The Associated Press
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Investigators have not determined how long the child was in the car.
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Texas’ public education system has become heavily politicized in recent years, with lawmakers passing legislation to dictate how race and slavery should be taught in schools.
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Danish police say several people have been shot at a Copenhagen shopping mall. Copenhagen police said that one person has been arrested in connection with the shooting at the Field’s shopping mall on Sunday.
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The last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, will lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol.
Updated: 10 hours ago
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The incident is one of several recent instances in which law enforcement officers were fired upon while responding to calls.
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If confirmed, Russia’s complete seizure of Luhansk would provide its troops with a stronger base from which to press their advance in the Donbas region.
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Actress Lindsay Lohan is celebrating her 36th birthday on Saturday as a married woman.
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It wasn't immediately clear what caused the section of ice to fall, but the intense heat wave gripping Italy loomed as a possible factor.
Updated: 13 hours ago
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Suffolk County officials have temporarily closed a Long Island beach to swimming after what they described as an unprecedented shark attack that injured a lifeguard.
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Federal authorities are pushing back on claims that R. Kelly was placed on suicide watch as a form of punishment last week after a judge sentenced him to 30 years behind bars for using his fame to sexually abuse young girls.
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A member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot says more evidence is emerging that lends support to recent testimony that President Donald Trump wanted to join an angry mob that marched to the Capitol and rioted.
Updated: 19 hours ago
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A letter written by founding father Alexander Hamilton in 1780 and believed stolen from the Massachusetts state archives decades ago is being displayed publicly for the first time since it was returned to the state after a lengthy court battle.
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President Joe Biden is set to mark his second Fourth of July since taking office.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2022 at 1:59 AM EDT
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The lawsuit alleges the amusement park failed to properly maintain and repair its rides.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 11:18 PM EDT
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The storm is expected to further weaken and dissipate completely by Sunday night or Monday morning.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 7:13 PM EDT
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Newly released numbers show 2.49 million passengers went through security checkpoints at U.S. airports Friday.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 6:46 PM EDT
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Zion Williamson agreed to a five-year, $193 million extension Saturday that has the potential to be worth as much as $231 million, two people familiar with the situation said.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 6:14 PM EDT
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A 3-year-old boy has died after falling from a 29th-floor balcony of a New York City apartment building in Harlem.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 5:18 PM EDT
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The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had given some abortion clinics confidence to resume performing abortions.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 4:59 PM EDT
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Chief Pete Arredondo resigned from Uvalde City Council amid criticism of the police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 4:49 PM EDT
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Meanwhile, the father of the children died at a different location hours earlier.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 3:25 PM EDT
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The move is made as Google and other Big Tech companies face escalating pressure to safeguard the sensitive personal information collected through their products.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 9:30 AM EDT
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COVID-19 is still killing hundreds of Americans each day, but for many people the virus is not nearly as dangerous as it was.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 4:32 AM EDT
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A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying U.S. Defense Department satellites has been launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 3:18 AM EDT
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The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 10:17 PM EDT
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President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday proposed up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one off the Alaska coast over the next five years — going against the Democrat’s climate promises but scaling back a Trump-era plan that called for dozens of offshore drilling opportunities including in undeveloped areas.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 10:15 PM EDT
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Police said 22-year-old Isaac Argro was arrested Friday.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 9:00 PM EDT
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New York’s legislature approved a sweeping overhaul Friday of the state’s handgun licensing rules, seeking to preserve some limits on firearms after the Supreme Court ruled that most people have a right to carry a handgun for personal protection.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 8:44 PM EDT
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Donald Trump’s social media company and some of its employees received subpoenas from both a federal grand jury and securities regulators, according to a public disclosure Friday, possibly delaying or even killing a deal promising a cash infusion needed to take on Twitter.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 6:44 PM EDT
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Politicians and state government attorneys are trying to sort out which laws and which provisions are in force.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 6:37 PM EDT
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The U.S. announced on Friday that it will provide Ukraine with $820 million in new military aid, including new surface-to-air missile systems and counter-artillery radars to respond to Russia’s heavy reliance on long-range strikes in the war.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 6:30 PM EDT
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Travelers seemed to be experiencing fewer delays and canceled flights early Friday than they did earlier this week.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 4:41 PM EDT
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J.D. Power estimates that the average sales price of a new vehicle for the first six months of the year hit nearly $45,000, a record that is 17.5% higher than a year ago.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 3:04 PM EDT
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American basketball star Brittney Griner appeared in a Moscow-area court for trial Friday, about 4 1/2 months after she was arrested on cannabis possession charges at an airport.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 2:27 PM EDT
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Pistorius, once a double-amputee track star who made history by running at the Olympics, became eligible for parole last year, eight years after killing his girlfriend in his home in the South African capital, Pretoria.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 12:51 PM EDT
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Bachman said all guitars are special, but the orange 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins he bought as a teenager was exceptional.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 11:35 AM EDT
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Julian Assange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 10:53 AM EDT
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Families of the more than 60 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned in Texas were people seeking a better life.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 10:16 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MATT OTT AP Business Writer
Kohl’s struggled with anemic sales before the pandemic. Sales and profits rebounded in 2021, but the department store is now battling higher costs and a pullback from its price conscious shoppers.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 10:13 AM EDT
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A Supreme Court ruling Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution by power plants.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 9:39 AM EDT
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Park officials say a 71-year-old woman from West Chester, Pennsylvania, and her daughter inadvertently approached the bison Wednesday.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 3:03 AM EDT
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New York has denied required air permit renewals to a bitcoin-mining power plant on the grounds that it was a threat to the state’s climate goals.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 12:46 AM EDT
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A Navy investigation is revealing how shoddy management and human error caused fuel to leak into Pearl Harbor’s tap water last year.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 10:24 PM EDT
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Acting Newark public safety director Raul Malave told reporters at the scene that all of the victims are expected to survive and police are searching for a vehicle believed to have been involved in the shooting.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 9:28 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MARK SHERMAN
The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement took effect at noon.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 9:14 PM EDT
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The Big Ten will become the first conference to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific and builds on previous expansion into the nation’s largest media markets.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 9:02 PM EDT
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One death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin, health officials said Thursday.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 8:53 PM EDT
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Authorities in Texas say four migrants have died and three other people were hospitalized in another fatal human smuggling attempt.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 8:52 PM EDT
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The truck went through the checkpoint on Interstate 35, 26 miles northeast of the border city of Laredo, Texas.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 6:25 PM EDT
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Police say there are no signs of foul play in the case of an 8-year-old boy who was found in a rainwater sewer more than a week after going missing.