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Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under a new plan from Biden
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S., aiming to balance his own aggressive crackdown on the southern border earlier this month that enraged advocates and...
New York's top court declines to hear Trump's appeal of the gag order in his hush money case
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s top court on Tuesday declined to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal in his hush money case, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month. The Court of Appeals found that the order does not raise “substantial” constitutional...
Boeing's CEO is appearing before a Senate panel as a new whistleblower emerges
U.S. lawmakers are expected to press Boeing's chief executive Tuesday about the company's latest plan to fix its manufacturing problems, and relatives of people who died in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners plan to be in the room, watching him. CEO David Calhoun is scheduled to...
The politics of memes: How Biden and Trump are fighting each other on the internet
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s a grinning Joe Biden as “Dark Brandon” or Donald Trump’s face superimposed onto a scene from HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” both presidential campaigns this year have embraced digital memes, the lingua franca of social media. The campaigns of...
When violence and trauma visit American places, a complex question follows: Demolish, or press on?
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Last week in Parkland, Florida, wrecking equipment began demolishing the building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where a gunman's rampage in 2018 ended with 17 people dead. As the rumble of destruction echoed, people in the community set to explaining exactly why...
The shooter who killed 5 at a Colorado LGBTQ+ club pleads guilty to 50 federal hate crimes
DENVER (AP) — The shooter who killed five people and injured 19 others at an LGBTQ+ club that was a refuge in the conservative city of Colorado Springs pleaded guilty to 50 federal hate crime charges on Tuesday, but once again declined to apologize or say anything to the victims’ families. ...
Record-breaking US heat wave scorches the Midwest as New York activates the National Guard
Extreme heat alerts affected tens of millions of people in the United States on Tuesday as cities including Chicago broke records at the start of a week of sweltering weather. Midwestern states started to bake Monday in what the National Weather Service called a dangerous and long...
The beginners guide to celebrating Juneteenth
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s...
This law is a lifeline for pregnant workers even as an abortion dispute complicates its enforcement
NEW YORK (AP) — Victoria Cornejo Barrera thought the legal helpline for workers sounded too good to be true and wondered if it was a scam. A month earlier, Cornejo Barrera had been forced to take leave from her job as head custodian at a South Carolina high school after she turned...
Who will have the 2024 song of the summer? We offer some predictions
NEW YORK (AP) — Since the beginning of time or, at least, pop music, only a few have earned the designation of “song of the summer.” These are the earworms that lodge deep into the brain, pushing past genre preferences and reminding listeners: A hit is a hit. With so much...
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Tokyo Olympic star Caeleb Dressel makes his debut at US swim trials, advancing in the 100 free
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caeleb Dressel made his debut at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials on Tuesday, posting the third-fastest time in the preliminaries of the 100-meter freestyle. The winner of five gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, Dressel came into the trials as a bit of a mystery...
What's a heat dome? Here's why so much of the US is broiling this week
FENTON, Mich. (AP) — With much of the Midwest and the Northeast broiling — or about to broil — in extreme summer heat this week, meteorologists are talking about heat waves and heat domes. Both mean it's really hot — and people will hear those terms a lot more as the world...
Kansas lawmakers have passed tax cuts to clear the way for a plan to lure the Chiefs
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators cleared the way Tuesday for a debate on trying to lure the Kansas City Chiefs from Missouri by approving broad tax cuts that many lawmakers said they needed to see before considering a plan to help the Super Bowl champions finance a new stadium. ...
Russia and North Korea have had a complicated relationship over the decades
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is in North Korea for a summit with its leader, Kim Jong Un, as the two nations deepen their cooperation. The visit comes amid growing concerns about an arrangement in which Pyongyang provides Moscow with badly needed munitions to...
Russia President Vladimir Putin makes a rare visit to North Korea, an old ally
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea early Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported, after he said the two countries want to cooperate closely to overcome U.S.-led sanctions in the face of intensifying confrontations with Washington. Putin was...
