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By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government advisory panel has endorsed extra doses of all three of the nation’s vaccines. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said Thursday that people could choose a different company’s brand for that next shot. Certain people who received Pfizer

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The conservative Texas Republican leader who pledged bounties to those who prove fraud at the polls has paid a liberal poll watcher who reported illegal voting by a Pennsylvania registered Republican. The Dallas Morning News reports tipster Eric Frank deposited a $25,000 check from Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s campaign this

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors have unveiled criminal charges against an alleged corruption ring accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to a top ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to profit from lucrative contracts to import food and medicine at a time of widespread hardship in the South

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is facing more defections from the broad base of support she built to win her seat in 2018 over her opposition to parts of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan and refusal to ditch the Senate filibuster. Five members of Sinema’s veterans advisory

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to return to Virginia for his second campaign stop with fellow Democrat Terry McAuliffe as the state’s race for governor enters its final stretch. McAuliffe’s campaign announced Thursday that the two would appear together on Tuesday at a park in Arlington. The event will occur exactly

By JULIE WATSON, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is laying out the heightened security threats, rising tensions and increased refugee flows facing the U.S. as the climate warms. One of the federal climate assessments released Thursday calls on the U.S. to do much more to track and

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A police superintendent in Jamaica has told The Associated Press that authorities have arrested a Colombian man they believe is a suspect in the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay said said Thursday that officials are still making calls to different embassies and ministers

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The indictment of U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry could have a big impact on the Republican’s future in Nebraska politics and the 2022 election, opening the door to possible outcomes that would have seemed far-fetched just days ago. The district is still heavily Republican, but it became

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal authorities say a North Dakota man is charged with second-degree murder in the decapitation killing this month of a man at the victim’s home on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico. A criminal complaint alleges 28-year-old Shilo Aaron Oldrock attacked and decapitated the victim with an ax on Oct.

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordering Apple, Amazon, PayPal and other tech giants to reveal how their proprietary payment networks function. Apple Pay, Google Pay and other payment systems created by big tech companies now dominate large portions of e-commerce and person-to-person payments. Agency

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Pinkney, a prize-winning children’s book illustrator known for his richly textured images of Black life, fables and fairy tales in works ranging from “The Lion and the Mouse” to “The Sunday Outing,” has died at 81. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers says Pinkney died Wednesday. His wordless adaptation of

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman who has spent nearly two decades in prison on allegations of killing a baby in her care has been ordered released from prison after new evidence led to charges being dropped. Prison inmate Kim Hoover-Moore ran a home day care in Columbus and

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — At least 30 students abducted in northwest Nigeria have regained their freedom, a government official has announced four months after the students were seized in June from the Federal Government College in Kebbi state. The students spent 4 months in captivity and while their freedom brought

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Thursday to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Now the U.S. attorney’s office must decide whether to prosecute.

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A wave of buying in the last hour of trading left stocks mostly higher on Wall Street, enough for the S&P 500 to beat the record high close it set in early September. The market had spent most of the day wobbling between gains and

By MARK GILLISPIE and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A newly surfaced text exchange between then-FirstEnergy Corp. executives give a new peek into the favors the company got from Ohio’s top utility regulator. The person referenced in the texts, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chair Sam Randazzo, has since resigned. He

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A group of environmental organizations has filed court papers to try to halt operations at Maine dams as part of an effort to protect salmon. Atlantic salmon are listed as endangered by the federal government, and the only rivers they return to in the U.S. are in Maine. The conservation groups

By JESSICA MUNDIE Religion News Service On the corner of East Avenue and West Yates Street in East Syracuse, New York, sits Emmanuel Episcopal Church. The quaint building, with its bright white exterior and cherry red doors, is the home to not one, but two distinct congregations. The first, a modest parish of 25 Americans,

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is voting Thursday on whether to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. The panel has vowed to move swiftly

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s national police have arrested two leaders of the country’s top private business association, just one day after a regional body called for the immediate release of political prisoners. A police statement says Michael Healy Lacayo and Álvaro Vargas of the Private Business Superior Council were arrested Thursday. They face charges