How to get a student loan refund if you paid during pandemic
NEW YORK (AP) -- When President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive student loan debt, many borrowers who kept making payments during the pandemic wondered i…
Stories by Jason Strickland
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Boredom, loneliness plague Ukrainian youth near front line
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Anastasiia Aleksandrova doesn't even look up from her phone when the thunder of nearby artillery booms through the modest home the 1…
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High gasoline prices crimping drivers' spending at the pump
By DAMIAN J. TROISE
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Capitol riot panel blames Trump for 1/6, ‘attempted coup’
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump on Thursday night, saying th…
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Ukraine recovers bodies from steel-plant siege
By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA
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Defense: Notes back claim Clinton lawyer didn’t lie to FBI
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense attorneys for a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer charged with lying to the FBI during the Trump-Russia probe showed jurors handwritte…
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Lots of broadband money, but US expansion finds speed bumps
VICTORY, Vt. (AP) -- In the remote Vermont community of Victory, Town Clerk Tracey Martel said she's regularly frustrated watching a spinning circle on her com…
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Got a dime? Businesses seek Treasury help with coin shortage
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Got a dime you can spare? Coins are in short supply -- again.
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Biden’s budget plan: Higher taxes on rich, lower deficits
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden announced a budget blueprint Monday that calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, lower federal deficits, more money for p…
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Campus ministries soothe, rally students shaken over Ukraine
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Entering Yale University's St. Thomas More Catholic chapel, Oksana Goroshchuk spotted sunflowers adorning a candlelit altar and though…
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Tired of waiting for driverless vehicles? Head to a farm
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- For years Americans have been told autonomous technology was improving and driverless vehicles were just around the corner.
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Russians keep pressure on Mariupol after hospital attack
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) -- Civilians trapped inside Mariupol desperately scrounged for food and fuel as Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port cit…
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Mexico's avocados face fallout from violence, deforestation
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- With clever Super Bowl ads, an irresistible fruit and apparently insatiable appetite from U.S. consumers, Mexico's avocado producers have s…
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Kentucky man jailed in death of Illinois deputy, carjacking
CARLYLE, Ill. (AP) -- Police have arrested a Kentucky man in connection with the fatal shooting of an eastern Illinois deputy early Wednesday and a carjacking …
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Tesla to halt games on infotainment screens in moving cars
DETROIT (AP) -- Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while its v…
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Harris unveils plan for electric vehicle charging network
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Biden administration released an ambitious federal strategy Monday to build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles across the c…
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Inflation is painfully high, but some relief may be coming
NEW YORK (AP) -- Inflation is painfully high, but this hopefully is close to as bad as it gets.
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Spokesman: 8 factory workers dead, 8 missing from tornado
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) -- Workers on the night shift at Mayfield Consumer Products were in the middle of the holiday rush, cranking out candles, when a tornado clo…
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US Treasury proposes new disclosures to fight corruption
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Treasury Department, as part of its efforts to combat corruption and terrorism, proposed a new rule Tuesday that requires companies…
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US jobless rate sinks to 4.2% as many more people find jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's unemployment rate tumbled last month to its lowest point since the pandemic struck, even as employers appeared to slow their hirin…
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Roe 'settled' law? Justices' earlier assurances now in doubt
WASHINGTON (AP) -- During his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh convinced Sen. Susan Collins he thought a woman's right to an abortion was "se…
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Missouri abortion opponents seek more restrictions in 2022
Missouri legislators who oppose legal abortion are preparing an aggressive list of bills for the 2022 General Assembly that convenes in January.
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Kremlin: Putin to seek guarantees over Ukraine from Biden
MOSCOW (AP) -- The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin will seek binding guarantees precluding NATO's expansion to Ukraine during a planned call …
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Racism plagues US military academies despite diversity gains
Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey Easterling remains astonished by the Confederate history still memorializ…
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Despite analysis, Parson adamant mask mandates don't work
COLUMBIA (AP) -- A health department analysis shows Missouri cities that require masks to combat the coronavirus pandemic this year had fewer infections, but R…
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Fuel in tap water alarms Pearl Harbor military families
HONOLULU (AP) -- Cheri Burness' dog was the first to signal something was wrong with their tap water. He stopped drinking it two weeks ago. Then Burness starte…
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Famously soggy Seattle sees its wettest fall on record
SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle, a city known for soggy weather, has seen its wettest fall on record.
