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By CODY JACKSON and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The Coast Guard has removed more than 300 Cuban migrants from a remote island national park off the Florida coast. Homeland Security officials said 337 migrants were taken Thursday by Coast Guard cutter from Dry Tortugas National Park on a 70-mile trip

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than a thousand startups are showcasing their products at the annual CES tech show in Las Vegas, hoping to create some buzz around their gadgets and capture the eyes of investors who can help their businesses grow. But amid the slew of layoffs in

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday said it would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, a major expansion of an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S. Instead, the administration will accept 30,000 people per month from

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The man accused of killing four University of Idaho students at a home in November has been flown to Idaho, where he’s charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Bryan Kohberger is due to appear Thursday in Latah County District Court, which is in Moscow, the

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman accused of repeatedly poisoning her veterinarian husband with animal euthanasia drugs has been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Amanda Chapin, 50, of Monroe, was charged Dec. 28 in Lafayette County. Authorities say she poisoned her 70-year-old husband, Gary Chapin, three times during July and August, by putting

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has shown what physicians treating him are calling “remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours,” the team announced Thursday, three days after the player went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated on the field.

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Federal Trade Commission is proposing a new rule that would prevent employers from imposing noncompete clauses for workers that prohibit them from joining a competitor, typically for a period of time, after they leave the company. The proposed rule released Thursday follows an executive order signed by President

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania says he’ll undergo surgery for prostate cancer, but is expected to make a full recovery. The 62-year-old Casey said in a statement Thursday that he was diagnosed last month. He says the news came as a shock, but he says he has an excellent prognosis

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow’s armed forces to observe a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, the first such sweeping truce move in the nearly 11-month-old war. Putin did not appear to make his cease-fire order conditional

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Hampshire Democrats on Thursday asked the national party not to “punish” them while overhauling its 2024 presidential primary calendar, arguing that implementing the proposed shakeup may amount to a “poison pill” against their state’s traditional role as among the first to vote. In a letter to

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer For Damar Hamlin’s teammates, peers and everyone in the NFL community, going back to work is not business as usual. Players returned to practice with heavy hearts on Wednesday, two days after Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and needed to be resuscitated on the field during Buffalo’s game

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening broadly lower on Wall Street and Treasury yields are rising after another hot reading on the job market raised worries that the Federal Reserve will need to continue inflicting pain on the economy in order to fight inflation. The S&P 500 was down 1.2% in the early going

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a member of the Democratic leadership, announced Thursday that she will not run for a fifth term in 2024, a surprise decision that opens up a seat in the key battleground state. The news shocked many Democrats in the state because the

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has shut down a decades-old French research institute in response to cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that mocked the country’s ruling clerics. Iran’s Foreign Ministry called the closure on Thursday of the French Institute for Research in Iran, which was established in 1983, a

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Call it the Golden Age of lottery jackpots. Or to put it another way, what’s up with all the massive lottery prizes? The latest haul up for grabs is a $940 million Mega Millions jackpot, with a drawing set for Friday night.

BY HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir. Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the court, is calling the book “Lovely One.” Jackson says in a statement released Thursday by Random House that “Mine has been an unlikely journey.” No release

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s disclosure of his daughter in recent public events was likely an attempt to show his people that one of his children would one day inherit his power in what would be the country’s third hereditary power transfer, South Korea’s

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press CHAMBERY, France (AP) — A Ukrainian billionaire and former lawmaker suspected of embezzling more than $100 million appeared in a French court Thursday. Kostiantyn Zhevago called the case against him politically driven and declared he wants to return to Ukraine to fight Russians who invaded his country.

PARIS (AP) — The French Defense Ministry says it will hold talks “very quickly” with its Ukrainian counterpart about the number of armored combat vehicles it will deliver to help the country in its fight against Russian forces. The ministry said Thursday discussions will include the delivery’s timetable as well as the training of Ukrainian

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Damaging winds and heavy rains in California have knocked out power to tens of thousands, caused flash flooding and contributed to the deaths of at least two people. Officials had ordered evacuations in a high-risk coastal area where mudslides killed 23 people in 2018 as