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NATIONAL
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What to know about attacks at Old Dominion University and a Michigan synagogue
SUMMARY: Communities were reeling and authorities investigating after attacks at Old Dominion University in Virginia and a Michigan synagogue unfolded less than two hours apart. The FBI says Friday a Michigan man killed himself after ramming a vehicle into the synagogue. He had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon. In Virginia, a former Army National Guard member opened fire on a classroom at Old Dominion University. He had served years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State. Authorities have lauded members of both communities who stepped up to prevent more bloodshed.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSAttacksWhattoKnowstLdWritethru/057b109d96e10b3920e3673e48a41db6/text___
Before recent attack, Michigan synagogue had been bolstering its security
SUMMARY: The Michigan synagogue that came under attack this week when an armed man drove his car into the building had for months been strengthening its security apparatus. Temple Israel had hired a seasoned police lieutenant as its security director and held active shooter training. The synagogue was able to avoid any deaths among its congregants in Thursday’s attack. The effort to beef up security at the synagogue outside Detroit came as many houses of worship have undergone similar efforts. Synagogues around the world have increased protections after the U.S. and Israel launched a war with Iran late last month.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSMichiganSynagogueAttackSecuritystLdWritethru/dfee6eae3f2b49c9b8dceb67bbd6ad9f/text___
US faces elevated terrorism threats against backdrop of Iran war and cuts at FBI, Justice Department
SUMMARY: Three acts of ideologically inspired violence in the past week in the United States have laid bare the heightened terrorism threat unfolding against the backdrop of the war with Iran. And they've also put a focus on a counterterrorism system strained by the widespread departures of experienced national security professionals at the FBI and Justice Department. Those firings and resignations, coupled with the diversion of resources over the last year to meet other Trump administration priorities, have increased concerns about the capability to head off a potential surge in threats.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSTerrorismThreatndLdWritethru/18d59b0c72ca52db09c8ff03215efe14/text___
Old Dominion shooter was released from prison early after completing drug program
SUMMARY: The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University completed a drug treatment program that allowed him early release from federal prison, even though he was convicted of a terrorism charge that should have disqualified him from that benefit. Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2017 to providing material support to the Islamic State group. Prison records show he was released about 2½ years early. The federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday that Jalloh was released in 2024 because of a loophole in a legal provision that allows some inmates to shave time off their sentences by completing a substance abuse treatment program.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSVirginiaUniversityShooterHistorythLdWritethru/b257727b0167982fbffafae2eb8548fd/text___
Man who rammed into Michigan synagogue had just lost family in an Israeli strike in Lebanon
SUMMARY: A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building. Authorities say 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali crashed into Temple Israel Thursday, got his vehicle stuck in a hallway and started firing his gun through the windshield. The FBI says he fatally shot himself. Ghazali was granted U.S. citizenship in 2016. An official in Lebanon told The Associated Press that an Israeli airstrike killed Ghazali’s two brothers and a niece and nephew at their home on March 5.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSMichiganSynagogueAttackthLdWritethru/58331bad2c28e78c6c99a4a764637873/text___
Justice Department charges man accused of selling gun to Old Dominion University shooter
SUMMARY: The Justice Department has charged a man who authorities say sold a gun to the Old Dominion University shooter despite the gunman’s previous conviction in a terrorism case. Kenya Chapman was charged Friday in connection to the sale of the weapon to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Army National Guard member who yelled “Allahu akbar” before opening fire at the Virginia school on Thursday. One person was killed and two others were injured in the shooting Thursday. Jalloh was barred from possessing a gun after pleading guilty in 2016 to attempting to aid the Islamic State extremist group.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSUniversityShootingVirginiathLdWritethru/3e9049d15354b33bba37035a98a5299f/text___
Jury finds ex-NY trooper guilty of manslaughter in 2020 chase that killed 11-year-old
SUMMARY: A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his vehicle into an SUV during a high-speed chase leading to the death of an 11-year-old girl has been convicted of manslaughter at his second trial. Jurors returned the verdict against Christopher Baldner on Friday. Prosecutors say Baldner rammed the SUV twice on the New York State Thruway on Dec. 22, 2020, causing it to lose control and flip over. Eleven-year-old Monica Goods, who was in the SUV, died in the crash.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSTrooperFatalPursuitthLdWritethru/5aecbaa651c253f248e09d49a3fe9083/text___
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WASHINGTON/POLITICS
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Burt Jones was the inevitable Republican nominee for Georgia governor. Then Rick Jackson showed up
