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Former state senator Tom Campbell drops bid for North Dakota's single U.S. House seat

Mar. 26, 2024 18:36 PM EDT

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — One of several Republican candidates jostling for North Dakota's only U.S. House seat has ended his campaign. Former state Sen. Tom Campbell, a potato farmer from Grafton, announced on Tuesday he is withdrawing from the race. “I feel it would...

AI-aided virtual conversations with WWII vets are latest feature at New Orleans museum

Mar. 25, 2024 11:44 AM EDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Olin Pickens sat in his wheelchair facing a life-sized image of himself on a screen, asking it questions about being taken prisoner by German soldiers during World War II. After a pause, his video-recorded twin recalled being given “sauerkraut soup” by his captors before a...

Amid migrant crisis, Massachusetts debates how best to keep families housed

Mar. 22, 2024 11:04 AM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Senate has approved limits on how long homeless families can stay in emergency state shelters as part of an $850 million plan to fund the system at the center of the migrant crisis. Under the bill approved late Thursday by a vote of 32-8, the state...

80 years after D-Day, a World War II veteran is getting married near beaches where US troops landed

Mar. 11, 2024 12:06 PM EDT

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin kissed and held hands like high school sweethearts as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War II veteran first visited as a 20-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces corporal shortly after D-Day. ...

Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline

Mar. 09, 2024 13:06 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies. The legislation's success gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024...

Congress passes first package of spending bills just hours before shutdown deadline for key agencies

Mar. 08, 2024 23:27 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Friday approved a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a shutdown of many key federal agencies, a vote that gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year. ...

Spending bill would ease access to guns for some veterans declared mentally incapable

Mar. 08, 2024 16:06 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans whom the government declares incapable of managing their own affairs would have easier access to firearms under spending legislation expected to be signed by President Joe Biden in the coming days — a reversal of current law that Republicans, and even some Democrats,...

President Biden to make 'unity agenda' appeal to Congress in State of the Union

Mar. 07, 2024 16:41 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Much of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union on Thursday night will focus on comparing his vision for America with that of the Republican Party, setting up an election-year contrast that Biden hopes will pay dividends in November. But he'll also focus on...

House passes $460 billion package of spending bills. Senate expected to act before shutdown deadline

Mar. 06, 2024 17:25 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a $460 billion package of spending bills Wednesday that would keep money flowing to key federal agencies through the remainder of the budget year. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline. ...

V-J Day 'Kiss' photo stays on display as VA head reverses department memo that would've banned it

Mar. 06, 2024 00:11 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs secretary has reversed a department memo that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square” photograph of a Navy sailor kissing a woman he did not know on the streets of New York at the end of World War II. Secretary...