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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has all but shut the door on President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks. The Republican leader says Congress has provided enough pandemic aid and he's blocked another attempt by Democrats to force a vote. McConnell is unwilling to budge, despite political pressure from Trump…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator says he'll object when Congress meets next week to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the election. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri says he'll protest the Electoral College certification because “some states, including notably Pennsylvania” didn't follow their election laws. A Biden spokeswoman is dismissing Hawley’s move as “antics”…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shut the door on President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks. The Republican leader says Congress has provided enough pandemic aid and he's blocked another attempt by Democrats to force a vote. McConnell is unwilling to budge, despite political pressure from Trump and even…

DENVER (AP) — The new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus that has set off alarm in Britain has been reported for the first time in the U.S., in a Colorado man who hadn’t been traveling. That is triggering a host of questions about how it got here and adding urgency to the…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Documents obtained by The Associated Press show officers visited Anthony Warner’s home in 2019 after his girlfriend told them he was building bombs in an RV trailer at his house. A Metropolitan Nashville Police Department report shows officers went to Warner's home on Aug. 21, 2019. The report says Pamela Perry…