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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press President Joe Biden plans to nominate two new members to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors. It’s a potential first step in removing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. A Trump-era appointee, DeJoy became a political lightning rod during the 2020 elections as changes he made to the postal service slowed

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The decades-long odyssey to find the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa apparently has turned to a former New Jersey landfill that sits below an elevated highway. The FBI says it obtained a search warrant to “conduct a site survey underneath the Pulaski Skyway.” The work

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for operating an unlicensed business that exchanged at least $13 million in Bitcoin and cash. Federal prosecutors say 50-year-old Hugo Mejia of the city of Ontario structured his business to establish an anonymous conduit for money laundering

BERLIN (AP) — Google says it has signed agreements with several large German publishers to avoid copyright disputes over the use of their material. The Internet giant said Friday it reached deals with publishers including news weeklies Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, technology portals Golem and Netzwelt, as well as the business publications WirtschaftsWoche and

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer With an Emmy win and a hit Apple TV+ series under his belt, Jason Sudeikis is having one big year. The show, of course, is Ted Lasso, where Sudeikis plays a good-natured American football coach who takes charge of a professional British soccer team despite having little knowledge of

SMITHSBURG, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police have identified four people found fatally shot after a police chase near the Pennsylvania state line. They’re a former Baltimore County police officer who had been on the run with his two daughters and a police officer suspended after joining them. Police say former Baltimore County police officer

BERLIN (AP) — NATO’s chief says the alliance is closely monitoring an unusual concentration of Russian forces on the border with Ukraine. Jens Stoltenberg warned Friday that similar troops were used by Moscow in the past to intervene in neighboring countries. Speaking at a defense seminar in Berlin, Stoltenberg said NATO had seen a significant

CHICAGO (AP) — The mother of a University of Chicago student who was fatally shot near campus last week flew to the city from China to talk about shattered dreams and bringing her son’s body home. Li Rong spoke Thursday at a memorial service at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel of how Shaoxiong ”Dennis” Zheng talked

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press Seven Native American tribes are asking the University of Alabama to return nearly 6,000 human remains and artifacts from the school’s archaeological park and museum. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and five other tribes have filed a petition for the return under the Native American Graves Protection

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has declared the word squaw to be a derogatory term. She announced Friday that she’s taking steps to remove the term from use by the federal government and to replace other existing derogatory place names. Haaland is ordering a federal panel tasked with naming geographic places