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Rep. Jared Golden comes out ahead through Maine's ranked choice voting, but there may be a recount

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Democratic Rep. Jared Golden came out ahead in the congressional race through Maine's ranked choice system, election officials said Friday. If the results stand it would be the ...

Nov 15, 2024

Trump names Karoline Leavitt as youngest ever White House press secretary

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary. Leavitt, 27, currently a spokespe...

Nov 15, 2024

Court temporarily limits scope of ruling that Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is unconstitutional

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Friday temporarily limited the scope of a ruling that Louisiana's law requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments in all classroo...

Nov 15, 2024

Trump names Interior-designee Doug Burgum to head new White House council on energy

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump's choice to head the Interior Department, will also lead a newly created National Energy Counc...

Nov 15, 2024

Guatemalan court overturns order that freed journalist José Rubén Zamora, orders his return to jail

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - A Guatemalan appeals court on Friday overturned the order freeing journalist Jos Rubn Zamora and ordered his return to jail. Zamora, founder of El Peridico newspaper, had spent m...

Nov 15, 2024

Regulators approve North Dakota section of planned 5-state Midwest carbon dioxide pipeline

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota utility regulators granted approval on Friday for a span of a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline that would cross five Midwestern states - a key victory for the compan...

Nov 15, 2024

A French student who was arrested and detained in Tunisia returns to Paris

PARIS (AP) - A French doctoral student detained in Tunisia returned to Paris on Friday after weeks of top-level diplomatic discussions. Victor Dupont, a 27-year-old pursuing a Ph.D. at Aix-Marseille U...

Nov 15, 2024

Germany's Scholz discusses Ukraine with Russia's Putin in first such call in 2 years

BERLIN (AP) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the war in Ukraine in a phone call Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the German government said, in the first such conversation in two...

Nov 15, 2024

Fire breaks out at a Spanish nursing home, killing at least 10 people

MADRID (AP) - At least 10 people died in a blaze at a nursing home in Zaragoza, Spain, before firefighters managed to extinguish it , local authorities reported on Friday. Authorities were alerted of ...

Nov 15, 2024

South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false state...

Nov 14, 2024