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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A jury found a farm laborer guilty of murder Friday in the abduction and killing of a University of Iowa student who vanished while out

HONOLULU (AP) — Cruising along the west side of Hawaiis Big Island, the landscape is dominated by ancient volcanic flows and jagged shorelines. Then you get to Hapuna Beach.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major step toward returning to pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has eased mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds and in most indoor settings. “Today is a great day for America,” President Joe Biden said Thursday during a Rose Garden address heralding the new guidance, an event where he and his staff went without masks. Hours earlier in the Oval Office, where ...

CLEMMONS, N.C. (AP) — The nations largest fuel pipeline restarted operations Wednesday, days after it was forced to shut down by a gang of hackers. The disruption of Colonial Pipeline caused long lines at gas stations in the Southeast due to distribution problems and panic-buying, draining supplies at thousands of gas stations. Colonial initiated the restart of pipeline operations late Wednesday, saying in a statement that “all lines, including those lateral lines that have been runni...

Hows this for two headlines flashing by in rapid succession? first one, from the a.p. u.s. air quality slipping after years of improvement. the air quality in the u.s. has been getting better for years, thanks to better environmental regulations and enforcement. it was getting better for years until these past couple of years, whereupon the trump administration has been setting environmental regulations on fire and then dousing them in banned chemical pesticides that killed condors and now the a...

Year. guitar player brian whited from middle class seymour, tennessee, are there classes youre not able to take because theyre not offered in the school that youd like to take? >> i guess any a.p. classes at all. >> reporter: sophomore shawn patell from upper middle class montgomery, new jersey. the son of indian immigrants, shawn is already taking two a.p. classes, which leaves him little time for his favorite hobby, dancing. >> im taking spanish iv, a.p. u.s. history one, a.p. statistics, engl...

Walls and hummers out in the driveway and private jets and boats and they buy $10,000 of lottery tickets and they look at their budget, sit down with the accountant and the accountant says what do you want to cut and im being dead serious, lets cut the education fund. the kids aint going to school for ten years. we can save money there. when republicans say were not going to touch 88% of the budget but were going to slash infrastructure spiending, education spending, cut things that china is sta...