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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson opposes Medicaid expansion, but after voters approved it last August he said he would abide by the will of the people.

The General Assembly may make that impossible.

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ATLANTA — President Joe Biden reconnected with Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in the southwest Georgia town of Plains on Thursday as they rekindled a fruitful political friendship that stretches back decades.

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SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Calif. — Dr. Gail Newel looks back on the past year and struggles to articulate exactly when the public bellows of frustration around her COVID-19-related health orders morphed into something darker ...Read more

NEW DELHI — When India launched its COVID-19 vaccination drive in mid-January, the chances of success looked high: It could produce more shots than any country in the world and had decades of experience inoculating ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is just passing its 100-day mark, and there is still no nomination for U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Is this President Joe Biden's way of signaling to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...Read more

Amazon has reached a settlement resolving complaints filed with the National Labor Relations Board alleging the company disciplined or retaliated against employees who participated

Employees said the settlement resolves ...Read more

MIAMI — An employee at Broward County Public Schools has been charged with making bomb and mass shooting threats, deputies say.

Patrick Jean, a 28-year-old front desk attendant at Lauderdale Lakes Middle School, was ...Read more

President Joe Biden’s address to Congress focused rather heavily on domestic matters, particularly his $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” package. We didn’t hear much about foreign affairs. That’s because he’s put ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Alderman Patrick Daley Thompson, nephew and grandson of the city’s two legendary mayors, was charged Thursday as part of a federal investigation into the collapse of a clout-heavy bank in his family�...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger has resigned, House Speaker Scott Bedke told the Idaho Statesman on Thursday.

“He resigned,” Bedke, an Oakley Republican, told the Statesman by text just hours ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five people have been arrested in connection to the shooting of Lady Gaga’s dogwalker during a robbery in which two of the singer’s French bulldogs were stolen, Los Angeles police announced Thursday.

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NEW YORK — Michael Cohen on Thursday ripped Rudy Giuliani as a greedy “idiot” who deserves to get raked over the coals by federal prosecutors for doing President Donald Trump’s dirty work and trying to profit off ...Read more

You have to hand it to Billie Eilish for making absolutely no attempt to gloss over the unhappier parts of pop stardom.

In her haunting new single, "Your Power" — which dropped Thursday morning not long after the 19-...Read more

The Billboard Music Awards nominations hit a much higher note for The Weeknd than the Grammys did.

The R&B superstar, who shockingly didn’t receive a single Grammy nod in 2021 despite having a prolific musical year, ...Read more

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Pasquotank Sheriff Tommy Wooten on Thursday released the names of the deputies who fired shots at Andrew Brown last week when he left his home as they executed a search warrant.

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The speculation can stop ... finally.

“Minari” star Yuh-Jung Youn, who made history Sunday when she took home the Oscar for best supporting actress, is clearing up the viral moment she had with Brad Pitt, whose Plan B...Read more

There's a scene in 1995's "The Basketball Diaries" where Leondardo DiCaprio, playing junkie street poet Jim Carroll, comes knocking at the door of the apartment of his mother (Lorraine Bracco), begging to be let inside. He...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Superintendent Robert Runcie may sever ties with the Broward School District next week, but he could be around another 90 days after that.

School Board Chairwoman Rosalind Osgood told the School ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced it would move to ban menthol tobacco cigarettes and flavored cigars, a historic step the agency said would significantly prevent death and disease, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Vice President Kamala Harris visited Baltimore on Thursday to mark the 100th day of the Biden-Harris administration with a tour of the mass coronavirus vaccination site at M&T Bank Stadium.

Harris arrived ...Read more