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Immigrants seeking driver’s licenses line up across New York

ALBANY, N.Y. — Bundled in winter jackets, immigrants lined up at some Department of Motor Vehicle offices throughout New York as the state began issui...
22:23 16 December 2021
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Coyotes acquire Taylor Hall from Devils for picks, prospects

The Arizona Coyotes are looking to end their lengthy playoff drought by adding a player desperate to get back to the postseason himself.
22:21 16 December 2021
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Spending deal ends two-decade freeze on gun safety research

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan deal on a government spending bill would for the first time in two decades provide money for federal research on gun safety....
20:37 16 December 2021
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Budget deal puts access to health care above curbing costs

WASHINGTON — The bipartisan budget deal announced in Congress protects access to health care under the Affordable Care Act but it also ditches one of ...
20:13 16 December 2021
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2019 Breakthrough Entertainer: Florence Pugh owns the year

LOS ANGELES — By the end of 2019 on big screens across the globe, actress Florence Pugh will have body-slammed a famous wrestler in “Fighting with My ...
18:58 16 December 2021
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Breakthrough Entertainer: Megan Thee Stallion feels grateful

NEW YORK — Megan Thee Stallion's schedule has become so frenetic that she can spend days, or even longer, away from home, in a different city every ni...
18:45 16 December 2021
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The AP names its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2019

The dictionary defines “breakthrough” as a “sudden advance,” but the Associated Press' Breakthrough Entertainers of the Year spent lots of time prepar...
18:31 16 December 2021
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Once affordable, Phoenix rents among fastest rising in US

PHOENIX — Aspen Day-Flynn and her boyfriend, Travis Tolin, were thinking of moving back to her native Washington state this fall when their Phoenix la...
18:30 16 December 2021
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Convicted in massacre, Suriname’s leader hangs on tight

PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Zahara Kamperveen laid white lilies before a glossy black plaque, then gently touched the name of her grandfather, a radio-stat...
18:17 16 December 2021
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Louisville up to No. 6 in women’s Top 25; South Dakota in

NEW YORK — Louisville climbed a spot to No. 6 in the The Associated Press women's Top 25 rankings, which remained mostly unchanged Monday with most te...
18:06 16 December 2021
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Loughlin’s lawyers say prosecutors are hiding key evidence

BOSTON — Lawyers for actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband say federal prosecutors are holding back crucial evidence that could prove...
18:02 16 December 2021
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Weinstein: Sex assault charges have made me ‘forgotten man’

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein defended himself as a pioneer in advancing the careers of women in the film industry in the wake of scores of sexual misco...
17:28 16 December 2021
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Smart holiday shopping: Avoiding fake reviews and tricky ads

NEW YORK — There are lots of bargains online during the holidays, but also plenty of ways to get scammed, even at established outlets like Amazon.
17:19 16 December 2021
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Kansas becomes latest No. 1 in AP Top 25; Tar Heels fall out

It is Kansas’ turn at No. 1 in the Top 25 men’s college basketball poll, while another blueblood — North Carolina — is out for the first time in nearl...
17:10 16 December 2021
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AP All-America teams dominated by LSU, Ohio State

No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Ohio State each placed three players on The Associated Press All-America first team released Monday.
17:02 16 December 2021
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Mexico reaffirms rejection of US labor inspectors

MEXICO CITY — Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Monday he does not feel tricked by the insertion of a provision for labor inspectors in le...
16:33 16 December 2021
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Liz Weston: How to make your money biases work for you

The way our brains work can cost us a lot of money. But some of our mental quirks can be turned to our advantage.
16:33 16 December 2021
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FBI: 19-year-old arrested, charged in Houston mercury spill

HOUSTON — A 19-year-old man has been arrested after trace amounts of mercury spilled at three locations in Houston, leading dozens of people to be dec...
16:02 16 December 2021
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Audubon’s annual Christmas Bird Count stronger than ever

Ít's been 120 years since New York ornithologist Frank Chapman launched his Christmas Bird Count as a bold new alternative to what had been a longtim...
16:02 16 December 2021
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Patients rally in Ecuador for legal use of medical cannabis

QUITO, Ecuador — Unrelenting pain in her hips and weeks of insomnia left Nelly Valbuena desperate for relief from her metastatic breast cancer.
15:42 16 December 2021
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Independent women’s groups say 2019 year of progress in Cuba

HAVANA — For 60 years, Cuba's communist government has monopolized virtually every aspect of life on the island, including dozens of state-controlled ...
15:33 16 December 2021
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Supreme Court won’t revive homeless camping ban in Idaho

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will not review an appellate decision that makes it harder for cities to keep homeless people from sleeping on the stre...
15:11 16 December 2021
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Review: A fictional look at the role of ‘oppo’ research

“Oppo” (Ecco/Harper Collins), by Tom Rosenstiel
14:46 16 December 2021
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Turkey deploys surveillance drone in northern Cyprus

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has dispatched a surveillance and reconnaissance drone to the breakaway north of ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus am...
14:30 16 December 2021
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Stocks mostly rise on Chinese report, US-China trade deal

BEIJING — Global stock markets mostly rose Monday on a positive economic report from China, last week's long-awaited U.S.-Chinese trade deal, and grea...
13:43 16 December 2021
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French pension reform architect resigns as strikes drag on

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron's government suffered a blow Monday when the key architect of the pension overhaul resigned over alleged conf...
13:13 16 December 2021
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Sharing a family meal can help those with dementia connect

Long before Tim Hollingsworth earned the James Beard Foundation's Rising Star Chef of the Year award and served as chef de cuisine at French Laundry,...
12:56 16 December 2021
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AP Exclusive: Birmingham mayor backing Biden for president

The mayor of Alabama’s largest city is endorsing Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination just weeks after the vice president m...
11:19 16 December 2021
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The substituted substitute: Kean humiliated by cruel call

Moise Kean trudged along the touchline, his head facing the ground and never moving, after what for many soccer players is the ultimate indignity.
10:57 16 December 2021
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China’s Xi says HK had its grimmest year since handover

BEIJING — Hong Kong has faced its "grimmest and most complex year” since the former British colony was returned to China, President Xi Jinping said Mo...
10:31 16 December 2021