What’s in the Amazon box? Maybe a real 7-foot Christmas tree

NEW YORK (AP) — Watch out for the 7-foot box on the doorstep. Amazon plans to sell and ship fresh, full-size Christmas trees this year. But a live tree is no paperba | Continue reading


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UN chief: World must prevent runaway climate change by 2020

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the world is facing "a direct existential threat" and must rapidly shift from dependence on fossil fuel | Continue reading


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Aspirin disappoints for avoiding first heart attack, stroke

In a story Aug. 26, The Associated Press erroneously summarized the results of medical studies on the use of daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke. The studie | Continue reading


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Court: Cities can't prosecute people for sleeping on streets

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Cities can't prosecute people for sleeping on the streets if they have nowhere else to go because it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is unconsti | Continue reading


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Early results boost hopes for historic gene editing attempt

PHOENIX (AP) — Early, partial results from a historic gene editing study give encouraging signs that the treatment may be safe and having at least some of its hoped-for effect, bu | Continue reading


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Functioning Apple computer built in 1970s up for auction

BOSTON (AP) — A piece of computer history that helped launch a trillion dollar company is hitting the auction block. A fully functioning Apple-1 being auctioned by B | Continue reading


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Russia's APT28 hacking group tried to spy on senior Orthodox clergymen

LONDON (AP) — The Russian hackers indicted by the U.S. special prosecutor last month have spent years trying to steal the private correspondence of some of the world's most senior | Continue reading


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FireEye: Tech firms’ secret weapon against disinformation

NEW YORK (AP) — This week has seen major social media sites step up their policing of online disinformation campaigns. Google disabled dozens of YouTube channels and | Continue reading


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Spain sets in motion plan to dig up former dictator Franco

MADRID (AP) — Spain's center-left government approved Friday legal amendments ensuring that the remains of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco will be dug up and removed from a | Continue reading


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Many teens – and parents – feel tethered to phones

NEW YORK (AP) — Parents lament their teenagers' noses constantly in their phones, but they might want to take stock of their own screen time habits. A study out Wedn | Continue reading


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming, the Clean Power Plan that restricts gree | Continue reading


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Egypt president ratifies law imposing internet controls

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has ratified an anti-cybercrime law that rights groups say paves the way for censoring online media. The law, pu | Continue reading


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AP NewsBreak: Google clarifies location-tracking policy

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has revised a help page that erroneously described how its "Location History" setting works, clarifying for users that it still tracks their location e | Continue reading


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California could reshape pot rules as legal market struggles

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation's largest legal marijuana market is struggling. Illicit sales continue to thrive. A shaky supply chain has customers looking at barren | Continue reading


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Los Angeles to install subway body scanners

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles' subway will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives, officials | Continue reading


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Associated Press: How to find and delete where Google knows you’ve been

Even if "Location History" is off on your phone, Google often still stores your precise location . Here are some things you can do to delete those markers and keep your lo | Continue reading


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How to find and delete where Google knows you’ve been

Even if "Location History" is off on your phone, Google often still stores your precise location . Here are some things you can do to delete those markers and keep your lo | Continue reading


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Google tracks your movements, like it or not

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investiga | Continue reading


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AP: Google Tracks Your Location Even When You Disable ‘Location HIstory’

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investiga | Continue reading


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LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. (AP) — Tons of dead fish. A smell so awful you gag with one inhale. Empty beaches, empty roads, empty restaurants. A toxic algae bloom has overrun | Continue reading


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Google tracks your movements, like it or not

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investiga | Continue reading


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AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investiga | Continue reading


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AP Google tracks your movements, like it or not

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investiga | Continue reading


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Google tracks your movements, like it or not

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investiga | Continue reading


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Authorities probe how airline employee could steal plane

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Investigators are piecing together how an airline ground agent working his regular shift stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac In | Continue reading


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Tech giants still stumbling in the social world they created

NEW YORK (AP) — Who knew connecting the world could get so complicated? Perhaps some of technology's brightest minds should have seen that coming. Social media bans | Continue reading


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Venezuelan government: Drone strikes targeted Maduro

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Drones armed with explosives detonated near Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Saturday in an apparent assassination attempt that took place while he wa | Continue reading


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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Ahead of campaigning in Ohio on Saturday, President Donald Trump unleashed a withering attack on the state's favorite son, savaging LeBron James in a late | Continue reading


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Donor helping fraudsters, offshore bettors backs Trump

NEW YORK (AP) — One customer was a debt collector that threatened to jail people if they didn't pay back loans that they never took out. Another was an offshore gambling operation | Continue reading


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BEIJING (AP) — China appealed to Washington on Thursday to stay calm and "correct its attitude" following a U.S. threat to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods in a disp | Continue reading


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Russian secret-spilling site ‘Dossier’ steps into spotlight

LONDON (AP) — Over the past three months, a handful of highly placed Russians have discovered their secrets seeping onto the web. It happened to a Russian Interior M | Continue reading


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Russian secret-spilling site https://dossier.center/ steps into spotlight

LONDON (AP) — Over the past three months, a handful of highly placed Russians have discovered their secrets seeping onto the web. It happened to a Russian Interior M | Continue reading


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Lawsuit filed in fatal duck boat sinking seeks $100M

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages has been filed against the owners and operators of a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake, killing 17 people. | Continue reading


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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump met with the publisher of The New York Times to discuss media coverage of his administration, including his oft-repeated accusation | Continue reading


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2 minutes, 8 barrels: Surfer takes an epic ride into history

To say Koa Smith was at the right place at the right time is perfectly accurate. To say he got lucky — that's missing the point. Perched precariously o | Continue reading


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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho prison officials say 364 inmates exploited vulnerable software in the JPay tablets they use for email, music and games to collectively transfer nearly a | Continue reading


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Texas company cleared to put 3D-printed gun designs online

They look futuristic, the type of firearms that would-be assassins use in movies: 3D-printed guns made of a hard plastic that are simple to assemble, easy to conceal and tough to trace. | Continue reading


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NEW YORK (AP) — Calls to ban Donald Trump from Twitter are at least as old as his presidency. But it's not going to happen, at least not while he's in office. The la | Continue reading


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Family, home still unfamiliar to Honduran baby

LA LIBERTAD, Honduras (AP) — Baby Johan spent his first day home chasing his family's kitten, bouncing to music and playing like any 15-month-old boy. But his mom sa | Continue reading


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Trump talks tougher, now says he warned Putin on meddling

WASHINGTON (AP) — His toughness with Vladimir Putin in question, President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday he had told the Russian leader face to face to stay out of America's | Continue reading


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President Trump's rallies get extensive airtime on Fox News

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's campaign-style rallies have found a receptive audience at Fox News Channel, which unlike the other cable news networks often carries his s | Continue reading


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AP Explains: How computers see faces and other objects

Computers started to be able to recognize human faces in images decades ago, but now artificial intelligence systems are rivaling people's ability to classify objects in photos and vide | Continue reading


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AP NewsBreak: US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated | Continue reading


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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an u | Continue reading


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California high court: Yelp can’t be ordered to remove posts

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Online review site Yelp.com cannot be ordered to remove posts against a San Francisco law firm that a judge determined were defamatory, a divided California S | Continue reading


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Concerns that U.S. adversaries will use “deepfake” videos to impact politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped? New technology on the internet l | Continue reading


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San Francisco is First major US city with $15 wage

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Officials say San Francisco will become the first major U.S. city to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour Sunday under a ballot measure approved by voters | Continue reading


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I never said that! High-tech deception of 'deepfake' videos

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped? New technology on the internet l | Continue reading


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