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The House will vote next week on formalizing its Biden impeachment inquiry, Speaker Johnson says

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the chamber will vote next week on authorizing its impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. He said Tuesday that the House “has no choice” when faced with questions from the White House about the probe’s legitimacy. Johnson and the Republican leadership team

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A bedbug hoax is targeting foreign visitors in Athens. Now the Greek police have been called in

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of several Athens short-term rental apartments by inventing a bedbug crisis. A ministry statement on Tuesday said that the posters in the city center were festooned with fake ministry and Athens municipality logos. The ministry

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Tom Hanks draws on his love of space for immersive documentary ‘The Moonwalkers’

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tom Hanks is a lifelong space buff. The two-time Academy Award-winning actor has channeled his passion into “The Moonwalkers,” an immersive documentary experience opening this week in London. “The Moonwalkers” includes interviews with four astronauts due to fly around the moon with NASA’s Artemis II mission as

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Florida discontinues manatee winter feeding program after seagrass conditions improve

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions have improved for the threatened marine mammals and the seagrass on which they depend. The manatees that typically gather in winter months near the warm-water

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FBI chief makes fresh pitch for spy program renewal and says it’d be ‘devastating’ if it lapsed

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray is making a fresh pitch for the reauthorization of a U.S. government surveillance tool set to expire at the end of the year. He warned lawmakers at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday that there would be “devastating” consequences for public safety if

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6 held in Belgium and the Netherlands on suspicion of links to Russia sanction violations

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say six people have been detained in connection with an investigation into suspected exports of “sensitive” products and technology that could be banned under sanctions against Russia. The investigation was launched following a tipoff and information provided by U.S. government agencies. Prosecutors said Tuesday that the six were detained during

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At COP28 summit, activists and officials voice concern over Gaza’s environment, devastated by war

By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As leaders, officials and activists descend on Dubai for United Nations climate talks to discuss saving Earth, another environmental crisis is nearby. Devastated by a nearly two-month-long assault by Israeli airstrikes and ground fighting, large swaths of Gaza have been flattened, agricultural lands have

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‘Past Lives,’ ‘May December’ and ‘American Fiction’ lead Spirit Award nominations

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” Todd Haynes’ “May December” and Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” got a leading five nominations, including best feature, from the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Natalie Morales and Joel Kim Booster announced the nominees Tuesday on a YouTube livestream. The Spirit Awards limit eligibility to productions with

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A trial deciding if JetBlue can buy Spirit — and further consolidate the industry — nears its end

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — JetBlue says it needs to buy Spirit Airlines to compete with bigger airlines in a post-Covid travel world. That’s the case a JetBlue lawyer made Tuesday during closing arguments in a trial over the government’s lawsuit to block JetBlue from buying Spirit. The Justice Department argues that

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