SUMMARY: Burt Jones is Georgia's lieutenant governor and he seemed to have a clear path to be the Republican nominee for governor this year with President Donald Trump's endorsement, But then health care tycoon Rick Jackson got into the race in February and he's already spent more than $30 million of his own money on television campaign ads. Jackson pitches himself as a business outsider but is criticized by Jones over his conservative credentials. Jackson’s emergence is yet another challenge to Trump’s influence in a critical battleground state where the president’s kingmaker record is shaky.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSElectionGeorgiaGovernorstLdWritethru/4c1789c599857e220180068e26de9199/text___
The biggest change to voting in Republican election bill could become a burden for many US voters
SUMMARY: Congressional Republicans are pushing voting legislation that's backed by President Donald Trump and would require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship in order to register for federal elections. Obtaining those records and paying for them may not be as easy as the bill’s promoters make it sound. There's a range of hurdles, including the time and money involved in getting birth certificates or passports. A University of Maryland study estimates that 21.3 million Americans who are eligible to vote don’t have documents to prove their citizenship or don't have easy access to them. The House-passed legislation is scheduled to come up next week in the Senate.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSElectionsSAVEActDocuments/dfb43bcdd0255d3665da588a60286b4e/text___
Anti-Muslim rhetoric rises among Republicans with little pushback from GOP leadership
SUMMARY: Anti-Muslim rhetoric is on the rise among some Republican lawmakers. Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles wrote that “Muslims don’t belong in American society.” Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville compared Muslims to the “enemy inside the gates.” The derogatory language comes against the backdrop of the Iran war and drew sharp condemnation from Democrats. Chuck Schumer, the leader of Senate Democrats, called Tuberville’s post “mindless hate.” For many Muslims, it’s a political moment that carries echoes from the early 2000s, when the 9/11 attacks and the global conflicts that they helped spawn generated hostility toward Muslim communities in the United States.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSRepublicansMuslimRhetoric/d01345fb01e610214431a48b222e6294/text___
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INTERNATIONAL
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Russian strike on Kyiv region kills 4 people and wounds 15 as peace talks are stalled
SUMMARY: A Russian missile and drone strike has hit the Kyiv region in Ukraine and killed at least four people. The regional administration head said at least 15 people were wounded. He said on Saturday that the attack hit four districts and damaged homes, schools, businesses and critical infrastructure. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the strikes targeted energy and industrial facilities linked to the Ukrainian military. Ukrainian drones meanwhile hit an oil refinery and port in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region. The U.S. has postponed planned peace talks this week, citing the war in the Middle East, and announced a 30-day waiver on Russian oil sanctions.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APEURussiaUkraineWarthLdWritethru/4aed3cc6ff151c82a474acaf1a3a05ff/text___
Tehran threatens Middle East's busiest port as Iran war enters its third week
SUMMARY: The U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad has been struck again, and debris from an intercepted Iranian drone hit an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates as the war enters its third week. Iran openly threatened a neighbor’s non-U.S. assets for the first time, warning people to immediately evacuate the busiest port in the Middle East and two others in the UAE. Saturday's developments came a day after President Donald Trump said the U.S. destroyed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network and warned that its oil infrastructure could be next if Iran keeps interfering with ships' passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLIranUSthLdWritethru/a2399398b4c590995b814d7640362a11/text___
Iranians grapple with whether to flee the country because of the war
SUMMARY: Iranians are having to make hard choices about whether to flee for safer locales during the war. Thus far, relatively few people have chosen to leave Iran: The U.N. estimates 3.2 million people have been displaced by the fighting but that only about 1,300 Iranians have fled via Turkey each day since the war started, and on some days, more people cross into Iran than depart. Among those who did leave was 32-year-old hairdresser Merve Pourkaz, who told The Associated Press she decided to head to neighboring Turkey after bombs exploded near her home in the eastern Iranian city of Golestan. Experts say that if Iran’s critical infrastructure is destroyed, that could lead to waves of people trying to flee the country.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLIranRefugeesndLdWritethru/0e036a109d7e5b819a0fd6db5a6f3ddd/text___
Pakistan’s president says Afghan Taliban forces crossed a ‘red line’ with drone attacks on civilians
SUMMARY: Pakistan's president says that Afghanistan’s Taliban government has “crossed a red line” with drone attacks that wounded several people a day earlier. He said on Saturday that the administration in Kabul has brought “grave consequences upon itself.” The strongly worded statement signaled a sharp escalation in tensions between Islamabad and Kabul as fighting along their border entered a third week despite diplomatic efforts by China and other countries to broker a ceasefire. On Friday, the Afghan Taliban government accused Pakistan of conducting airstrikes inside Afghanistan, saying at least six civilians were killed.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APASPakistanAfghanistanstLdWritethru/89e68a28e725c7e8f5609ec8a253796b/text___
North Korea fires about 10 missiles toward sea in show of force, Seoul says
