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|By The Associated Press and WAFAA SHURAFA, BASSEM MROUE and JULIA FRANKEL The Associated Press
The truce expired Friday morning.
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Bronny James has been cleared by doctors for a full return to basketball four months after suffering a cardiac arrest, and the Southern California freshman is expected to make his collegiate debut soon.
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|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL PHILLIS
Millions of people consume drinking water from lead pipes, and the agency said tighter standards would improve IQ scores in children and reduce high blood pressure and heart disease in adults.
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|By The Associated Press and STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
There won’t be an audience, but the moderator is Fox host Sean Hannity, who has sparred with Newsom during past television appearances.
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|By The Associated Press and WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN
Hamas freed two Israeli women Thursday afternoon and more hostage releases were expected to follow, the Israeli military said.
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Lori Vallow Daybell is wanted in Arizona to face charges of conspiring to kill her estranged husband as well as her niece’s ex-husband.
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Police in Dallas have issued an arrest warrant for Buffalo Bills linebacker Von Miller on charges stemming from a “major disturbance” at a home on Wednesday.
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|By The Associated Press and AMY BETH HANSON
Montana’s Republican-controlled Legislature made the state the first in the U.S. to pass a complete ban on the app, based on the argument that the Chinese government could gain access to user information from TikTok.
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Maverick Carter, LeBron James’ business partner, told federal investigators he bet on NBA games through an illegal bookie, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will be joined by Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff in the event on the White House Ellipse.
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|By The Associated Press and ELLEN KNICKMEYER and COURTNEY BONNELL
The OPEC+ oil ministers came out of an online meeting with more than 2 million barrels per day in voluntary cuts through the first three months of next year and declared that Brazil will join the bloc in January.
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|By The Associated Press and FARNOUSH AMIRI
The measure — titled the No Funds for Iranian Terrorism Act — passed 307-119 as Republicans sought to hold the Biden administration accountable for what they call their complicity in funding Iranian-backed terrorism in the Middle East.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MEAD GRUVER
The lawsuit alleged Baldwin exposed the family to a flood of social media hatred in 2022 by claiming on Instagram that a family member was an “insurrectionist” for attending former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally.
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|By The Associated Press and Jonel Aleccia, AP Health Writer
Consumers shouldn’t eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don’t know the source, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
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|By The Associated Press and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
The Inspector General for the General Services Administration is probing the decision to locate the facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, over a site in Virginia, according to a letter released Thursday by Virginia lawmakers.
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The Atlantic basin had 20 named storms with seven hurricanes, three of which became major hurricanes.
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Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa, was choking on food during a luncheon Thursday when fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky performed the Heimlich maneuver on her.
Judge extends pause on John Oates’ sale of stake in business with Daryl Hall as arbitration proceeds
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|By The Associated Press
A judge sided with Daryl Hall on Thursday in his request to keep John Oates temporarily blocked from selling his potentially lucrative share of the Hall & Oates duo’s joint venture without his longtime partner’s permission.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and STEPHEN GROVES and MARK SHERMAN
The vote from the 11 Democrats would authorize subpoenas for Republican megadonor Harlan Crow and conservative activist Leonard Leo.
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|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW LEE
Israel and Hamas agreed at the last minute to a third extension of a cease-fire agreement under which Israel has paused most military activity in return for the release of hostages held by Hamas.
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The crash of a U.S. Osprey on Wednesday killed at least one crew member. A search was continuing for the aircraft and the seven others on board.
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Powerball losers were actually winners for about seven hours this week after a state lottery mistakenly posted the wrong winning numbers.
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|By The Associated Press and SEAN MURPHY and JAKE BLEIBERG
Phillip Dean Hancock, 59, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 11:29 a.m.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK
Trial judge Arthur Engoron, who imposed the gag order, said he now planned to enforce it “rigorously and vigorously.”
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The 96th Oscars will begin one hour early, with the official show starting at 7 p.m. Eastern for the first time, ABC said Thursday.
GOP Rep. George Santos refuses to resign and warns his expulsion from Congress would set a precedent
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|By The Associated Press
While Santos survived two earlier expulsion efforts, a critical House Ethics Committee report released on Nov. 16 has convinced more members that his actions merit the House’s most severe punishment.
