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Biden won't invoke executive privilege on Trump docs

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is not asserting executive privilege over a tranche of documents sought by a House committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, setting ...

Oct 08, 2021

Colorado father gets 48 years in death of 13-year-old son

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado father has been sentenced to a maximum 48 years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death in the disappearance of his ...

Oct 08, 2021

Biden is first president to mark Indigenous Peoples' Day

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Friday issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples' Day, lending the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal hol...

Oct 08, 2021

Blast at Afghan mosque kills many, witnesses and Taliban say

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A powerful explosion in a mosque frequented by a religious minority group in northern Afghanistan on Friday has left several casualties, witnesses and the Taliban's spokesman...

Oct 08, 2021

Trump-backed candidates face scrutiny after minimal vetting

WASHINGTON (AP) - One has been accused of assaulting another White House aide. Another allegedly threatened his ex-wife's life, exaggerated claims of financial success and alarmed business associates ...

Oct 07, 2021

Biden to expand 2 Utah national monuments cut by Trump

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - President Joe Biden will expand two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a public lands tug-of-war that has played out over three presidential adm...

Oct 07, 2021

Court says Ronaldo rape lawsuit in Vegas should be dismissed

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A federal magistrate judge in Nevada is siding with Cristiano Ronaldo's lawyers against a woman who sued for more than the $375,000 in hush money she received in 2010 after saying the...

Oct 07, 2021

Abortions resume in some Texas clinics after judge halts law

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Abortions quickly resumed in some Texas clinics Thursday after a federal judge halted the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., but doctors across the state did not not rush ...

Oct 07, 2021

Alabama swamped, 4 killed in floods from slow-moving front

PELHAM, Ala. (AP) - The death toll from flash floods caused by torrential rains in Alabama has risen to four. Forecasters say as much as 13 inches of rain from a slow-moving front covered roads, trapp...

Oct 07, 2021

Poland: Court rules that some EU rules clash with Polish law

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's constitutional court has ruled that some European Union laws are in conflict with Poland's Constitution. The Constitutional Tribunal ruled Thursday that some provisions ...

Oct 07, 2021