Category: National
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Board leaders of Texas’ grid operator resign after outages
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Top board leaders of Texas’ embattled power grid operator said Tuesday they will resign following outrage over more than 4 million customers losing electricity last week during a deadly winter storm, including many whose frigid homes lacked heat for days in subfreezing temperatures.
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Ahmaud Arbery memorialized in Georgia a year after slaying
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Family and friends walked in procession through the coastal subdivision where armed men chased and shot him in the street. Others joined his mother for a vigil at the rural church where he’s buried. Lawmakers paused to remember him at the Georgia state Capitol, and President Joe Biden offered thoughts on the slaying one year ago of Ahmaud Arbery.
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Surgeon: Tiger Woods had multiple “open fractures” to lower right leg; rod placed in tibia, screws and pins in ankle
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Surgeon: Tiger Woods had multiple “open fractures” to lower right leg; rod placed in tibia, screws and pins in ankle.
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Drug executives: Big jump in vaccine supply is coming soon
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Tiger Woods suffers leg injuries after California car crash
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods was in the driver’s seat of a mangled SUV that rolled and ended up on its side down a steep roadway in the Los Angeles suburbs Tuesday morning, seatbelt still fastened, both legs seriously injured.
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AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter opens up about its finances
NEW YORK (AP) — The foundation widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement says it took in just over $90 million last year, according to a financial snapshot shared exclusively with The Associated Press.
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Environmental attorney to lead Bureau of Land Management
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management announced that an attorney who previously worked on agency issues for environmental groups will serve as the new deputy director.
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Ghislaine Maxwell makes third attempt at bail on sex charges
NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite awaiting trial on charges that she recruited teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, says she’ll renounce her U.K. and French citizenships if she can be freed on bail, according to a court filing Tuesday.
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Authorities: No immediate evidence that Tiger Woods was impaired in car crash that seriously injured both legs
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities: No immediate evidence that Tiger Woods was impaired in car crash that seriously injured both legs.