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NATIONAL
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Trump will join grieving families for the return of soldiers killed in war in the Middle East
SUMMARY: President Donald Trump plans to attend the dignified transfer for the six U.S. soldiers killed in the Middle East. On Saturday afternoon, Trump will join their mourning families at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base as the soldiers' remains return to the United States. The soldiers died last week in a drone strike on a command center in Kuwait. Trump said at event in Miami before his trip to Delaware that the fallen service members were heroes “coming home in a different manner than they thought they’d be coming home.” He said it was “a very sad situation” and he pledged to keep American war deaths “to a minimum.”
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSIranUSMilitaryDeathsrdLdWritethru/c6ca32cc5deaf90e1a5c1805dbde807b/text___
Tornadoes kill 6 people in Michigan and Oklahoma as powerful storms hit nation's midsection
SUMMARY: A threat of severe weather is continuing across the nation's mid-section this weekend. Powerful storms that spawned tornadoes on Friday killed four people in Michigan and two in Oklahoma, and left swaths of damage including leveled homes. Authorities in Michigan say three people were killed and 12 were injured near Union City, after an apparent tornado hit. About 50 miles southwest, Cass County officials say one person was killed and several injured after a tornado touched down. Officials say another tornado in Beggs, Oklahoma, near Tulsa killed two people. The National Weather Service says the risk of severe weather continues Saturday from Texas to the Great Lakes.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSSevereWeatherthLdWritethru/f4666951e5ef045520e839923b788cba/text___
Families with missing loved ones like Nancy Guthrie face ambiguous loss. It freezes grief
SUMMARY: Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie, remains missing after nearly 40 days in Arizona. In neighboring New Mexico, Lynette Pino says she has something in common: Her son remains missing nearly 18 years after leaving home to visit his father. Pino says she prays for the Guthrie family to get some answers. Experts say what Pino and the Guthries are experiencing is “ambiguous loss.” A loved one has disappeared, making it maddeningly mysterious and possibly permanent. Tai Mendenhall, a family therapist at the University of Minnesota, says faith and community can help.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSGuthrieFamilyAmbiguousLoss/facf37e831fc39133846b4efd2115aca/text___
US immigration authorities arrest Spanish-language news reporter in Tennessee
SUMMARY: Court documents say immigration authorities arrested a reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet in Tennessee without a warrant. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says in a court filing Friday that a valid arrest warrant was issued. Agents arrested Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany Rodriguez Florez during a traffic stop Wednesday. She is being detained by ICE’s enforcement and removal operations. Rodriguez has done stories critical of ICE. Her lawyers want her released. They say in court records that Rodriguez is a Colombian citizen who entered the U.S lawfully and has applied for political asylum and legal status through her husband, a U.S. citizen. A lawyer for ICE says her visa had expired.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSICEReporterArrestedthLdWritethru/5b3869f74a84023fd430f09d5515fdc0/text___
After a president-filled celebration, Rev. Jesse Jackson's family gathers for an intimate homegoing
SUMMARY: The family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is honoring him with a private memorial at Rainbow PUSH headquarters in Chicago. Saturday’s service closes a week of public commemorations that included state tributes and presidential eulogies. Members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. conducted a private ceremony honoring Jackson at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson’s family members invited activists and alumni of the organization to gather at its headquarters. After the final memorial service, the family and activists will hit the road for another commemoration. Members of Jackson’s family are expected to attend the annual commemoration of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSJesseJacksonMemorialstLdWritethru/73d5672e29f56cd15160e1d8514dab4d/text___
As citizen voting bill stalls in US Senate, some states forge ahead
SUMMARY: Strict citizen voting requirements sought by President Donald Trump have stalled in the U.S. Senate. But Republicans in some states are pressing ahead with similar measures. Bills requiring people to show proof of citizenship to register to vote won final approval this week in South Dakota and Utah. A similar measure has passed the Florida House. And supporters in Michigan turned in 750,000 petition signatures this week to try to get a proof-of-citizenship measure on the November ballot. Federal law already requires people registering to vote to affirm they are U.S. citizens. But Trump contends more proof should be required.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSVotingProofofCitizenship/4688881c23d4ea64654cd24aacb47339/text___
Videos show US citizen's shooting death in Texas last year by federal immigration agent
