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FILE - Thousands of unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland during the Great Depression, after some 2,000 jobs were made available for park improvements and repairs, Oct. 9, 1930. (AP Photo, File)
Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists […]
APRIL 8, 2025
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Ed Lutgen shows off his tattoo while waiting to hear the results of the union vote on a new contract offer from Boeing, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at IAM District 751 Union Hall in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Strike at Boeing was part of a new era of labor activism long in decline at US work places
Aircraft assembly workers at Boeing factories near Seattle and elsewhere voted to end a seven-week strike overnight. Leaders of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers district in Seattle said 59% of members who cast ballots agreed to approve the company’s fourth formal offer and the third put to a vote. Organized labor has […]
NOV. 5, 2024
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This photo provided by NASA shows part of the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite resting in a thermal vacuum chamber in August 2020 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders tests political waters by headlining GOP event in early-voting South Carolina
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to headline the latest iteration of an event previously billed as the largest annual gathering of Republicans in South Carolina, a state traditionally key to picking the GOP’s presidential nominees, and one in which she already has deep relationships. Rep. Sheri Biggs of South Carolina’s 3rd District told The Associated […]
JULY 30, 2025
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Wrestlers train during a practice session at a sumo camp in Tottori Johoku High School in Tottori, Japan, on July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Japanese women struggle to find a place in the Japanese sumo world
Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from the traditional ring, the dohyō in Japanese. That legacy is facing quiet resistance. While professional sumo — the sumo that the world […]
SEPT. 11, 2025
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People hold signs as they gather outside the U.S. District Court after a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's effort to halt the nation's refugee admissions system Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
A federal judge in Seattle blocks Trump’s effort to halt the refugee admissions system
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s suspension of the nation’s refugee admissions system, saying that while the president has broad authority over who comes into the country, he cannot nullify the law passed by Congress establishing the program. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by individual […]
FEB. 25, 2025
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Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks to an overflow crowd outside a campaign event Sunday, June 7, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Graham Platner gets a lift from friendly Maine crowd after week of damage control in Senate campaign
Graham Platner was met by an enthusiastic and supportive crowd Sunday at a town hall-style event in Maine as the Democrat looks to advance his Senate campaign after reports about his past treatment of women just days before the state's crucial primary.
JUNE 8, 2026
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Husband Jason Love speaks at funeral services for former U.S. Rep. Mia Love at the University of Utah Institute of Religion in Salt Lake City on Monday, April 7, 2025. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool)
First Black Republican woman in Congress honored in Utah after her death from brain cancer
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor the life and legacy of the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49. The former lawmaker from Utah, a daughter of Haitian […]
APRIL 7, 2025
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FILE - Stephen Nedoroscik, of the United States, celebrates after winning the bronze medal during the men's artistic gymnastics individual pommel finals at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
A year after fame found him in Paris, Stephen Nedoroscik, aka ‘Pommel Horse Guy,’ is back for more
The glasses haven’t gone anywhere. And they aren’t going anywhere. The same goes for Stephen Nedoroscik’s hair, which remains a bit of a floppy, curly brown mess. Nor, insists the gymnast who became forever known as “Pommel Horse Guy” after winning a pair of bronze medals in Paris, has his devotion to the discipline that made him one of the breakout […]
AUG. 7, 2025
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FILE - Jeff Bezos, left, and Lauren Sanchez leave a hotel for their pre wedding reception, in Venice, Italy, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are awarding $5 million to a leader in neurodiversity education
Mega billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, former news anchor Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are awarding $5 million to the founder of a neurodivergent student support network, a recognition that the lesser-known recipient credits to the students powering his fast-growing movement for more inclusive classrooms. “I feel like there’s a narrative sometimes that our little […]
DEC. 17, 2025
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FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Trump’s Justice Department is investigating him and his wife
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday accused the Justice Department of launching a politically motivated investigation into him and his wife, saying the Trump administration was targeting him as he weighs a presidential bid.
JUNE 16, 2026
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Probe Journalists, activists among firm’s spyware targets
Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, talks to members of the media in Istanbul, July 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) BOSTON (AP) — An investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data provides further evidence that military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire outfit, is […]
JULY 18, 2021
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