Golden Globes, hobbled by scandal, set to announce noms
Dec 12, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — After scandal and boycott plunged the Hollywood Foreign Press Association into disarray and knocked the Golden Globes broadcast off television for a year, the annual film and television awards are set…
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Brittney Griner back home in US after Russian prisoner swap
Dec 09, 2022
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Brittney Griner has returned to the United States, nearly 10 months after the basketball star’s detention in Russia made her the most high-profile American jailed abroad and set off a political…
Bill protecting same-sex, interracial unions set for passage
Dec 08, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is set to take a final vote on protections for same-sex marriages. The vote Thursday will send the legislation to President Joe Biden, a monumental step in a decadeslong battle…
Speedier drug approvals hit slowdown as FDA faces scrutiny
Dec 07, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is slowing its use of a pathway that expedites the approval of promising drugs. The downturn comes as the agency's accelerated approval program comes under new scrutiny…
Biden's efforts to protect abortion access hit roadblocks
Dec 06, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is actively searching for ways to safeguard abortion access for millions of women. But those efforts are bumping up against a complex web of strict new state laws enacted…
Shootings at power substations cause North Carolina outages
Dec 05, 2022
CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — Two power substations in a North Carolina county were damaged by gunfire in what is being investigated as a criminal act. A spokesman for Duke Energy said at a news conference…
AP sources: Biden tells Dems he wants SC as 1st voting state
Dec 02, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says Democrats should give up “restrictive” caucuses and move to champion diversity in the order of their presidential primary calendar. His recommendation deals a major blow to Iowa’s decadeslong…
House votes to avert rail strike, impose deal on unions
Dec 01, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is moving urgently to head off the looming U.S. rail strike. The House passed a bill Wednesday that would bind companies and workers to a proposed settlement reached in September that…
Congress prepares to take up bill preventing rail strike
Nov 30, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is moving swiftly to prevent a looming U.S. rail workers strike. Lawmakers are reluctantly intervening in a labor dispute to stop what would surely be a devastating blow to the nation’s…
NATO commits to future Ukraine membership, drums up aid
Nov 29, 2022
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says war-torn Ukraine will one day become a member of the world’s largest security alliance. It's a commitment that NATO leaders made to Ukraine 14 years ago.…