By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Republicans are using money from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package for projects on conservatives’ wish lists. Alabama lawmakers are advancing a plan to use $400 million of the state’s coronavirus relief funds toward building prisons. In Texas, a Republican-led county pledged to help Gov. Greg Abbott
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By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Republicans are using money from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package for projects on conservatives’ wish lists. Alabama lawmakers are advancing a plan to use $400 million of the state’s coronavirus relief funds toward building prisons. In Texas, a Republican-led county pledged to help Gov. Greg Abbott
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By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Republicans are using money from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package for projects on conservatives’ wish lists. Alabama lawmakers are advancing a plan to use $400 million of the state’s coronavirus relief funds toward building prisons. In Texas, a Republican-led county pledged to help Gov. Greg Abbott
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Este miércoles por la noche volvieron los enfrentamientos entre los cocaleros de los Yungas de La Paz, opositores al gobierno del presidente Luis Arce, y la policÃa. Los cocaleros intentan retomar la sede de la Asociación Departamental de Productores de Coca de los Yungas de La Paz, que controla
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Robinson Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) — As the search for 19-year-old Miya Marcano enters its sixth day, family members have revealed more of what is believed to have happened to her. Residents received a letter from Arden Villas telling them that law enforcement would be entering their
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Girls from the Afghanistan national soccer team who were recently granted asylum in Portugal have had a surprise visit from the captain of the senior team. Farkhunda Muhtaj flew into the Portuguese capital Lisbon for an emotional reunion with the girls’ team late Wednesday. She is a professional player who from
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER, JONATHAN MATTISE and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ford’s blockbuster announcement this week that it would build four vast new factories in Kentucky and Tennessee by 2025 and hire nearly 11,000 workers raised a big unanswered question: Just how good will those jobs be? No one — not Ford,
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Soaring home prices are driving the fastest pace of growth in homeowner equity in more than a decade, though recent signs of a cooling U.S. housing market point to more moderate gains in the second half of the year. Homes with a mortgage gained an
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Penn State is rolling and looking for its ninth win in a row. If Penn State needs motivation to play with more of an edge, it would make sense to point at the last meeting with Indiana. The Hoosiers kickstarted Penn State’s early struggles last season when they scored a controversial
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Carolina Panthers will be without star running back Christian McCaffrey when they visit the Dallas Cowboys in a second consecutive game in Texas. The Dallas running game is surging behind Ezekiel Elliott. Chuba Hubbard figures to be the primary replacement for McCaffrey on
Continue Reading DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Frank Thomas has found his Field of Dreams. The Hall of Famer has headed a venture that bought controlling interest in Go the Distance Baseball’s stake of All-Star Ballpark Heaven and the Field of Dreams Movie Site. The company says This is Heaven LLC, a company of the 53-year-old Thomas and
Continue Reading DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Frank Thomas has found his Field of Dreams. The Hall of Famer has headed a venture that bought controlling interest in Go the Distance Baseball’s stake of All-Star Ballpark Heaven and the Field of Dreams Movie Site. The company says This is Heaven LLC, a company of the 53-year-old Thomas and
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A conservative Roman Catholic media outlet is seeking a court order to stage a rally during a U.S. bishops’ meeting in Baltimore. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander presided over a hearing Thursday for the lawsuit that rally planners St. Michael’s Media filed against the city. The judge heard testimony from
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Continue Reading By STEPHEN GROVES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is cutting ties with political adviser Corey Lewandowski after the longtime confidant to former President Donald Trump was accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward a GOP donor. Lewandowski had been key to the Republican governor’s political
Continue Reading By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gloria Estefan has revealed that, at the age of 9, she was sexually abused by someone her mother trusted. The Cuban-American superstar spoke for the first time publicly about the abuse and its effects on her during an episode of the Facebook Watch show “Red Table
Continue Reading GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona firefighters have rescued a man stuck inside a suburban Phoenix storm drain after people passing by saw the man waving his arm from the drain. The Glendale Fire Department said the person called 911 after the man said he was stuck. Department spokeswoman Ashley Losch said the man appeared OK
Continue Reading By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of military suicides jumped by 15% in 2020, fueled by significant increases in the Army and Marine Corps that senior leaders said were troubling and require more effort to prevent. Data released by the Pentagon showed there were 580 suicides last
Continue Reading By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The question posed to Robert Saleh was one lots of coaches around the NFL have failed to answer: How do you stop Derrick Henry? That’s the major task at hand for Saleh and the winless New York Jets when the league’s leading
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business A Facebook executive was grilled by Senators on Thursday about the impact its apps have on younger users, two weeks after an explosive report indicated the company was aware that Facebook-owned Instagram could have a “toxic” effect on teen girls. The hearing, featuring Facebook’s global head of safety, Antigone
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