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SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Salvage teams have finally freed a colossal container ship that has been stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for nearly a week. The work ends a crisis that clogged one of the world’s most vital waterways. A flotilla of tugboats finally freed the bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given, from the…

DALLAS (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning Texas author Larry McMurtry has died at the age of 84. McMurtry penned almost 50 books and dozens of screenplays during a career that spanned over half a century, often depicting the American West. He won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for “Lonesome Dove,” the tale of a cattle drive during…

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Authorities and a gun store owner say the suspect in the Colorado supermarket shooting bought a firearm at a local gun store after passing a background check. Boulder's police chief told reporters Friday that the suspect also had a second weapon with him that he didn’t use in the attack that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is leaving the door open to backing fundamental changes in Senate procedure to muscle key parts of his agenda past Republican opposition. In his first formal news conference as president, Biden at first backed a modification — but not elimination — of the filibuster, which stands in the way…

ISMAILIA, Egypt (AP) — Dredgers, tugboats and even a backhoe have failed to free a giant cargo ship wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal as the number of stacked-up vessels unable to pass through the vital waterway climbed to 150 and losses to global shipping mounted. Even with the aid of high tides, authorities have been…