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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacecraft aiming to land on Mars have skipped past the planet, burned up on entry, smashed into the surface, and made it down amid a fierce dust storm only to spit out …
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By MARCIA DUNN
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2/17/21
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MIAMI (AP) — From a windowless cell in a maximum-security prison in Colombia, Yacsy Álvarez awaits trial on charges she helped organize an attempted armed invasion to overthrow the government in …
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN
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2/17/21
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Health officials around the world are racing to vaccinate enough people to stop the spread of COVID-19, but what qualifies as “enough” is still an open question.
The goal is to get to “herd …
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By CANDICE CHOI and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL
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2/17/21
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Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s largest grant maker, has reported a banner 2020, with donations surging 24% from 2019 to $9.1 billion — by far the largest total on record. Yet so deep were the …
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By GLENN GAMBOA
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2/17/21
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“How to Avoid Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need,” by Bill Gates (Knopf)
Watching Bill Gates in the news over the years, his demeanor usually is that of an …
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By JEFF ROWE
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2/17/21
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Greece called in the armed forces Wednesday to help repair widespread damage caused by heavy snowfall in Athens, while blizzards continued to cause havoc in neighboring Turkey and with the snow …
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By DEREK GATOPOULOS and SUZAN FRASER
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2/17/21
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DETROIT (AP) — Ford says it will spend $1 billion to modernize its Cologne, Germany, manufacturing center, converting it into a European electric vehicle factory.
The factory will build an …
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2/17/21
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BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — An Arizona woman charged in connection with the Jan. 6 onslaught of the U.S. Capitol bragged in a Snapchat video that she was recently recruited by a Kansas City chapter …
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By ROXANA HEGEMAN
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2/16/21
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CHICAGO (AP) — The newspaper publisher Tribune has agreed to be sold to Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting costs and eliminating newsroom jobs, in a deal valued at $630 …
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By The Associated Press
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2/16/21
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Joe Biden, eager to move beyond his predecessor’s impeachment trial, is taking his case for his $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid package directly to the American people …
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By AAMER MADHANI and ALEXANDRA JAFFE
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2/16/21
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It’s as if the world has been turned upside-down, or at least its weather. You can blame the increasingly familiar polar vortex, which has brought a taste of the Arctic to places where winter often …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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2/16/21
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The captain of a scuba diving boat that burned and sank off the California coast, killing 34 people, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to manslaughter charges.
Jerry Boylan was …
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By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY
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2/16/21
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SEATTLE (AP) — A rare winter storm that dumped a foot of snow on Seattle couldn’t keep a 90-year-old woman from her first appointment for the coronavirus vaccine.
The Seattle Times that Fran …
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2/16/21
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Plant-eating dinosaurs probably arrived in the Northern Hemisphere millions of years after their meat-eating cousins, a delay likely caused by climate change, a new study found.
A new way of …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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2/16/21
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It’s hard to pin down exactly when Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo started dreaming up “ ,” but on some level it’s decades in the making. The friends and Oscar-nominated screenwriters have been …
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By LINDSEY BAHR
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2/16/21
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NEW YORK (AP) — Acquitted by the Senate of inciting the U.S. Capitol insurrection last month, former President Donald Trump faces more fallout from the unrest, including a lawsuit from a …
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JIM MUSTIAN
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2/16/21
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NEW YORK (AP) — The frenzy around GameStop’s stock may have quieted down, but the outsized influence small investors had in the saga is likely to stick around.
No one expects another supernova …
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By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA
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2/16/21
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NEW YORK (AP) — Black Americans attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often. Most attend churches that are predominantly Black, yet many would like those congregations …
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By DAVID CRARY
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2/16/21
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HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — Rigoberto Montesinos, a veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, was so worried about side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine that he initially wasn't going to get it, …
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By GISELA SALOMON, CLAUDIA TORRENS and ANITA SNOW
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2/16/21
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — After a wild stretch in which Bitcoin repeatedly set new highs amid murmurs of its seemingly unstoppable ascendance, the digital currency crossed the $50,000 mark for the …
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By MATT OTT
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2/16/21
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