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Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations

Dec. 23, 2024 18:16 PM EST

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences. Biden converted the sentences of 37...

Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions

Dec. 23, 2024 18:11 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes...

As TikTok bill steams forward, online influencers put on their lobbying hats to visit Washington

Dec. 23, 2024 17:53 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers, meet your latest lobbyists: online influencers from TikTok. The platform is once again bringing influencers to Washington, this time to lobby members of Congress to reject a fast-moving bill that would force TikTok's Beijing-based parent company to sell...

Stock market today: Wall Street rises at the start of a holiday-shortened week

Dec. 23, 2024 17:20 PM EST

Stocks shook off a choppy start to finish higher Monday, as Wall Street kicked off a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 ended 0.7% higher after having been down 0.5% in the early going. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also recovered from an early slide to eke out a 0.2% gain....

Trump again calls to buy Greenland after eyeing Canada and the Panama Canal

Dec. 23, 2024 17:12 PM EST

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with...

A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can't take it back on his own

Dec. 23, 2024 16:28 PM EST

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to take back the waterway for the same republic. The...

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is not expected to announce a decision on his future over the holidays

Dec. 23, 2024 16:03 PM EST

TORONTO (AP) — Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not expected to announce a decision on his future over the Christmas holidays, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly...

President-elect Trump wants to again rename North America's tallest peak

Dec. 23, 2024 15:35 PM EST

President-elect Donald Trump has once again suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska's Denali — to Mount McKinley, wading into a sensitive and decades-old conflict about what the peak should be called. Former President Barack Obama...

House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of paying for sex, including with 17-year-old girl

Dec. 23, 2024 15:21 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including once with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs as a member of Congress, as lawmakers released the conclusions of a nearly four-year investigation that...

Florida requires teaching Black history. Some don't trust schools to do it justice

Dec. 23, 2024 14:19 PM EST

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Buried among Florida's manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statues of Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old plantations turned into...