SUMMARY: North Korea on Saturday has fired about 10 ballistic missiles toward the eastern sea, South Korea’s military says, staging its own show of force as the rival South conducts a joint military exercise with the United States. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff say the missiles were fired from an area near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Japan’s Defense Ministry says the weapons landed in waters outside the country’s exclusive economic zone. North Korea has long said the joint U.S.-South Korea drills were invasion rehearsals and has used them to justify weapons tests and other military demonstrations.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APASKoreasTensionsthLdWritethru/44a03aff91a068f76b6dfd89023dd378/text___
War has already displaced nearly a million Lebanese, and aid groups warn of a humanitarian crisis
SUMMARY: Hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon have fled their homes since Israel issued mass evacuation orders and ramped up its airstrikes on the militant group Hezbollah. In 10 days, aid groups say more than 800,000 people have been displaced. Many are sleeping in cars or on sidewalks because schools and shelters are full. The government, meanwhile, has turned its largest sports stadium into a shelter. Fatima Nazha, a grandmother from Beirut’s southern suburbs, now lives in a tent inside the stadium. She says conditions are harsh and unsafe. Aid agencies are warning of a full-blown humanitarian crisis and say needs outpace help.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLLebanonDisplacedstLdWritethru/249cacd33642bb03b0b90f4704e82c49/text___
Trump says US bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran's oil network
SUMMARY: President Donald Trump says the U.S. bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network. Trump made the announcement Friday in a social media post. Also Friday, an American official said 2,500 more Marines and an amphibious assault ship are being sent to the Middle East nearly two weeks into the war with the Islamic Republic. Trump said U.S. forces “obliterated” targets on Iran’s Kharg Island — the primary terminal that handles the country’s oil exports — and warned that the island’s oil infrastructure there could be next. Just a day before, the speaker of the Iranian parliament said such a strike would provoke a new level of retaliation.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLIranUSrdLdWritethru/2a86a1f5c5997b70c6586d957074fb0c/text___
US eases some Russian oil sanctions but crude prices stay high
SUMMARY: The U.S. is temporarily easing part of its sanctions measures on Russian oil, a reflection of global worries about sharply higher oil prices due to the Iran war. U.S Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. will lift sanctions for 30 days on Russian oil that is already aboard tankers. That means customers in other countries can buy it without worrying about sanctions punishment. The move, intended to soothe jittery markets over the disruption of Middle Eastern oil and gas supplies, underlines how the Iran war has boosted Moscow’s ability to profit from its energy exports, a pillar of the Kremlin’s budget as it presses its invasion of Ukraine.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSIranRussiaOilrdLdWritethru/d131631be94766f50a5b1888b2aad778/text___
All 6 crew members on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says
SUMMARY: The U.S. military says a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran crashed in western Iraq, killing all six crew members. U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said the crash followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in “friendly airspace,” and that the other plane landed safely. The KC-135 Stratotanker is a U.S. Air Force aircraft used to refuel other planes in midair, allowing them to travel longer distances and maintain operations longer without landing. The plane has been in service for more than 60 years, and has been involved in several fatal accidents. The most recent happened on May 3, 2013, when a KC-135R crashed after takeoff south of Chaldovar, Kyrgyzstan.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLIranUSPlaneDownExplainerthLdWritethru/c337359a58be6280dc96fdbf1cb48a5b/text___
Cuban president confirms US talks as island's energy and economic crises intensify
SUMMARY: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his government has held recent talks with the U.S. His comments on Friday mark the first time the Caribbean country has confirmed speculation about active communication with the Trump administration which has been openly hostile toward the communist government. Díaz-Canel said the talks were aimed at finding solutions to differences between the two nations. Cuban officials have bitterly complained about a U.S. oil blockade on the island that they blame for severe energy shortages. Cuba's western region was hit by a major blackout last week that has left millions without power.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APLTCubaUSthLdWritethru/68bec1bfee9efe696c8ce357463c7a56/text___
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BUSINESS
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Trump seeks to close $1.6 trillion revenue gap with raft of new tariffs
SUMMARY: The Trump administration this week stepped up its ambitious effort to replace about $1.6 trillion in lost tariff revenue that was eliminated by the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a range of the president’s import taxes. Recovering that lost revenue, which the White House was counting on to help offset the steep, multi-trillion dollar cost of its tax cuts, is possible but will be challenging, experts say. The administration has to use different legal provisions to impose new duties, and those provisions require longer, complex processes that U.S. companies can use to seek exemptions. It could be months or more before it is clear how much revenue the replacement tariffs will yield.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSTrumpTariffsDeficit/275f146dbc591bab1730a911e04aa8ea/text___
Jet fuel prices are rising. That could make summer flights more expensive
