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By DEEPTI HAJELA and ED WHITE Associated Press JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — The decadeslong odyssey to find the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa apparently has turned to land near a former New Jersey landfill that sits below an elevated highway. The FBI says it obtained a search warrant to “conduct a site

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed mostly lower on Wall Street Friday, though gains for several tech companies pushed the Nasdaq composite to another record high and its first close over 16,000 points. The S&P 500 index gave up 0.1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.8%. A

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was indicted Friday on 27 additional charges involving financial crimes. Prosecutors say Murdaugh stole nearly $5 million in settlement money he had obtained for his dead housekeeper, an injured state trooper and other people as well as fees meant for his

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Senior officials say Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro and Environment Minister Joaquim Leite both knew the Amazon region’s annual deforestation rate had surged before the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow. But the two kept results quiet to avoid hampering negotiations Three Cabinet ministers as well as a

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Three people were shot Friday in the parking lot of a high school in the Denver suburb of Aurora, police said. The shooting came after six students from another Aurora high school were shot and injured Monday at a park near their school. The Aurora Police Department tweeted that two of

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has handed President Joe Biden a marquee victory. It’s approved his far-reaching, roughly $2 trillion social and environment bill. It happened Friday after Democrats cast aside disputes that for months had stalled the measure and hampered efforts to sell their priorities to voters. The House

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say an Indiana woman allegedly sold her 13-year-old daughter to a 27-year-old man before she and her husband forced her to marry him and then celebrated the wedding with a party. The girl’s mother is charged in Allen County with child selling where the defendant transfers or receives property

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In a Nov. 12 story about the involuntary manslaughter trial of Kansas City, Missouri, police Officer Eric J. DeValkenaere, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the case was the first in which a white officer in the city was charged in the death of a Black person. It was not.

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s first post-White House book will be, like so much else about him, a departure from other former presidents. Trump is publishing a hardcover collection of hundreds of photographs from his administration, featuring his own captions, some handwritten. “Our Journey Together” is scheduled for

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Two people have been shot in the parking lot of a high school in the Denver suburb of Aurora, and the school is on lockdown, police said Friday. The shooting came after six students from another Aurora high school were shot and injured Monday at a park near their school. The

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, MATTHEW PERRONE and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is moving to open up COVID-19 booster shots to all adults, letting them choose another dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. Regulators authorized broader use of the shots Friday, seeking to simplify what has been a confusing list

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico education officials are partnering with public television providers for a stopgap that could ease students’ internet problems. A pilot program starting in Taos this week connects students to their schools through TV transmissions. New Mexico PBS affiliates are using

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. booster campaign is getting a lot simpler now that regulators have opened extra vaccine shots to all adults. The Food and Drug Administration’s Dr. Peter Marks says the new approach will streamline booster decisions as COVID-19 cases begin rising again across the country. The

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court could rule as soon as Monday on Texas’ ban on abortion after roughly six weeks. The court said on its website Friday that the justices are planning to issue at least one opinion Monday, the first of its new term. There’s no guarantee the

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — In a story published November 17, 2021, about an election security probe, The Associated Press erroneously reported in the story summary the county where the elections clerk works. Tina Peters is the elections clerk for Mesa County, not El Paso County. 

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. booster campaign is getting a lot simpler now that regulators have opened extra vaccine shots to all adults. The Food and Drug Administration’s Dr. Peter Marks says the new approach will streamline booster decisions as COVID-19 cases begin rising again across the country. The

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli soldiers returned the remains of a Palestinian teenager who was killed in October, only to be told by the family that it was the wrong body. The macabre mix-up on Friday, which the army called an “unfortunate mistake,” is likely to draw attention to

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted on all charges in the fatal shooting of two men and wounding of a third during a night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. Among the counts the 18-year-old from nearby Antioch, Illinois, faced were one count of reckless

By EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Business is booming at a truck-driving academy in suburban Los Angeles amid a nationwide shortage of long-haul drivers. The California Truck Driving Academy in Inglewood has seen annual enrollment grow by almost 20% since last year, and has expanded to offering night classes. Experts credit the

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — If anyone has a good idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it. NASA and the nation’s top federal nuclear research lab on Friday put out a request for proposals for a fission