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ATLANTA (AP) — Liberal activists are stepping up calls on corporate America to denounce Republican efforts to tighten state voting laws. Businesses accustomed to cozy political relationships now find themselves in the middle of a partisan fight over voting rights. Pressure is mounting on leading companies in Texas, Arizona and other states, particularly after Major…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol Police officer has been killed after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. The suspect died at a hospital. Capitol Police Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman did not identify the slain officer or suspect. Authorities said there…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s girlfriend has tearfully told a jury the story of how they met -- at a Salvation Army shelter where he was a security guard with “this great, deep Southern voice, raspy” -- and how they both struggled mightily with an addiction to opioids. Forty-five-year-old Courteney Ross took the stand Thursday…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines. Hundreds of thousands of “orphaned” oil and gas wells and abandoned coal and hardrock mines pose serious safety hazards, while causing ongoing environmental damage. The administration sees the longstanding…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation's latest mass shooting has occurred at a Southern California office building where four people were killed, including a child, and a woman was critically wounded. Police had no word on a possible motive for Wednesday's violence in the city of Orange, southeast of Los Angeles. When police arrived at…