A businessman who federal authorities say faked suicide to avoid prosecution for fraudulently seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans intended for businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic has agreed to plead guilty to some charges, according to court documents...

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri lawmakers approved a $35 billion budget on Friday that includes no funding for a Medicaid expansion approved by voters, putting Gov. Mike Parson's administration in a position to decide what to do next about the health care program for low-income residents...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's new administrator is big on tackling climate and diversifying the agency's workforce, but hedging on whether the U.S. can put astronauts on the moon by 2024. In his first interview since becoming NASA's top official this week, former Sen...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's population fell by more than 182,000 people in 2020, marking the first year-over-year loss ever recorded for the nation's most populous state.State officials announced Friday that California's population dipped 0...

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota regulators got a green light Friday to adopt new "clean car" rules without getting approval from the Legislature.A ruling from an administrative law judge allows the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to move forward with its plan to write new regulations that would ...

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Boston Globe. May 5, 2021. Editorial: Count counties out of federal aid programThe six vestigial county governments in Massachusetts aren't equipped to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in federal economic relief...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The West Virginia fire chief who starred in an Oscar-nominated documentary about battling drug abuse in ground zero of the nation's opioid epidemic took the stand in a landmark trial Friday against three large drug distributors...

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NEW YORK (AP) - A fifth major league team has been able to relax coronavirus protocols after 85% of its players and other on-field personnel completed vaccination.Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association made the announcement Friday without identifying any teams and ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paul Van Doren, co-founder of the Vans company whose iconic Southern California sneakers were beloved by skateboarders and became an international success, has died. He was 90.The company, based southeast of Los Angeles in Costa Mesa, announced Van Doren's death on social media ...

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico officials have released the names of dozens of people who are vying to be appointed to the state's new Cannabis Regulatory Advisory Committee...

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ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan's ailing opposition leader, who has been charged with corruption, was turned back on Saturday at Islamabad's international airport and prevented from leaving the country, his party spokesperson said...

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The three remaining European Super League rebels stepped up their criticism of UEFA on Saturday, with Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus denouncing intolerable threats for their refusal to back down on the prospect of a breakaway competition...

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. (AP) - A company that operates a major U.S. energy pipeline says it was forced to temporarily halt all pipeline operations following a cybersecurity attack. In a statement, Colonial Pipeline said the attack took place Friday and also affected some of its information technology ...

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RACHEL, W.Va. (AP) - According to teacher John Pheasant, the Marion County Technical Center is Marion County's best kept secret.Students learn a number of things including carpentry and electrical work...

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PORTO, Portugal (AP) - The European Union and India agreed Saturday to restart negotiations on a bilateral free trade deal, eight years after their first attempt failed and as both sides seek alternatives to China...

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MADRID (AP) - Thousands of Valencia fans gathered outside the team's Mestalla Stadium to protest against Singaporean owner Peter Lim on Saturday.Supporters of the Spanish club called for the wealthy businessman to sell his shares and leave the club he has owned since 2014...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A measure approved by Kansas lawmakers ties the renewal of a tax that's crucial to funding public schools to a proposed tax break for businesses that are forced to shut down during future emergencies or pandemics...

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had some people wondering if a fleet of UFOs was coming, but it had others- mostly amateur stargazers and professional astronomers- lamenting the industrialization of space...

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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) - A shave and a haircut may not be two bits, but the tonsorial arts are alive and well at Grand Island's Xenon Academy.For the past year, the Xenon Academy has been training a new generation of barbers...

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - When Norma Alcantar got a call last month from Judy Genshaft, the former University of South Florida president, she wondered what had happened.She was pleasantly surprised to hear that she would be inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame...

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Impromptu street celebrations erupted across Spain as the clock struck midnight on Saturday, when a six-month-long national state of emergency to contain the spread of coronavirus ended and many nighttime curfews were lifted...

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BEIJING (AP) - China's space agency said a core segment of its biggest rocket reentered Earth's atmosphere above the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and that most of it burned up early Sunday. Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, who tracked the tumbling rocket part, said on Twitter, "An ocean ...

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PARIS (AP) - Tech giants and governments around the world - including the U.S. for the first time - are gathering virtually Friday and Saturday to find better ways to stop extremist violence from spreading online while also respecting freedom of expression...

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday that river traffic has reopened on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, three days after it was closed when a crack was discovered in the Interstate 40 bridge that connects Tennessee and Arkansas...

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LONDON (AP) - Britain hopes to host the U.N.'s delayed COP26 climate summit in person in November despite the challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the U.K. official leading the preparations said Friday...

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The Professional Women's Hockey Players' Association is forging ahead with its bid to establish an economically sustainable professional league in North America with or - for now - without the NHL's full financial backing...

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Thousands of Palestinians grabbed children and belongings and fled their homes Friday as Israel barraged the northern Gaza Strip with tank fire and airstrikes, killing a family of six in their house and heavily damaging other neighborhoods in what it said was an ...

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Sahina Islam can still recall the day when she heard an elderly Pakistani couple got kicked out of their New York City home by their son-in-law and were sitting near John F. Kennedy International Airport, stranded and with nowhere to go...

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DOVER, Del. (AP) - A federal judge has granted a request by the U.S. Department of Labor to void a union election held by a Delaware chapter of the International Longshoremen's Association.The judge declared Thursday that the results of a May 2019 held by Local 1694 in Wilmington are void and ...

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