Could Florida really take away Walt Disney World’s Reedy Creek Improvement District? The Walt Disney World Resort is so large that it has its own government, created by the Florida Legislature in the 1960s, as Walt Disney and the Disney company were planning their Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow south of Orlando. Sign up for…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department will not allow any Russian government debt payments from accounts at U.S. financial institutions to be made in U.S. dollars, restricting one of the strategies President Vladimir Putin is employing to stave off default, an agency official said Tuesday. Russia faced an April 4 deadline to…
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By CARLEY PETESCH DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — West Africa is facing its worst food crisis in a decade due to increasing conflicts, droughts, floods and the war in Ukraine, nearly a dozen international organizations said in a report Tuesday. The number of West Africans needing emergency food assistance has nearly quadrupled from 7 million in…
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By ADAM BEAM and KATHLEEN RONAYNE SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A second suspect was arrested Tuesday in connection to the mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six people and wounded 12 in California’s capital, and police say he is the brother of the first suspect. Smiley Martin, 27, the brother of the first suspect, was…
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Jennifer Egan was in the midst of a book tour for “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” her 2010 novel that would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, when she began writing the first of several short stories that would become the building blocks of “The Candy House.” She wrote several rough…
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By HALELUYA HADERO and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO NEW YORK (AP) — When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle. David won. And the stunning upset on Friday brought sudden exposure to the…
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By ALAN FRAM and FARNOUSH AMIRI WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19 with treatments, vaccines and other steps, the top Democratic and Republican negotiators said, but ended up dropping all funding to help nations abroad combat the pandemic. The compromise drew quick support Monday…
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By JEFF AMY ATLANTA (AP) — When Democrat Stacey Abrams first ran for Georgia governor in 2018, her lackluster personal finances and a hefty bill from the IRS gave Republicans fodder to question how she could manage a state budget when she struggled with her own debts. As she launches a second bid this year,…
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It took a piece of chicken parmesan to remind Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan that Patrick Williams isn’t all that far from being a college kid. Actually, it was two pieces of chicken parmesan — huge pieces, Donovan emphasized — plus a helping of pasta. Midway through Williams’ rookie season, Donovan watched aghast as the…
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By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and ERANGA JAYAWARDENA COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A group of Sri Lankan governing party lawmakers called Tuesday for the appointment of an interim government, warning that a failure to do so would lead to violence and anarchy, as demonstrators continued to demand the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the country’s…
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