SUMMARY: Newly released videos showing the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent in Texas last year call into question assertions by the Department of Homeland Security that a driver intentionally rammed an agent with his car. The footage released Friday comes nearly a year after the death of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez. His death was the earliest of at least six fatal shootings by federal agents since a nationwide immigration crackdown was launched in President Donald Trump’s second term. A friend who was riding in the car with Martinez told investigators the driver had not intended to harm federal officers but panicked because he feared getting arrested for driving while intoxicated.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSImmigrationEnforcementTexasFatalShooting/e7377deeae6ba9a42a31b7b03da14598/text___
A wedding proposal and a promotion honored a Coast Guardsman before he died of injuries from mission
SUMMARY: A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer has died after being injured while on a medical evacuation mission off the Washington coast. But before he passed away Thursday evening, two poignant ceremonies were held on his behalf: His partner posted on social media that she had accepted a hospital-room wedding proposal carried out by his family, and the Coast Guard said it awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross. The rescue swimmer, Tyler Jaggers, was part of an Oregon-based crew that responded Feb. 27 to transport a stroke victim from a commercial vessel off the Washington coast. The agency did not specify what happened, citing an ongoing investigation.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSCoastGuardRescueSwimmerDeathstLdWritethru/bd69f8d59a75f8a6295a501732fd6e31/text___
Suspect in Utah killings of 3 women was free on Iowa burglary and other charges
SUMMARY: Court documents show that a man accused of killing three women in Utah was already known to police in Iowa. Twenty-two-year-old Ivan Miller had been scheduled for an arraignment Friday in Iowa where he's accused of breaking into a cabin back in December. Miller had been released without bail on those charges in January after vowing to appear for the next court appearance. He's now jailed in Colorado and separately charged in Utah with the deaths of the three women. A public defender representing Miller in the Colorado case said Friday during a court hearing that his client will fight extradition to Utah and does not want to speak to media.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSUtahDeathsrdLdWritethru/f62d20fe89bbd98a3005e200493715bd/text___
Former Democratic presidents remember the late Rev. Jesse Jackson during final public tribute
SUMMARY: From former presidents to an NBA Hall of Famer to prominent church pastors, stories of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s influence on politics, corporate boardrooms and picket lines loomed large at a celebration honoring the late civil rights leader. Thousands of people gathered Friday at a church on Chicago’s South Side to pay a final public tribute to Jackson. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden, and former Vice President Kamala Harris, spoke during the program. The ceremony honors Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate. It follows memorial services that drew large crowds in Chicago and South Carolina.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSJesseJacksonMemorialthLdWritethru/263587cbc73df9ff9e30857aba60d492/text___
Man convicted in political assassination plot he tied to Iranian paramilitary
SUMMARY: A Pakistani business owner who tried to hire hit men to kill a U.S. politician has been convicted in a trial that showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil. A jury delivered its verdict against Asif Merchant on Friday. Merchant acknowledged in a U.S. court that he sought to put an assassination in motion during the 2024 presidential campaign. He testified that he was acting on instructions from a contact in the Islamic Republic’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Merchant said the handler broached possible targets including then-candidate Donald Trump, then-President Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and presidential hopeful. The Iranian government has denied trying to kill U.S. officials.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSPoliticalAssassinationsPlotndLdWritethru/2e15428827dd6c05eedef4929a1ce822/text___
For survivors, Rhode Island clergy abuse report brings vindication and renewed demands
SUMMARY: A report by Rhode Island’s attorney general detailing decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy is giving survivors a sense of vindication while renewing calls for accountability and support. The investigation identified 75 clergy members who sexually abused more than 300 children since 1950, though officials say the true number is likely higher. Survivors say the report confirms what they have long known and exposes years of secrecy within the church. Many are now speaking publicly about the lasting trauma and the struggle to be believed. They are urging church leaders to provide meaningful support for victims, including help paying for therapy and other services.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSPriestAbuseVictimsthLdWritethru/6a662221b5275635982ab027352de2b5/text___
Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility
SUMMARY: The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas. The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition and emotional distress. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson rejected claims of subprime conditions, saying detainees receive food, water and medical treatment in a facility that's regularly cleaned.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSImmigrationDetentionConditionsthLdWritethru/b2d1cb0e4b579e0d89caabd00aa04e34/text___
Florida Bar walks back statement on investigation into Halligan, now says there is none
SUMMARY: The Florida Bar has walked back what it said was an erroneous statement indicating that it had an open investigation into Lindsey Halligan, a former top federal prosecutor in Virginia. A letter from a bar association representative to an advocacy group that had requested an inquiry into Halligan said an investigation was “pending” in response to the group’s complaint. Jennifer Krell Davis, a spokesperson for the Florida Bar, also said Thursday that there was an “open file” but declined to comment further. Davis issued a new statement Friday saying the Florida Bar wrote a letter to the complainant, “erroneously stating” there is a pending investigation. Halligan responded Friday evening to emails about the investigation with the message, “Where’s my apology?”
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSLindseyHalliganInvestigationthLdWritethru/05c2bcdee8f2defba4b8120d10830f20/text___
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Iran war deaths could resurface Trump’s complicated history with military sacrifice
SUMMARY: President Donald Trump will visit Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Saturday to view the dignified transfer for six soldiers killed during his war with Iran. It’s delicate for any president to watch the flag-draped transfer cases return home from overseas, a solemn event that honors the dead but shines a spotlight on the human costs of the president’s decisions. The visit could be an especially fraught moment for Trump, whose comments on military service and sacrifice have prompted some of the biggest controversies of his decade in politics.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSIranUSTrumpMilitaryServicestLdWritethru/0a150a0cacecb8b5fc6b90cbb2c7baf1/text___
Trump administration and Democrats at odds over risk to US weapons stockpiles from Iran war
SUMMARY: The U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have raised concerns among Democrats and others about diminishing American stockpiles of certain weapons. It illustrates a long-standing production problem that some experts say could present challenges if another conflict emerges. Missile defense systems are in high demand, particularly in Ukraine and Israel. Their use in Iran has worried some Democratic lawmakers about sufficient stockpiles. The Trump administration has repeatedly said American forces have all of the weapons they need to fight the war in Iran.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSIranUSMunitionsstLdWritethru/006d6294441fb2338463f6260e1a9256/text___
Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike US military, AP sources say
SUMMARY: Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region. That's according to two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter. The officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity, cautioned that the U.S. intelligence has not uncovered that Russia is directing Iran what to do with the information. Still, it's the first indication that Moscow has sought to get involved in the war that the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran a week ago.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSIranUSRussiardLdWritethru/35afae34198408d670941f971d383378/text___
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INTERNATIONAL
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A nightclub bombing in Peru injures 33, including minors, authorities say
SUMMARY: A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday. The explosion occurred in the pre-dawn hours at the Dali nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru’s norther coast, according to a statement from the local Emergency Operations Center. It’s a region that has recently been plagued by violence and crime. It wasn’t immediately clear who was responsible. At least five of the injured are in serious condition, according to the executive director of the Trujillo Health Network, Gerardo Florián Gómez. Some of the victims suffered amputations and shrapnel wounds and are undergoing surgery, he told reporters.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APLTPeruNightclubBombing/a2e17ca032cfd0dd54a06c91b4d951a2/text___
Trump encourages Latin American leaders to use military action to help US fight cartels
SUMMARY: President Donald Trump says the U.S. and Latin American countries are banding together to combat violent cartels as his administration looks to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere. Trump encouraged Latin American leaders gathered at his Miami-area golf club on Saturday to take military action against drug trafficking cartels and transnational gangs. He said those groups pose an “unacceptable threat” to the hemisphere’s national security. Trump said “the only way to defeat these enemies is by unleashing the power of our militaries."
