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AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration offered federal resources to Donald Trump and Kamala Harris for presidential transition planning for the first time Tuesday, with experts suggesting both are behind in preparing for their potential administrations. While transitions kick into high gear after Election Day, when a president-elect must begin selecting

WASHINGTON (AP) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic. He vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced such demands again. Zuckerberg sent a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee. Zuckerberg

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The effort to salvage an attempt to recall Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office has suffered another legal defeat. The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling rejecting an attempt to revive the recall effort. That means if the

ROME (AP) — The captain of a superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people, has decided not to respond to prosecutors’ questions. James Cutfield of New Zealand is under investigation for possible manslaughter and culpable shipwreck charges and was questioned for a third time by the Termini Imerese prosecutors

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego police officer was killed and another was critically injured when a speeding vehicle crashed into their patrol car. The speeding driver also was killed. The crash occurred late Monday after a vehicle was spotted traveling at high speed on a boulevard. Police Chief Scott Wahl says an officer

Associated Press SYOSSET, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man distraught that he was being forced to move from his late mother’s home shot and killed four of his family members before turning the gun on himself. Police in Nassau County say Joseph DeLucia, Jr. and his family had gathered shortly before noon on Sunday

HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — A former employee of a Mississippi jail has been arrested and charged in the June escape of Joshua Zimmerman, an inmate who fled to Chicago and was captured there last week after a 15-hour standoff with police at a restaurant just blocks from the Democratic National Convention. Ronnie Hunt was charged

BEIJING (AP) — China has accused Canada of protectionism after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government imposed a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles. The move matched U.S. duties on Chinese-made EVs. The Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that the tariffs would disrupt the stability of global industrial and supply chains.

Associated Press Gay male couples tend to gravitate toward big cities, while lesbian couples prefer more pastoral smaller cities or towns. That’s according to figures from the 2020 census that reinforce some preconceived notions of LGBTQ+ communities in the U.S. A new report released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the counties