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Negotiators report progress on long-delayed COVID aid bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Capitol Hill Republicans labored Tuesday to keep the price tag for a long-delayed COVID-19 aid package in check, seeking to prevail in a battle over help for state and local governments, while…

UN: Libya’s rivals fail to agree on how to name government

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s rivals failed to agree on a mechanism to choose a transitional government that would lead the conflict-stricken country to elections in December next year, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Census releases data to check official count for accuracy

U.S. Census Bureau officials issued a range of population estimates Tuesday that are wholly separate from the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident, saying the figures will help evaluate the accuracy of t…

Minnesota Pardons Board grants immediate release of Myon Burrell, a Black man sentenced to life in prison as a teenager

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Pardons Board grants immediate release of Myon Burrell, a Black man sentenced to life in prison as a teenager.

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Turning the page? Republicans acknowledge Biden's victory

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a month after the election, top Republicans finally acknowledged Joe Biden as the next U.S. president on Tuesday, a collapse in GOP resistance to the millions of voters who decisively ch…

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Minnesota to free man serving life in child's 2002 death

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s pardon board decided Tuesday to free a Black man who was sent to prison for life as a teenager in a high-profile murder case that raised questions about the integrity of the criminal …

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MONARCH BUTTERFLY-THREATENED — Chart. This digital embed chart shows a decline in the the annual count of monarch butterflies overwintering in California during the weeks around Thanksgiving. This chart will update…

Video shows Chicago cops storming into wrong home

CHICAGO (AP) — A civilian police review board confirmed Tuesday it is investigating allegations that Chicago police officers serving a search warrant last year barged into the wrong home and handcuffed a naked woma…

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Brazil, Mexico presidents among last to congratulate Biden

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro congratulated U.S. President-elect Jose Biden, becoming the last major Latin American leaders to do so.

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New body camera video shows moments after Arbery shooting

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police began arriving almost immediately after Ahmaud Arbery was shot in a coastal Georgia subdivision, finding the unarmed Black man lying facedown in his own blood while the man who shot him …