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSTrumpLatinAmericathLdWritethru/d1cbf9af62f10e0644770f2e2b2bd791/text___
At least 10 killed in Ukraine's Kharkiv as Russian missile hits apartment building
SUMMARY: At least 10 people, including two children, have been killed and 16 others wounded in a Russian missile strike on a five-story residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned Saturday's attack and called for an international response. He said that Russia struck Ukraine overnight with 29 missiles and 480 drones, targeting energy facilities in Kyiv and other central regions and damage reported in at least seven other locations across the country. In Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s northeast, emergency workers were still combing the rubble in the morning, looking for survivors.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APEURussiaUkraineWarthLdWritethru/f555c370a7439a41393e74a6e603db43/text___
At least 25 dead in Kenya after heavy rain brings flash floods and flight disruption to Nairobi
SUMMARY: At least 25 people are known to have died after heavy rain caused flooding and flight disruption in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The military was deployed on Saturday as motorists were stranded for hours following heavy rains overnight. The downpours submerged some vehicles and forced motorists to wade through hip-high water to reach higher ground. Videos of flooded homes were shared on social media. A military rescue unit was deployed to support emergency services as Kenya Red Cross response units struggled to reach people in need.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APAFKenyaFloodsthLdWritethru/d110ed756054d1ca6869aa3254b20d1f/text___
The Latest: Trump says he’ll hit Iran harder as Iranian president apologizes to neighbors
SUMMARY: U.S. President Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social post that more Iranian officials will be targets, saying, “Today Iran will be hit very hard!,” while noting an apology by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian earlier in the day to neighboring nations over Tehran’s attacks. Saudi Arabia says it intercepted drones aimed at its Shaybah oil field. Dubai International Airport halted flights after alerts, blasts and passengers sheltering in train tunnels. Israel is striking Beirut, southern Lebanon and Tehran. Officials report rising deaths in Iran, Lebanon and Israel, plus six U.S. troops killed.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLIranUSTheLatestthLdWritethru/9edb192be983f9ede197cb6612a83dc6/text___
Iran's president apologizes for strikes on neighbors even as missiles and drones target their cities
SUMMARY: Iran’s president has apologized to Gulf neighbors as Iranian missiles and drones hit the region, suggesting Tehran’s political leadership could not exercise full command over the Islamic Republic’s armed forces. President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday he told the armed forces to stop attacking nearby countries unless Iran was attacked. He still rejected U.S. calls for “unconditional surrender.” Iranian strikes triggered sirens in Bahrain and disruptions in Dubai, while Saudi Arabia said it intercepted drones and a missile. U.S. officials have warned more intense bombing of Iran lies ahead.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLIranUSthLdWritethru/d347fd6a03185f51d670bf4e7cbf5373/text___
State actors are behind much of the visual misinformation about the Iran war
SUMMARY: A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began last weekend, fueled in part by state-linked propaganda influence campaigns — particularly around who is winning the war and how bad casualties have been. Artificial intelligence has helped fuel misinformation in ways that weren’t possible during past conflicts, even just a few years ago. Coupled with state-linked disinformation and censorship, this creates an even wider vacuum in which the truth can get lost.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSIranUSMisinformation/9e495017dc5c4bf24a0b6152863dbfb1/text___
Ex-rapper's political party leads early results in Nepal's first election since 2025 youth revolt
SUMMARY: Preliminary and partial results show that a new political party led by an ex-rapper leading Nepal’s parliamentary election, the country’s first since last year’s youth-led revolt. The Rastriya Swatantra, or National Independent, Party, had already won 27 of 165 directly elected seats and was leading in 90 other constituencies in the results published by Nepal’s Election Commission on Saturday. Its prime ministerial candidate is rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah, who won the 2022 Kathmandu mayoral race and emerged as a leading figure in the 2025 uprising that ousted former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli. The 35-year-old rode a wave of public anger toward traditional political parties to emerge as frontrunner during the campaign.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APASNepalElection/aac242077d2dd052e7e9bdd7c088ccc9/text___