SUMMARY: Airline ticket prices are starting to climb as carriers respond to rising jet fuel costs tied to the war in Iran. Cathay Pacific, Air France-KLM and a handful of other carriers already have raised their fares or added fuel surcharges. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has warned that higher ticket prices will “probably start quickly.” Experts say it’s not a question of if airfares rise, but when and by how much — especially on long-haul international routes. The security director of a global risk management company advises travelers to book early, set fare alerts and to use using frequent flyer miles or credit card points instead of holding out for a perfect deal.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APIranUSRisingAirfares/ac2446896f112746345702bd6e1986cc/text___
US stocks lose ground as war with Iran keeps pressure on oil prices
SUMMARY: Wall Street’s losses deepened as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher, ratcheting up inflationary pressure on the global economy. After briefly easing early Friday, crude oil prices rose again, bringing the benchmark oil price back above $100 a barrel. The S&P 500 fell 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.3% and the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.9%. A measure of inflation closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January, even before the war with Iran sent energy prices higher.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APFinancialMarketsthLdWritethru/74bf078b7e40b6a0d38033c9fe29a87b/text___
Key inflation gauge worsened in January, before Iran war lifted gas prices
SUMMARY: An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs. Prices rose 2.8% in January compared with a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Friday. And excluding the volatile food and energy categories — which the Fed pays closer attention to — core prices rose 3.1%, up from 3% in the prior month and the highest in nearly two years.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSConsumerSpendingrdLdWritethru/35abd24fd14edcfa5da52dcc6c2ee860/text___
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Construction finishes on a major offshore wind farm, the first during Trump's tenure
SUMMARY: Construction is finished on a major Massachusetts offshore wind farm, the first project to reach this stage during President Donald Trump’s time in office. A spokesperson for the project said Saturday that offshore construction was completed Friday night on Vineyard Wind with the installation of the final blades. Trump, who often talks about his hatred of wind power, has said his goal is to not let any “windmills” be built. Vineyard Wind submitted state and federal project plans to build an offshore wind farm in 2017. The Biden administration signed off on it in 2021, as it sought to ramp up offshore wind as a climate change solution. Construction began onshore in Barnstable, Massachusetts.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSTrumpOffshoreWind/c91f69db13ba3f4e214de890e2a4eb4d/text___
US forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once
SUMMARY: The United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow. On Wednesday, Washington, D.C., hit a record 86 degrees, then snow fell on Thursday. Meteorologists say the Southwest faces a heat dome with prolonged triple-digit temperatures. Polar cold will push into the Midwest and East. Two northern storms are likely to dump feet of snow, with one strengthening into a rare inland bomb cyclone. Hawaii is also dealing with an atmospheric river and flash flooding. Experts link the wild swings to a sharply dipping jet stream.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APClimateWildWeatherthLdWritethru/55e3baf6877e81ee1961aade3cb361c3/text___
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LIFESTYLE
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Out of the frying pan? Noma’s Rene Redzepi resigns, and fine dining confronts 'brigade' culture
SUMMARY: The downfall of the world's top chef has raised questions about whether time is up for the storied bullying and abuse of fine dining kitchens. Danish chef Rene Redzepi, the founder of Noma in Copenhagen, resigned this week after The New York Times reported that dozens of his former employees say he abused them. The report came just before Noma opened an expensive pop-up in Los Angeles. Celebrity chefs bullying subordinates is a well-known and well-studied feature of fine dining kitchens for over a century. Experts say that restaurants are unlikely to self-police and make broad reforms on the scale of the entertainment industry after #MeToo exposed sexual assault in that industry.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APEUFoodToxicChefs/2a05c8368c4ab6c63cea97114ce958b3/text___
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SPORTS
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Refocused US rebounds from Italy shocker, beats Canada to reach WBC semifinals
SUMMARY: The United States is heading to the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic after a “different level of focus” helped this All-Star-studded team rebound from a shocking loss. The Americans beat Canada 5-3 on Friday night for a spot in the semifinals Sunday against the Dominican Republic. The big win came after an 8-6 loss to Italy in pool play left them needing help to advance to Friday's game. Said Yankees star Aaron Judge: “Guys really locked in. We saw a different level of focus at our workout the other day and then even pregame today. It felt like the boys were locked and ready to go.”
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APBBIWBCUSAdvances/f4a2b848b74b648f551516f6fedc6d0b/text___
Could the Chicago Bears leave Illinois? Indiana makes a play for the historic franchise
SUMMARY: A turf war over a football team is developing between two Midwestern states with a long rivalry. Indiana has made a serious bid to lure the storied Chicago Bears across the border. The Bears want to leave Soldier Field, their home for 50 years. They previously proposed a $5 billion campus featuring a domed stadium in suburban Arlington Heights. But Indiana has a new law that would allow for financing and building a stadium in Hammond to lease to the Bears. Illinois lawmakers have responded with legislation that would give property and sales tax breaks to any so-called megaproject — such as a Bears stadium — of at least $100 million.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APFBNBearsStadium/f1b075eff96cfbec693cf23962745c74/text___
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