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December 23, 2020 12:30 p.m.

Video released in police shooting of Black man holding phone

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Body camera footage released Wednesday shows Andre Hill, a 47-year-old Black man, emerging from a garage and holding up a cellphone in his left hand seconds before he is fatally shot by a Columbus police officer.

December 23, 2020 12:27 p.m.

COVID relief bill morphs into a test of GOP loyalty to Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Threatening to tank Congress’ massive COVID relief and government funding package, President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger aid checks for Americans is forcing Republicans traditionally wary of such spending into an uncomfortable test of allegiance.

December 23, 2020 12:27 p.m.

Politicians and vaccines: Set an example or cut in line?

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations trickled out across the United States, many members of Congress lined up at the Capitol physician's office to get inoculated.

December 23, 2020 12:03 p.m.

Trump's threat plunges COVID talks - and GOP - into tumult

WASHINGTON (AP) — The video message that plunged Washington into chaos was filmed in secret.

December 23, 2020 11:33 a.m.

2 people killed in shooting in Vancouver

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say two people shot at a medical building in Vancouver, Washington, have died.

December 23, 2020 11:33 a.m.

AP News Digest 2 p.m.

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December 23, 2020 11:33 a.m.

Federal officials investigate fiery oil train derailment

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Federal and local authorities were investigating a fiery oil car train derailment north of Seattle near where two people were arrested last month and accused of attempting a terrorist attack on train tracks to disrupt plans for a natural gas pipeline.

December 23, 2020 11:33 a.m.

Ohio lawmakers fail to deal with tainted energy bill

CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio lawmakers ended their 2020 legislative session late Tuesday without repealing or replacing a scandal-tainted bill that provides a $1 billion bailout for two aging Ohio nuclear power plants, among other provisions.

December 23, 2020 11:33 a.m.

No officers convicted by Iowa AG in force cases since 2004

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When cops pulled over Marquis Jones for loud music one sunny afternoon in October 2017, the 27-year-old Black man got out of his car and ran.

December 23, 2020 11:09 a.m.

Q&A: Clooney on 'Midnight Sky' and his twilight as an actor

NEW YORK (AP) — How has George Clooney been handling isolation? Aside from spending time with his wife, Amal Clooney, and their 3-year-old twins, and editing his new film “The Midnight Sky,” he's relied on, like many others, a text chain with pals and Zoom. He just got off one with Matt Damon and John Krasinski.

December 23, 2020 11:09 a.m.

British model and fashion muse Stella Tennant dies at age 50

LONDON (AP) — Stella Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, has died suddenly at the age of 50, her family said Wednesday.

December 23, 2020 11:09 a.m.

Ohio: Probe of fatal shooting by police seeks 'whole truth'

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state investigation into the fatal shooting by Columbus police of a Black man holding a cellphone must seek “the whole truth,” the Ohio attorney general said Wednesday.

December 23, 2020 11:03 a.m.

Ohio lawmakers fail to deal with with tainted energy bill

CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio lawmakers ended their 2020 legislative session late Tuesday without repealing or replacing a scandal-tainted bill that provides a $1 billion bailout for two aging Ohio nuclear power plants, among other provisions.

December 23, 2020 10:09 a.m.

UN rights office criticizes Trump pardons of ex-contractors

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations' human rights office said on Wednesday that it's “deeply concerned” by U.S. President Donald Trump's pardons of four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more a dozen Iraqi civilians dead.

December 23, 2020 10:09 a.m.

Biden: Cardona right pick to lead education through pandemic

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden introduced Miguel Cardona as his pick for education secretary on Wednesday, saying Connecticut's education chief and life-long champion of public schools is the right pick to lead the department as the nation struggles to educate students safely during the pandemic.

December 23, 2020 10:09 a.m.

Georgia US Senate race: Ossoff again campaigning in overtime

ATLANTA (AP) — Though still chasing his first victory, Jon Ossoff is no stranger to the pressure of campaigning in overtime — this time for one of two crucial U.S. Senate seats that will determine control of the chamber.

December 23, 2020 10:09 a.m.

A child so sick they feared the worst, now they urge change

MONTPELIER, Idaho (AP) — Kale Wuthrich watched doctors surround his son in the emergency room, giving him fluids though IV tubes, running a battery of tests and trying to stabilize him. He was enveloped by the confusion and fear that had been building since his 12-year-old suddenly fell ill weeks after a mild bout with the coronavirus.

December 23, 2020 9:33 a.m.

'Mom's worth it': US holiday travel surges despite outbreak

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Some are elderly and figure they don’t have many Christmases left. Others are trying to keep long-distance romance alive. Some just yearn for the human connection that’s been absent for the past nine months.

December 23, 2020 9:33 a.m.

The Latest: Israel reports 1st cases of new virus variant

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Health Ministry says it has detected the country’s first known cases of the new variant of the coronavirus.

December 23, 2020 9:33 a.m.

Baltimore building explosion injures 23, traps workers

BALTIMORE (AP) — An explosion in a high-rise building in Baltimore injured 23 people Wednesday and temporarily trapped a window-washing crew on dangling scaffolding.