March 8-14, 2024
From the Academy Awards in Los Angeles to Ramadan celebrations to the Fireworks Festival in Mexico, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around …
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By The Associated Press
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3/14/24
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The U.S. government has started requiring migrants without passports to submit to facial recognition technology to take domestic flights under a change that prompted confusion this week among …
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By VALERIE GONZALEZ
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3/14/24
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Two hotels and residents of San Francisco’s troubled Tenderloin district have sued San Francisco for streets free of drugs and tent encampments. The complaint filed in federal court Thursday says …
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By JANIE HAR
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3/14/24
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A former Mississippi police officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge after authorities say he forced a man to lick his own urine off the floor of a jail cell. Michael Christian …
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
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3/14/24
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Connecticut lawmakers are considering banning the use of legacy and donor preferences in admissions to all colleges and universities across the state, including private ones like Yale University. A …
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By SUSAN HAIGH
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3/14/24
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Two suburban Detroit police officers are under investigation after police video of officers arresting a Black man accused of domestic violence shows one officer kicking him in the head during a …
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3/14/24
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March 8 - 14, 2024
Celebrities arrive at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, youths look at buggies during a “mud sale” in Pennsylvania’s Amish country and a baseball player crashes …
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By The Associated Press
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3/14/24
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House Republicans are huddling in West Virginia for a strategy-planning retreat designed to unify the often-fractious conference as they head into the final months before the November election. But …
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By STEPHEN GROVES
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3/14/24
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Voters are heading to the polls in Russia for a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years after he stifled dissent. The …
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By DASHA LITVINOVA
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3/14/24
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Olivia Munn's breast cancer diagnosis is drawing attention to a frequently used breast cancer risk calculator. The actor says her score prompted further tests and the discovery of an aggressive form …
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By CARLA K. JOHNSON
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3/14/24
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Federal authorities say a woman has been charged with illegally buying guns used in the killings of three Minnesota first responders in a standoff at a home in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville. …
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI
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3/14/24
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Ukrainians living in regions illegally annexed by Russia are being coerced to vote in the presidential election of their wartime occupier, Vladimir Putin, an exercise denounced by Ukraine as an …
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By YURAS KARMANAU and EMMA BURROWS
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3/14/24
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Egypt’s top diplomat has appealed for an urgent increase in aid going into Gaza by land, even as a ship loaded with some 200 tons of food was on its way to the enclave, where hundreds of thousands …
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By The Associated Press
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3/14/24
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A major snowstorm is hitting Colorado, closing numerous schools and government offices and shutting down sections of highways leading to the Denver area. Meteorologists are warning of difficult to …
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3/14/24
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As the national debate over Black history continues, one aspect of the legacy of race in America is undergoing something of a rebirth: Black cemeteries that were established in the era of …
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By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO and DARREN SANDS
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3/14/24
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Russia says Ukraine has fired more missiles at a border region on the eve of election favoring Putin
Russian officials say Ukraine has fired at least eight missiles at the Belgorod border region, killing one person and wounding six. Kyiv’s forces apparently are keeping up their efforts to disrupt …
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By EMMA BURROWS
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3/14/24
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says she'll issue pardons for tens of thousands of people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana charges going back decades in the latest example of a state ambitiously …
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By STEVE LeBLANC
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3/13/24
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Public health officials in Arizona’s most populous county report they confirmed a staggering 645 heat-associated deaths last year. That is another consecutive annual record in arid metro Phoenix. …
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By ANITA SNOW
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3/13/24
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A Texas man who spent decades using an iron lung after contracting polio as a child has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander's longtime friend Daniel Spinks says he died Monday at a Dallas hospital. …
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By JAMIE STENGLE
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3/13/24
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A prosecutor has told a jury that a Connecticut state trooper’s fatal shooting of the 19-year-old man who had just crashed a stolen car following a high-speed chase was “overkill” and showed an …
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By DAVE COLLINS
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3/13/24
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