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Australia's laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news are ready to take effect, though the laws' architect says it will take time for the digital giants to strike media deals.
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Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman provided new details about the law enforcement response to the Capitol riot, including extra preparations that were made for the day.
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has come under heavy criticism for a series of operational changes that slowed mail before the 2020 elections.
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Lindsey Boylan, a former member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration, offered new details about her claims against him.
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Palm Beach County defied Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, refusing to lower its courthouse flags to half-staff in honor of the late conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh.
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Trillions of dollars move through the payment system daily.
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The move provides the ailing department store chain financial breathing room as it grapples with the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A German customs office described the find in the Hamburg port as the biggest quantity of cocaine ever seized in Europe and one of the biggest single seizures worldwide.
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President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the CIA told lawmakers Wednesday that he would keep politics out of the job and deliver “unvarnished” intelligence to politicians and policymakers.
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Maryland and California recently approved help for small businesses, the poor, the jobless and those needing child care.
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The complaint filed Wednesday in San Francisco is an offshoot of a $13.5 billion settlement that PG&E reached with the wildfire victims in late 2019 while the utility was mired in bankruptcy.
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The Mediterranean recluse spiders were found in late January in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library on the school’s Ann Arbor campus.
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Springsteen pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol in a closed area.
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The person said the Justice Department’s federal civil rights investigation has been focused on Chauvin and some of the witnesses, including other officers who worked with Chauvin.
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Lawrence Paul Anderson is accused of killing Andrea Lynn Blankenship, 41, and cutting out her heart.
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The nation’s second-largest home improvement retailer behind Home Depot reported that fourth-quarter profits almost doubled from a year ago, while sales rose 27%.
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The pandemic has done heavy damage to retailers, but Fry’s was already getting hammered by online competition and a battle between heavy-hitters Best Buy and Amazon.com.
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The new vehicles will have more room for packages, and will be updated with modern safety and driveability standards like cameras, airbags and collision avoidance systems.
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Woods was driving to a television shoot when his SUV crashed into a median, rolled over and ended up on its side near a steep road known for wrecks, authorities said.
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The family's attorney says there were other issues with the officers' response, including how they didn’t try to de-escalate and how they failed to turn on their body cameras.
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The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday ordered airlines in the United States to ground planes with the type of engine that blew apart after takeoff from Denver this past weekend until they can be inspected for stress cracks.
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The two-day Southern Baptist Convention meeting opened Monday.
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The coronavirus pandemic is forcing President Joe Biden to alter another first for his administration: the typically formal White House meeting with a foreign counterpart.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 7:31 PM CST
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A grand jury will not seek charges against officers shown on body camera video holding Daniel Prude down naked and handcuffed on a city street last winter until he stopped breathing.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 7:00 PM CST
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All of the board directors stepping down live outside of Texas, which only intensified criticism of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 5:55 PM CST
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Republican lawmakers introduced a resolution in the House to impeach the state’s top law enforcement officer, Jason Ravnsborg, after he indicated Monday he would not heed calls for his resignation.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 5:29 PM CST
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Limited supply of the two approved COVID-19 vaccines has hampered the pace of vaccinations -- and that was before extreme winter weather delayed the delivery of about 6 million doses this past week.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 4:52 PM CST
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The huge parachute used by NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 4:50 PM CST
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Becerra, now attorney general of the nation’s most populous state, will be grilled by two panels.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 4:46 PM CST
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Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, appeared by video conference for an initial court appearance before a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 4:04 PM CST
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Senators voted 78-20 to confirm Thomas-Greenfield to the post, which will be a Cabinet-level position.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 4:01 PM CST
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The former Iowa governor spent eight years leading the same department for former President Barack Obama’s entire administration.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 3:37 PM CST
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Poet, publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco at age 101.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 3:29 PM CST
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By the end of March, Pfizer and Moderna expect to have provided the U.S. government with a total of 220 million vaccine doses, up from the roughly 75 million shipped so far.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 2:44 PM CST
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Deb Haaland, a New Mexico congresswoman named to lead the Interior Department, said she is committed to “strike the right balance” as the agency manages energy development and seeks to restore and protect the nation’s sprawling federal lands.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 12:52 PM CST
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that his country is doing better than the United States in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, even though Mexico’s per capita death rate is probably higher and the country has vaccinated less than one percent of its population.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 12:24 PM CST
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell underscored the U.S. economy’s ongoing weakness Tuesday in remarks that suggested that the Fed sees no need to alter its ultra-low interest rate policies anytime soon.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 12:02 PM CST
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Prices of new vehicles far outpaced overall consumer inflation over the past year.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 11:54 AM CST
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The White House announced Tuesday that Biden and his wife, Jill, will travel to Houston on Friday.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 11:47 AM CST
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This marks the first time in the movement’s nearly eight-year history that BLM leaders have revealed a detailed look at their finances.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 11:34 AM CST
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Perdue lost in the Jan. runoff against Democrat Jon Ossoff.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 11:05 AM CST
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The palace said Prince Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, is “comfortable and responding to treatment but is not expected to leave hospital for several days.”
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 10:29 AM CST
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The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 91.3, up from 88.9 in January.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 10:19 AM CST
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. fought for a year and a half to get access to former President Donald Trump’s tax records.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 8:28 AM CST
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The legislation was designed to curb the outsized bargaining power of Facebook and Google in their negotiations with Australian news providers.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2021 at 9:56 PM CST
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has called Limbaugh a “legend” and ordered flags to be flown at half-staff as a show of respect after the longtime broadcaster died Wednesday of cancer.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2021 at 8:46 PM CST
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The report of the investigation conducted for the city of Aurora released Monday faults officers for their quick, aggressive treatment of the 23-year-old Black man.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2021 at 8:37 PM CST
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Pieces of the casing of the engine, a Pratt & Whitney PW4000, rained down on suburban neighborhoods.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2021 at 2:01 PM CST
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State police say 28-year-old Christopher Pekny was assembling a device for his child’s gender reveal party in the Catskills town of Liberty when it exploded just before noon Sunday.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2021 at 1:55 PM CST
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The bill would provide hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments, shuttered schools, COVID-19 vaccines and testing and struggling airlines, restaurants and other businesses.