Hong Kong firm seeks $2 billion over Panama's takeover of 2 key canal ports
SUMMARY: A subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based company that has lost control of two critical ports on the Panama Canal says it is seeking $2 billion of compensation in damages from Panama over its “illegal” takeover of the ports. Panama Ports Company, a unit of Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings, said in a statement it is demanding the sum under international arbitration proceedings that it had already started. Panama’s government last week seized control of the Balboa and Cristobal ports on each end of the Panama Canal, after the country’s Supreme Court declared earlier that a concession allowing the Panama Ports Company to run the pair of ports was unconstitutional.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APASHongKongPanamaPorts/67b0e8643f6a25f0277be0bb28afdb73/text___
Islamic militants abduct more than 300 people in northeastern Nigeria, officials say
SUMMARY: Local officials say Islamic militants attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria, abducting more than 300 people, including women and children. The attack on Friday happened in the town of Ngoshe in Borno state. That's according to Bulama Sawa, an official from the Gwoza area. He told The Associated Press the attack was likely in retaliation for an operation by the military that killed three commanders of the militant Boko Haram group.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APAFNigeriaMilitantAttackthLdWritethru/a7f5f647c4a7c9d23120e051aa69d099/text___
Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike
SUMMARY: Satellite images and videos of an Iranian girls school damaged by large explosions at the start of a U.S.-Israeli airstrike campaign targeting the Islamic Republic indicate a targeted attack from the air hit the building. That's according to military experts who spoke to The Associated Press. Iran says the blast killed at least 165 people, most of them children. The location of the strike, its affiliation to a coastal defense unit of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and the tight pattern of the damage suggest a targeted airstrike on the site. Several factors point to a U.S. strike, given the proximity of American forces to the school and focus on missile sites and naval forces in the war.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLIranUSSchoolStrikendLdWritethru/c3095dc9729881b567277a1c5c47efb2/text___
Americans stuck in the Middle East recount finding their way home with little government help
SUMMARY: Stranded Americans across the Middle East say they’ve been left to navigate flight cancellations and confusing government guidance on their own. They expressed frustration with the State Department's directions to “depart now” on commercial flights even though much of the airspace across the Gulf remains closed or heavily restricted. Some have reported relying instead on WhatsApp group chats and friends. Since the war began on Feb. 28, about 20,000 Americans have returned safely to the U.S. The State Department said Thursday that nearly all made it out on their own. The White House pushed back on criticism that the U.S. response has been too slow. The first U.S.-organized charter flight departed the region Wednesday.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APIranUSStrandedTravelersrdLdWritethru/b7a5da348d4fee76ac4a662bc16cf627/text___
Kurdish Iranian dissidents in Iraq deny attack plans but say they would join a US invasion of Iran
SUMMARY: Officials with one of the armed Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq say they are not planning an imminent cross-border attack on Iran but would join a ground invasion if the U.S. were to launch one. Khalil Nadiri, an official with the Kurdistan Freedom Party PAK, made the comments in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. The comments appeared to be aimed at reassuring Iraqi Kurdish officials, who have said they do not want attacks to be launched against Iran from their territory. They fear that they will be further dragged into the war in the Middle East sparked by the U.S. and Israel’s strikes on Iran.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLIranIraqKurds/4b2ce1d3d960c1951fc08faac8fa7745/text___
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Oil and gas prices rapidly rise as Iran war shows no signs of letting up
SUMMARY: The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East. Oil prices surpassed $90 a barrel Friday. The conflict has left ships that carry roughly 20 million barrels of oil a day stranded in the Persian Gulf. That disruption and damage to key oil and gas facilities in the Middle East has led to an interruption in the supply of oil and gas. The fallout is ratcheting up what consumers and business will pay for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, with some drivers already feeling it at the pump.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSIranUSOilPricesrdLdWritethru/1a1b7c3e5fbd735aa87c43ac664501cb/text___
