U.S. applications for jobless benefits ticked up last week, but the overall number of people in the U.S. collecting unemployment benefits fell after hitting its highest level in two years last week. …
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By MATT OTT
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12/7/23
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The killing of a visiting nurse in Connecticut is sparking renewed calls to better protect health care workers from what has been a rise in violence across the country. Joyce Grayson was slain Oct. …
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By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB
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12/7/23
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An unprecedented test of Texas’ strict abortion ban is headed before a court in Austin. A judge on Thursday is set to consider a pregnant woman's request to be allowed to have an abortion despite …
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By PAUL J. WEBER
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12/7/23
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Wyoming officials will decide whether to auction off a valuable and pristine piece of state land located within the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park. The Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners …
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By MEAD GRUVER
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12/7/23
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 2023. There are 24 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched an …
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By The Associated Press
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12/7/23
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Two paramedics on trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain told investigators in videotaped interviews previously unseen in public that the 23-year-old Black man had “excited delirium,” a …
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN
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12/6/23
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The anti-communist sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro has died in Miami at age 90. Juanita Castro died Monday, nearly 60 years after she fled their communist revolution. She said in a 2009 …
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By TERRY SPENCER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
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12/6/23
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A new state comptroller report finds that a police training seminar in New Jersey included instructors making lewd comments about women, encouraging officers to pull people over for no reason and …
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By MIKE CATALINI
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12/6/23
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A Georgia special session to redraw congressional and legislative voting district maps is likely to end Thursday. That is after a House committee on Wednesday advanced a Republican-favored …
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By JEFF AMY
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12/6/23
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U.S. health officials have launched an inspection of a plant in Ecuador that made the cinnamon applesauce pouches linked to dozens of cases of acute lead poisoning in U.S. children. The U.S. Food and …
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By JONEL ALECCIA
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12/6/23
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Court documents show that the Oklahoma man at the center of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on tribal sovereignty has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. The documents filed …
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By KEN MILLER
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12/6/23
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Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence Wednesday with the launch of project Gemini, an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that’s likely to intensify the debate about the …
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and MATT O'BRIEN
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12/6/23
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Golf’s ruling bodies are changing the equipment testing to make sure the golf ball doesn't go as far for everyone from Tiger Woods to the amateur who plays public courses on the weekend. Instead of …
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By DOUG FERGUSON
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12/6/23
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The College Board has released an updated framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course, which officially launches next academic year. The framework released Wednesday …
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By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY
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12/6/23
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The release of Palestinian prisoners under the Israel-Hamas cease-fire agreement last week has touched nearly everyone in the occupied West Bank, where 750,000 Palestinians have been arrested since …
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By ISABEL DEBRE
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12/6/23
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A 23-year-old woman who recently started her first nursing job at a New Hampshire hospital was attending a training session on cardiac arrest when she, herself, suffered the medical emergency. Andy …
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By KATHY McCORMACK
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12/6/23
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A Donald Trump ally who worked in his Justice Department says that if the former president is elected again, his administration will retaliate against people in the media “criminally or civilly.” …
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By MICHELLE L. PRICE
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12/5/23
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President Joe Biden is calling reports of sexual violence by Hamas militants against Israelis “appalling." He is urging the world to condemn alleged sexual assaults by militants “without …
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DARLENE SUPERVILLE
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12/5/23
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It has been two weeks since David Schultz’s semi-truck was found on a rural highway in northwest Iowa, its trailer still filled with baby pigs he was transporting. Searchers have scoured 100,000 …
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By HANNAH FINGERHUT
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12/5/23
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A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pleaded guilty to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused …
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By GISELA SALOMON
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12/5/23
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