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US jobless claims rise to 419,000 from a pandemic low

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week from the lowest point of the pandemic, even as the job market appears to be rebounding on the strength of a reopened e...

Jul 22, 2021

ECB says ultra-low rate benchmarks to remain in force

FRANKFURT - Facing unease over the spread of a more-contagious variant of the coronavirus, the European Central Bank said it would maintain its stimulus in the form of ultra-low interest rates until i...

Jul 22, 2021

China rebuffs WHO's terms for further COVID-19 origins study

BEIJING - China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday. Zeng Yixin, the vice mi...

Jul 21, 2021

Louisiana veto session ends with no bill rejections reversed

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana lawmakers ended their historic veto session Wednesday after two days in which Republicans failed to overturn any of Gov. John Bel Edwards' bill rejections, a signific...

Jul 21, 2021

O'Reilly accuser's appearance on 'The View' stopped by order

NEW YORK - "The View" cancelled a planned appearance Wednesday by a woman who settled a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill O'Reilly, after the former Fox News Channel personality sought and receiv...

Jul 21, 2021

50-year war on drugs imprisoned millions of Black Americans

Landscaping was hardly his lifelong dream. As a teenager, Alton Lucas believed basketball or music would pluck him out of North Carolina and take him around the world. In the late 1980s, he was the ri...

Jul 21, 2021

Infrastructure bill fails first vote; Senate to try again

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans rejected an effort Wednesday to begin debate on a big infrastructure deal that a bipartisan group of senators brokered with President Joe Biden. But supporters in ...

Jul 21, 2021

Shootings during Milwaukee NBA Finals celebrations wound 3

MILWAUKEE - Two shootings in downtown Milwaukee early Wednesday as crowds celebrated the Milwaukee Bucks' first NBA championship in 50 years left three people wounded, police said. The shootings both ...

Jul 21, 2021

Federal judge blocks Arkansas trans youth treatment ban

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked enforcement of Arkansas' ban on gender confirming treatments for transgender youth while a lawsuit challenging the prohibition proc...

Jul 21, 2021

UN migration official: 20 migrants drown off Libya's coast

CAIRO - Libya's coast guard intercepted Wednesday four boats in the Mediterranean Sea carrying migrants trying to reach Europe, a U.N. official said. According to the migrants, 20 people from one of t...

Jul 21, 2021