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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a movie set and killed the cinematographer, authorities said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Democrats are hurriedly reworking key aspects of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion domestic policy plan, trimming the social services and climate change programs and rethinking new taxes on corporations and the wealthy to pay for a scaled-back package.The changes come as Biden more forcefully appeals to the American public, including in a

BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday said there is “no room” for compromise or concessions over the issue of Taiwan, following a comment by U.S. President Joe Biden that the U.S.

RUSH TWP. — A rail expansion at the Boyd Station soybean processing facility is in full swing and should be completed by February, company officials say.In January of this year, the soybean processing business learned it had won a $2.6 million grant to fund the railway expansion.The project will include the construction of four new tracks and installation of commodity handling

FRANKLIN TWP— Traffic forms a gridlock around Southern Columbia Area School District during morning dropoffs and afternoon pickups at the schools, and officials hope to meet with PennDOT to figure out how to ease traffic.The district has reached out to the transportation department previously, said Superintendent Jim Becker at a Monday meeting.PennDOT suggested rerouting bus

ANCIENT OLYMPIA. Greece (AP) — Three activists protesting human rights abuses in China broke into the archaeological site where the flame lighting ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was being held Monday and ran toward the newly lit torch holding a Tibetan flag and a banner that read “No genocide games.”The protesters climbed over a fence to enter the grounds and

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is entering a crucial two weeks for his ambitious agenda, racing to conclude contentious congressional negotiations ahead of both domestic deadlines and a chance to showcase his administration’s accomplishments on a global stage.Biden and his fellow Democrats are struggling to bridge intraparty divides by month’s end to pass a bipartisan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo only wears watches made by Bulova — a company that laid off her scientist father, closed its Rhode Island factory and moved production to China in 1983.The watches give Raimondo, a former Rhode Island governor, a sense of mission as President Joe Biden's de facto tech minister, a responsibility that is focused on adding the

Some hill and coastal drizzle and then weve got the rain coming into the south east then the channel islands. the temperatures — were looking at ten in lerwick, 17 in belfast and hull, 18 in london. through this evening and overnight eventually we lose the rain from the south—east and also the north—east. well have a drier interlude before the next band of rain sweeps in from the west, accompanied by strengthening winds. but these overnight temperatures are mild for the time of year. they ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident.The missionaries were on their way home from building an orphanage, according to a message from Ohio-based Christian Aid