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By SEUNG MIN KIM, MICHAEL BALSAMO, CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday is set to announce his long-delayed move to forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loans for many Americans and extend a pause on payments to January, according to three people familiar with the

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press A new report suggests ways Providence, Rhode Island, can atone for its extensive ties to the transatlantic slave trade and centuries of racism and discrimination. Among other things, the report says the city should establish home repair funds, launch financial literacy programs and boost aid to Black and Indigenous organizations.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The small West Coast discount airline called aha! has stopped flying, after its parent company, ExpressJet, filed for bankruptcy protection. ExpressJet made the filing Tuesday in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware. It’s blaming the difficulty of generating revenue during the pandemic, plus the high cost of jet fuel. Aha! flew to

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, STEVE PEOPLES and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Polls have closed across much of Florida on Tuesday as Gov. Ron DeSantis waits to learn the identity of his general election opponent in a matchup that could have presidential implications. Florida Democrats are choosing between Charlie Crist, a 66-year-old Democratic

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service says it is conducting a comprehensive review of safety at its facilities. The action comes in response to an increasing number of threats borne of conspiracy theories that agents were going to aggressively target middle-income taxpayers. The climate, healthcare and tax legislation signed

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man has been convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol during the January 2021 insurrection. Court records show a District of Columbia federal judge returned the verdict Tuesday after a trial where 37-year-old William Rogan Reid and the government agreed upon a stipulated set of facts regarding his conduct. According to

STEPHENVILLE, Newfoundland (AP) — The leaders of Germany and Canada say a new hydrogen pact will kick-start a transatlantic hydrogen supply chain, with the first deliveries expected in just three years. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz signed the deal in the port town of Stephenville, Newfoundland. A Canadian company has plans

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Two Illinois brothers have been arrested on felony charges for their alleged roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection. The FBI says in a news release that 55-year-old Daniel Leyden of Chicago and 56-year-old Joseph Leyden of La Grange were arrested in Illinois on Tuesday. Both are accused

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A former merchandizing agent for R. Kelly has testified that the singer offered him $1 million for the return of a VHS tape featuring Kelly. With the testimony Tuesday, prosecutors sought to persuade jurors that Kelly was desperate in the early 2000s to recover the

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police say the man suspected of fatally shooting an Oklahoma deputy sheriff and wounding another planned to kill law enforcement officers. Oklahoma City police Chief Wade Gourley said Tuesday that evidence inside the home where Benjamin Plank was showed he was “100%” ready to kill any

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dominion Energy Virginia says a ratepayer protection that state regulators included in a recent order approving the utility’s application to build and recover the costs of a massive offshore wind farm would lead to the termination of the project. Dominion made the assertion in a filing

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press MORROW, Ga. (AP) — Two white Atlanta police officers who clashed with Rayshard Brooks acted reasonably during the 2020 encounter that ended with the 27-year-old Black man’s fatal shooting, a specially appointed prosecutor said Tuesday in announcing his decision not to pursue charges against them. Officer Garrett

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A man accused of driving his car into four men outside a well-known gay bar in Chicago, killing three of them and seriously injuring the other, has been charged with murder. Chicago police say 34-year-old Tavis Dunbar was arrested Monday and charged with three counts of first-degree

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California residents who receive unsolicited sexually graphic material by text, email, app or other electronic means could sue the sender under a bill approved by state lawmakers. The bill they sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday targets what’s known as “cyber flashing,” where victims receive

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Months before Russia invaded Ukraine, Yaroslav Yemelianenko decided to set up a battery-operated camera showing his company’s tourist information center at a checkpoint near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Imagine his surprise when sitting in his Kyiv apartment on Feb. 24, his livestream showed dozens of

MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A small town in the Mississippi Delta that has ties to the civil rights movement will soon be home to the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. Project planners hope to finish building the facility in the town of Marks in two or three

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of people lined up to pay tribute to the daughter of a leading right-wing Russian political thinker who died in a car bombing that Moscow has blamed on Ukrainian intelligence. Darya Dugina, a 29-year-old commentator with a nationalist Russian TV channel, died when a remotely controlled

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers Elon Musk has spent months trying to get out of his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, saying the company has undercounted its fake and spam accounts. Now, a whistleblower complaint from Twitter’s former security chief alleging the company misled regulators about its privacy and security

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, a New Wave treasure trove sat in a converted barn. For fans of the band Blondie, it was the equivalent of the Ark of the Covenant tucked away in a rickety storage space. Inside the building just outside Woodstock, New York, were 100