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Republicans and some Democrats back contempt for the Clintons in House Epstein probe

AP News WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee advanced resolutions Wednesday to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, opening the prospect of the House using one of its most powerful punishments against a former president for the first time.

In bipartisan votes, the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee approved the contempt of Congress charges, setting up potential votes in the House early next month. In a rare departure from party lines, some Democrats supported the...
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Snapchats to informant central at trial for man accused in murder plot of Border Patrol leader

AP News CHICAGO (AP) — Snapchat messages a Chicago man accused of soliciting the murder of a top Border Patrol commander unknowingly sent to a government informant took center stage Wednesday at the opening day of the man’s federal trial.

Juan Espinoza Martinez, 37, faces one count of murder-for-hire in the first criminal trial stemming from the immigration crackdown that began last year in and around the nation’s third-largest city. It's the latest test of credibility for the Trump administration's narratives about the Chicago operation.

Federal prosecutors have alleged...
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Scottie Scheffler makes his 2026 debut amid palm trees and desert at The American Express

AP News LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler always keeps score. His most recent competition before starting the PGA Tour season was at home in Dallas when Si Woo Kim took some cash off the world's No. 1 player, only to have to give most of it back from a separate game.

Scheffler has been competing without big consequences during his long offseason. Now the score counts for 156 players — the largest domestic field of regular PGA Tour stops this year — at The American Express when it starts Thursday over three courses.

The practice range at PGA West was unusually...
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How Duckwrth's imaginary Grammy button led to a real Grammy nomination

AP News LOS ANGELES (AP) — Duckwrth manifested a 2026 Grammy nomination for his album while in the recording studio. He just didn't know it.

The singer, songwriter and producer would pretend to press an imaginary Grammy button whenever he and his friends finished a new track.

“It would be certain moments when we’ll be done with the song, and we’ll come up with this thing called ‘Grammy button.’ It’s an invisible Grammy button — we’ll be like, ‘Grammy, Grammy.’ And we said that over and over again. it was an interesting, beautiful manifestation,” the...
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Russia watches US-European tensions over Greenland with glee, gloating and wariness

AP News As tensions simmered between the United States and Europe this week over President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, Russian officials, state-backed media and pro-Kremlin bloggers responded with a mixture of glee, gloating and wariness.

Some touted Trump’s move as historic. Others said it weakens the European Union and NATO — something that Moscow would seem to welcome — and that it takes some of the West's attention away from Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Commentators also noted that the possible U.S. acquisition of the self-governed, mineral-rich island...
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  • Republicans and some Democrats back contempt for the Clintons in House Epstein probe
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  • US stocks recover half of the prior day's plunge after Trump calls off Greenland-related tariffs
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  • ICE activity increases in Maine as anxiety grows in immigrant communities
  • Cody Bellinger stays with the Yankees, agrees to $162.5 million, 5-year contract, AP source says
  • Russia watches US-European tensions over Greenland with some glee, gloating and wariness
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  • How Duckwrth's imaginary Grammy button led to a real Grammy nomination
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