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The Latest: Partial government shutdown drags as debate over ICE deepens

By The Associated Press House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown as debate intensifies over the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations. Johnson signaled he is relying on help from President Donald Trump to ensure passage. Trump struck

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British politician Peter Mandelson faces pressure to quit House of Lords over Jeffrey Epstein ties

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A year ago, Peter Mandelson was Britain’s ambassador to Washington, the latest high-profile post in a rocky but consequential political career. Friendship with Jeffrey Epstein cost him that job. Now, after new revelations, Mandelson — like other powerful men including King Charles III’s brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor —

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Israeli police detain local officials suspected of pocketing aid sent after Oct 7 attack

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities on Monday detained a group of local officials and businesspeople that investigators suspect siphoned off millions in wartime aid, announcing a fraud inquiry involving donations that poured in after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel in 2023. Israeli police said in a statement that in the months leading up to

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A Kremlin official confirms that U.S.-brokered Russia-Ukraine talks are resuming this week

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A new round of U.S.-brokered talks on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine is set to go ahead this week after a brief postponement, a senior Kremlin official said Monday, with negotiations taking place against a backdrop of continued front-line fighting and deadly long-range

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The Latest: Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil, the legendary groundhog that lives in a tree stump in rural Pennsylvania, has issued the most highly anticipated weather forecast of the season: six more weeks of winter. The groundhog’s forecast was announced Monday by the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club in rural Pennsylvania. When Phil sees his shadow, it means

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Kansas Daybook

Associated Press Kansas Daybook for Monday, Feb. 02. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To

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Missouri Daybook

Associated Press Missouri Daybook for Monday, Feb. 02. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Missouri bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Missouri@applanner.com. To see

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Iowa Daybook

Associated Press Iowa Daybook for Monday, Feb. 02. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To

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Nebraska Daybook

Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Monday, Feb. 02. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see

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AP-Scorecard

Here are the scores from yesterday’s sports events: ___ NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Final Boston 107 Milwaukee 79 Final Detroit 130 Brooklyn 77 Final Miami 134 Chicago 91 Final Washington 116 Sacramento 112 Final Toronto 107 Utah 100 Final New York 112 L.A. Lakers 100 Final L.A. Clippers 117 Phoenix 93 Final Cleveland 130 Portland 111

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Nepal travel executives arrested for scamming millions with fake mountain rescues

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal have arrested six travel and mountain rescue executives accused of conducting fake rescues on the Himalayan nation’s high mountains to scam millions of dollars from international insurance companies, officials said Monday. Nepal’s Central Investigation Bureau arrested six people from three different travel and

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 24 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— KANSAS – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-KANSAS-TEXAS TECH DESCRIPTION: Kansas plays at Texas Tech. 300 words. UPCOMING: By 02/02/2026 08:00 p.m. CST, (‘Text’)

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 24 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— KANSAS – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-KANSAS-TEXAS TECH DESCRIPTION: Kansas plays at Texas Tech. 300 words. UPCOMING: By 02/02/2026 08:00 p.m. CST, (‘Text’)

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 24 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— KANSAS – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-KANSAS-TEXAS TECH DESCRIPTION: Kansas plays at Texas Tech. 300 words. UPCOMING: By 02/02/2026 08:00 p.m. CST, (‘Text’)

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 24 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— KANSAS – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-KANSAS-TEXAS TECH DESCRIPTION: Kansas plays at Texas Tech. 300 words. UPCOMING: By 02/02/2026 08:00 p.m. CST, (‘Text’)

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Sports Betting Line

By The Associated Press NFL Sunday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Seattle 4½ 4½ (45½) at NEW ENGLAND NBA Monday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Houston 5½ (218½) at INDIANA at CHARLOTTE OFF (OFF) New Orleans Minnesota 7½ (227½) at MEMPHIS at LA CLIPPERS 2½ (220½) Philadelphia COLLEGE BASKETBALL Monday FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at CHARLESTON SOUTHERN

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Conservative populist Laura Fernández wins Costa Rican presidency, preliminary results show

By JAVIER CĂ“RDOBA ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Conservative populist Laura Fernández won Costa Rica’s presidency, promising to continue the aggressive reorienting of the Central American nation’s politics started by her political sponsor, outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves. Preliminary and partial results showed the Costa Rican president’s handpicked successor captured the win with

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