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Khalid Abu Jarad holds the body of his 3-month-old niece, Shaza Abu Jarad, who, according to the health ministry, died from hypothermia, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)2026-01-20T14:29:29Z DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) A Palestinian baby died from hypothermia on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, underscoring the grim humanitarian conditions in the territory as world leaders were gathering at a Swiss resort where President Donald Trumps Gaza ceasefire plan is high on the agenda.Shaza Abu Jarads family found the 3-month-old on Tuesday morning in their tent in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. She was freezing, and dead, the babys father, Mohamed Abu Jarad, told The Associated Press by phone after a funeral. She died from cold.The man, who worked in Israel before the war, lives with his wife and their seven other children in a makeshift tent after their house was destroyed during the war.The family took the girl to the Al-Ahly hospital where a doctor pronounced her dead from hypothermia, said her uncle, Khalid Abu Jarad. The Health Ministry confirmed that the baby died from hypothermia. The family is among hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in tent camps and war-battered buildings in Gaza which experiences cold, wet winters, with temperatures dropping below 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit) at night. As Palestinians in the war-ravaged enclave languish in displacement camps, Trump hopes to establish his new Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos. But the initiative, initially conceived to oversee the Gaza ceasefire, faces many questions over its membership and scope. Israel on Tuesday began demolishing the Jerusalem headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, pressing ahead with its crackdown against a body it has long accused of anti-Israel bias.Shaza Abu Jarad was the ninth child to die from severe cold this winter in Gaza, according to the strips health ministry, part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. The U.N. and independent experts consider it the most reliable source on war casualties. Israel disputes its figures but has not provided its own. More than 100 children who have died since the start of the ceasefire in October a figure that includes a 27-day-old girl who died from hypothermia over the weekend.The ceasefire paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas militants and allowed a surge in humanitarian aid into Gaza, mainly food. But residents say shortages of blankets and warm clothes remain, and there is little wood for fires. Theres been no central electricity in Gaza since the first few days of the war in 2023, and fuel for generators is scarce.The International Committee of the Red Cross said recent biting cold and rainfall in Gaza were ultimately a threat to survival.Trumps Board of Peace was initially seen as a mechanism focused on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.But recent invitations sent to dozens of world leaders show that the body could have a far broader mandate of other global crises, potentially rivaling the U.N. Security Council.Trump says the body would embark on a bold new approach to resolving global conflict, an indication that the body may not confine its work to Gaza. The panel was part of Trumps 20-point ceasefire plan that stopped the war in Gaza in October. Many countries, including Russia, said they received Trumps invitation and were studying the proposal. France said it does not plan to join the board at this stage.___Magdy reported from Cairo and Metz reported from Jerusalem. SAMY MAGDY Magdy is a Middle East reporter for The Associated Press, based in Cairo. He focuses on conflict, migration and human rights abuses. twitter facebook mailto SAM METZ Metz covers Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and points beyond for The Associated Press. mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Adelie penguins stand on a block of floating ice at Yalour Islands in Antarctica, Nov. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)2026-01-20T05:02:55Z WASHINGTON (AP) Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier and thats a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed species that face extinction by the end of the century, a study said.With temperatures in the breeding ground increasing 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) from 2012 to 2022, three different penguin species are beginning their reproductive process about two weeks earlier than the decade before, according to a study in Tuesdays Journal of Animal Ecology. And that sets up potential food problems for young chicks.Penguins are changing the time at which theyre breeding at a record speed, faster than any other vertebrate, said lead author Ignacio Juarez Martinez, a biologist at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. And this is important because the time at which you breed needs to coincide with the time with most resources in the environment and this is mostly food for your chicks so they have enough to grow.' For some perspective, scientists have studied changes in the life cycle of great tits, a European