By SEUNG MIN KIM, HANNAH FINGERHUT and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday made his first big pitch ahead of this year’s midterm elections on his administration’s economic performance, even as his White House remains mired in the fallout in Minneapolis over a second fatal shooting by
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By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press For average wage earners in Russia, it’s a big payday. For criminals seeking to escape the harsh conditions and abuse in prison, it’s a chance at freedom. For immigrants hoping for a better life, it’s a simplified path to citizenship. All they have to do is sign a contract to
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By BILL BARROW and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon.
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By GARY FIELDS, JOSH FUNK and ED WHITE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — National Transportation Safety Board members were deeply troubled Tuesday over years of ignored warnings about helicopter traffic dangers and other problems, long before an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk collided a year ago, killing 67 people near Washington, D.C.
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Antoine Fuqua always knew Nelson Mandela as an icon. But he had no idea he was such a rebel too, and a literal fighter. He remembered walking into a restaurant and seeing a picture of a man in a boxing stance and asked why
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After two weeks of intense political and legal scrutiny, the Federal Reserve will seek to make this week’s meeting about interest rates as straightforward and uneventful as possible, though President Donald Trump probably still won’t like the result. The central bank’s interest rate-setting committee is almost
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is heading to China, seeking a thaw in relations with Beijing at a time of strained ties with the United States. He’s hoping for an economic boost to Britain, but risks the wrath of China hawks at home – and of U.S.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s leading prisoner rights organization said Monday that dozens of prisoners were released over the weekend, as the United States continues to pressure the acting government to free hundreds of dissidents jailed under ousted leader Nicolás Maduro. Alfredo Romero, president of Foro Penal, said in a post on X that 266
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Monday No. 1 Arizona (21-0) beat No. 13 BYU 86-83. Next: at Arizona State, Saturday. No. 2 UConn (19-1) did not play. Next: vs. Providence, Tuesday. No. 3 Michigan (18-1) did not play. Next: vs. No. 5 Nebraska, Tuesday. No. 4 Duke (19-1) beat No. 20 Louisville 83-52. Next: at Virginia Tech, Saturday. No. 5
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Mideast to lead any American military response to the crisis. The arrival of the
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Republicans on Monday appealed a judge’s decision to throw out the lines of New York City’s only GOP-controlled House seat, a case that could have national reverberations in the fight for control of Congress. The appeal came just days after a judge ruled U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ Staten Island and Brooklyn
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By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats should be viewed as prepositioning ahead of negotiations to renew the free trade pact between the two large trading partners. Carney noted they are entering a review of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement this
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By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group of lawyers and family members of important cartel figures accused Mexico’s government on Monday of breaking the law by sending nearly a hundred Mexican citizens to the United States without an extradition order. It comes less than a week after the administration of Mexican
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TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s last captive whales have received a reprieve from death after the government conditionally approved a plan Monday to export them to the United States. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson met Monday with officials from Marineland, the shuttered theme park and zoo in Niagara Falls, Ontario, to talk about its proposed plan to
Continue ReadingEDITORS: NEWS DIRECTORS: NOT FOR BROADCAST, PUBLICATION OR USE ONLINE Certified results from the Iowa state Senate 16 special general election are now available in The Associated Press API and AP Newsroom elections dashboard. On the API, these can be found by using resultsType=b or resultsType=c in your query. This concludes AP’s tabulation of the election. No
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By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The fatal shooting over the weekend of a Minneapolis man has prompted calls for a thorough independent investigation into the second death at the hands of federal immigration officers since the Trump administration began its large-scale operation in the city late last year. But many of the
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Jay Duplass had come to a turning point in his life and career. After years of mining personal stories, add those of his family, he’d decided that he was ready to tell other people’s stories. That’s when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon approached
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By LISA MASCARO, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The shooting deaths of two American citizens during the Trump administration’s deportation operations in Minneapolis have upended the politics of immigration in Congress, plunging the country toward another government shutdown. Democrats have awakened to what they see as a moral moment
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