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D.C.'s Department of Transportation announced Monday that it was awarding a new five-year operative contract to Lyft.

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Lindsay Clancy have asked a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the mother from Massachusetts of murder in the deaths of her three children. In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy’s lawyers asked the court to question the juror about...

ABOARD THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER’S PLANE (AP) — Britain agrees to provide limited military support to Saudi Arabia to counter attacks from Iran-backed Houthis.

NEW YORK (AP) — Movie studio Paramount on Monday agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by 12 states, the last big obstacle blocking the company’s $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal that would transform the movie industry landscape. In the settlement, which still needs to be approved by a judge,...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 21 The New York Times says Donald Trump is attacking press freedoms and disregarding the law Twice during President Trump’s first term, his administration tried to prevent a journalist whose work it did not like from reporting at the White House. Twice, judges...

Wall Street climbed to the edge of its all-time high, and stocks rallied worldwide after oil prices and yields in the bond market surrendered their market-rattling gains from last week. The S&P 500 jumped 1.5% Monday and pulled within 0.4% of its record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed...

CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were higher Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Dec. corn was up 15.5 cents at $5.43 a bushel. Dec. wheat rose by 10 cents at $7.26 a bushel. Dec. oats rose by 6.75 cents at $4.09 a bushel. Nov. soybeans was up 23 cents at $13.27 a bushel. Beef...

The state medical examiner ruled the death of a man found hanging from a tree in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, a suicide, police said Monday.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The attorney for a North Carolina girl accused of helping two teens who carried out a deadly attack on a San Diego mosque says prosecutors haven’t provided enough information to allow him to defend his client. Sarah Santiago, 17, is charged as an adult with three counts of murder by aiding...

Hundreds of flights were canceled in the U.S. Northeast on Monday due to technical problems at a key regional air traffic control center, halting operations at every major airport in the New York City area for several hours just as numerous foreign leaders were flying in for the United Nations General Assembly. However, President Donald...

TAYBEH, West Bank (AP) — Leo Correa began working in Israel for The Associated Press following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack and joined the staff the next year. Here’s what he had to say about this extraordinary photo: Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, 2023, settler violence has surged across...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them, according to current and former officials familiar with the practice. ICE removed those detainees from...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that the central bank may have to cause economic pain in the form of higher unemployment to combat stubbornly high inflation. Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said in a speech in London that the Fed is facing a series of...

NEW YORK (AP) — World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are being forced to grapple with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change, soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer’s oppressive heat waves, prolific wildfires and catastrophic Nepal flood. Every year as top government officials come to the...

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares mostly advanced Monday as investors monitor updates ahead of the expected meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week in Washington which could cover trade, artificial intelligence and geopolitics. U.S. futures were higher, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters following talks Sunday with...

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