bird. They found a similar two-week change, but that took 75 years as opposed to just 10 years for these three penguin species, said study co-author Fiona Suttle, another Oxford biologist. Researchers used remote control cameras to photograph penguins breeding in dozens of colonies from 2011 to 2021. They say it was the fastest shift in timing of life cycles for any backboned animals that they have seen. The three species are all brush-tailed, so named because their tails drag on the ice: the cartoon-eye Adelie, the black-striped chinstrap and the fast-swimming gentoo. Warming creates penguin winners, losersSuttle said climate change is creating winners and losers among these three penguin species and it happens at a time in the penguin life cycle where food and the competition for it are critical in survival. The Adelie and chinstrap penguins are specialists, eating mainly krill. The gentoo have a more varied diet. They used to breed at different times, so there were no overlaps and no competition. But the gentoos breeding has moved earlier faster than the other two species and now theres overlap. Thats a problem because gentoos, which dont migrate as far as the other two species, are more aggressive in finding food and establishing nesting areas, Martinez and Suttle said. Gentoo penguins nest at Neko Harbour in Antarctica, Nov. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File) Gentoo penguins nest at Neko Harbour in Antarctica, Nov. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Suttle said she has gone back in October and November to the same colony areas where she used to see Adelies in previous years only to find their nests replaced by gentoos. And the data backs up the changes her eyes saw, she said.Chinstraps are declining globally, Martinez said. Models show that they might get extinct before the end of the century at this rate. Adelies are doing very poorly in the Antarctic Peninsula and its very likely that they go extinct from the Antarctic Peninsula before the end of the century.Early bird dining causes problemsMartinez theorized that the warming western Antarctic the second-fasting heating place on Earth behind only the Arctic North Atlantic means less sea ice. Less sea ice means more spores coming out earlier in the Antarctic spring and then you have this incredible bloom of phytoplankton, which is the basis of the food chain that eventually leads to penguins, he said. And its happening earlier each year.Not only do the chinstraps and Adelies have more competition for food from gentoos because of the warming and changes in plankton and krill, but the changes have brought more commercial fishing that comes earlier and that further shortens the supply for the penguins, Suttle said.This shift in breeding timing is an interesting signal of change and now its important to continuing observing these penguin populations to see if these changes have negative impacts on their populations, said Michelle LaRue, a professor of Antarctic marine science at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She was not part of the Oxford study. Peoples penguin love helps scienceWith millions of photos taken every hour by 77 cameras for 10 years scientists enlisted everyday people to help tag breeding activity using the Penguin Watch website.Weve had over 9 million of our images annotated via Penguin Watch, Suttle said. A lot of that does come down to the fact that people just love penguins so much. Theyre very cute. Theyre on all the Christmas cards. People say, Oh, they look like little waiters in tuxedos.The Adelies, I think their personality goes along with it as well, Suttle said, saying theres perhaps a kind of cheekiness about them and this very cartoon-like eye that does look like its just been drawn on.___The Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. SETH BORENSTEIN Borenstein is an Associated Press science writer, covering climate change, disasters, physics and other science topics. He is based in Washington, D.C. twitter mailto

Martin Luther King III, and his wife Arndrea Waters King smile during the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Milwaukee Bucks, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)2026-01-20T13:27:57Z As the official celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence culminate on July 4, a well-financed, privately funded initiative will kick off to try to connect hundreds of millions of Americans with efforts to solve local problems. The Be The People campaign aspires to change the perception that the U.S. is hopelessly divided and that individuals have little power to overcome problems like poverty, addiction, violence and stalled economic mobility. It also wants to move people take action to solve those problems. Brian Hooks, chairman and CEO of the nonprofit network Stand Together, said the 250th anniversary is a unique moment to show people that they matter, that they have a part to play, and that the future is unwritten, but it depends on each one of us stepping up to play our part. Funded by a mix of 50 philanthropic foundations and individual donors, Be The People builds on research that indicates many people want to contribute to their communities but dont know how. The initiative is targeting more than $200 million for its first years