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United pulls 737 Max until June, adding to Boeing woes

NEW YORK — United Airlines says the Boeing 737 Max has been pulled from its flight schedule until June, the latest in a string of troubling news plagu...
17:07 20 December 2021

US consumer spending up 0.4% in November, best since July

WASHINGTON — Americans increased their spending in November at the fastest pace in four months, and income growth rebounded to its strongest gain sinc...
15:52 20 December 2021

Trump blasts Christian magazine that called for his removal

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is blasting a prominent Christian magazine that published an editorial arguing that he should be removed from offi...
15:15 20 December 2021

Stocks climb as S&P 500 closes in on 10th winning week in 11

NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes pushed higher again in early trading on Friday, and the S&P 500 was on track to close out its 10th winning week in t...
14:58 20 December 2021

UK lawmakers OK Johnson’s Brexit bill, pave way to exit EU

LONDON — British lawmakers gave preliminary approval Friday to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill, clearing the way for the U.K. to leave the ...
14:54 20 December 2021

Poll: Americans grateful at holidays _ and a bit stressed

MINNEAPOLIS — Wade Holcomb has a lot to be grateful for this year. In addition to graduating college and getting a job, he also has a beautiful 4-mont...
13:03 20 December 2021

Pelosi: Power of gavel means Trump is ‘impeached forever’

WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi promised as speaker she would "show the power of the gavel.”
11:31 20 December 2021

Tokyo Olympics say costs $12.6B; Audit report says much more

TOKYO — Tokyo Olympic organizers said Friday they are spending 1.35 trillion Japanese yen — about $12.6 billion — to stage next year's games. Organize...
7:42 20 December 2021

Iraq protests take toll on economy, vulnerable suffer most

BAGHDAD — With wisps of smoke still rising from the remnants of another night of violence, the workers came in the morning to salvage what merchandise...
7:11 20 December 2021

Virginia biochemist Camille Schrier is crowned Miss America

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Organizers wanted to make it clear the 99th Miss America competition isn't your grandmother's beauty pageant, and their winner did...
3:35 20 December 2021

Evangelical magazine Christianity Today: Trump must go

NEW YORK — A major evangelical Christian magazine founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham on Thursday published an editorial calling for President Donal...
1:32 20 December 2021

Impeachment trial plans in disarray as Congress heads home

WASHINGTON — Congress has headed home for the holidays leaving plans and a possible timeline for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in disarra...
1:13 20 December 2021

After impeachment, House bestows big trade victory on Trump

WASHINGTON — One day after its historic impeachment votes, the Democratic-led House gave President Donald Trump an overwhelming bipartisan victory Thu...
23:54 19 December 2021

Nike’s sales get boost from direct-to-consumer strategy

NEW YORK — Nike’s quarterly results again beat Wall Street expectations, as its online sales grew and customers shrugged off a series of corporate sca...
23:19 19 December 2021

HUD reporting 2.7% percent uptick in homeless population

WASHINGTON — The federal government is reporting a 2.7% increase in the nation’s homeless population driven by a spike in California, according to an ...
23:04 19 December 2021

House approves bill suspending cap on some tax deductions

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House approved legislation Thursday to suspend for two years the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions ...
22:00 19 December 2021

Trump signs bill restoring funding for black colleges

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bipartisan bill that will permanently provide more than $250 million a year to the nation's historically b...
21:46 19 December 2021

Trump: Van Drew, who voted against impeachment, joining GOP

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a New Jersey Democrat who broke with his party to vote against Trump's...
20:29 19 December 2021

Trump ally Meadows won’t run again, may join White House

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a top conservative ally of President Donald Trump, said Thursday he won't seek reelect...
19:23 19 December 2021

North America trade pact deals rare setback to Big Pharma

A revamped North American trade deal nearing passage in Congress gives both the White House and Democrats a chance to claim victory and offers farmers...
17:43 19 December 2021

Late-starting candidate Deval Patrick lays out policy vision

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick on Thursday outlined a broad policy agenda Thursday while jabbing at his progressive riva...
17:25 19 December 2021

What Crackdown? Migrant smuggling business adapts, thrives

HERMOSILLO, Mexico — The heavy-set man swept through a curtain into the reserved area of a nightclub as his bodyguard stood nearby. In the darkness, h...
16:03 19 December 2021

Putin says Trump was impeached for ‘far-fetched’ reasons

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump was impeached for “far-fetched” reasons, calling the move by ...
13:48 19 December 2021

Spain rocked by rulings that renew questions over Catalonia

BRUSSELS — Spain was thrown into turmoil on Thursday by court rulings that could undermine Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s hopes of forming a new gover...
9:29 19 December 2021

SUNDAYS AFTER: Patrick Shepard finds healing in basketball

WYLIE, Texas — It was the priest who taught Patrick Shepard to love basketball — how to dribble and block and position his body just so, to sink the p...
8:17 19 December 2021

SUNDAYS AFTER: Amid daily struggles, working to conquer fear

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — Jacob Olivas savored the smell of the forest, the icy clouds, the sweeping view of Inland Empire below his perch on the top...
8:14 19 December 2021

SUNDAYS AFTER: For priest’s victim, home is a sanctuary

WOODLAWN, Calif. — Angels stand watch from Dorothy Small’s doorway.
8:13 19 December 2021

SUNDAYS AFTER: For survivor, routine brings some relief

THE VILLAGES, Fla. — It’s been nine years since the trial that nearly killed John Vai.
8:11 19 December 2021

1 dead, 3 hurt in stabbings at Oregon shopping center, town

BEAVERTON, Ore. — A 20-year-old attacker carried out a series of stabbings and carjackings at a suburban Portland shopping center and in a nearby town...
4:28 19 December 2021

The Latest: Trump holds record-long rally on impeachment day

WASHINGTON — A sample of the sights and sounds across Washington and beyond on a momentous day in Washington on Wednesday as the House passed two arti...
4:10 19 December 2021