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Prince Harry will attend father's coronation, Meghan won't
APRIL 25, 2023: LONDON (AP) - Buckingham Palace says Prince Harry will attend the Coronation service of his father, King Charles III, at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023. This ends months of speculati...
Jody Heemstra Apr 25, 2023 Bruce Detorres
For Emmett Till's family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story
JULY 25, 2023: UNDATED (AP)- President Joe Biden has signed (July 25, 2023) a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, tortu...
Jody Heemstra Jul 25, 2023
EXPLAINER: 2023 tax credits for EVs will boost their appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) - Starting Jan. 1, 2023, many Americans will qualify for a tax credit of up to $7,500 for buying an electric vehicle. The credit, part of changes enacted in the Inflation Reduction Act...
Jody Heemstra Dec 26, 2022 Ivan Radic / CC
US consumers keep spending despite high prices and their own gloomy outlook. Can it last?
WASHINGTON (AP) - A flow of recent data from the U.S. government has made one thing strikingly clear: A surge in consumer spending is fueling strong growth, demonstrating a resilience that has confoun...
Jody Heemstra Oct 30, 2023
The Great Grift: COVID-19 fraudster used stolen relief aid to purchase a private island in Florida
YANKEETOWN, Fla. (AP) - Patrick Parker Walsh is one of thousands of thieves who perpetrated the greatest grift in U.S. history - potentially plundering more than $280 billion in federal COVID-19 aid. ...
Jody Heemstra Nov 10, 2023
Bloomberg apologizes for premature story on prisoner swap and disciplines the journalists involved
AUGUST 5, 2024: WASHINGTON (AP) - Bloomberg News is apologizing for a premature story written last week about the prisoner exchange involving the United States and Russia and says it has disciplined t...
Jody Heemstra Aug 06, 2024
Third set of remains found with gunshot wound in search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre graves
AUGUST 3, 2024: OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A third set of remains with a gunshot wound has been found at Tulsa cemetery in the search for graves of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, according to a st...
Jody Heemstra Aug 03, 2024
Minnesota officials vote to tear down dam and bridge that nearly collapsed
AUGUST 28, 2024: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A southern Minnesota dam and nearby bridge that almost collapsed last month after a bout of heavy rain and prompted a federal emergency declaration will be torn dow...
Jody Heemstra Aug 28, 2024
American Farm Bureau annual survey shows Thanksgiving dinner cost down from 2022, but still high relative to recent years
As Americans prepare for Thanksgiving, they'll see some relief in food prices for their Thanksgiving dinner. In the American Farm Bureau Federation's 38th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey, we find th...
Jody Heemstra Nov 21, 2023
Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Nationwide, students have been absent at record rates since schools reopened after COVID-forced closures. More than a quarter of students missed at least 10% of the 2021-22 s...
Jody Heemstra Aug 14, 2023