Takeaways: Joy, tears, culture wars dominate Jackson hearing
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who is being…
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‘CODA’ to be adapted to the stage by Deaf West Theatre
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “CODA,” the Oscar-nominated film about a singing teenage daughter in a deaf family, is being…
Continue ReadingNicaragua’s OAS ambassador says own government dictatorship
NEW YORK (AP) — Nicaragua’s ambassador to the Organization of the American States has denounced his own government as a “dictatorship” in a…
Continue ReadingPamela Smart denied chance at freedom decades after killing
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart has been denied a sentence reduction hearing more than 30 years after her…
Continue ReadingNATO to bolster ranks, help Ukraine counter chemical attack
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says U.S. President Joe Biden and his counterparts are ready…
Continue ReadingOfficials: Florida manatees eat ‘every scrap’ in food trial
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — One thing wildlife officials have learned during the winter experimental feeding…
Continue ReadingWikiLeaks’ Assange weds fiancée in London prison ceremony
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has wed his fiancée at a small ceremony in the London prison where he is held. Assange, 50, has been held in the…
Continue ReadingTennessee could scale back oversight of town’s finances
By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say the state of Tennessee could scale back its financial oversight of a…
Continue ReadingProbe: State House speaker, others get grand jury subpoenas
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican House speaker says he and other state lawmakers have been…
Continue ReadingWitness: Whitmer kidnapping aimed at stopping Biden win
By ED WHITE Associated Press A man who pleaded guilty to planning a kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says he and his allies wanted to act…
Continue ReadingMacKenzie Scott announces nearly $4 billion in donations
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed that she has donated nearly $4 billion to 465 nonprofits in a…
Continue ReadingLA police: Wearing expensive jewelry could make you a target
By STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are warning people that wearing expensive jewelry in…
Continue ReadingWith cases rising, UK marks 2 years since 1st virus lockdown
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is pausing to remember thousands of lives lost to the coronavirus, two years to the day…
Continue ReadingPandemic relief money spent on hotel, ballpark, ski slopes
By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press review finds that state and local governments have spent nearly $1 billion…
Continue ReadingGreitens investigator pleads guilty to evidence tampering
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The investigator who played a key role in former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ resignation in 2018…
Continue ReadingUkrainian, Russian refugee dancers find help in Berlin
By KERSTIN SOPKE Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Dancers who have fled Ukraine — and Russia — due to the war have found a new temporary home in…
Continue ReadingPutin wants ‘unfriendly countries’ to pay rubles for gas
The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will demand “unfriendly” countries pay for Russian…
Continue ReadingTrump aide Manafort removed from plane for revoked passport
MIAMI (AP) — Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he…
Continue ReadingHigh court won’t say whether Thomas remains hospitalized
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is declining to say whether 73-year-old Justice Clarence Thomas remains in the hospital. He had been expected…
Continue ReadingFlorida Gov. DeSantis: Transgender swimmer’s victory a fraud
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is jumping into the conversation about a transgender swimmer who won a collegiate…
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