Mississippi governor signs state’s largest income tax cut
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi residents will pay lower income taxes, beginning in 2023. Republican…
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EXPLAINER: What Elon Musk at Twitter might mean for users
By MATT O’BRIEN and TALI ARBEL AP Technology Reporters Tesla CEO Elon Musk now has a 9% stake in Twitter and a seat on its corporate board of…
Continue ReadingGeorgia lawmakers push through election probe regulation
By JEFF AMY and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia law enforcement agency would have authority to initiate investigations…
Continue ReadingJetBlue makes offer for Spirit Airlines, could spark bid war
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer JetBlue Airways is trying to buy Spirit Airlines and break up a plan for Spirit to merge with fellow budget…
Continue ReadingUN: 18 nations have gone green on climate, raked in green
BY DREW COSTLEY AND SETH BORENSTEIN It’s long been said you can reduce emissions and keep your economy growing. The latest report from the…
Continue ReadingJudge dismisses charges for duck boat tragedy
GALENA, Mo. (AP) — A judge has dismissed charges against three men prosecuted after a tourist boat sank and killed 17 people during a 2018 Missouri…
Continue ReadingZoos hiding birds as avian flu spreads in North America
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they…
Continue ReadingJury deliberations begin in sex abuse, forced labor trial
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has begun deliberating the fate of a man charged with exploiting college friends of his…
Continue ReadingWhite House reunion is latest sign of Biden-Obama friendship
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the final days of his presidency, Barack Obama surprised then-Vice President Joe Biden with…
Continue ReadingIn Bucha, Ukraine, burned, piled bodies among latest horrors
By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CARA ANNA Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Six charred bodies piled together were being investigated on Tuesday…
Continue ReadingUS pulls GSK’s COVID drug as omicron sibling dominates cases
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators say GlaxoSmithKline’s COVID-19 antibody drug should no longer be used…
Continue ReadingGermany: Deal on radio beacons makes space for wind turbines
BERLIN (AP) — The German government has resolved a long-running spat that will allow the construction of more than 1,000 onshore wind turbines,…
Continue ReadingRabih Alameddine wins PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
NEW YORK (AP) — Rabih Alameddine’s “The Wrong End of the Telescope,” a novel written in the second person about a transgender doctor named…
Continue ReadingJury begins deliberations at US trial sparked by 1MBD fraud
By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has started deliberating at a U.S. trial stemming from an audacious $4.5 billion scheme…
Continue ReadingEl Salvador leader says he’ll cut all food for gang inmates
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s president has threatened to stop providing food for imprisoned members of street gangs. President…
Continue ReadingLawyer charged in Durham probe seeks to bar dossier evidence
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign charged with lying to the FBI during the Trump-Russia…
Continue ReadingWalgreens goes to trial in Florida lawsuit on opioids
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Most of the defendants in Florida’s lawsuit over the opioid epidemic have settled…
Continue ReadingCajun fiddler Michael Doucet breaks hip on tour in Alaska
The Associated Press Cajun fiddler Michael Doucet fell and broke his hip in Alaska, and his Grammy-winning band had to perform there without him. His…
Continue ReadingBiden orders push on long COVID, pandemic’s shadowy mystery
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ordering a new national research push on long…
Continue ReadingGovt watchdog faults Postal Service analysis of new trucks
By DAVID SHARP and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the U.S. Postal Service’s environmental…
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