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Where's the snow? Rockies winter starts with a whimper
DENVER (AP) -- Denver's winter has started with a whimper, and the parched mountains to the west aren't faring much better.
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Time is no ally as Dems strain to finish Biden's $2T bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If President Joe Biden's $2 trillion social and environment package was a Broadway show, its seven months on Congress' stage could qualify i…
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Parents of Michigan boy charged in Oxford school shooting
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) -- A prosecutor filed involuntary manslaughter charges Friday against the parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan …
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Portugal experts to study church sex abuse, not investigate
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- The lay head of a new Portuguese Catholic Church committee on child sex abuse urged victims Thursday to come forward but stressed his …
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UN General Assembly urged to investigate Yemen atrocities
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- More than 60 organizations urged the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to establish an investigative body to gather and preserve evidenc…
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Nashville to name school for civil rights icon James Lawson
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Nashville will name its newest high school after civil rights leader the Rev. James Lawson.
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Wrong-way driver on I-44 died after crash with 3 vehicles
FENTON (AP) -- A man who was driving the wrong way on Interstate 44 in suburban St. Louis died after hitting a semitrailer, a concrete barrier and two other ve…
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Coronavirus again scuttles trade trip for Gov. Parson
The coronavirus pandemic has again nixed Gov. Mike Parson's plans for an overseas trade trip.
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Dutch government apologizes for discredited transgender law
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The Dutch government made a public apology Saturday for a now discredited and scrapped law that required transgender people to u…
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Springfield parents file lawsuit over school mask mandate
SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- Six parents have filed a lawsuit alleging that Springfield Public Schools doesn't have the authority to require masks.
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El Salvador to build cryptocurrency-fueled 'Bitcoin City'
LA LIBERTAD, El Salvador (AP) -- In a rock concert-like atmosphere, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced his government will build an oceanside "Bitcoi…
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Risk of quakes caused by oil, gas in New Mexico rising
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) -- Multiple earthquakes were felt earlier this fall in West Texas, leading regulators in that state to designate a seismic response area an…
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Cap on drug price hikes for privately insured sparks battle
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription drugs from a little-noticed provision in President Joe…
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Woman runs over husband as he tried to dislodge bowling ball
KANSAS CITY (AP) -- A man was critically hurt when his wife drove over him twice as he tried to dislodge a bowling ball that had been thrown in front of their …
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In Kenosha and beyond, guns become more common on US streets
As Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted in two killings that he said were self-defense, armed civilians patrolled the streets near the Wisconsin courthouse with guns…
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Fox says it did not pay for Rittenhouse film and interview
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Fox News executive said Saturday the network did not pay Kyle Rittenhouse's family for any special access during Rittenhouse's murder trial …
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Canada finds 4th body after British Columbia mudslide
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- The British Columbia Coroners Service has confirmed the discovery of three more bodies near the village of Pemberton, bring…
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China fines tech giants for anti-monopoly violations
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese tech giants including Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings were fined Saturday for failing to report corporate acquisitions, adding to an…
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Conflict about abortion laws won't abate if Roe v. Wade falls
On both sides of America's abortion debate, activists are convinced Roe v. Wade -- the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion --…
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Rittenhouse lawyers' trial playbook: Don't 'crusade,' defend
Soon after a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges against him, defense attorney Mark Richards took a swipe at his predecessors, telling rep…
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A year later, Rhode Island buildings still say 'Plantations'
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island dropped "Providence Plantations" from its name a year ago, but not from its buildings.
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Rittenhouse verdict puts Biden in difficult political spot
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- A difficult political atmosphere for President Joe Biden may have become even more treacherous with the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.
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New Bloomfield board hears pitch for Guthrie Solar Project
NEW BLOOMFIELD -- The New Bloomfield R-3 School District Board of Education heard from Irl Scissors and Bo McGee regarding the Guthrie Solar Project at Thursda…