budget. Founding members range from nonprofits including GivingTuesday, Goodwill Industries and Habitat for Humanity, businesses like Ron Howards Imagine Entertainment and the National Basketball Association, to funders like the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and More Perfect. Hooks said this is a 10-year commitment toward trying to achieve what would be a profound shift in behavior and culture. He referenced a 2024 Pew Research Center survey that found most Americans in 2023 and 2024 did not believe that the U.S. could solve its most important problems, saying it was a red alert for the country. Hooks said the initiative envisions actions far beyond volunteering or service that people could do in their free time. He pointed to a role for businesses and schools and said the initiative would launch a major data collection effort to track whether people are actually more engaged and whether problems are actually getting solved. Stand Together, which was founded by the billionaire Charles Koch, works across a broad range of issues and communities in the U.S. and has carved out a role for itself as a convener that can bring coalitions together across ideological lines. Be The People, will not incorporate as a new nonprofit, but act more like a banner for groups to organize under and use to connect to resources. As an example, at the Atlanta Hawks game on Monday, Martin Luther King III and his wife, Arndrea Waters King, linked a program they launched last year, Realize the Dream, which aims to increase acts of service, to the new campaign. Our vision is that Be The People helps lift up what is already happening in communities across the country and reminds people that service and shared responsibility are defining parts of the American story, the Kings said in a written statement. Asha Curran, the CEO of the nonprofit GivingTuesday, said small actions can build on each other like exercising a muscle. Our experience with GivingTuesday is that when people volunteer together, when people work together on something to do with positive social impact, they find it harder and harder to demonize each other, said Asha Curran, its CEO. The initiative comes against a backdrop of deep polarization, economic inequality and the degradation of democratic norms and institutions in the U.S. Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University, has studied civic engagement and said people need more opportunities to authentically participate as problem solvers when connecting with local organizations.Theyre more likely to be invited into things where people are asked to let professional staff do most of the problem solving and they show up and give their time or their money, she said.The result is that people feel less committed and dont see their participation as helping to achieve their interests or goals. A growing number of private foundations have started funding issues related to the health of U.S. democracy, said Kristin Goss, a professor who directs the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke University. While foundations cannot participate in elections, Goss said they can influence policy or public opinion in other ways. Funders are getting more concerned about of the health of American democracy, the future of the democratic experiment and pluralism and inclusion, Goss said. Another group of funders, including the Freedom Together Foundation, launched a project last year to recognize people and groups who stand up for their communities, which they called a civic bravery award. In a November report, they issued a similar call for funders to invest in helping individuals organize together in response to a rise in authoritarianism. Hooks and the other leaders of Be The People have also convened major communications teams to help tell these stories, which they think are lost in the current information ecosystem.What were doing is were helping to lift up the story of Americans that is unfolding at the local level, but is not breaking through, Hooks said. So were holding up a mirror and a microphone to Americans to reveal to each other who we truly are.___Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of APs philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy. THALIA BEATY Beaty reports on philanthropy for The Associated Press and is based in New York.

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Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti holds the trophy after their win against Miami in the College Football Playoff national championship game, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)2026-01-20T16:21:42Z Indiana achieved one more first to end its magical season full of firsts: The national champion Hoosiers are No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 college football poll.After beating Miami in the College Football Playoff title game to cap a 16-0 season that was unprecedented in the modern era, the Hoosiers on Tuesday became the third straight Big Ten team to finish on top of the rankings. Indianas championship and No. 1 final ranking followed those of fellow Big Ten teams Ohio State in 2024 and Michigan in 2023.No. 2 Miami (13-3) moved up eight spots and ended with its highest ranking since the 2002 season, when it was second behind Ohio