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Updated 2 days, 17 hours ago

Robert Carradine, 'Revenge of the Nerds' and 'Lizzie McGuire' star, dies at 71

Actor Robert Carradine has died at 71. His family says he died by suicide. In a statement shared on Tuesday, his f…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Pelosi in letter to colleagues says House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pelosi in letter to colleagues says House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Trump.

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
AP News Digest 6 p.m.

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Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Trump remains defiant amid calls to resign

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump enters the last days of his presidency isolated and shunned by former allies and members of his own party as he faces a second impeachment and growing calls for his resignat…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EST

Capitol police were overrun, 'left naked' against rioters

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Impeachment push builds, 2 GOP senators want Trump to resign

WASHINGTON (AP) — With impeachment planning intensifying, two Republican senators want President Donald Trump to resign immediately as efforts mount to prevent Trump from ever again holding elective office in the w…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
6 inmates use 'homemade rope' to escape from California jail

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in central California were searching Sunday for six inmates who used a “homemade rope” to escape from a county jail, sheriff's officials said.

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Capitol police were overrun, 'left naked' against rioters

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite ample warnings about pro-Trump demonstrations in Washington, U.S. Capitol Police did not bolster staffing on Wednesday and made no preparations for the possibility that the planned protest…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Businesses rethink political donations after Capitol siege

Businesses are rethinking political contributions in the wake of the

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
The Latest: Citigroup to pause federal political donations

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Warnock blasts Capitol rioters in 1st sermon since election

In his first sermon since being declared a winner in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff election, the Rev. Raphael Warnock on Sunday addressed last week’s deadly Capitol Hill riot that all but overshadowed his historic v…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
The Latest: Schwarzenegger says Trump 'worst president' ever

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Cops: Chicago shooter who killed 3 posted social media rants

CHICAGO (AP) — A man who police say killed three people and wounded four others during a series of shootings in and around Chicago posted nonsensical and expletive-laced videos in the days and hours leading up to t…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Lawmakers who voted against Biden are denounced back home

Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory, even after a mob broke into the Capitol, are being denounced by critics in their home districts who demand that they res…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
The Latest: Virus infections top 90 million confirmed cases

BALTIMORE -- Coronavirus infections have now surpassed 90 million confirmed cases around the world, as more countries braced for wider spread of more virulent strains of a disease that has now killed nearly 2 milli…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
AP News Digest 3:15 p.m.

RESENDS previous digest to add — CAPITOL BREACH-THE ASSAULT.