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A consumer class action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Delta Air Lines inaccurately billed itself as the world's “first carbon-neutral airline” and should pay damages.

By By ED DAVEY, Associated Press May 31, 2023
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The head of the U.S. Border Patrol announced that he's retiring, after seeing through a major policy shift that seeks to clamp down on illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border following the end of Title 42 coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press May 31, 2023
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The default-averting debt ceiling and budget cuts package headed toward a crucial House vote Wednesday as President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy assembled a coalition of centrist Democratic and Republican supporters against fierce conservative blowback and progressive dissent.

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING, STEPHEN GROVES and FARNOUSH AMIRI, Associated Press May 31, 2023
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Hundreds of goats munch on long blades of yellow grass on a hillside next to a sprawling townhouse complex. They were hired to clear vegetation that could fuel wildfires as temperatures rise this summer.

By TERRY CHEA, Associated Press May 30, 2023
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U.S. highway safety regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while vehicles are moving.

By Associated Press May 30, 2023
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Under fire from conservatives, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked strenuously Tuesday to sell fellow Republicans on the debt ceiling and budget deal he negotiated with President Joe Biden and win approval in time to avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default.

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES, Associated Press May 30, 2023
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation Friday that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories such as race, sex and religion.

By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press May 29, 2023
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A federal judge ruled Friday that a rural Colorado school district can bar a high school student from wearing a Mexican and American flag sash at her graduation this weekend after the student sued the school district.

By JESSE BEDAYN, Associated Press/Report for America May 29, 2023
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With days to spare before a potential first-ever government default, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached final agreement Sunday on a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling and worked to ensure enough support in Congress to pass the measure in the coming week.

By LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHELLE L. PRICE, Associated Press May 28, 2023
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Wall Street's building frenzy around artificial intelligence helped yank the stock market higher Thursday, even as worries worsen about political rancor in Washington.

By STAN CHOE Associated Press May 25, 2023
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Two clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to determine how quiet or chaotic the Atlantic hurricane season will be.

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer May 25, 2023
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Target once distinguished itself as being boldly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Business Writers May 25, 2023
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Oath Keepers extremist group founder Stewart Rhodes was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison for orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a bid to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House after winning the 2020 election.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press May 25, 2023
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A poem written for President Joe Biden's inauguration has been placed on a restricted list at a South Florida elementary school after one parent's complaint.

By Associated Press May 24, 2023
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday, stepping into a crowded Republican primary contest that will test both his national appeal as an outspoken cultural conservative and the GOP's willingness to move on from former President Donald Trump.

By STEVE PEOPLES, ADRIANA GOMEZ and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press May 24, 2023
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Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," has died at 83.

By HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press May 24, 2023
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President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration as an intensifying Super Typhoon Mawar approached Guam, where anyone not living in a concrete house was urged to seek safety elsewhere and emergency shelters began to fill ahead of what could be the most powerful storm to hit the U.S. Pacific territory in two decades.

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, Associated Press May 23, 2023
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White House negotiators were back at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday for another day of discussions with House Republicans over raising the nation's debt ceiling.

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press May 23, 2023
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Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her.

By MEGAN JANETSKY, Associated Press May 22, 2023
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking that a federal judge be disqualified from the First Amendment lawsuit filed by Disney against the Florida governor and his appointees, claiming the jurist's prior statements in other cases have raised questions about his impartiality on the state's efforts to take over Disney World's governing body.

By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press May 22, 2023
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New York Mayor Eric Adams has hailed his city’s right to shelter as a hallmark of compassion for its most destitute. Now he must decide if he will extend that compassion by bestowing homeless people with the right to sleep outside.

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER, Associated Press May 22, 2023
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Stepping up a feud with Washington over technology and security, China's government on Sunday told users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc.

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press May 21, 2023
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The White House and House Republicans wrapped up another round of debt ceiling talks Sunday as Washington races to strike a budget compromise along with a deal to raise the nation's borrowing limit and avert an economy-wrecking federal default.

By STEPHEN GROVES, ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press May 21, 2023
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The 10th installment of the "Fast and Furious" franchise was off to the races this weekend, knocking "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" out of first place and easily claiming the No. 1 spot at the box office.

By LINDSEY BAHR Associated Press May 21, 2023
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Jim Brown was virtually unstoppable in every arena.

By TOM WITHERS Associated Press May 19, 2023

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