Oil surges to its highest price since 2023, and stocks drop after a weak update on the US job market
SUMMARY: Oil shot to its highest price since 2023 after surging again because of the Iran war, and a weak update on the U.S. job market knocked stocks lower to cap Wall Street’s worst week since October. The S&P 500 dropped 1.3% Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged as many as 945 points before finishing with a loss of roughly 450, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.6%. The combination of a weak economy and high inflation is a worst-case scenario for investors because the Federal Reserve has no good tool to fix both problems at the same time.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APFinancialMarketsthLdWritethru/1f7bf89b783a9ba731f4b25564bf80f8/text___
The US lost a surprising 92,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%
SUMMARY: American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%. The Labor Department reported Friday that hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a healthy 126,000 jobs. Economists had expected 60,000 new jobs in February. Revisions also cut 69,000 jobs from December and January payrolls. The surprisingly weak employment picture in February adds to the economic uncertainty over the war with Iran, which has caused oil prices to surge and saddled business and consumers with unforeseen costs.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSEconomyJobsReportthLdWritethru/075a0d33e0794b7c93b9b8a7302dab98/text___
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Trump administration's embattled FDA vaccine chief is leaving for the second time
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration’s controversial vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the departure to staff in an email late Friday. It's the second time he has abruptly departed the agency following controversial decisions involving the review of vaccinations and specialty drugs for rare diseases. Makary said Prasad would return to his academic job at the University of California, San Francisco. Prasad's time on the job has been marked by a string of reversals in the FDA's review of vaccines and specialty drugs.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSMEDFDAVaccineChiefstLdWritethru/bf56fe9852def8c9f1b9a648e5bb92df/text___
Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds
SUMMARY: A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun. It's the first time that a celestial body's solar orbit was deliberately changed. Scientists reported Friday that the 2022 impact by the Dart spacecraft not only trimmed the asteroid's orbit around its bigger space rock companion, but also around the sun. Researchers say their findings could help divert an incoming killer space rock given enough advance notice. The study was published in Science Advances.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSSCIAsteroidStrike/9abccd32d4cb532a66249dd6145685cb/text___
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NFL teams are becoming more willing to trade two first-round picks for elite defensive players
SUMMARY: Defense wins championships. That’s why NFL teams are becoming more willing to part with valuable draft picks for elite defenders. Trading two first-rounders for a player has been rare with fewer than 20 such deals over the past 40 years. However, three of those have occurred in the past 6 1/2 months and each was for a superstar defensive player. Five-time Pro Bowl edge rusher Maxx Crosby became the latest premier talent traded for two ones when the Baltimore Ravens acquired the 28-year-old star from the Las Vegas Raiders on Friday night, two people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Friday night.
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Fired Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore reaches plea deal to resolve home invasion case
SUMMARY: Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore has pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors in a criminal case that arose immediately after he was fired for having an inappropriate relationship with his executive assistant. The deal was struck Friday, on the same day that a judge planned to hear a challenge to Moore’s arrest in December on three charges, including felony home invasion. Those charges were dropped in exchange for Moore pleading no contest to trespassing and malicious use of a telecom device.
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NHL trade deadline upended as old contenders sell and new buyers add with an eye on the playoffs
SUMMARY: Two-time Stanley Cup champion Florida, Toronto, St. Louis and so many perennial contenders were sellers at the NHL trade deadline. It opened the gates for a new set of buyers who are looking to take the next step into the playoffs and beyond. That includes the New York Islanders, who acquired versatile forward Brayden Schenn from St. Louis. The Buffalo Sabres got Schenn's brother Luke as part of a trio of trades to bolster their odds of ending the league's longest postseason drought.
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