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Brexit's choice for EU, UK: firm friends or nearby rivals
BRUSSELS (AP) — The New Year could finally bring a fresh start and a commitment to let bygones be bygones for Britain and the European Union.
Tsai credits Taiwan for virus wins, notes China's threats
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday hailed the island’s progress in containing the coronavirus pandemic and growing the economy while facing military threats from China.
Chicago mayor meets with victim of botched police raid
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot met Thursday with a Black woman who was the victim of a botched police raid on her home during which she was forced to stand naked while handcuffed.
The Latest: South Korea enforces tough measures in prisons
SEOUL, South Korea __ South Korea has enforced its toughest physical distancing rules at correctional facilities across the country after a major cluster of coronavirus infections flared at a Seoul prison.
Report: Ethiopian forces killed scores in June-July unrest
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian security forces killed more than 75 people and injured nearly 200 during deadly ethnic unrest in June and July following the killing of a popular singer, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Friday.
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Sheriff's Office: 4 shot at party in Portland suburb
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Four people were shot at a party in the Portland suburb of Happy Valley, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said.
A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on a musical legacy
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — It’s 1966 and a thunderstorm illuminates the night sky in Memphis, Tennessee. Two Stax Records musicians, guitarist Steve Cropper and singer Eddie Floyd, sit in a room inside the Lorraine Motel, struggling to fashion a song about love and superstition.
New family medical leave payroll deduction begins on Jan. 1
An estimated 100,000 Connecticut employers will begin taking deductions from their employees' paychecks on Friday for the state's new paid family and medical leave program that's scheduled to begin a year from now.
They were experts in viruses, and now in pitfalls of fame
BOSTON (AP) — Dr. Ashish Jha started 2020 thousands of miles from home, taking a sabbatical in Europe from his academic post at Harvard. Then the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S.
US bans second Malaysian palm oil giant over forced labor
The U.S. said it will ban all shipments of palm oil from one of the world’s biggest producers after finding indicators of forced labor and other abuses on plantations that feed into the supply chains of some of America’s most famous food and cosmetic companies.
US to move aircraft carrier out of Mideast amid Iran tension
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has decided to send home the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, a move that will reduce American firepower in the region amid heightened tensions with Iran.
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In a first, Congress overrides Trump veto of defense bill
Trump push on $2K checks flops as GOP-led Senate won't vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell all but shut the door Wednesday on President Donald Trump's push for $2,000
CDC ranks Kansas last in COVID-19 shots; reporting lag cited
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas ranks last among states in its reported COVID-19 vaccination rate, according to U.S. government data, and state officials attribute it to a lag in reporting by providers of the shots.
Pandemic, protests and 'Murder Hornets' top state stories
Washington saw the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States this year, as well as the first deadly cluster as the pandemic upended virtually all activity in the state. The coronavirus outbreak was voted the state’s top news story of 2020 by Associated Press staff. Other top news items of the past 12 months included widespread protests over police issues, huge Western wildfires and the state’s attempts to deal with Asian giant hornets, better known as “murder hornets.”
Wisconsin hospital worker arrested for spoiled vaccine doses
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist Thursday suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine by removing them from refrigeration for two nights.
Wiser resolutions? Lessons from COVID's unfulfilled ones
She’d wanted to frame and hang them — just three printed pictures that had been sitting in Lucy O’Donoghue’s suburban Atlanta house since the year began. That’s all. Yet with a full-time job and two small kids, she hadn’t found the time.
Speedy Sir: Lewis Hamilton knighted in year-end royal honors
LONDON (AP) — Lewis Hamilton is now a “Sir” as well as a seven-time Formula One champion.
Deputy justified in shooting bystander at rap video filming
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A grand jury has cleared a Jackson County sheriff’s deputy who shot a bystander at a White City gathering, and indicted the deputy’s intended target who was allegedly armed with “a high-powered, high capacity rifle.”