By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperate-for-help and the avid-for-money fo…
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As extreme weather increases, climate misinformation adapts
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Climate scientists have warned for years that a warming planet would cause more extreme storms, like the one that walloped Texas in February, …
Nearly 1,500 reported arrested at Navalny rallies in Russia
By JIM HEINTZ and DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Police arrested nearly 1,500 people Wednesday during a day of demonstrations throughout Russia calling for freedom for imprisoned oppos…
For George Floyd, a complicated life and consequential death
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO, NOMAAN MERCHANT, JUAN LOZANO and ADAM GELLER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Years before a bystander’s video of George Floyd’s last moments turned his name into a global cry for…
Biden to America after Floyd verdict: ‘We can’t stop here’
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the killing…
Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd …
Georgia’s Abrams navigates voting law fight with eye on 2022
By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden called Georgia’s new voting lawan “atrocity.” A leading Black bishop called for a national boycott of companies headquartered i…
Walter Mondale, Carter’s vice president, dies at 93
By DOUG GLASS Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost one of the most lopsided presidential elections after bluntly telling voters to expec…
GOP targets ballot drop boxes in Georgia, Florida, elsewhere
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta-area voters looking to return their ballots using a drop box in next year’s gubernatorial election will have to do some searching. Just …
NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powere…