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Missouri lawmakers adopt US House districts with GOP edge

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Finally breaking an impasse, the Missouri Legislature gave final approval Thursday to new congressional districts that are expected to continue Republicans' electoral edge in a former swing state that has trended increasingly...

Health

N. Korea reports 6 deaths after admitting COVID-19 outbreak

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Six people have died and 350,000 have been treated for a fever that has spread “explosively” across North Korea, state media said Friday, a day after the country acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak for the first time in the pande...

Health

Experts: Arizona executioners took too long to insert IV

PHOENIX (AP) — The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state’s last use of the death penalty, when a condemned prisoner who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination gasped for air hundreds of time...

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Inflation forces increase in California minimum wage

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Soaring inflation will trigger an automatic increase in California's minimum wage next year, Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration announced Thursday. The minimum wage will jump to $15.50 per hour on Jan. 1, the hig...

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US reckoning with role in Native American boarding schools

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Deb Haaland is pushing the U.S. government to reckon with its role in Native American boarding schools like no other Cabinet secretary could — backed by personal experience, a struggle with losing her own Native language and a b...