State. The 2003 Miami team had been the most recent to finish in the top 10.Mississippi (13-2), which lost to Miami in the CFP semifinals after it beat Tulane and Georgia following coach Lane Kiffins departure for LSU, was No. 3, its highest final ranking since 1962. No. 4 Oregon (13-2) finished in the top 10 for a third straight year and No. 5 Ohio State was in the final top 10 for the 12th straight year. The Big Ten had three teams in the final top five for the second straight year. Georgia (12-2), Texas Tech (12-2), Texas A&M (11-2), Alabama (11-4) and Notre Dame (10-2) rounded out the top 10.The Bulldogs were No. 6 in the final poll for the second straight season and have ended in the top 10 every since since 2017. Texas Tech is a season-ending top-10 team for the first time. Texas A&M hadnt been ranked in a final poll season since Jimbo Fishers 2020 team was No. 4. Alabama, which had ended every season between 2008-23 in the top 10, was back after slipping to No. 17 last year. Notre Dame won 10 straight games following an 0-2 start, was left out of the playoff and opted to not play in a bowl game. The Irish slipped one spot and were ranked in a ninth straight final poll.The Hoosiers were No. 20 in the preseason poll after going 11-2 in Curt Cignettis first season. They earned their then-highest ranking ever at No. 3 after they won at Oregon to go 6-0. They moved up to No. 2 the following week and stayed there for seven straight polls. Their 13-10 win over Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game pushed them to No. 1 heading into the playoff. Poll points No. 17 Iowa was ranked for the first time this season after winning three straight, including a bowl win over Vanderbilt. No. 22 Houston beat Baylor and LSU to end the season and was ranked for the first time in four polls. No. 25 TCU, which had been 18 spots out of the Top 25, was ranked for the first time since September after beating Houston, Cincinnati and USC. Arizona (21), Georgia Tech (24) and Missouri (25) dropped out. The SEC had seven teams in the final Top 25 for the second straight year. Last season was the first time that had happened since 2013. No. 15 Vanderbilt has its highest final ranking since the 1948 team was No. 12. No. 19 James Madison No. 24 North Texas are in the final poll for the first time. Conference callSEC (7 ranked teams): No. 3 Mississippi, No. 6 Georgia, No. 8 Texas A&M, No. 9 Alabama, No. 12 Texas, No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 15 Vanderbilt.Big Ten (6): No. 1 Indiana, No. 4 Oregon, No. 5 Ohio State, No. 17 Iowa, No. 20 Southern California, No. 21 Michigan.Big 12 (5): No. 7 Texas Tech, No. 11 BYU, No. 14 Utah, No. 22 Houston, No. 25 TCU.American (3): No. 18 Tulane, No. 23 Navy, No. 24 North Texas.ACC (2): No. 2 Miami, No. 16 Virginia.Independent (1): No. 10 Notre Dame.Sun Belt (1): No. 19 James Madison.___Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football ERIC OLSON Olson is an Associated Press college football writer based in Omaha, Nebraska. He also covers the Big Ten, the NCAA, the College Football Playoff alongside local teams Nebraska and Creighton. twitter mailto

Wikipedia is turning 25 this month, and its never been more important.The online, collectively created encyclopedia has been a cornerstone of the internet decades, but as generative AI started flooding every platform with AI-generated slop over the last couple of years, Wikipedias governance model, editing process, and dedication to citing reliable sources has emerged as one of the most reliable and resilient models we have.And yet, as successful as the model is, its almost never replicated.This week on the podcast were joined by Selena Deckelmann, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia. That means Selena oversees the technical infrastructure and product strategy for one of the most visited sites in the world, and one the most comprehensive repositories of human knowledge ever assembled. Wikipedia is turning 25 this month, so I wanted to talk to Selena about how Wikipedia works and how it plans to continue to work in the age of generative AI.Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.Become a paid subscriber for early access to these interview episodes and to power our journalism. If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player.Wikipedias value in the age of generative AIThe Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI HoaxesWikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor BacklashWikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human VisitorsJimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

