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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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RICHMOND, Va., (AP) - Police Chief Will Cunningham came to work four years ago to find that his six-officer department was the victim of a crime. Hackers had taken advantage of a weak password to break in and encrypt the files of the department in Roxana, a small town in Illinois near St...

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BUNKER HILL, Ind. (AP) - An overhaul on a new jet fueling system has been completed at northern Indiana's Grissom Air Reserve Base following several years of work to replace a system installed in the 1950s...

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ROME (AP) - More than 1,200 migrants in several decrepit, overcrowded fishing boats on Sunday reached a tiny Italian island in a span of 12 hours, as human traffickers exploited calm seas and warm weather to launch multiple vessels, the mayor said...

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NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA fined David Griffin of the New Orleans Pelicans $50,000 on Sunday for publicly criticizing officiating and making comments the league considered detrimental.The decision came two days after Griffin, the Pelicans' executive vice president of basketball operations, spoke out ...

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CHICAGO (AP) - Helmut Jahn, a prominent German architect who designed an Illinois state government building and worked on the design of the FBI headquarters in Washington, was killed when two vehicles struck the bicycle he was riding outside Chicago...

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A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week:INFLATION SURGE?A key measure of U.S. inflation is expected to have increased in April for the third straight month...

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CATAWBA, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina cardboard factory has found itself in the middle of a stinky situation as environmental regulators order it to lower emissions after receiving thousands of complaints relating to a "noxious," rotten egg-like smell coming from the plant...

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BERLIN (AP) - German pharmaceutical company BioNTech reported a net profit of 1.13 billion euros ($1.37 billion) in the first quarter of this year on the back of strong revenues from its coronavirus vaccine...

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DALLAS (AP) _ Kosmos Energy Ltd. (KOS) on Monday reported a loss of $90.8 million in its first quarter.On a per-share basis, the Dallas-based company said it had a loss of 22 cents. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 8 cents per share...

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BATH, Maine (AP) - The Navy's top officer is paying a visit to shipbuilder Bath Iron Works.Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, is scheduled to tour ships that are under construction and speak to shipyard workers and leaders on Monday about upcoming milestones in ship production...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry are teaming up for a series that will delve into mental health issues and feature segments from athletes and stars like Lady Gaga and Glenn Close."The Me You Can't See" will be a multi-part documentary series that will debut on Apple TV+ on May 21...

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A former Anoka theater teacher who was an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ students is charged with 10 felony counts of sexually abusing minors. Jefferson Fietek, 47, taught arts theater at Anoka Middle School and created the non-profit group Young Artists Initiative that operated out...

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PARIS (AP) - A French court on Monday dismissed the case of a French-Vietnamese woman who sued 14 companies that produced and sold the powerful defoliant dioxin Agent Orange used by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, her lawyers said...

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BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Commission insisted Monday it still trusts the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and that its dispute with the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker is only contractual.The EU's executive branch has launched legal proceedings in Belgium against the firm for what it believes...

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For more than a year now, the state of America's live music industry has been a grim one.The COVID-19 pandemic threw hundreds of thousands of musicians, roadies and other touring industry professionals out of work, according to the Country Music Association...

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NEW YORK (AP) - ElectraMeccanica, known for its tiny, single passenger, three-wheeled electric cars, has chosen Mesa, Arizona, as the location for its U.S. assembly and engineering plant...

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The Treasury Department on Monday launched its $350 billion program to distribute aid to state and local governments, giving the U.S. economy an added boost after relatively modest hiring in April...

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece reopened primary schools and junior highs for in-person classes Monday for the first time in months, as the country eases coronavirus restrictions even as daily infections and deaths remain stubbornly high...

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MEXICO CITY (AP) - U.S. and Mexican unions on Monday filed the first labor complaint against Mexico under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade pact. The complaint argues that Mexico has not lived up to its pledge under the trade accord, known as the USMCA, to guarantee workers the right to freely ...

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Drops in several Big Tech companies led the stock market lower Monday, pulling major indexes below the record highs they set last week. The S&P 500 spent the first half of the day wobbling between small gains and losses before slipping...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror...

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico's state government will receive $1.75 billion in pandemic relief from the federal government under the economic recovery plan from the Biden administration and Congress, the U...

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ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) _ 3D Systems Corp. (DDD) on Monday reported first-quarter net income of $45.2 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.The Rock Hill, South Carolina-based company said it had profit of 36 cents per share...

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The father of a Cambridge, Massachusetts, elementary school student said Monday he was shocked when he pulled two activity booklets from his son's backpack that had been distributed at his school, including one titled: "Natural Gas: Your Invisible Friend...

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