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By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Videos have emerged from three days of voting in Russia’s parliamentary election showing ballot-box stuffing in various locations across the vast country. In one surveillance video, a hand appears from behind a Russian flag to stuff ballots into a box at a polling place in the Siberian

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic congressional leaders backed by the White House have announced they will push ahead with a vote to fund the government and suspend the debt limit. They are all but daring Republicans to quit opposing the package or risk a fiscal crisis. Congress must

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments on December 1 in Mississippi’s bid to have the landmark Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion overturned. The justices will be at their seats in the marble courtroom for the biggest test of abortion rights in

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri official is asking the state Supreme Court to suspend the law licenses of a St. Louis couple who gained national attention last year when they waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their home. Missouri Chief Disciplinary Counsel Alan Pratzel cited Mark and Patricia McCloskey’s guilty pleas to misdemeanors

In a story published September 15, 2021, about donations for racial equity, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity used its own definition of “racial equity” giving for a report. The organization used a definition it developed with the philanthropy research organization Candid for the report, not its own. 

BEIRUT (AP) — Rescue workers and a war monitor say a drone strike has hit a vehicle traveling on a rural road in rebel-controlled northwestern Syria, killing at least one person. The Civil Defense team, known as White Helmets, said the unidentified body from the Monday attack was lifted from the car along the Idlib-Binnish

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal law enforcement officer was arrested carrying a gun at Saturday’s rally at the U.S. Capitol billed to support the suspects charged in January’s insurrection, but he will not be prosecuted. The 27-year-old New Jersey man is an officer with U.S.

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety regulator has opened an investigation into a potential problem that surfaced last year with 56 million Takata airbags but that the agency eventually deemed safe based on industry research. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has not posted an

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say an inmate has died at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, bringing the troubled lockdown’s death toll to 11 this year. The city Department of Correction says 42-year-old Isaabdul Karim died at a jail infirmary just before 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Department officials say

By ISABEL DEBRE and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings targeting Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. That raises the specter of wider conflict between the country’s new rulers and their long-time rivals. A string of explosions struck Taliban vehicles