Cooling the temperature: Biden faces fractious Congress
Apr 27, 2021
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — Can lawmakers all just listen to the president — even for one night? Recent history is not assuring. Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “you lie!” at President Barack…
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Nomadland’ wins best picture at a social distanced Oscars
Apr 26, 2021
By JAKE COYLE AP - Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao became the…
SpaceX launches 3rd crew with recycled rocket and capsule
Apr 23, 2021
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule, the third crew flight in less than a year for Elon Musk’s rapidly expanding…
At ‘moment of peril,’ Biden opens global summit on climate
Apr 22, 2021
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden convened leaders of the world’s most powerful countries on Thursday to try to spur global efforts against climate change, drawing commitments from Chinese…
Jury’s swift verdict for Chauvin in Floyd death: Guilty
Apr 21, 2021
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After three weeks of testimony, the trial of the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd ended swiftly: barely over a day of jury deliberations,…
Out of sight but center stage, jurors weigh Chauvin’s fate
Apr 20, 2021
By AMY FORLITI, STEPHEN GROVES and TAMMY WEBBER MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jurors who sat quietly off-camera through three weeks of draining testimony in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in George Floyd’s death moved into the spotlight Tuesday, still out…
NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
Apr 19, 2021
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on…
Police: 8 dead in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis
Apr 16, 2021
By CASEY SMITH INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before apparently taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said,…
US expels Russian diplomats, imposes new round of sanctions
Apr 15, 2021
By ERIC TUCKER and AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and sanctions against dozens of people and companies as it moved to hold the…
AP source: Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff dies in prison
Apr 14, 2021
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme, died in a federal prison early Wednesday, a person familiar with the…