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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Immigration authorities said they released 15 women when the fire broke out, but have not explained why no men were let out.
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|By The Associated Press and TRAVIS LOLLER, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press
Hundreds of people have gathered at a candlelight vigil to mourn the three children and three adults slain in a school shooting in Nashville.
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West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday signed a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors, joining at least 10 other states that have enacted laws restricting or outlawing medically supported treatments for transgender youth.
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In a statement, Disney said all agreements were above board and took place in public.
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Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday swept aside the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill regulating some of the most personal aspects of life for transgender young people — from banning access to gender-affirming health care to restricting the bathrooms they can use.
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China threatened retaliation on Wednesday if U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets with Taiwan’s president during her upcoming trip through Los Angeles.
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|By The Associated Press and MARY CLARE JALONICK
The bill would block and prohibit U.S. transactions with TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., within 30 days.
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The White House said the president would reaffirm the administration’s commitment to support the people of Mississippi for “as long as it takes.”
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|By The Associated Press and JANIE HAR
It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations.
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|By The Associated Press and KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN
The auction was the first in the Gulf in more than a year and drew interest from industry giants including ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron.
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|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
The informant, who identified himself in court only as “Aaron," was a defense witness at the trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants.
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Prosecutors charged seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in connection with the 2020 death of a man who screamed “I can’t breathe” while multiple officers restrained him as they tried to take a blood sample.
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The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last week from a terrorism sentence is set to arrive Wednesday in the United States, where will reunite with his family after being held for more than two years, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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The children slain at The Covenant School were Hallie Scruggs, described by an aunt as “always on the go”; Evelyn Dieckhaus, her family's “shining light”; and William Kinney, whose family has said little publicly so far.
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Since the current storm-naming system was adopted in 1953, a total of 96 names have been retired from the Atlantic basin list.
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Opening his second democracy summit, Biden looked to spotlight hopeful advancements over the past year.
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Last week, Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand and insisted the ski collision wasn’t her fault.
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At least 293 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-owned U.S. Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since late 2021, according to the National Labor Relations Board.
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|By The Associated Press and JOHN RABY Associated Press
Within about four minutes after police arrived on campus, the shooter was taken down.
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|By The Associated Press and MARC LEVY
Fetterman has been in treatment for clinical depression after suffering a strok last May.
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|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL R. SISAK
The break, which was scheduled in advance when the panel was convened in January, coincides with Passover, Easter and spring break for the New York City public school system.
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Prospects are strong for passage in the Senate, which approved an earlier bill in 2021.
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Pope Francis was hospitalized with a lung infection Wednesday after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days and will remain in the hospital for several days of treatment, the Vatican said.
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|By The Associated Press and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington.
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|By The Associated Press and ROB MAADDI
The NFL now has seven minority team presidents, including five who are Black and three women, and nine general managers, including eight Black men.
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Advocates believe it's important to get naloxone to the people who are most likely to be around overdoses, including people who use drugs and their relatives.
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The letter warns that AI systems with “human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity”
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A Massachusetts man whose SUV crashed through the glass storefront of an Apple store, killing one man and injuring nearly two dozen other people, has been charged with murder, prosecutors said.
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At least the first 10 days of April will be rough, an expert meteorologist said.
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|By The Associated Press and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Supporters, including Republican senators, say the repeal is crucial to prevent future abuses and to reinforce that Iraq is now a strategic partner of the United States.
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Republican lawmakers accused top bank regulators Wednesday of dawdling as Silicon Valley Bank hurtled toward the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history and questioned whether tougher regulations would have made a difference.
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|By The Associated Press and JAMEY KEATEN and COURTNEY BONNELL
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee pointed to an ongoing, possibly criminal conspiracy tied to nearly $100 million in accounts belonging to a family of American taxpayers that the bank did not disclose.
Updated: 11 hours ago
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An Australian company on Tuesday lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct pachyderm, saying it was meant to fire up public debate about the hi-tech treat.
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Lafayette police Lt. Matt Gard said someone outside of the apartment called 911 after the shooting to report that a child was not breathing.
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It’s the second consecutive year that the show will be hosted by Dolly Parton but marks the first time Garth Brooks will take the stage to host an awards show.
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A United Airlines flight bound from Houston to Rio De Janeiro has returned to Bush Intercontinental Airport for an emergency landing shortly after takeoff, the airline said.
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|By The Associated Press and HOLLY MEYER and ANNIE MA
Around the U.S., private schools generally do not face as many requirements as public schools for developing security plans.
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The Biden administration wants to build 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 — enough to power more than 10 million homes.
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Greek authorities are investigating whether other attacks on Jewish sites in Athens were being planned.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JOSH BOAK and HANNAH FINGERHUT
Six in 10 U.S. adults say the government spends too much money. But majorities also favor more funding for infrastructure, health care and Social Security.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and LARRY NEUMEISTER
FTX filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, when it ran out of money after the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run.
Updated: 24 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MARIA VERZA
Images from the scene showed rows of bodies lying under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 9:38 PM EDT
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A shooter opened fire inside a private school in Nashville on Monday.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 9:35 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Friday’s powerful explosion at R.M. Palmer Co. killed seven people, sent 10 to the hospital and damaged several other buildings.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 9:20 PM EDT
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An appellate court has ordered a new hearing on vacating the conviction of Adnan Syed in the case chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.”
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 8:53 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and JONATHAN MATTISE, TRAVIS LOLLER and HOLLY MEYER
Police say the Nashville school shooting suspect legally bought seven firearms in recent years and hid them from their parents.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 8:25 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the U.S., and the majority-Black Delta has long been one of the poorest parts of Mississippi — a place where many people work paycheck to paycheck in jobs tied to agriculture.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 8:22 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and RANDALL CHASE
A $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan for the Boy Scouts of America has been upheld by a federal judge, clearing an important hurdle in the legal challenge by certain insurance companies and dissenting sex abuse survivors.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 8:18 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and BEN FINLEY and TRAVIS LOLLER
Three children and three adults died at the Presbyterian school, which was founded in 2001 in the affluent Green Hills neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 8:09 PM EDT
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One more House vote is needed Wednesday before the legislation can move to the Senate, which voted for sports betting in 2021.
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