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Vehicles are driven through whiteout conditions along Lake Michigan Drive during a winter storm warning in Ottawa County, Mich. on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)2026-01-20T18:29:01Z ATLANTA (AP) With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in the nations northern tier, a new storm is set to emerge this weekend that could coat roads with ice and knock down power lines across the South.Forecasters on Tuesday expressed fears that an ice storm arriving late this week and into the weekend could weigh down power lines, sending them crashing and causing widespread power outages. Temperatures will be slow to warm in many areas, meaning ice that forms on roads and sidewalks might stick around, forecasters say.The exact timing of the approaching storm and where it is headed remained uncertain on Tuesday. Forecasters say it can be challenging to predict precisely which areas could see rain and which ones could be punished with ice.Heres what to know: Cold air clashing with rain to fuel a major winter stormAn extremely cold arctic air mass is set to dive south from Canada, setting up a clash with the cold temperatures and rain that will be streaming eastward across the southern U.S.This is extreme, even for this being the peak of winter, National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan Jackson said of the cold temperatures.When the cold air meets the rain, the likely result will be a major winter storm with very impactful weather, with all the moisture coming up from the Gulf and encountering all this particularly cold air thats spilling in, Jackson said. An atmospheric river could set up across the southern U.S.An atmospheric river of moisture could be in place by the weekend, pulling precipitation across Texas and other states along the Gulf Coast and continuing across Georgia and the Carolinas, forecasters said.Global models are painting a concerning picture of what this weekend could look like, with an increasingly strong signal for ice storm potential across North Georgia and portions of central Georgia, according to the National Weather Services Atlanta office.If significant accumulations of ice strike metro Atlanta, it could be a problem through the weekend since low temperatures early Monday are expected to be around 22 degrees (minus 5.6 Celsius) in Atlanta. The citys high temperature on Monday is forecast to be around 35 degrees (1.7 Celsius). Highway and air travel could be tangled by the stormTravel is a major concern, as southern states have less equipment to remove snow and ice from roads, and extremely cold temperatures expected after the storm could prevent ice from melting for several days. In Michigan, more than 100 vehicles crashed into each other or slid off an interstate southwest of Grand Rapids on Monday.The storm is also expected to impact many of the nations major hub airports, including those in Dallas; Atlanta; Memphis, Tennessee; and Charlotte, North Carolina.Polar air from Canada to keep northern states in a deep freezeUnusually cold temperatures are already in place across much of the northern tier of the U.S., but the blast of arctic air expected later this week is will be the coldest yet, Jackson said.Theres a large sprawling vortex of low pressure centered over Hudson Bay, Jackson said of the sea in northern Canada thats connected to the Arctic Ocean. And this is dominating the weather over all of North America. Texas could be a harbinger for other parts of the SouthSome of the storms earliest impacts could be in Texas on Friday, as the arctic air mass slides south through much of the state, National Weather Service forecaster Sam Shamburger said in a briefing on the storm.At the same time, were expecting rain to move into much of the state, Shamburger said.Low temperatures could fall into the 20s or even the teens in parts of Texas by Saturday, with the potential for a wintery mix of weather in the northern part of the state.Forecasters cautioned that significant uncertainty remains, particularly over how much ice or snow could fall across north and central Texas. Its going to be a very difficult forecast, Shamburger said.___Panjwani reported from Washington, D.C. JEFF MARTIN Martin covers a variety of topics including crime, hurricanes, and civil rights across the southeastern U.S. He was a member of the AP team named a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for the Lethal Restraint project. mailto HAYA PANJWANI Panjwani is an audio reporter and anchor for The Associated Press. She hosts a highly-produced audio series called The Story Behind the AP Story, and often contributes to race and ethnicity reporting. twitter instagram mailto

Israeli authorities demolish a UNRWA compound, belonging to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)2026-01-20T09:15:54Z JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted at least two United Nations facilities, pushing forward with a crackdown against the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees tasked with delivering humanitarian services to millions of people across the region.Crews began bulldozing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency s offices in Sheikh Jarrah and fired tear gas at a vocational school in Qalandia, marking Israels latest and most dramatic step against UNRWA. People watch the demolition of a UNRWA compound, the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) People watch the demolition of a UNRWA compound, the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Roland Friedrich, the agencys West Bank director, said UNRWA had received word that demolition crews and police arrived at their east Jerusalem headquarters early on Tuesday. Staff have not operated out of the facility for almost a year out of safety concerns, but Israeli forces confiscated devices and forced out private security guards hired to protect the facility.What we saw today is