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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In the summer of 2000, I was among a group of foreign correspondents, photographers and video journalists who went to England to attend a hostile environment-first aid training …
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By ANDREW SELSKY
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1/15/21
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The $1.9 trillion rescue plan unveiled by President-elect Joe Biden offers the chance to sculpt the U.S. economy toward the Democrats’ liking: a $15 minimum wage, aid to poor …
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By JOSH BOAK
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1/15/21
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NEW YORK (AP) — When Joe Biden addresses the country for the first time as president, his inaugural speech is likely to echo calls for unity that predecessors have invoked since the first time …
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By HILLEL ITALIE
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1/15/21
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DENVER (AP) — Howard Jones, who's 83, was on the phone for three to four hours every day trying to sign up for a coronavirus vaccine.
Jones, who lives alone in Colorado Springs, doesn’t have …
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By PATTY NIEBERG and SUMAN NAISHADHAM
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1/15/21
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BEIJING (AP) — A city in northern China is building a 3,000-unit quarantine facility to deal with an anticipated overflow of patients as COVID-19 cases rise ahead of the Lunar New Year travel …
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1/15/21
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden already faces the daunting task of steering a through a closely divided Congress as the pandemic and its economic fallout grow.
Now Biden will have to …
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By ALEXANDRA JAFFE
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1/14/21
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA declared the Mars digger dead Thursday after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature.
Scientists in Germany spent two years trying to …
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By MARCIA DUNN
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1/14/21
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Here’s what’s happening Thursday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:
THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY
— The number of people seeking , the most since late August, offering evidence that …
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By The Associated Press
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1/14/21
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DETROIT (AP) — A new government report says gas mileage for new vehicles dropped and pollution increased in model year 2019 for the first time in five years.
The mileage decrease comes as …
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By TOM KRISHER
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1/14/21
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The Detroit Lions agreed to terms with Brad Holmes on Thursday to be their general manager.
Holmes led the Rams' college scouting department for eight years and started his 18-year career with …
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By LARRY LAGE
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1/14/21
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Trump administration said Wednesday that it would slash millions of acres of protected habitat designated for the imperiled northern spotted owl in Oregon, Washington …
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS
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1/14/21
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Online supporters of President Donald Trump are scattering to smaller social media platforms, fleeing what they say is unfair treatment by Facebook, Twitter and other big tech firms looking to …
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By DAVID KLEPPER and AMANDA SEITZ
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1/14/21
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Earth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday.
While and a couple of other measurement groups said 2020 passed or essentially …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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1/14/21
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking unemployment aid soared last week to 965,000, the most since late August and evidence that the resurgent virus has caused a spike in layoffs.
The …
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
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1/14/21
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Germany has too many loopholes in its coronavirus lockdown rules, the head of the country's disease control agency said as figures published Thursday showed the highest number of daily deaths since …
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1/14/21
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BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party is choosing a new leader this weekend, a decision that will help shape German voters' choice of her successor at the helm of the European …
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By GEIR MOULSON
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1/14/21
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia on Thursday commemorates the 10th anniversary since the flight into exile of iron-fisted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, pushed from power in a popular revolt that …
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By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
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1/14/21
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PARIS (AP) — As the wan winter sun sets over France's Champagne region, the countdown clock kicks in.
Laborers stop pruning the vines as the light fades at about 4:30 p.m., leaving them 90 …
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By JOHN LEICESTER and SYLVIE CORBET
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1/14/21
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Shares were mostly higher Thursday in Asia as traders waited to see details of President-elect Joe Biden’s plan for helping the economy recover from the coronavirus crisis.
Benchmarks rose in …
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH
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1/14/21
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government announced Wednesday that it will halt imports of cotton and tomatoes from the Uighur region of China in its most sweeping action yet to pressure the Communist …
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By BEN FOX
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1/13/21
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