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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The last holiday season was far from the most wonderful time of the year for the U.S. Postal Service: Sick and quarantined workers, a flood of packages from shoppers loath to …
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By DAVID SHARP
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11/27/21
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is soaring, businesses are struggling to hire and President Joe Biden’s poll numbers have been in free-fall. The White House sees a common culprit for it all: …
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By ZEKE MILLER
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11/27/21
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A total of 61 people who arrived in the Netherlands on two flights from South Africa on Friday tested positive for the coronavirus and were in isolation on Saturday as …
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11/27/21
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s new law on working from home makes the European Union country sound like a workers’ paradise.
Companies can’t attempt to contact their staff outside …
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By BARRY HATTON
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11/27/21
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North Montgomery High School senior Treyce Pittman had long been interested in technology when during the pandemic he discovered a hobby of building …
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11/27/21
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A developer’s plans to build a Dollar General store at the southwest corner of South State Road 47 and C.R. 600S suffered a setback Wednesday as the Montgomery County Plan Commission gave an …
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11/27/21
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NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden appeared on the loose Friday in Nantucket.
Biden spent more than an hour walking around downtown Nantucket's cobblestone streets, popping unannounced …
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
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11/26/21
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century with his intelligent, intricately rhymed lyrics, his use of …
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By MARK KENNEDY
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11/26/21
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — San Jose Sharks general manager Doug Wilson will take a temporary leave to deal with an undisclosed medical issue.
The Sharks said Friday that assistant general manager …
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11/26/21
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Climate activists blockaded Amazon warehouses in three European countries on Friday, part of a global effort to pressure the ecommerce giant on one of its busiest days of the year to improve working …
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by KELVIN CHAN
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11/26/21
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A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa is leading to a new round of travel restrictions just as many had finally begun to ease.
The risks of the variant, called omicron, are …
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By MARIA CHENG and HALELUYA HADERO
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11/26/21
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ON THE RIO MADEIRA, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of barges of illegal miners dredging for gold were navigating along the Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon on Friday, and researchers said they posed a …
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EDMAR BARROS, SILAS LAURENTINO and DIANE JEANTET
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11/26/21
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MOSCOW (AP) — Rescuers have found a survivor in a Siberian coal mine where dozens of miners are presumed dead after a devastating methane explosion, a top local official announced Friday.
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By DASHA LITVINOVA
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11/26/21
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BEIJING (AP) — Global stocks and oil prices tumbled Friday after South Africa found a fast-spreading coronavirus variant and the European Union proposed suspending air travel from southern …
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By JOE McDONALD
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11/26/21
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive said Friday it wants to stop air travel from southern Africa to counter the spread of a new COVID-19 variant.
EU Commission President Ursula von …
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11/26/21
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NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are expected to usher in the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season Friday with bigger crowds than last year in a closer step toward normalcy. But the fallout …
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By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
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11/26/21
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NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday wished Americans a happy and closer-to-normal Thanksgiving, the second celebrated in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, in remarks …
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
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11/25/21
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Laurent Duvernay-Tardif was far from a football field at this time last year, when shoulder pads and playbooks gave way to scrubs and medical charts.
The big New York …
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By DENNIS WASZAK Jr.
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11/25/21
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AGUILILLA, Mexico (AP) — The Mexican government is rapidly running out of tools to control the expansion of the feared Jalisco cartel on the front lines of Mexico’s narco war in the western state …
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By MARK STEVENSON
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11/25/21
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The NFL and Rams owner Stan Kroenke will pay $790 million to settle a lawsuit filed by St. Louis interests over the team's relocation to Los Angeles, a joint statement from St. …
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By JIM SALTER
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11/24/21
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