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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A reward of $32,500 is being offered for information that leads to an arrest in the retired police officer's killing.
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Grant money from the state’s pheasant wildlife program will support upland game conservation and restoration of prairies and woodlands in northern Illinois.
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Misuse could result in a driver’s license suspension of six months and a $600 fine.
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Authorities say shots were fired near a food court at a shopping mall in Tacoma, Washington.
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Police say two of the victims were 15- and 18-year-old brothers. A suspect was among those killed.
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The state only allows wrongful imprisonment payments to people who were exonerated through DNA evidence, so the 62-year-old Strickland wouldn’t qualify.
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The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city’s request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was the site of the Wright brothers’ first bike shop.
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Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs are better prepared this time as they gear up for another pandemic crunch.
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As the world grapples with the emergence of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, worried scientists in South Africa — where omicron was first identified — are scrambling to combat its lightning spread across the country.
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Wisconsin prosecutors have filed multiple charges against an Illinois man accused driving drunk and causing a head-on collision last month.
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Biden spent more than an hour walking around downtown Nantucket’s cobblestone streets, popping unannounced into quaint mom-and-pop shops, appearing to make purchases and posing for photos with surprised business owners.
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A police chief says three people were shot and wounded Friday during an apparent fight between two groups at a North Carolina mall crowded with shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving.
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Stephen Sondheim, one of the most prolific composers and lyricists, died Friday. He was 91.
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Davidson and her husband Ryan Edwards have traveled every weekend since March from Moline, Illinois, to see their daughter at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago.
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Zane Ziegler found a long-lost piece of important Champaign police history by chance.
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The mobile ID will be optional and motorists will still be expected to carry hard-copy licenses.
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The hospital says the higher dosage could include more pronounced side effects such as a sore arm, mild fever, headache and fatigue.
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Golf, cricket and rugby became the first major sports to be affected by the new COVID-19 variant on Friday, prompting fears of renewed travel restrictions and disrupted events just as they were returning to normal nearly two years into the pandemic.
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Well-wishers waved and cheered as the Bidens traveled by motorcade to the Coast Guard station.
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Ahmaud Arbery’s mother woke up Thursday with a new, very important blessing on Thanksgiving Day.
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The second Thanksgiving of the COVID-19 pandemic comes as a resurgent virus has pushed new infections in the U.S. to 95,000 daily and caused alarming increases at hospitals in Michigan, Minnesota, Colorado and Arizona.
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Crimped by the coronavirus pandemic last year, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade returned Thursday in full, though with precautions.
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National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said Thursday.
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Los Angeles police are hunting for thieves who rushed into a Southern California Nordstrom store Wednesday night and ran off with pricey goods.
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Members of Native American tribes from around New England are gathering in the seaside town where the Pilgrims settled — not to give thanks, but to mourn Indigenous people worldwide who’ve suffered centuries of racism and mistreatment.
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Recent surveys in the country indicate more people oppose banning dog meat even as its consumption has rapidly fallen among younger people.
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Routine surveillance was recommended, which normally calls for another colonoscopy in seven to 10 years.
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Police say the boy may have pushed out a window screen in an apartment before he fell from the window.
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Many feel emboldened by the fact that nearly 200 million Americans are now fully vaccinated.
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A hiker found the remains of the fourth and final person who died during flooding and mudslides in an area of northern Colorado that was burned by a massive wildfire.
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The jury reached its decision after more than 10 hours of deliberations following a trial in which prosecutors argued that the defendants provoked a confrontation with Arbery and defense attorneys said their clients were acting in self-defense.
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Police say they have not made an arrest in either shooting that comes amid an increase in homicides both in the city at large and the Roseland neighborhood on the South Side where Delisa Tucker and her son were killed.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland is directing U.S. attorneys across the nation to swiftly prioritize prosecution of federal crimes that happen on commercial flights.
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The man accused of plowing his SUV into a parade of Christmas marchers could have turned down a side street but didn’t.
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Federal Reserve officials in discussions earlier this month said the central bank “would not hesitate” to take appropriate actions to address inflation pressures that posed risks to the economy.
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The project’s critics, including community groups and some residents, say it won’t improve the area’s traffic woes and would subject mostly Black and Latino residents to increased pollution, displacement and flooding while not improving public transportation options.
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Mark Kulas becomes the 14th resident of Illinois to be charged with taking part in the riot.
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The nearly 8-hour, Peter Jackson-produced documentary culled from film and recording outtakes of the Beatles’ “Let it Be” sessions instead reveal a self-aware band with a rare connection and work ethic that still knew how to have fun — yet was also in the process of breaking up.
On what charges was each man convicted? How much prison time are they facing?
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In total, 96.5% of employees have been deemed in compliance with the policy, including through medical or religious exemptions that are still being evaluated.
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Republicans and others criticized it as drawn to benefit the party in power after crafting it without public input.
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The lawsuits filed by the Naperville families of Jacob “Jake” Jurinek, 20, and Franco Patino, 21, are part of a flood of dozens of suits against rapper Travis Scott and the companies behind the Nov. 5 event in which 10 people were killed and hundreds were injured.
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Police say the boy’s fatal plunge about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday was being investigated as an accident.
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The NFL and Rams owner Stan Kroenke will pay $790 million to settle a lawsuit filed by St. Louis interests over the team’s relocation to Los Angeles.
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For Rittenhouse, a year of legal uncertainty over whether his claim of self-defense would stand up has given way to uncertainty over what’s next.
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President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is nominating Shalanda Young to lead the White House budget office and Nani Coloretti to serve as Young’s deputy.
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Buck, a nuclear physicist who was born in Portland, Maine, in 1930, died at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, on Nov. 18, Subway said in a statement. The cause of his death was not disclosed.
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It will feature 15 giant character balloons, 28 floats, 36 novelty and heritage inflatables, more than 800 clowns, 10 marching bands and nine performance groups and, of course, Santa Claus bringing up the rear.
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The four-week average of claims, which smooths out weekly ups and downs, also dropped — by 21,000 to just over 252,000, the lowest since mid-March 2020 when the pandemic slammed the economy.
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The technique could prove useful for altering the course of an asteroid years before it bears down on Earth with the potential for catastrophe.