Articles filed under Associated Press
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House Republicans drop Jim Jordan as their nominee for speaker, falling back to square oneOct 20, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans dropped Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged...
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Protesters in Iraq, Indonesia, South Korea demonstrate over Israeli airstrikesOct 20, 2023 1:00 am - Protesters gathered at Iraq's border crossing with Jordan on Friday to show solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and call for an end to Israel's blockade, whil...
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Netflix's 'Old Dads' is a recycling of PC grievances and a Bill Burr career nadirOct 19, 2023 11:00 pm - "Old Dads" - Zero stars The new Netflix movie "Old Dads" has a title problem. It really should be called "Old Dads Yelling at Clouds" or "Old Dads Raging at QR Code...
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Martin Scorsese is still curious, still awed by the possibilities of cinemaOct 19, 2023 6:00 am - NEW YORK - A moment from years ago keeps replaying in Martin Scorsese's mind. When Akira Kurosawa was given an honorary Academy Award in 1990, the then 80-year-old Japan...
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Russia's foreign minister offers security talks with North Korea and China as he visits PyongyangOct 19, 2023 1:00 am - Russia's foreign minister proposed regular security talks with North Korea and China to deal with what he described as increasing U.S.-led regional military threats, as ...
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Applications for U.S. jobless benefits fall to lowest level in more than 8 monthsOct 19, 2023 1:00 am - Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in eight months last week as businesses continue to retain workers despite elevated interest rates...
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Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody, is awarded EU human rights prizeOct 19, 2023 1:00 am - STRASBOURG, France - Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country's c...
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Chicago's top cop says using police stations as short-term migrant housing is burden for departmentOct 19, 2023 1:00 am - Chicago's new police chief said the city's use of police stations as temporary housing for the growing population of migrants seeking asylum has been a "burden" on the n...
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Racial gaps in math have grown. A school tried closing theirs by teaching all kids the same classesOct 19, 2023 1:00 am - Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a decade ago at her high school in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. Nearly half the school's students were white, but the ...
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Fed Chair Powell: Slower economic growth may be needed to conquer stubbornly high inflationOct 19, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that inflation remains too high and that bringing it down to the Fed's target level will likely require a ...