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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Pottstown Borough Manager Justin Keller confirmed in a press conference that the explosion occurred Thursday just after 8 p.m. in Pottstown, about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
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A woman charged in Idaho with killing her two youngest children and her new husband’s previous wife will be tried alongside her husband and their trial has been delayed until early next year because the judge says that will give her lawyers enough time to effectively prepare a defense.
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A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign hid his partisan interests from the FBI as he pushed “pure opposition research” related to Donald Trump and Russia in the weeks before the election, a prosecutor asserted Friday during closing arguments of the attorney’s trial.
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A federal judge dismissed Trump’s lawsuit that had sought to block New York’s civil investigation of his business practices.
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During a public briefing on Friday, the U.N. health agency said there are still many unanswered questions about how the current epidemic arose.
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The report also showed that consumer spending rose by a healthy 0.9% from March to April, outpacing the month-to-month inflation rate for a fourth straight time.
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The 18-year-old man who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in Texas left a digital trail that hinted at what was to come.
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The United States has won the latest round of a legal battle to seize a $325-million Russian-owned superyacht in Fiji, with the case now appearing headed for the Pacific nation’s top court.
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A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun legislation.
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The 205-page database includes both visible and redacted entries.
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Top Southern Baptists have released a previously secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse.
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The amount of time that elapsed has stirred anger and questions among family members, who demanded to know why police did not storm the place and put a stop to the rampage more quickly.
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A California parole panel has recommended the release of Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel.
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, made a visit to a memorial site for the victims of the deadly elementary school shooting in Texas.
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The girls were among 19 students killed Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom Tuesday at the school in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde and began to kill.
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Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, keyboardist for British synth pop giants Depeche Mode for more than 40 years, has died at age 60.
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The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” -- and deflect any blame for -- the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
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Alan White, the longtime drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes who also played on projects with John Lennon and George Harrison, has died. He was 72.
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Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.
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Twitter shareholders have filed a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of engaged in “unlawful conduct” aimed at sowing doubt about his bid to buy the social media company.
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Republicans on Thursday blocked debate on a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on difficult questions surrounding hate crimes and gun safety.
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Pandemic-weary U.S. residents are confronting high gas prices as they decide whether to travel this Memorial Day weekend.
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Carnival Cruise Line says a painting project is to blame for an odor that affected some cruise ship passengers and prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to investigate.
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The Carnival Freedom had departed Florida on Monday for a five-day cruise.
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The alleged incidents took place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and in western England in April 2013.
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The body was found in a section of the river near the Trastevere neighborhood, famous for its nightlife and popularity with foreign students.
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Such raises tower over the 4.4% gain in wages and benefits netted by private-sector workers. The raises for many rank-and-file workers also failed to keep up with inflation, which reached 7% last year.
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New COVID-19 cases rose in only two regions of the world: the Americas and the Western Pacific.
The nation remains stuck in the painful grip of high inflation, which has caused particularly severe hardships for lower-income households, many of them people of color.
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Investigators say they don’t yet know a motive for the shootings.
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Despite a nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases, deaths from the virus have remained largely stable over the past eight weeks.
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The retired police officer was working security and fired multiple times at the gunman who attacked the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo.
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The renaming was followed by a candlelight vigil at a nearby ceremony.
Twitter’s regularly scheduled shareholder meeting Wednesday didn't include a vote on Tesla billionaire Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid for the social platform.
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O’Rourke was escorted out while members of the crowd yelled at him, with one man shouting profanities at O’Rourke.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
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It's a meaningful but limited action that reflected the challenges in addressing racism, excessive use of force and public safety.
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Celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, led former hedge fund CEO David McCormick by 902 votes, or 0.07 percentage points.
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The House’s top law enforcement official says members of Congress should be barred from carrying firearms anywhere in the Capitol or its surrounding office buildings and grounds.
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The Congressional Budget Office says that high inflation will persist into next year.
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Josh Duggar was arrested last year after a Little Rock police detective found child porn files were being shared by a computer at a car dealership he owned.
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Colin Kaepernick is getting his first chance to work out for an NFL team since last playing in the league in 2016 when he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality.
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A bill has been sent to Florida's governor that would require statewide recertification of condominiums over three stories tall, in response to the Surfside building collapse that killed 98 people.
Defense attorneys for a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer charged with lying to the FBI during the Trump-Russia probe showed jurors handwritten notes on Wednesday aimed at undercutting allegations that he misled the federal government about his legal work.
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Senate leader Phil Berger unveiled on Wednesday a package of health care access and insurance changes that include expansion, something he opposed for a decade.
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The suit claims the pilot failed to properly fly the single-engine plane in weather conditions with limited visibility, making the firms liable.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed restrictions that would block plans for a copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region, the latest in a long-running dispute over efforts by developers to advance the mine in a region known for its salmon runs.
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NC Republicans want to bar public school curriculum for kindergarten through third grade from containing instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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After their meeting this month, the policymakers raised their benchmark short-term rate by a half-point — double the usual hike.
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The United States’ top negotiator for Iran nuclear talks has made the case to lawmakers for sticking with Iran nuclear talks.