the culmination of two years of incitement and measures against UNRWA in east Jerusalem, Friedrich said, calling it a violation of international law guaranteeing such facilities protection.He said forces also began firing tear gas outside the vocational school on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon before ultimately leaving. More than 300 young refugees receive job training in technology and welding there.Some children on their way home from the school were overcome by the tear gas and a 15-year-old was hit in the eye with a rubber bullet, according to the Palestinian Authoritys Jerusalem governorate, which monitors Palestinian affairs in the area. Israeli bulldozers demolish a UNRWA compound, belonging to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Israeli bulldozers demolish a UNRWA compound, belonging to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Israeli leaders celebrate demolitionIsraels Foreign Ministry said the demolition enforced a new law banning UNRWA, noting that Israel owns the site and rejecting UNRWAs claims that the move violated international law. Israel has long claimed the agency has an anti-Israel bias. Often with little evidence, it says UNRWA employs and maintains ties with militant groups including Hamas. The U.N. has ardently denied such claims and UNRWA has said it acts quickly to purge any suspected militants among its staff. UNRWAs mandate is to provide aid and services to some 2.5 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, as well as 3 million more refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The group has for years maintained infrastructure in refugee camps and also run schools and provided health care. But its operations were curtailed last year when Israels Knesset passed legislation severing ties and banning it from functioning in what it defines as Israel including east Jerusalem.The agency said the demolitions could imperil operations at the vocational center in Qalandia and heath facility in Shuafat, where it still provides education and health services.An Israeli flag was seen hoisted above the facility in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where some Israeli politicians arrived on the scene to celebrate the organizations fate. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called it a historic day. Israeli bulldozers demolish a UNRWA compound, belonging to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Israeli bulldozers demolish a UNRWA compound, belonging to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More This must be a wake-up callThe demolition marked the culmination of years of criticism from Israel and its leaders. Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war more than two years ago, it has ramped up such attacks, accusing UNRWA of being infiltrated by Hamas and saying the militants used its facilities and seized aid. It has provided little evidence for the claims, which the U.N. has denied. The International Court of Justice said in October that Israel must allow the agency to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza.Since Israel passed its law banning the agency last year, its facilities schools and health centers and its headquarters have repeatedly been closed, raided or left unprotected. This must be a wake-up call, Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWAs commissioner-general, said in a statement on X. What happens today to UNRWA will happen tomorrow to any other international organisation or diplomatic mission, whether in the Occupied Palestinian Territory or anywhere around the world. More aid groups in Gaza face pressure Israeli authorities demolish a UNRWA compound, belonging to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Israeli authorities demolish a UNRWA compound, belonging to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Israels ban on UNRWA dovetailed with broader efforts to deregister aid groups operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Israel has passed laws requiring nongovernmental organizations not to hire staff involved in activities that delegitimize Israel or support boycotts, demanding they register lists of names as a condition of being allowed to work.Israel told dozens of groups including Doctors Without Borders and CARE that their licenses would expire at the end of 2025. The organizations say the rules are arbitrary and warned that the new ban would harm people desperately in need of humanitarian aid.Settler violence in the West Bank rose last year The Israeli military said Tuesday that attacks carried out by Jewish settlers against Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the West Bank increased by 27% last year compared with 2024.There were 867 reports of nationalistic crimes with the number of severe incidents up by more than 50%, according to internal statistics from the Israeli military and the countrys Shin Bet domestic security service.Mounting settler violence in the West Bank has emptied villages since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted, according to BTselem, an Israeli rights group helping the residents.The Israeli military has carried out large-scale operations in the West Bank targeting militants that have killed hundreds of Palestinians. There also has been a rise in Palestinian attacks on Israelis.Israeli authorities have a mixed relationship with settlers, at times dismantling unauthorized outposts while also deploying forces to protect them from Palestinians.___Julia Frankel and Shlomo Mor contributed reporting from Jerusalem. Find more of APs coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war SAM METZ Metz covers Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and points beyond for The Associated Press. mailto

