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NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump will try to reintroduce himself - and his party - to voters this week at the Republican National Convention.
It will be no easy task.
Over the last four years, the GOP has been fundamentally redefined by the in...
Published: Aug 24, 2020 at 08:00 AM
JERUSALEM (AP) - For eager Israelis, anticipation is mounting that Dubai's glitzy Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, will soon join the ranks of the Pyramids in Egypt and the ancient ruins in Jordan's Petra as a once-forbidden destination n...
Updated: Aug 18, 2020 at 11:00 AM
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
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The Los Angles Times on TikTok and WeChat:
Even before President Trump signed an executive order that could soon smother social network TikTok, Microsoft emerged as a poten...
Updated: Aug 12, 2020 at 05:00 PM
MINNEAPOLIS - Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota survived a stiff Democratic primary challenge Tuesday from a well-funded opponent who tried to make an issue of her national celebrity, the latest in a string of victories by a new generation of emboldened ...
Updated: Aug 13, 2020 at 09:10 AM
The Florida Panthers will have a new general manager next season, making the announcement early Monday that Dale Tallon is leaving the franchise after 10 years.
Tallon's contract as president of hockey operations and general manager expired July 1, ...
Updated: Aug 10, 2020 at 08:10 AM
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - At a time of warming U.S.-Brazil relations, a diplomatic dilemma of sorts has emerged for the American ambassador: how much to embrace a polarizing president.
Brazil has long prided itself on keeping a distance from the U.S., w...
Updated: Aug 05, 2020 at 03:05 PM
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
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CLAIM: There is...
Updated: Jul 24, 2020 at 08:30 PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Tension was thick in the air. After 10 consecutive votes in which another man had garnered more support than Larry Householder's favored candidate to be the next Ohio House speaker, Householder leaned back quietly in his chair,...
Updated: Jul 24, 2020 at 10:05 AM
In the four months since Joe Biden effectively won the Democratic presidential nomination, he has focused on consolidating the party's divergent and often warring factions. As the closing stretch of the campaign nears, that effort will expand to inc...
Updated: Jul 21, 2020 at 01:29 PM
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - In Guatemala, death threats have driven two anti-corruption prosecutors from the country in the past year, and their unit's leader has a protective order from a regional human rights commission because he is constantly harassed...
Updated: Jul 15, 2020 at 03:31 PM