Articles filed under Associated Press
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Warren Buffett, James Simons and Phil Knight are among the top charity donors of 2023Jan 02, 2024 3:35 pm - The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of the biggest charitable donations from individuals or their foundations totaled more than $3.5 billion in 2023. Four univers...
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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimonyJan 02, 2024 1:27 pm - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where sh...
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States and Congress wrestle with cybersecurity after Iran attacks small town water utilitiesJan 02, 2024 11:24 am - HARRISBURG, Pa. — The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never had out...
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Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blastJan 02, 2024 11:12 am - BEIRUT — An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Le...
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A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven DoeJan 02, 2024 8:58 am - Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The ...
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Finland and Sweden set this winter's cold records as temperature plummets below minus 40Jan 02, 2024 8:10 am - HELSINKI — Finland and Sweden recorded the coldest temperatures of the winter Tuesday as thermometers plummeted to minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) as a res...
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South Korean opposition leader is stabbed in the neck. Police say attacker approached for autographJan 02, 2024 7:59 am - SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s tough-speaking liberal opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, was stabbed in the neck by an unidentified knife-wielding man who attempted to...
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Russian ballistic missiles strike Ukraine's largest cities, killing at least 4 and injuring over 100Jan 02, 2024 7:08 am - KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's two largest cities came under attack from Russian hypersonic ballistic missiles on Tuesday morning, killing at least four people and injuring al...
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Biden and Trump are poised for a potential rematch that could shake American politicsJan 02, 2024 7:01 am - LACONIA, N.H. — U.S. presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic disaster, stunning gaffes, secret video and a pandemic. But for all the tumult th...
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Apparent Israeli strike kills senior Hamas figure in Beirut and raises fears conflict could expandJan 02, 2024 6:56 am - BEIRUT — An apparent Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut killed Hamas' second-highest ranking political leader Tuesday, marking a potential escalation of Isr...