Health department staff members enter the Andrews County Health Department measles clinic carrying doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice, File)2026-01-20T18:05:32Z Its been a year since a measles outbreak began in West Texas, and international health authorities say they will meet in April to determine if the U.S. has lost its measles-free designation.Experts fear the vaccine-preventable virus has regained a foothold and that the U.S. may soon follow Canada in losing the achievement of having eliminated it.The reevaluation is largely symbolic and hinges on whether a single measles chain has spread uninterrupted within the U.S. for at least 12 months.Public health scientists around the country are investigating whether the now-ended Texas outbreak is linked to active ones in Utah, Arizona and South Carolina. But doctors and scientists say the U.S. and North America overall has a measles problem, regardless of the decision.It is really a question of semantics, said Dr. Jonathan Temte, a Wisconsin family physician who helped certify the U.S. was measles-free in 2000. The bottom line is the conditions are sufficient to allow this many cases to occur. And that gets back to de-emphasizing a safe and effective vaccine. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed 2,144 measles cases across 44 states the most since 1991 and nearly 50 separate outbreaks. The problem has been years in the making, as fewer kids get routine vaccines due to parental waivers, health care access issues and rampant disinformation. More recently, Trump administration health officials have questioned and sown doubt about the established safety of vaccines at an unprecedented level while also defunding local efforts to improve vaccination rates. The most important thing that we can do is to make sure the people who arent vaccinated get vaccinated, said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of Brown Universitys Pandemic Center. We have not issued a clear enough message about that.A Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson said Thursday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has consistently emphasized vaccines as the best way to prevent measles, adding that the CDC is responding to outbreaks and working to increase vaccination rates.As of Thursday, the department said it doesnt have evidence that a single chain of measles has spread for a year. Measles finds the unvaccinatedThere is little room for error in trying to stop measles. The virus is one of the most contagious, infecting 9 out of every 10 unvaccinated people exposed. Community-level protection takes a 95% vaccination rate. The current rate nationally is 92.5%, according to CDC data, but many communities fall far below that.The patient in Texas first known case developed the telltale rash on Jan. 20, 2025, according to state health department data. From there, the outbreak exploded. Officially, 762 people fell ill, most of them in rural Gaines County, and two children died. Many more got sick and were never diagnosed: 182 potential measles cases among children in Gaines County went unconfirmed in March 2025 alone, state health officials said, a possible undercount of 44% in that county. Such data gaps are common, though, making it especially hard to track outbreaks. Many people living in communities where the virus is spreading face health care barriers and distrust the government. Contact tracing so many cases is also expensive, said behavioral scientist Noel Brewer, who chairs the U.S. committee that will finalize the data for international health officials. Research shows a single measles case can cost public health departments tens of thousands of dollars.CDC data on measles is still among the best worldwide, Brewer said, but the U.S. has changed its investment in public health, so were less able to do the case tracking that we used to do.Genetic sequencing can fill some gaps. But thats not always enough to say the outbreaks are connected. Genetically, the measles virus doesnt change as often as, say, flu.Within an outbreak, everybody is going to look the same, said Justin Lessler, a University of North Carolina disease researcher.The key question may then be how PAHO experts will navigate final data gaps, said Dr. Andrew Pavia, a Utah physician and longtime CDC consultant. My best guess is we will lose elimination status, Pavia said. The case for this not being continuous transmission is tenuous, and I think they are likely to err on the side of declaring it a loss of elimination status.Scientists have confirmed the same measles strain in Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, South Carolina, Canada, Mexico and several other North American countries, said Sebastian Oliel, a spokesperson for the Pan American Health Organization, which will make the