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His Helping Hands opens for winter season with new commercial kitchen
EPHRATA — What started as a one-day Christmas coat giveaway for 35 people has grown into a community effort servin…
Painful as it was, patience paid off for investors in 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Good things came to fund investors who waited in 2020. But, what a terrifying wait it was.
Major US stock indexes waver on final day of tumultuous year
U.S. stocks wavered between small gains and losses in early afternoon trading Thursday, hovering near record highs as investors close the book on
No reason given for Trump cutting short his Florida vacation
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is cutting short his Florida vacation and returning to Washington on Thursday, one day earlier than expected for reasons the White House didn't explain.
Calamity? Anomaly? 2020 was a box office year like no other
When the sun sets on the 2020 film box office, it’ll be difficult to look at the numbers as anything but disastrous.
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French traders, EU sound alarm over US tit-for-tat tariffs
PARIS (AP) — French wine exporters warned Thursday that they'll take a billion-euro hit in 2021 from the latest ratcheting-up of punitive tariffs between the United States and Europe in a trade row over aircraft su…
Police: Ku Klux Klan flyers dropped at homes
TULELAKE, Calif. (AP) — Some 15 to 20 packages filled with rice and Ku Klux Klan flyers were scattered around a small town in northern California near the Oregon border, according to police.
"One Good Thing" returns to twice weekly schedule - ADVISORY
AP’s “One Good Thing” series will continue in 2021 with stories slated for twice weekly publication on Tuesday and Thursday. This change in the frequency will start the week of Jan. 4.
Benchmark U.S. 30-year mortgage rises slightly to 2.67%
MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates ticked up slightly this week but remain near record lows as the coronavirus pandemic continues wreak havoc on the U.S. and global economies.
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Stocks off to slow start on final day of a tumultuous year
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are off to a mixed start on Wall Street on the last day of 2020, a year that saw a breathtaking nosedive in markets in the spring as the coronavirus took hold followed by steady gains in the …
Jobless claims down 19,000, still 4 times pre-pandemic level
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits last week fell by 19,000 to 787,000, still a historically high level as a resurgent coronavirus maintains its grip on the U.S. economy.
Immigrants get help from states, cheer inclusion in US bill
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lily Guido was having trouble hearing and she felt warm while talking to her co-worker at a California nursing home. She knew something was wrong.
AP Lifestyles Digest
Here is the AP Lifestyles digest for the week of Dec. 28.
Morocco detains rights activist; he blames political motives
RABAT (AP) — Moroccan prosecutors have announced the arrest of a prominent academic on suspicion of money laundering.