Nation and World
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Rep. Matt Gaetz is threatening to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It won't be easy
Oct 02, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - "How would you be different as speaker, compared to Mr. Boehner?" a reporter asked then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in September 2015 as the C...
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The Supreme Court opens its new term with a case about prison terms for drug dealers
Oct 02, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday with a case about prison terms for drug dealers and rejections of hundreds of appeals, including one from an at...
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Europe Union's top diplomat dismisses concern about bloc's long-term support for Ukraine
Oct 02, 2023 1:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - The European Union's foreign policy chief on Monday led a delegation of top diplomats on an unannounced visit to Kyiv and dismissed concerns about politi...
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Karikó and Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for work that enabled mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Oct 02, 2023 1:00 am - STOCKHOLM - Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in sl...
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Few Americans say conservatives can speak freely on college campuses, an AP-NORC/UChicago poll shows
Oct 02, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Americans view college campuses as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech, with adults across the political spectrum ...
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A riled Trump sounds off outside the New York fraud trial that accuses him of lying about wealth
Oct 02, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Aggrieved and defiant, former President Donald Trump sat through hours of sometimes testy opening statements Monday in a fraud lawsuit that could cost him con...
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Government shutdown averted with little time to spare
Sep 30, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The threat of a federal government shutdown suddenly lifted late Saturday as President Joe Biden signed a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open with ...
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Truck accident in Illinois causes "multiple" deaths and an ammonia leak that leads to an evacuation
Sep 30, 2023 1:00 am - TEUTOPOLIS, Ill. - A semitruck carrying a toxic substance overturned in Illinois, causing "multiple fatalities" and dangerous air conditions that prompted the evacuation...
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The Dianne Feinstein they knew: Women of the Senate remember a tireless fighter and a true friend
Sep 30, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - When Washington Sen. Patty Murray received a call early Friday morning that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had died, she immediately started calling her fellow femal...
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President Biden says the looming shutdown isn't his fault. Will Americans agree with him?
Sep 30, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Staring down a likely government shutdown, the White House wants to make sure any blame falls at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue - specifically on...