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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a roughly $79 billion tax cut package expanding the child tax credit for millions of families and restoring three key tax breaks for businesses. Prospects for the measure becoming law are still uncertain, but for a House that has struggled to get bills

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In a story published February 1, 2024, about the collapse of a hangar at the Boise Airport, The Associated Press erroneously identified the person who sent out a statement on behalf of Jackson Jet Center, the company that owns the hangar. Jessica Flynn is the CEO of Red Sky, a public

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A panel of Supreme Court justices in Mexico has ruled against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s rules that favored the state-owned electrical power company over private power companies. The five-judge panel approved a resolution Wednesday saying the president’s approach violates constitutional guarantees of free competition in the power sector. Previously, power

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo authorities say they will impose the use of the country’s currency, the euro, and abolish the use of neighboring Serbia’s dinar in the north where most of the ethnic Serb minority lives. Kosovo’s Central Bank Governor says new rules on local transactions

HOMEWOOD, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a man fleeing police caused the Alabama car crash that injured Gayle Manchin, head of an economic development partnership of the federal government and 13 state governments and the wife of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, along with a colleague of hers. Gayle Manchin, the co-chair of the Appalachian Regional

By JACK DURA Associated Press South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says her administration is considering boosting its support for Texas’ efforts to deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. In a speech to a joint session of the Legislature on Wednesday, she mentioned sending more razor wire and exploring legal and personnel options for the border

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday instructing public schools to set aside time for a moment of silence at the start of each school day. The measure easily cleared the House on a 79-17 vote and moves on to the Senate. Republicans have

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s attorney general has launched a go-it-alone legal fight accusing TikTok, Snapchat and Meta of creating what one lawsuit calls “an addiction machine” that exploits children too young to have self-control. Three lawsuits filed Tuesday in state court allege the platforms put children at risk of

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has hinted that the state may explore expanding its methods of executing people on death row. He says he is committed to upholding “contractual obligations” between the state and victims’ families after a death sentenced has been handed down in court.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published January 31, 2024, The Associated Press reported that the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism alerted its member companies about a violent YouTube video roughly 40 minutes after midnight Eastern time on Wednesday. The story should have made clear that the organization was in communication with its

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press The University of Idaho says a judge’s ruling helps it move closer to its planned affiliation with for-profit University of Phoenix in a nearly $700 million deal. The state attorney general characterizes it as a secret backroom deal and sued. In dismissing the lawsuit, an Idaho judge says Attorney

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Elections Commission argues that Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips’ challenge to being left off of Wisconsin’s ballot is too late and the state Supreme Court should reject his lawsuit. Phillips last week asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to order that he be put on

MIAMI (AP) — Records show the parents of a social media model charged with fatally stabbing her live-in boyfriend in South Florida have been arrested in Texas on charges related to the case. Jail records show that Kim and Deborah Clenney were taken into custody Tuesday in Austin, Texas. A Miami-Dade circuit judge had signed

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conspiracy theories seem to be everywhere these days. They’re found in American politics and on people’s social media feeds. The Associated Press has examined the role that conspiracy theories such as QAnon are playing in politics, culture and the world. The AP interviewed dozens of past and

By STAN CHOE and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers Even when compared with other CEOs, who routinely get paid roughly 200 times more than their typical employees, Elon Musk’s pay package was eye-opening. A judge in Delaware on Tuesday struck down the package that Tesla established for Musk in 2018, ruling that the process was

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin has pleaded not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a rehearsal on a Western movie set in New Mexico. Court documents filed Wednesday show Baldwin entered the plea in state district court in Santa

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge refused to take action against Florida in a lawsuit challenging an order to deactivate pro-Palestinian student groups at state universities. Wednesday’s ruling essentially found nothing has been done to follow through with the directive. State university Board of Governor’s Chancellor Ray Rodrigues wrote to university presidents in October

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A task force convened by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine after a deadly school bus crash is recommending enhanced training for drivers and installing a host of new safety features. The group recommended leaving the issue of school bus seat belts to individual districts. DeWine’s

DOLTON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a traffic dispute in suburban Chicago has erupted into gunfire with four people taken to hospitals after being shot. The shooting occurred around 10 a.m. Wednesday in Dolton. Dolton Fire Department Battalion Chief Jeremy Cole says four patients, all adults suffering gunshot wounds, were taken to several hospitals. Saul