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November 24, 2020 11:12 a.m.

John Boyega isn't going to 'take the money and shush'

NEW YORK (AP) — John Boyega is only 28, but being a professional actor of 10 years and a veteran of three “Star Wars” films has given him insight into what it’s like for a young performer breaking into Hollywood.

November 24, 2020 11:12 a.m.

AP News Digest 2 p.m.

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November 24, 2020 11:03 a.m.

Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands

SUMATRA, Indonesia (AP) — With his hand clamped tightly over her mouth, she could not scream, the 16-year-old girl recalls – and no one was around to hear her anyway. She describes how her boss raped her amid the tall trees on an Indonesian palm oil plantation that feeds into some of the world’s best-known cosmetic brands. He then put an ax to her throat and warned her: Do not tell.

November 24, 2020 11:03 a.m.

Biden signals stark shift with new national security team

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Declaring "America is back," President-elect Joe Biden introduced selections for his national security team Tuesday, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on foreign policy and national security experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his most important advisers.

November 24, 2020 11:03 a.m.

The Latest: Biden praises gov't OK of his formal transition

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on

November 24, 2020 10:36 a.m.

Court: North Dakota governor can't fill dead candidate seat

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum does not have the authority to appoint someone to a state House seat won by a Republican candidate who died before the election, the North Dakota Supreme Court concluded Tuesday.

November 24, 2020 10:27 a.m.

EXPLAINER: Why the Dow topped 30,000 for the first time

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street busted through its

November 24, 2020 10:27 a.m.

New York City's first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93

NEW YORK (AP) — Few American leaders have faced the battery of urban ills that confronted David Dinkins when he became New York City's first Black mayor in 1990.

November 24, 2020 10:03 a.m.

Biden bringing forward his intended national security team

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is set to introduce his national security team to the nation as he taps Obama administration alumni and other public-service veterans, signaling a shift from the Trump administration’s “America First” policies and a return to U.S. global engagement.

November 24, 2020 9:42 a.m.

Can you repeat that? Hearing trouble more obvious with masks

DALLAS (AP) — As nurse Teri Wheat made her rounds at a Texas maternity ward, she began to realize she was having a hard time understanding the new mothers who were

November 24, 2020 9:42 a.m.

Hungary: Planned election law change could hamper opposition

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s government is considering an electoral law amendment that would make it harder for opposition parties to pursue their unity strategy against the powerful ruling party in future elections.

November 24, 2020 9:03 a.m.

Dow crests 30,000 points on vaccine hopes, Biden transition

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 30,000 points for the first time Tuesday as progress in the development of

November 24, 2020 8:32 a.m.

Douglas Stuart hopes Booker win helps working-class writers

LONDON (AP) — Fittingly in this year of work-from-home and lockdowns, Douglas Stuart’s life-changing moment came to him on his sofa.

November 24, 2020 8:09 a.m.

Braves boost rotation, sign Morton for a year at $15 million

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves were looking for more than just experience and depth when they signed two-time All-Star Charlie Morton to a $15 million, one-year deal Tuesday.

November 24, 2020 7:03 a.m.

Stocks climb on Wall Street as Biden transition begins

Stocks are broadly higher on Wall Street in early trading Tuesday, extending a monthlong market rally driven by growing optimism that development of coronavirus vaccines and treatments will loosen the pandemic's stranglehold on the economy.

November 24, 2020 5:03 a.m.

Biden transition OK'd to start as Trump runs out of options

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government recognized

November 24, 2020 5:03 a.m.

Paris police under fire for forcing migrants from tent camp

PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister ordered an internal police investigation Tuesday after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a protest camp in Paris.

November 24, 2020 4:30 a.m.

AP News Digest 7 a.m.

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November 24, 2020 4:27 a.m.

NYC's first African American mayor, David Dinkins, has died

NEW YORK (AP) — David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first African American mayor, but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his mishandling of a riot in Brooklyn, has died. He was 93.

November 24, 2020 4:06 a.m.

With Ethiopia on brink of escalation, diplomacy in doubt

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Alarm spiraled Tuesday over Ethiopia's imminent tank attack on the capital of the defiant Tigray region and its population of half a million people, while the U.N. Security Council met for the first time on the three-week-old conflict amid warnings that food in the region is running out.