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FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …
Canada: US border measures to last until virus under control
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday the ban on nonessential travel with the United States will not be lifted until COVID-19 is significantly more under control around the world.
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US panel to decide who should get the first COVID-19 shots
NEW YORK (AP) — An influential government advisory panel convened on Tuesday to answer one of the most pressing questions in the U.S. coronavirus outbreak: Who should be at the front of the line when the first vacc…
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Watchdog: US nuclear dump facing space, staffing challenges
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government's only underground nuclear waste dump could run out of room if the number of drums shipped to the New Mexico site keeps expanding or if a new method for measuring the…
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Trump raises $170 million as he looks to future
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has raised roughly $170 million since his Election Day defeat, a sum garnered through a nonstop stream of solicitations that have falsely claimed the election was stolen whi…
Appeals court vacates agreement to resentence Black inmate
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee trial court judge improperly reduced a Black inmate's death sentence to life in prison last year, a state appeals court has ruled.
Rescue efforts slowed a week after Zimbabwe mine collapse
Associated Press (AP) — Rains and flooding have slowed rescue efforts at a Zimbabwean mine where a shaft collapsed last week, trapping at least 10 artisanal miners.
4 rescued, 6 missing after boat capsizes near Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that four people have been rescued and it is searching for six more who were on a boat that capsized west of Puerto Rico.
Amazon driver hears screams, rescues man from burning home
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When an Amazon delivery driver heard screams coming from a central Florida home along his route last week, he dropped his packages and ran to help.
Owner of Casey Jones Village tourist stop in Tennessee dies
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Clark Shaw, a Tennessee tourism leader who built Casey Jones Village in Jackson into a popular roadside attraction featuring a restaurant, a train museum, a country store, an ice cream parlor …
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UK court rules against clinic in puberty blocking drugs case
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court ruled Tuesday that children under 16 years old who are considering gender reassignment are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to medical treatment involving drugs that d…
Centrist lawmakers push $908B plan to break virus impasse
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is putting pressure on congressional leaders to accept a split-the-difference solution to the protracted impasse over COVID-19 relief in a last-gasp effort to ship …