By JAMES LaPORTA Associated Press Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of…
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With a pen stroke, Mississippi drops Confederate-themed flag
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbo…
Sunbelt states rush to line up hospital beds, not barstools
By TAMARA LUSH and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida and other states across the Sunbelt are thinning out the deck chairs, turning over the barstools and rushing to line…
Carl Reiner, comedy’s rare untortured genius, dies at 98
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No one in the world of comedy was more admired, and loved, than Carl Reiner. Reiner was the rare untortured genius of comedy, his career a story of …
China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization
By The Associated Press The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even a…
Hunger stalks children in Yemen as UN cuts aid programs
By ISSA MOHAMMED Associated Press AL-HANABIYA, Yemen (AP) — When Issa Nasser was born late last year in a village in northern Yemen, his weight was about 3 kilograms, or 6.6 pounds. Now, the 7-month-o…
‘White power’ flare-up in retirement haven reveals tensions
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — There has always been a low-boil tension in The Villages retirement community between the Republican majority and the much smaller cohort o…
GOP lawmakers urge action after Russia-Afghanistan briefing
By ZEKE MILLER, JAMES LAPORTA and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight Republican lawmakers attended a White House briefing Monday about explosive allegations that Russia secre…
Tracking coronavirus cases proves difficult amid new surge
By TAMMY WEBBER, BRADY McCOMBS and JOHN MONE Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Health departments around the U.S. that are using contact tracers to contain coronavirus outbreaks are scrambling to bolste…
Fed’s program for loaning to Main Street off to slow start
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Haith, owner and CEO of a Denver-based restaurant chain called Teriyaki Madness, is in an unusual position for people like him: He&…