The Associated Press
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Amid fear of Russian reprisals, hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who surrendered after enduring the merciless assault on Mariupol’s steel factory have been registered as prisoners of war.
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President Joe Biden will open his trip to Asia with a focus on the U.S. tech sector.
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The former head of a widely criticized disinformation board faced a torrent of sexist profanities on social media and menacing emails filled with rape or death threats.
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The Senate has whisked a $40 billion package of military, economic and food aid for Ukraine and U.S. allies to final congressional approval.
Updated: 3 hours ago
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U.S. President Joe Biden will meet South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol this week as the allies face a growing threat from North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile program.
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Rapper J. Cole will play another season of pro basketball, this time in Canada.
Updated: 4 hours ago
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Ukrainian fighters who emerged from the ruined steelworks after being ordered by their military to abandon the last stronghold of resistance in the now-flattened port city face an uncertain fate.
Updated: 4 hours ago
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A former Alabama sheriff who resigned last year says he is innocent of federal charges that he used improper loans to pay personal expenses including gambling debts.
Updated: 5 hours ago
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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday she’s engaged to her longtime partner Riley Roberts, a marketing professional she met over a decade ago while they were undergraduates at Boston University.
Updated: 6 hours ago
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A man charged in an on-stage attack of comedian Dave Chappelle has now also been charged with the attempted murder of a roommate months earlier, authorities said Thursday.
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Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas on Thursday blasted one of his party’s top leaders back home, calling the mounting pile of accusations and legal woes Attorney General Ken Paxton faces an “embarrassment” just days before a primary runoff election.
Updated: 7 hours ago
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The Senate has approved a bill aimed at easing the baby formula shortage for families participating in a government assistance program known as WIC.
Updated: 8 hours ago
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Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday.
Updated: 8 hours ago
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The Senate overwhelmingly approved a $40 billion infusion of military and economic aid for Ukraine and its allies on Thursday as both parties rallied behind America’s latest, and quite possibly not last, financial salvo against Russia’s invasion.
Updated: 9 hours ago
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The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection sent a letter Thursday to a House Republican in an effort to learn more about a tour he led of the building the day before the deadly attack.
Updated: 10 hours ago
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Prosecutors in a western Colorado county said Thursday they found no evidence of tampering in the 2020 presidential election as alleged by a clerk who has become a prominent voice among those promoting former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election.
Updated: 12 hours ago
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Vangelis got his huge breakthrough came with the score for “Chariots of Fire,” a 1981 film that told the story of two British runners in the 1920s.
Updated: 13 hours ago
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Massachusetts on Wednesday reported a rare case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada, and health officials are looking into whether it is connected to small outbreaks in Europe.
Updated: 13 hours ago
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Former President George W. Bush is facing criticism after mistakenly describing the invasion of Iraq — which he led as commander in chief — as “brutal” and “wholly unjustified,” before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Updated: 14 hours ago
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Less than 24 hours after Alabama head coach Nick Saban said Texas A&M was essentially “buying” players, Jimbo Fisher called an impromptu news conference.
Updated: 14 hours ago
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Starting Thursday, the platform will no longer automatically recommend or emphasize posts that make misleading claims about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including material that mischaracterizes conditions in conflict zones or makes false allegations of war crimes or atrocities against civilians.
Updated: 15 hours ago
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She died Friday at the age of 93 at a nursing home in Morrisville, Vermont, Trapp Family Lodge announced.
Updated: 16 hours ago
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Taylor Swift has Grammys galore and now she has a new title — “doctor.”
Updated: 16 hours ago
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Country stars Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Brandi Carlile, Little Big Town, Martina McBride and Ashley McBryde will join Wynonna Judd on tour this fall after the sudden death of her mother and musical partner, Naomi Judd.
Updated: 17 hours ago
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Alabama coach Nick Saban called out Texas A&M, saying the school was “buying” players with name, image and likeness deals.
Updated: 17 hours ago
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A Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the start of the war in Ukraine has testified that he shot a civilian on orders from two officers.
Updated: 20 hours ago
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Ford is asking the owners of 350,000 vehicles in to take them to dealers for repairs in three recalls, including about 39,000 that should be parked outdoors because the engines can catch fire.
Updated: 21 hours ago
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The factory's closure in April, the global recall and withdrawal of their products from the shelves “have reduced the risk of exposure, but new cases may occur due to the long shelf life and possible storage of products at home,” the agency said.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 11:30 PM CDT
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Federal officials are investigating the shooting that killed 10 Black people as a hate crime.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 10:48 PM CDT
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The House is moving toward swift passage of legislation that would devote more federal resources to preventing domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 9:35 PM CDT
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The Senate has confirmed Bridget Brink as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 8:50 PM CDT
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President Joe Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and has authorized flights to import supplies from overseas.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 6:49 PM CDT
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Police say before he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his long-simmering plans for the attack.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 6:21 PM CDT
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Convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been freed from prison after serving much of a seven-year prison sentence for lying to hedge fund investors and cheating investors in a drug company.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 4:54 PM CDT
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Already, the case has prompted some National Guard members in Texas to unionize.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 4:49 PM CDT
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First daughter Ashley Biden has tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 4:42 PM CDT
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Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign did not authorize a lawyer to meet with the FBI and provide information that was meant to cast suspicions on rival candidate Donald Trump and possible connections to Russia.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 4:32 PM CDT
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The U.S. government’s road safety agency has dispatched a team to investigate the possibility that a Tesla involved in a California crash that killed three people was operating on a partially automated driving system.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 3:49 PM CDT
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New York would require state police to seek court orders to keep guns away from people who might pose a threat to themselves or others under a package of executive orders and gun control bills touted Wednesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul in the aftermath of a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 3:36 PM CDT
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has tested positive for coronavirus.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 3:28 PM CDT
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The military routinely disposed of tires, batteries, medical waste and other materials in open burn pits during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 3:14 PM CDT
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A senior Biden administration official says U.S. intelligence shows that it’s a “genuine possibility” that North Korea will conduct another ballistic missile test or nuclear test around President Joe Biden’s visit to South Korea and Japan that begins later this week.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 2:38 PM CDT
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Qualifying films are allowed to premiere in theaters and on a streaming service.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 2:09 PM CDT
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COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 2:02 PM CDT
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Federal officials are bracing for another difficult hurricane season. President Joe Biden on Wednesday received a briefing about what Americans can expect this year.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 1:47 PM CDT
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A woman attacked by a mountain lion in Northern California says her dog jumped to her defense and was badly wounded in protecting her.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 12:55 PM CDT
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Workers at a Target store in Christiansburg, Virginia, have withdrawn their request with federal union regulators for a union election.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 12:44 PM CDT
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A new petition calls for naming the lake the R.H. Cleveland Reservoir, to honor Bobby Cleveland, who died after a traffic accident on April 28.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 12:15 PM CDT
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Some U.S. moms looking for baby formula that is in short supply are dealing with another layer of stress - people asking why they don't just breastfeed.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 10:34 AM CDT
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The lawsuit involved Sacha Baron Cohen and the dispensary, Massachusetts-based Solar Therapeutics Inc.