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By PATTY NIEBERG, THOMAS PEIPERT and COLLEEN SLEVIN BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Law enforcement officials and former associates of a 21-year-old accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket described the suspect as someone…

By PATTY NIEBERG and THOMAS PEIPERT BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A shooting at a crowded Colorado supermarket that killed 10 people, including the first police officer to arrive, sent terrorized shoppers and workers scrambling for…

By MARIA CHENG and LAURAN NEERGAARD LONDON (AP) — AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against sickness and eliminated hospitalizations and deaths from the disease across all age groups in a late-stage study in the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge on Friday denied a defense request to delay or move the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death after…

By ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats seemed poised to claim victory Thursday in the House’s first votes this year on immigration, but moving legislation on the divisive issue all the way through Congress is…

By KATE BRUMBACK ATLANTA (AP) — A series of shootings over nearly an hour at three Atlanta-area massage parlors left eight people dead and raised fears that the attack was another hate crime against Asian…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE WASHINGTON (AP) — After President Joe Biden’s giant COVID-19 relief bill passed Congress, he made a prime-time address to the nation and presided over a Rose Garden ceremony. But there wasn’t so much as…

By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.” The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ AP - With vaccination against COVID-19 in full swing, social platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter say they’ve stepped up their fight against misinformation that aims to undermine trust in…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, HANNAH FINGERHUT and MARION RENAULT WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1 in 5 Americans say they lost a relative or close friend to the coronavirus, highlighting the division between heartache and hope as…