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HOTTEST YEAR — Charts. Digital embeds for two charts. One shows the yearly global temperatures compared to the 20th century average of 57 degrees Fahrenheit. The second shows the ranking by heat of years. Scientist…

Isolated at home, California woman connects by giving

Even as she fights cancer and struggles with a rare lung disease, Corinna Dewar thinks of helping others.

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Fifty years on, the Nile dam that changed the face of Egypt

MANIAL SULTAN, Egypt (AP) — Yassin Saeed remembers when the Nile’s annual flood drenched his village in the years before the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Now, former flood lands are green fields year-round.

Cuba tweaks socialist model to encourage work amid crisis

HAVANA (AP) — For more than 60 years, Cuba supplied at least some rice, milk, beans, sugar, chicken, electrical power and even cigarettes to its people nearly free of cost regardless of whether they worked, allowin…

Trump's Mar-a-Lago warned over coronavirus mask violations

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club's failure to enforce a local mask ordinance at its New Year's Eve bash has resulted in a warning but no fine or other punishment.

The Latest: Trump's trial could start on Inauguration Day

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Former Michigan health chief Nick Lyon charged with 9 counts of involuntary manslaughter in Flint water crisis

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Former Michigan health chief Nick Lyon charged with 9 counts of involuntary manslaughter in Flint water crisis.

Groups accuse France of climate inaction, take case to court

PARIS (AP) — A French court started examining on Thursday what environmental and other organizations are billing as “the case of the century,” accusing the country's authorities of failing to act against climate ch…

Ex-Michigan health chief charged with manslaughter in Flint

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s former health director was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of nine people who got Legionnaires’ disease during the Flint water crisis as prosecutors revis…

Stocks open higher, bond yields rise ahead of Biden speech

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street as investors look ahead to a speech later Thursday in which President-elect Joe Biden is expected to provide more details on the incoming administration’s pl…

The Latest: California counties ask for more virus vaccine

LOS ANGELES — California counties are asking for more coronavirus vaccine as the state added a potential 4 million people to those eligible for the doses.

'The world is watching': Ugandans vote in tense election

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandans voted Thursday in a

Honduran migrants trek north toward Guatemalan border

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — About 200 Honduran migrants resumed walking up a highway toward the border with Guatemala early Thursday, a day before a migrant caravan was scheduled to depart the city of San Pedro…

Pakistani military says Indian fire kills soldier in Kashmir

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's military said Indian troops opened fire across the border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Thursday, killing a Pakistani soldier, the latest in continued tensi…