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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Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, tweeted Sunday that Putin's announcement was “a step towards internal destabilization” of Belarus that maximized “the level of negative perception and public rejection” of Russia and Putin in Belarusian society.
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Ghana is known as one of Africa's most stable democracies, but recently it's been beset by economic and security challenges.
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Last year's overturning of the 1973 Roe decision meant that state laws banning or restricting abortion if such a ruling arrived took effect.
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Search and recovery crews on Sunday resumed digging through debris of homes and buildings after hundreds of people were displaced.
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Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars will gather near the moon in a planet parade.
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The disconnect illustrates the uphill battle lawmakers face in trying to convince the public that China could use TikTok as a weapon against the American people. But many users on the platform are more concerned about the possibility of the government taking away their favorite app.
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The 20-year-old man suspected of driving the stolen vehicle was booked on various charges, including vehicular manslaughter.
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UConn kept up the pressure and kept making shots, blowing out yet another opponent and looking an awful lot like the favorite to win it all.
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Four people remain missing as the search for victims continues and fire investigators work to determine a cause.
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President Joe Biden’s choice to run the Federal Aviation Administration has withdrawn his nomination, a setback for the administration that comes after Denver International Airport CEO Phillip Washington failed to gain enough support in the closely divided Senate.
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Alijah Martin, Vlad Goldin and ninth-seeded Florida Atlantic became the first and lowest-seeded team to reach this year’s Final Four as the Owls withstood another huge game by Kansas State’s Markquis Nowell to beat the Wildcats 79-76 on Saturday night.
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Storms producing tornadoes, damaging wind gusts, and hail up to the size of golf balls were moving through several southern states Friday night with widespread damage and injuries reported in Mississippi from a large tornado.
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The rally comes as he has been urging his supporters to protest investigators in New York, echoing language he used before Jan. 6, 2021.
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The actor Jonathan Majors was arrested Saturday in New York on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment, authorities said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Saturday to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, a warning to the West as it steps up military support for Ukraine.
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday he has been released from the rehabilitation facility where he had physical therapy for a concussion caused by a fall earlier this month.
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Nicholas Lloyd Webber, the Grammy-nominated composer, record producer and eldest son of Andrew Lloyd Webber, died Saturday in England after a protracted battle with gastric cancer and pneumonia. He was 43.
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President Joe Biden said Friday that the U.S. would respond “forcefully” to protect its personnel.
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The announcement came weeks after U.S. Congress members prodded Biden to seek more support for the lakes from Canada.
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The new law will take effect in July.
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Reese Witherspoon and her husband announced they are divorcing.
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Moore died Friday at his home in Hawaii, according to Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2023 at 11:06 AM EDT
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The new rules conform to other changes in the Catholic Church’s handling of abuse that have been issued since then.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2023 at 10:58 AM EDT
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Nijel Pack and Miami hit shots from near and far against the stingiest defense in the country to beat Houston 89-75 on Friday night in the Sweet 16, leaving the NCAA Tournament without a single No. 1 seed among its final eight teams for the first time since seeding began in 1979.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2023 at 10:46 AM EDT
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The seven-month battle for Bakhmut is the longest clash of the war.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2023 at 12:19 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer
March has gone from madness to unprecedented.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 11:39 PM EDT
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Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night, bottling up All-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 11:28 PM EDT
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Police in South Texas said Friday that two migrants were found dead and at least 10 were hospitalized after authorities received a call that they were “suffocating” in a train car traveling near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 10:41 PM EDT
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A 17-year-old has been charged with kidnapping two migrants whose rescue from a Houston hotel by FBI agents ended in gunfire that killed another suspect.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 9:43 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and DAVE COLLINS and DAVID SHARP
The National Transportation Safety Board said the pilots were responding to several warnings in the cockpit of the Bombardier jet that diverted to a Connecticut airport on March 3.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 9:36 PM EDT
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The Los Angeles Unified School District and union leaders said Friday they reached a deal on pay raises for bus drivers, custodians and other support staff after a three-day strike that shut down the nation’s second-largest school system.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 9:34 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and SAM METZ Associated Press
Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand on Friday to testify in a trial over a ski crash at a Utah ski resort, where a man claims that the movie star’s recklessness on the slope caused broken ribs, brain damage and lasting physical injuries.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 9:19 PM EDT
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“Alvin, I am going to kill you,” the letter said, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 8:41 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and CARA ANNA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA
Rwanda’s government has commuted the 25-year sentence of Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” for saving hundreds of countrymen from genocide but was convicted of terrorism offenses years later in a widely criticized trial.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 8:26 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and JOSH BOAK and ROB GILLIES
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday celebrated the close, “inseparable” U.S.-Canada relationship and vowed that the two nations remain committed to defending Ukraine as it tries to repel a Russian invasion that has no end in sight.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 7:18 PM EDT
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A Minnesota utility began shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis on Friday after failing to stop the release of radioactive material it says is not dangerous but has prompted concerns among nearby residents.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 7:03 PM EDT
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A deputy shot and killed a man Friday morning who was suspected of carrying a grenade in his hand in south Tacoma, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 5:49 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and LOU KESTEN, BASSEM MROUE AND JON GAMBRELL
President Joe Biden said Friday that the U.S. would respond “forcefully” to protect its personnel after U.S. forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard following an attack Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone that killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 5:48 PM EDT
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Walter C. Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV, has died of natural causes in Portland, Oregon. Cole was 92.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 4:57 PM EDT
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The return of Russians Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA’s Frank Rubio was delayed after the Soyuz capsule they planned to ride in developed a coolant leak while docked to the space station.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 4:16 PM EDT
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Michigan, long known as a mainstay of organized labor, on Friday became the first state in decades to repeal a union-restricting law known as “right-to-work” that was passed over a decade ago by a Republican-controlled Legislature.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 3:43 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and BRUCE SCHREINER
The veto by Gov. Andy Beshear comes as he seeks reelection to a second term this year in Republican-trending Kentucky.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 2:28 PM EDT
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An airline passenger who helped tackle a man trying stab a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon was honored Friday by his hometown police department in New Hampshire.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 2:17 PM EDT
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Four of five former Memphis police officers charged in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who was handcuffed, brutally beaten and ignored by first responders for crucial minutes despite being barely conscious, can no longer work as law enforcement in Tennessee.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 1:20 PM EDT
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Aiden Fucci was 14 when he stabbed 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey more than a hundred times on Mother’s Day in 2021.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 1:00 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and STEPHEN R. GROVES
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made the bill — labeled the Parents’ Bill of Rights Act — a top priority during the early weeks of his tenure atop the House.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 12:18 PM EDT
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California has been battered by storm after storm since late December.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 10:47 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL TARM
Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorizing firing squads, which currently includes Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 10:33 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and KARL RITTER
Five people died in Kostiantynivka, a town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province, when a Russian missile hit an aid station.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 6:45 AM EDT
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A man reported his wife missing after their Jeep was swept downstream by swift-moving water.
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