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By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press The nation’s school boards are asking President Joe Biden for federal assistance to investigate and stop a growing number of threats made against their members.  The National School Boards Association sent a letter to Biden Thursday, describing members being put on watch lists and threatened in person, online and through

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. clinics pushing unproven stem cell procedures has ballooned in recent years. The Food and Drug Administration gave clinics three years to show that their questionable treatments were safe and worked. But today none of the clinics have won FDA approval and there

WASHINGTON (AP) — Crews will use a barge outfitted with a crane to try to recover a cargo plane that ditched into the ocean off Honolulu. The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it is sending investigators to the site where the Boeing 737 went into the water back in July. The two pilots were

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — United Airlines says only about 300 employees out of its U.S. workforce of 67,000 face dismissal for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. That’s about half as many as the airline said faced termination earlier this week. United said Thursday that the difference is coming from

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Government researchers reported a big drop in teen vaping this year as many U.S. students stayed home from school during the pandemic. Survey results released Thursday give the first indication of how COVID-19 disruptions may have slowed the underage use of electronic cigarettes. Government officials urged

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) — A Black man who was fatally shot in his apartment by a white off-duty Dallas police officer has been honored with a memorial at his alma mater on what would have been his 30th birthday. Botham Jean, a 2016 graduate of Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, was shot and killed by

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson plans to relocate its headquarters from Massachusetts in a $125 million investment expected to create 750 jobs in Tennessee. The company founded in 1852 is currently centered in Springfield, Massachusetts. Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development says Smith & Wesson

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Major stock indexes on Wall Street were mixed in afternoon trading Thursday and headed for steep monthly losses. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% and is on track for a 4% loss in September. It would mark the first monthly loss since January and the worst

By NOHA ELHENNAWY and ASHRAF IDRIS Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese have rallied in the capital of Khartoum against the country’s military and demanding the formation of new transitional authorities that would exclusively consist of civilians. Security forces fired tear gas as protesters neared a central street housing government headquarters. Thursday’s

By MARKUS SCHREIBER and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press ITZEHOE, Germany (AP) — Officials say a former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp skipped the start of her trial in Germany on more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder. She was picked up several hours later and ordered held in custody.

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say a tornado in the port city of Kiel has injured several people. Four people were seriously hurt after Wednesday’s twister. The city’s fire service said dozens of first responders were involved in an operation to rescue a group of rowers who were surprised by the twister as it swept

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Primetta Giacopini’s life began and ended with pandemics. The 105-year-old California woman was two years old when she lost her mother to the flu in Connecticut in 1918. A foster family took her back to their ancestral home in Italy, where she survived as a seamstress until she was forced

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the U.N. political mission in Libya until after the country’s critical presidential and parliamentary elections that are scheduled for late December. However, the world body remained divided on Thursday over the withdrawal of all mercenaries and

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The head of the World Bank has discussed Sudan’s daunting economic challenges with the country’s transitional government. David Malpass is in Khartoum in the first visit by a World Bank president to the African nation in around 50 years. He met on Thursday with the Sudanese premier

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A plan to possibly sell the South Florida property where the collapse of a condo building killed 98 people to a United Arab Emirates-based developer has been endorsed by a Florida judge. Under the plan approved Thursday, the almost 2-acre oceanfront property would be purchased for

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Republicans are using money from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package for projects on conservatives’ wish lists. Alabama lawmakers are advancing a plan to use $400 million of the state’s coronavirus relief funds toward building prisons. In Texas, a Republican-led county pledged to help Gov. Greg Abbott

DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Frank Thomas has found his Field of Dreams. The Hall of Famer has headed a venture that bought controlling interest in Go the Distance Baseball’s stake of All-Star Ballpark Heaven and the Field of Dreams Movie Site. The company says This is Heaven LLC, a company of the 53-year-old Thomas and

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A conservative Roman Catholic media outlet is seeking a court order to stage a rally during a U.S. bishops’ meeting in Baltimore. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander presided over a hearing Thursday for the lawsuit that rally planners St. Michael’s Media filed against the city. The judge heard testimony from

By STEPHEN GROVES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is cutting ties with political adviser Corey Lewandowski after the longtime confidant to former President Donald Trump was accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward a GOP donor. Lewandowski had been key to the Republican governor’s political

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gloria Estefan has revealed that, at the age of 9, she was sexually abused by someone her mother trusted. The Cuban-American superstar spoke for the first time publicly about the abuse and its effects on her during an episode of the Facebook Watch show “Red Table