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Month: May 2025

Cash-strapped Bureau of Prisons freezes some hiring to ‘avoid more extreme measures,’ director says

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic understaffing has led to long overtime shifts and the use of prison nurses, teachers, cooks and other workers to guard inmates. The move, which coincides with President Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign

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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries. The emergency appeal asks the justices to halt a lower-court order keeping in place legal protections for more than 500,000 people

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Great Plains News Digest

The following AP stories are planned for today or have moved. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MISSOURI – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS —————————— US–CLIMATE-APRIL FLOODING Deadly April rainfall in US South and Midwest was intensified by climate change, scientists say SUMMARY:

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Great Plains News Digest

The following AP stories are planned for today or have moved. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MISSOURI – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS —————————— US–CLIMATE-APRIL FLOODING Deadly April rainfall in US South and Midwest was intensified by climate change, scientists say SUMMARY:

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Great Plains News Digest

The following AP stories are planned for today or have moved. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MISSOURI – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS —————————— US–CLIMATE-APRIL FLOODING Deadly April rainfall in US South and Midwest was intensified by climate change, scientists say SUMMARY:

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Great Plains News Digest

The following AP stories are planned for today or have moved. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MISSOURI – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS —————————— US–CLIMATE-APRIL FLOODING Deadly April rainfall in US South and Midwest was intensified by climate change, scientists say SUMMARY:

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Ex-model testifies Weinstein sexually assaulted her at 16 and 19, says ‘my soul was removed from me’

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former model tearfully testified Thursday that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old, calling it the most “horrifying thing I ever experienced” to that point. Four years later, she said, Weinstein assaulted her again. Kaja (KEYE’-ah) Sokola

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other US tech leaders testify to Congress on AI competition with China

By MATT BROWN WASHINGTON (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business, culture and geopolitics. The hearing comes as the race to control the

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other US tech leaders testify to Congress on AI competition with China

By MATT BROWN WASHINGTON (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business, culture and geopolitics. The hearing comes as the race to control the

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Robert Francis Prevost named first American Pope

VATICAN CITY (News-Press NOW) — Robert Francis Prevost is the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, from Chicago, Illinois, will take the name ‘Leo XIV’. Prevost earned his bachelor’s in mathematics from Villanova University in Pennsylvania and went on to receive his diploma in theology from the Catholic Theological

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Joe Biden blames Kamala Harris’ loss on sexism and racism and rejects concerns about his age

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Joe Biden says he’s responsible for Donald Trump’s victory last fall, but he attributes Kamala Harris’ loss, at least in part, to sexism and racism. Biden, who left office in January, addressed the Democrats’ disastrous 2024 election, concerns about his age and

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