to investigate.
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The Carnival Freedom had departed Florida on Monday for a five-day cruise.
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The alleged incidents took place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and in western England in April 2013.
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The body was found in a section of the river near the Trastevere neighborhood, famous for its nightlife and popularity with foreign students.
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Such raises tower over the 4.4% gain in wages and benefits netted by private-sector workers. The raises for many rank-and-file workers also failed to keep up with inflation, which reached 7% last year.
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New COVID-19 cases rose in only two regions of the world: the Americas and the Western Pacific.
The nation remains stuck in the painful grip of high inflation, which has caused particularly severe hardships for lower-income households, many of them people of color.
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Investigators say they don’t yet know a motive for the shootings.
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Despite a nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases, deaths from the virus have remained largely stable over the past eight weeks.
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The retired police officer was working security and fired multiple times at the gunman who attacked the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo.
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The renaming was followed by a candlelight vigil at a nearby ceremony.