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Black students receive racist text message after election

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Black students in several states reported receiving a racist text message from an anonymous number the day after the election.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is investigating the message received by students in Alabama and Georgia, it said Thursday in a news release.

The text message said the recipient has been selected to pick cotton at the ...Read more

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Baltimore election director signals delay in certifying election

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BALTIMORE — Baltimore City election director Armstead Jones said Thursday he does not think the Board of Elections will meet the state’s mandatory deadline to certify the 2024 Presidential Election.

All local election boards are required to certify results of the general election to the State Board of Elections by Nov. 15, which is the ...Read more

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Southern California Mountain fire's stunning toll: 132 homes destroyed, 88 damaged

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LOS ANGELES — Camarillo Heights resident Maurice Kerr stood inside the shell of his burned-out home Thursday morning.

With the surrounding rubble still smoldering and smoke choking the air, the 68-year-old said he did his best to fight the wind-driven Mountain fire, which started raining embers on his home soon after it started Wednesday ...Read more

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Washington state reports nearly 1,200 whooping cough cases so far this year

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This year could shape up to be the worst year for whooping cough Washington has seen in over a decade.

State health officials counted 1,193 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, across 31 counties as of Nov. 2, according to the Department of Health's most recent update. This time last year, the state had reported 51 cases.

Washington is not ...Read more

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Powell signals readiness to defy Trump in defense of Fed

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made clear he’s ready to defend the U.S. central bank from political pressure following the re-election of Donald Trump, saying he wouldn’t resign if asked and insisting the incoming president doesn’t have the power to fire him or other senior Fed leaders.

“No,” Powell said firmly on Thursday, when ...Read more

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Mountain fire in California's Ventura County ravages more than 90 homes; Newsom declares emergency

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LOS ANGELES — Camarillo Heights resident Maurice Kerr stood inside the shell of his burned-out home Thursday morning.

With the surrounding rubble still smoldering and smoke choking the air, the 68-year-old said he did his best to fight the wind-driven Mountain fire, which started raining embers on his home soon after it started Wednesday ...Read more

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Reintroduced Colorado wolf likely died after fight with another wolf, federal wildlife officials say

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DENVER — One of Colorado’s reintroduced wolves likely died of wounds it suffered during a fight with another wolf, federal officials announced Thursday.

The wolf also had a healed gunshot wound on one of its hind legs, according to a statement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed the wolf’s death...Read more

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Boston city councilors urge Massachusetts Secretary of State to follow through on receivership threat after election ballot fiasco

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BOSTON — Two Boston city councilors are pressing Secretary of State William Galvin to follow through on his threat to place the Boston Election Department into receivership for its Election Day missteps that left polling places short on ballots.

Councilors Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy penned a letter to Secretary Galvin on Thursday, to formally ...Read more

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Trump's return could be bad for WA trade and workers, good for tech

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For some Washington business leaders, Donald Trump’s return to the White House revives hopes of fresh cuts to corporate taxes and a host of regulations.

Tech company leaders hoping to gain Trump’s good graces congratulated him on his win. Wall Street analysts expressed optimism that his administration won’t put guardrails on the tech ...Read more

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has warning for Donald Trump: ‘You come for my people, you come through me’

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday sought to assure Illinois residents that he would fight to preserve the state’s protections on fronts including reproductive health, immigration and LGBTQ+ rights during Donald Trump’s second ...Read more

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Prince William gets candid about 'brutal' year as Kate, Charles navigate cancer

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Prince William got candid this week about the “brutal” and heartbreaking year 2024 has been, as wife Kate Middleton and father King Charles have navigated their respective cancer journeys.

“It’s been dreadful,” he told People from South Africa, where he was presiding over the Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony for climate change ...Read more

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Here's who Trump may tap to drive his economic agenda

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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s team is forming a new administration and the president-elect is expected to draw top advisers and cabinet secretaries from a pool of Wall Street and business executives including officials from his first term — at least the ones who stuck by him.

Republicans are on track to win total control of government, ...Read more

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Trump taps veteran Florida political operative Susie Wiles for top White House job

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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named Susie Wiles, the co-manager of his presidential campaign, as his White House chief of staff, elevating a longtime Florida political hand who has helped orchestrate some of the most crucial Republican wins in the state.

Wiles, who has worked for Republican politicians ranging from Jacksonville ...Read more

Ohio Rep. Bob Latta eyes top GOP spot on Energy and Commerce panel

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​WASHINGTON — For Rep. Bob Latta, the “best thing” he’s ever purchased for his office is a set of eight folding chairs.

It’s also something he cites when talking about why he thinks he’s the best person to lead Republicans on the House authorizing committee with the largest jurisdiction.

The Ohio Republican credits the folding ...Read more

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Biden to travel to South America for APEC, G-20 summits

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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Peru and Brazil next week for two international summits on a trip abroad that threatens to be overshadowed by President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory.

The president will travel to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Lima, Peru, from Nov. 14-16 and then travel to Manaus ...Read more

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North Carolina elects a Democratic governor and Republican legislature. Again. What's different this time

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Once again, North Carolina voters have chosen a Democrat to lead the executive branch and Republicans to lead the General Assembly.

But Gov.-elect Josh Stein could start with greater leverage in negotiations with GOP leaders than Gov. Roy Cooper has had in his last two years in office, in which Republicans passed 26 bills over his veto.

Stein...Read more

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Florida agency stalled revelation on state Rep. Amesty's family school until after election

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ORLANDO, Fla. — After two weeks of silence, a Florida agency disclosed it has granted a short license extension to state Rep. Carolina Amesty’s family-run school, which is embroiled in the forgery indictment against her.

The revelation did not come until roughly an hour after ballot counting confirmed that the lawmaker had lost her ...Read more

2 detained after 12 shooting incidents of cars, homes on and around I-40 in Raleigh

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Raleigh police are now investigating shots fired into eight cars and four houses, a growing total in the recent series of rush-hour shootings along Interstate 40 and near I440.

Police Chief Estella Patterson announced two “persons of interest” were detained Thursday afternoon, both of them from Kentford Court in southwest ...Read more

Elwood Edwards, voice of the 'You've got mail' AOL email greeting, dies at 74

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Elwood Edwards, a media multihyphenate who voiced AOL’s iconic greeting “You’ve got mail,” has died.

Edwards died Tuesday at age 74 in New Bern, N.C., after a long illness, his former employer, Ohio NBC affiliate WKYC, confirmed. According to the television station, he died the day before his 75th birthday.

During his decade-long stint...Read more

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NYC judge blasts Rudy Giuliani for claiming he doesn't know location of assets owed to Georgia election workers

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NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani was blasted by a Manhattan federal court judge Thursday for claiming he didn’t know the location of assets he owes the Georgia mother and daughter election workers he defamed — telling the former mayor the claim was “farcical.”

“The notion that your client doesn’t have any knowledge of where his assets ...Read more