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|By The Associated Press and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
It was the lowest year-over-year inflation rate in more than 2 1/2 years.
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|By The Associated Press and JILL LAWLESS and DAVE BRYAN
The Pogues fused Irish traditional music and rock’n’roll into a unique, intoxicating blend, though MacGowan became as famous for his sozzled, slurred performances as for his powerful songwriting.
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|By The Associated Press and PAT GRAHAM
It was a roller-coaster inaugural season as Sanders took over a 1-11 Colorado team. But it was an entertaining ride.
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|By The Associated Press and DAVID KLEPPER
The network of nearly 4,800 fake accounts was attempting to build an audience when it was identified and eliminated by the tech company, which owns Facebook and Instagram.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2023 at 12:21 AM EST
|By The Associated Press and WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN
Negotiations on extending the truce came down to the wire, with last-minute disagreements over the hostages to be freed by Hamas in exchange for another day of a halt in fighting.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 11:14 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Starting in the 1930s, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree tradition has drawn thousands of visitors to the city each year during the holiday season.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 10:15 PM EST
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Former White House national security advisor and secretary of state Henry Kissinger has died at age 100.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 9:37 PM EST
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Daryl Hall has accused his longtime music partner John Oates of committing the “ultimate partnership betrayal” by planning to sell his share of the Hall & Oates duo’s joint venture without the other’s permission, Hall said in a court declaration supporting his lawsuit to keep the transaction paused.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 8:10 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The papers will override a handwritten will from 2010 that was found at Franklin’s suburban Detroit home around the same time in 2019.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 7:42 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and ISABELLA VOLMERT
The dismissal is an apparent national first with similar lawsuits pending in Arkansas and Utah.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 5:42 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW BROWN
About 300 surviving animals in the contiguous U.S. live in fragmented, isolated groups at high elevations.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 5:31 PM EST
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Sternhagen won a Tony for best featured actress in a play in 1974 for her role in Neil Simon’s “The Good Doctor."
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 5:06 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and FATIMA HUSSEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
The trip comes as Biden struggles with low approval ratings while he prepares for a likely 2024 rematch against former President Donald Trump, leaving Democrats eager for opportunities to score political points against Republicans.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 4:56 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The former first lady, who died Nov. 19 at the age of 96, had her intimate funeral at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where she and her husband spent decades welcoming guests and where a wooden cross Jimmy Carter fashioned in his woodshop is displayed.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 4:54 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press
Copper inductive charging coils allow vehicles equipped with receivers to charge up their batteries while driving, idling or parking above the coils.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 4:28 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and KEVIN FREKING
Rep. George Santos has survived two previous expulsion efforts in his first year in Congress and has said he will not seek reelection, but the hands-off approach this time could tip the scales against him.
UAW will try to organize workers at all US nonunion factories after winning new contracts in Detroit
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 4:06 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The organizing drive comes after a six-week series of strikes at factories run by Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis that ended with new contracts.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 3:48 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and Dee-Ann Durbin, The Associated Press
The Kraft Heinz Co. is bringing dairy-free macaroni and cheese to the U.S. for the first time.
GOP considers holding formal vote to authorize Biden impeachment as White House questions legitimacy
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 3:31 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Republicans are considering holding an official House vote next month to authorize their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden as the party looks to formalize a process that has yet to yield any direct evidence of wrongdoing by the president.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 3:09 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The National Christmas Tree in front of the White House fell down during high winds but later was hoisted back upright, and its lighting ceremony will go ahead as scheduled.
Trump embraces the Jan. 6 rioters on the trail. In court, his lawyers hope to distance him from them
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 2:45 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Defense attorneys have made clear their strategy involves distancing the former president from the horde of rioters, whom they describe as “independent actors at the Capitol.”
Arkansas brings back Bobby Petrino as offensive coordinator 11 years after he was fired amid scandal
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 1:40 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Petrino’s career has taken him all over college football and the NFL, often leaving a mess behind after some notable peaks.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 12:33 PM EST
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Lawyer Randy Fishman told a Memphis probate judge that mentions of Oher being adopted by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy will be taken off advertising for public speaking engagements and the couple’s websites immediately.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 12:32 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
Coast guard aircraft and patrol boats found one person, who was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, and gray-colored debris believed to be from the aircraft, an official said.