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Security personnel investigate the scene on Bourbon Street after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon Street, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2025.
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Driver rams New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 10; FBI doesn’t believe he acted alone

Associated Press January 1, 2025

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A driver armed wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year's Day,...

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FILE - President-elect Jimmy Carter leans over to shake hands with some of the people riding the "Peanut Special" to Washington, Jan. 19, 1977. They will travel all night, arriving in Washington in time for Carter's inauguration as president on Jan. 20.
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Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

Associated Press December 29, 2024

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War,...

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Firefighters and rescue team members work near the wreckage of a passenger plane at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024.
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Plane crashes and bursts into flames while landing in South Korea, killing 179

Associated Press December 29, 2024

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A passenger plane skidded off a runway at a South Korean airport Sunday, slammed into...

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Nissan Chief Executive Makoto Uchida, left, Takao Kato, CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, center, and Honda Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe, right, leave after a joint news conference in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.
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Nissan and Honda to attempt a merger that would create the world’s No. 3 automaker

Associated Press December 23, 2024

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to work toward a merger that would form the...

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., celebrates as the Senate begins voting on the government funding bill just in time to meet the midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.
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Government funding bill clears Congress and heads to President Biden, averting a shutdown

Associated Press December 21, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would...

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Ethan Crumbley stands with his attorneys Paulette Loftin, left, and Amy Hopp, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Pontiac, Mich.
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Ethan Crumbley loses bid to withdraw guilty plea in shooting deaths of Oxford High classmates

Associated Press December 20, 2024

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge on Thursday refused to allow a Michigan school shooter to withdraw his guilty plea...

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U.S Representatives Shri Thanedar, Dan Kildee, Rashida Tlaib and Debbie Dingell in a Zoom press conference on Dec. 19, 2024.
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US Representatives of Michigan voice displeasure over possible government shutdown

Associated Press, Kevin Meerschaert December 20, 2024

Michigan Congressional Democrats say it’s unconscionable President-elect Donald Trump and others would move to shut down the federal government days before the...

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Emergency vehicles are parked outside the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., where multiple injuries were reported following a shooting, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024.
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Teacher and a teenage student killed in shooting at a Christian school in Wisconsin

Associated Press December 16, 2024

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct that Abundant Life Christian School serves grades prekindergarten through high school,...

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FILE - Cruise AV, General Motor's autonomous electric Bolt EV, is seen on Jan. 16, 2019, in Detroit.
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GM to retreat from robotaxis and stop funding its Cruise autonomous vehicle unit

Associated Press December 11, 2024

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors said Tuesday it will retreat from the robotaxi business and stop funding its money-losing Cruise...

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FILE - Virginia Tech English Professor, Nikki Giovanni speaks closing remarks at a convocation to honor the victims of a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., on April 17, 2007.
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Nikki Giovanni, poet and literary celebrity, has died at 81

Associated Press December 10, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release...

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Michigan Democrats move to protect reproductive health data before GOP takes control of House

Associated Press December 6, 2024

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democrats are pushing this month to pass legislation they say will improve reproductive health care,...

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A young person who preferred not to give her name, cheers as supporters of transgender rights rally by the Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Washington, while arguments are underway in a case regarding a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.
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Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments on transgender health care ban: Conservatives skeptical

Associated Press December 5, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court heard the most high-profile case of its term on Wednesday, weighing Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming health...

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