By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has canceled solar projects in Puerto Rico worth millions of dollars, as the island struggles with chronic power outages and a crumbling electric grid. The projects were aimed at helping 30,000 low-income families in rural areas across
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By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer The temporary rules imposed after last year’s collision of an airliner and an Army helicopter to improve the safety of the crowded airspace around Washington D.C. are being made permanent, the government announced Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration took steps to make sure that helicopters and airplanes would no
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By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former special counsel Jack Smith testified Thursday about his investigation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, detailing how the defeated president “sought to prey” on his supporters and “looked for ways to stay in
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By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House rejected a Democratic-backed resolution Thursday that would have prevented President Donald Trump from sending U.S. military forces to Venezuela after a tied vote on the legislation fell just short of the majority needed for passage. The tied vote was the latest sign of Republican House
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday suspended a state House member accused of lying to collect federal unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Kemp accepted a report from a review commission finding that the charges against Democratic state Rep. Sharon Henderson of Covington hurt her ability to perform her duties. The Republican governor
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press President Donald Trump’s budget office this week ordered most government agencies to compile data on the federal money that is sent to 14 mostly Democratic-controlled states and the District of Columbia in what it describes as a tool to “reduce the improper and fraudulent use of those funds.” The order
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By MIKE STOBBE and DEVI SHASTRI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Donald Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday. But it’s hardly a clean break. The U.S. owes about $280 million to the global
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By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed this year’s final batch of spending bills on Thursday as lawmakers, still smarting from last fall’s record 43-day shutdown, worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government. The four bills total about $1.2 trillion in
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By CLAIRE SAVAGE and LEAH ASKARINAM The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agency in charge of enforcing workplace anti-discrimination laws on Thursday voted to rescind its own guidance on how to guard against harassment at work, marking another major shift in U.S. civil rights enforcement under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The U.S.
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — House passes final batch of 2026 spending bills in bid to avoid shutdown as Democrats blast ICE funding.
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By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s legislature advanced a bill on Thursday to loosen state control over the country’s vast oil sector in the first major overhaul since the late socialist leader Hugo Chávez nationalized parts of the industry in 2007. The legislation would formally break decades of state command
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By SAFIYAH RIDDLE, SARAH BRUMFIELD and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press A trove of text messages and emails sent by Blake Lively, including exchanges with her longtime friend Taylor Swift, have been made public by actor-director Justin Baldoni ‘s lawyers as they prepare for trial. Lively sued Baldoni and his hired crisis communications expert alleging harassment
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Iowa superintendent pleads guilty to falsely claiming to be a US citizen and illegally possessing firearms.
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ruth E. Carter has made history once more. With her Oscar nomination for “Sinners,” Carter has become the most-nominated Black woman in Academy Awards history across any category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed Thursday. The trailblazing costume designer was recognized
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By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A federal judge hearing arguments Thursday over President Donald Trump’s use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport Venezuelan gang members had a question: Could a president use the same law against a “British invasion” that was corrupting young minds? Jennifer Walker Elrod, chief judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit
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By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A federal judge hearing arguments Thursday over President Donald Trump’s use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport Venezuelan gang members had a question: Could a president use the same law against a “British invasion” that was corrupting young minds? Jennifer Walker Elrod, chief judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit
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By The Associated Press The Trump administration announced Thursday that human fetal tissue derived from abortions can no longer be used in research funded by the National Institutes of Health. The policy, long urged by anti-abortion groups, expands restrictions issued during President Donald Trump’s first term. The government has funded research involving fetal tissue for
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Elizabeth Hurley accused the publisher of the Daily Mail on Thursday of tapping her phones, putting microphones outside her windows and stealing her medical records among “other monstrous, staggering things” during testimony in a celebrity-studded privacy invasion lawsuit. “The best way I can describe it is like
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Elizabeth Hurley accused the publisher of the Daily Mail on Thursday of tapping her phones, putting microphones outside her windows and stealing her medical records among “other monstrous, staggering things” during testimony in a celebrity-studded privacy invasion lawsuit. “The best way I can describe it is like
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on five Costa Ricans and five Costa Rican entities for allegedly helping to transport tons of cocaine from Colombia, storing the drugs in Costa Rica, then shipping them to the U.S. and Europe. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control alleges that
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By MARIA SHERMAN, LINDSEY BAHR, JOCELYN NOVECK, LESLIE AMBRIZ, JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. and HILARY FOX Associated Press Director Ryan Coogler spoke about writing his blues-infused vampire film “Sinners,” nominated for a record 16 Oscars, for his late uncle, whom he imagined celebrating the occasion with some blues music. Rose Byrne, who learned of her best
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By PATRICK WHITTLE, RODRIQUE NGOWI and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Democratic governor challenged federal immigration officials Thursday to provide warrants, real-time arrest numbers and basic information about who is being detained in a sweeping enforcement operation in her state, saying residents have been left largely in the dark as fear
Continue ReadingBy KAMILA HRABCHUK and KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted his European allies Thursday for what he portrayed as the continent’s slow, fragmented and inadequate response to Russia’s invasion nearly four years ago and its continued international aggression. Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Zelenskyy listed
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Leonardo DiCaprio picked up his sixth lead actor Oscar nomination Thursday morning for carrying the American masterpiece “One Battle After Another” as the overwhelmed single dad and flustered revolutionary Bob Ferguson. Ten years after he won best actor for “The Revenant,” it’s a statistic that puts him in a
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is expanding its ban on U.S. foreign aid for groups supporting abortion services to include assistance going to international and domestic organizations and agencies that promote gender identity as well as diversity, equity and inclusion programs. An administration official said Thursday
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WOLF/Flatwater Free Press Flatwater Free Press Jasmine Harris was used to getting rejected by employers. The problem wasn’t her qualifications — she had just received a bachelor’s degree in biology. And it wasn’t a lack of passion — she had a son and was eager to provide for her family. The problem was
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump sued banking giant JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion on Thursday over allegations that JPMorgan stopped providing banking services to him and his businesses for political reasons after he left office in January 2021. The lawsuit, filed in
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