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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in a case that became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration.
Jose Ibarra was charged with murder and other crimes in Riley’s February...
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‘Bomb cyclone’ kills 2 and knocks out power to over half a million homes across the US Northwest
ISSAQUAH, Wash. (AP) — A major storm battered the U.S. Northwest with strong winds and rain, causing widespread power outages, closing schools and downing trees that killed at least two people.
The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks through Friday, and...
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Trump picks Dr. Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid, Linda McMahon for Education, Lutnick for Commerce
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department, tasked with overseeing an agency Trump has promised to dismantle. He also selected Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former...
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U.S. Headlines
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- Feds outline ‘necessary steps’ for Colorado River agreement by 2026 but no recommendation yet
- Judge keeps death penalty a possibility for man charged in killings of 4 Idaho students
- Trump-backed Republican Nick Begich beats Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola for Alaska’s only House seat
- A Georgia city will blow up an old hotel to greet 2025
- Nearly $100 million awarded to the family of a man fatally shot in his apartment by an officer
- Duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at art auction
- US says 13.5 tons of deadly gas released at Texas refinery in Oct incident
- The FBI arrested a man who’s been charged with planning an attack on the New York Stock Exchange
- Rosenworcel to step down as US Federal Communications Commission chair on Jan. 20
- US arrests homeless man in New York Stock Exchange bomb plot
- Senate rejects effort from Bernie Sanders to block some weapons for Israel over Gaza deaths
- North Carolina Republicans complete a veto override of voucher, immigration bill
- Speaker Johnson declares support for banning Sarah McBride’s access to women’s restrooms
- Trial of youth center worker accused of holding down boy while he was raped turns acrimonious
- Trump planning to tap loyalist Vought to lead OMB, sources say
- Lower turkey costs set table for cheaper US Thanksgiving feast this year
- Georgia election workers seek more penalties against Giuliani, saying he continues to defame them
- Philadelphia loses lawsuit that sought greater power for the city to regulate firearms
- Judge dismisses wrongful death lawsuit that Gabby Petito’s parents filed against Moab, Utah police
- FEMA head sounds the alarm over disaster funding after double hurricanes
- Biden has become notably quiet after the 2024 election and Democrats’ loss
- As US ramps up nuclear power, fuel supplier plans to enrich more uranium domestically
- Boeing gives lay off notices to nearly 700 in Missouri
- US charges tycoon Gautam Adani with defrauding investors, hiding plan to bribe Indian officials
- What to know about Matthew Whitaker, Trump’s pick to be America’s ambassador to NATO
- Philadelphia’s mass transit system averts a strike by reaching a deal with its largest workers union
- Court says it’s ending dispute over control of airport in Mississippi’s capital city
- Former UVA student pleads guilty in 2022 mass shooting that left 3 dead, 2 wounded
- Texas offers Trump land on US-Mexico border for potential mass deportations
- The US is sending antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine. Here’s what it means
- NYPD gets a new top cop after months of turmoil. Jessica Tisch is the 2nd woman to lead the force
- Court ruling stops Louisiana from requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms for now
- Second teen charged in New Jersey forest fire as rain should help douse New York blaze
- US awards up to $2.2 billion to speed clean-hydrogen development
- ‘Rust’ gets low-key debut, honours cinematographer killed on set
- Republicans on House Ethics reject for now releasing report on Matt Gaetz
- Family of teen killed in shooting sue Tuskegee University for wrongful death
- FTX co-founder gets no prison time after cooperating in case against Sam Bankman-Fried
- Migrant gets life sentence for Laken Riley murder highlighted by Trump
- UAW says majority of workers at Ford joint-venture battery plant sign union cards
- Trump chooses former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as NATO ambassador
- US vetoes UN resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza because there’s no link to a hostage release
- Explosion rocks condominium in Detroit suburb, sparking fires and injuring 2
- Man convicted of killing Laken Riley sentenced to life in prison without parole
- Factbox-Tariffs, tax cuts core to Trump’s economic agenda
- LA enacts sanctuary city ordinance to prepare for potential mass deportations under Trump
- Archegos’ Bill Hwang sentenced to 18 years in prison for massive US fraud
