Americans’ confidence in air travel safety dips slightly after Washington plane crash
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By By LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press 
February 20, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ confidence in air travel and the federal agencies tasked with maintaining air safety has slipped a little from last year, following a recent crash in Washington, according...
How Presidents Day evolved from reverence to retail
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February 17, 2025
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king. And yet the Un...
Southern California hit by destructive debris flows caused by heavy rains
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February 15, 2025
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER AND PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Debris flows brought on by the strongest atmospheric river of the season swept a car off a southern California highway and ...
Could Canada really become the 51st U.S. state? Here’s what it would take
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By By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press 
February 14, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes erasing the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the countries and alleviating the nee...
US inflation worsened last month with cost of groceries and gasoline rising
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By By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer 
February 13, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation accelerated last month as the cost of groceries, gas, and used cars rose, a trend that will likely underscore the Federal Reserve’s resolve to delay any further intere...
Snow and freezing rain cause crashes in Va. while Calif. prepares for likely flooding
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By By BEN FINLEYAND JOHN RABY Associated Press 
February 13, 2025
Heavy snow and freezing rain caused hundreds of crashes in Virginia and left tens of thousands of residents in the dark as the central Appalachians and parts of the mid-Atlantic states braced for heav...
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U.S. sales fall for American whiskeys as threats of a trade war heat up
By By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press 
February 12, 2025
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Like a watered-down drink, domestic sales for American whiskeys were unsatisfying in 2024, as inflation reined in consumer spending on some distilled spirits. But it’s tariffs t...
Vatican’s Caritas outraged at ‘reckless’ USAID cuts, says millions will die
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By By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press 
February 11, 2025
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s charity voiced outrage Monday at what it called the “reckless” and “unhuman” U.S. plans to gut USAID, with Pope Francis’ point-man on development aid insisting that t...
USAID staffers turned away from offices even after court suspends leave order
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By By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press 
February 11, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials and federal officers turned away scores of U.S. Agency for International staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters, after a court temporarily bl...
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February 10, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican skepticism in the Senate of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees has been worn down, putting his unconventional choices for some of the most powerful positions in the...