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US jobless claims fall to 238,000 from 10-month high, remain low by historical standards

By PAUL WISEMAN
Jun 24, 2024 6:50 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits slipped last week as the U.S. labor market remained resilient. The Labor Department reported...
3 caught in Florida Panhandle rip current die a day after couple drowns off state's Atlantic coast

Jun 24, 2024 6:48 am - PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Three Alabama men who went for an evening swim shortly after arriving at a Florida Panhandle beach were caught in a rip current and died, a...
Here’s the landscape 2 years after the Supreme Court overturned a national right to abortion

By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Jun 23, 2024 5:00 am - Judges, state lawmakers and voters are deciding the future of abortion in the U.S. two years after the Supreme Court jolted the legal status quo with a ruling that overtu...
Trump ally Bannon asks the Supreme Court to delay his 4-month prison sentence on contempt charges

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jun 21, 2024 12:05 pm - WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to delay his prison sentence while he fights his conviction...
Trump attorneys in classified documents case are challenging prosecutor's appointment

By ERIC TUCKER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Jun 21, 2024 11:59 am - FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Lawyers for Donald Trump made a long shot argument Friday that the Justice Department prosecutor who charged the former president with hoarding classi...
NY prosecutors urge judge to keep gag order blocking Trump from criticizing jurors who convicted him

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Jun 21, 2024 9:48 am - NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold a gag order that bars the former president from critici...
The Supreme Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims

By MARK SHERMAN
Jun 21, 2024 9:34 am - In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firearms for people under restraining orders to stay away from their spouses or partners. The justices reversed a ruling from the federal appeals court in New Orleans that had struck down the law.
South Korea summons Russian ambassador as tensions rise with North Korea

By KIM TONG-HYUNG
Jun 21, 2024 7:09 am - SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador to protest the country’s new defense pact with North Korea on Friday, as border tensions continued to ris...
How Biden and Trump are taking very different approaches to preparing for next week's debate

By STEVE PEOPLES
Jun 21, 2024 7:05 am - NEW YORK — President Joe Biden begins an intense period of private preparations Friday at Camp David for what may be the most consequential presidential debate in decades...
The Supreme Court upholds a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business interests

By MARK SHERMAN
Jun 20, 2024 2:59 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests, declining their invitation to...

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