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Jury in Trump hush money trial resumes deliberations after rehearing instructions, testimony
NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial resumed deliberations Thursday after …
Tears, politics and money: School boards become battle zones
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Local school boards around the country are increasingly becoming cauldrons of anger and political division, boiling with disputes over such issues as COVID-19 mask rules, the treatment of tr…
Biden sets Aug. 31 for U.S. exit from Afghanistan
President Joe Biden said Thursday the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan will end on Aug. 31, delivering an impassioned argument for exiting the nearly 20-…
Trump files suit against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against three of the country's biggest tech companies, claiming he and other conservatives have been wrongfully ce…
Search of collapsed condo shifts from rescue to recovery
Emergency workers who have spent 14 days pulling apart the rubble of a collapsed condo building near Miami said Wednesday they were switching from rescue to re…
Former native coalition employees sentenced for stealing grant money
Two former officials with the Montana Native Women's Coalition were sentenced to probation and ordered to pay restitution after each admitted to stealing federal grant funds for unapproved spending, including trave…
Another building evacuated; search goes on at collapse site
Residents of a Miami-area high-rise loaded clothes and valuables into suitcases, laundry baskets and wagons and wheeled them to waiting cars after they were fo…
Tax law experts see 'strong' case against Trump Org. CFO
Companies give perks to their employees all the time. Many top executives at Fortune 500 companies have access to a corporate jet for personal use, a company a…
Condo board boss warned of worsening damage before collapse
Weeks before a Florida condo building collapsed, the president of its board wrote that structural problems identified in a 2018 inspection had "gotten signific…
Crews spend 5th day atop shaky pile of collapsed concrete
Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery Monday as they worked atop a pre…
Many feared dead after Florida beachfront condo collapses
A wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building collapsed with a roar in a town outside Miami early Thursday, killing at least one person and trapping residents…
US hitting encouraging milestones on virus deaths and shots
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have dipped below 300 a day for the first time since the early days of the disaster in March 2020, while the drive to put shots in …
1st gray wolf pups since 1940s spotted in Colorado
Colorado has its first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s, state wildlife officials said Wednesday.
Senate report details broad failures around Jan. 6 attack
A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol found a broad intelligence breakdown across multiple agencies, along with widespread law …
A nation slowly emerging from pandemic honors Memorial Day
A nation slowly emerging from social distancing measures imposed by the coronavirus pandemic honored generations of U.S. veterans killed in the line of duty on…
Hundreds gather at historic Tulsa church's prayer wall
Hundreds gathered Monday for an interfaith service dedicating a prayer wall outside historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa's Greenwood nei…