final decision on U.S. measles elimination at an April 13 meeting.Oliel said when there is a case of unknown origin in a country with ongoing local spread, the most conservative approach is to consider the case part of the existing national transmission. Mexico also up for reviewPAHO will review Mexicos measles-free status alongside the U.S., Oliel said. That countrys largest outbreak has roots in Texas. It started when an 8-year-old boy from Chihuahua state got sick after visiting family in Seminole, Texas. Since last February, 6,000 people have gotten sick in Mexico, and 21 have died in Chihuahua state.But under PAHOs definition of elimination, borders matter. If, for example, the chain of measles that started in the U.S. spread to Mexico and then returned to the U.S. anew, it would be considered a new chain, experts said. Still, many experts call that standard outdated.Whats clear is that measles found ample fertile ground in the U.S. in 2025, infiltrating schools and day cares, churches, hospital waiting rooms and a detention center. New Mexico logged 100 cases and one adult died. Kansas officials spent seven months trying to control an outbreak that sickened nearly 90 people across 10 counties. Ohio confirmed 40 cases. Montana, North Dakota and Wisconsin each had 36.Now, more than 800 people have gotten sick across Utah, Arizona and South Carolina since late summer, with no end in sight.2025 was the year of measles, Brewer said. Will 2026 be the year of rising or falling measles cases? Does it get worse or does it get better? No one knows the answer.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. DEVI SHASTRI Shastri is a public health reporter for The Associated Press, based in Milwaukee. She covers housing access, the social safety net, medical misinformation and other topics that influence the health of communities broadly. twitter mailto

A Netflix sign is displayed atop a building in Los Angeles, on Dec. 18, 2025, with the Hollywood sign in the distance. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)2026-01-20T13:02:44Z Netflix is now offering to buy Warner Bros. Discoverys studio and streaming business in all cash in an effort to win over the Hollywood giants shareholders for its $72 billion merger and potentially thwart a hostile bid from Skydance-owned Paramount.Back in December, Netflix struck a cash and stock deal with Warner valued at $27.75 per share, giving it a total enterprise value of $82.7 billion, including debt. But on Tuesday, the companies announced that they would be revising the transaction to simplify its structure, provide more certainty of value for Warner stockholders and speed up the path to a shareholder vote which they said could arrive by April.The all-cash transaction is still valued at $27.75 per Warner share. Warner stockholders will also receive the additional value of shares of Discovery Global, which would become a separate public company following a previously-announced separation from Warner Bros. Warner leadership has repeatedly backed a merger with Netflix and the boards of both companies approved the all-cash deal announced Tuesday. In a statement, Warner CEO David Zaslav said the revised agreement brings us even closer to combining two of the greatest storytelling companies in the world. A spokesperson for Paramount declined to comment when reached by The Associated Press on Tuesday. Unlike Netflix, Paramount wants to acquire Warners entire company including networks like CNN and Discovery and went straight to shareholders with all cash, $77.9 billion offer last month. Warner stockholders have until 5 p.m. ET Wednesday to tender their shares in support of Paramounts bid, which has an enterprise value of $108 billion including debt. But that deadline could be pushed back further. While Paramount declined to share further details on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported last week that the company was planning on another extension. Beyond its tender offer, Paramount has promised a proxy fight. Last week, the company said it would nominate its own slate of directors before the Warners next shareholder meeting, the date of which has still not been set.Paramount also filed a suit in Delaware Chancery Court seeking to compel Warner Bros. to disclose to shareholders how it values its bid and the competing offer from Netflix. But a judge on Thursday denied Paramounts request to expedite that proceeding.In a statement at the time, Warner applauded the courts decision and called Paramounts lawsuit yet another unserious attempt to distract. Paramount, meanwhile, maintained that the ruling wasnt about the merits of its allegations and said Warner shareholders should ask why their Board is working so hard to hide this information.Regardless of who eventually wins the upper hand, a Warner Bros. Discovery sale could be a long, drawn-out process that is almost certain to attract tremendous antitrust scrutiny. On Tuesday, Netflix and Warner maintained that they expect to close on a merger 12 to 18 months from Decembers agreement. Still, Paramounts hostile bid could complicate that timeline. Politics are also expected to come into play under President Donald Trump, who has made unprecedented suggestions about his personal involvement on whether a deal will go through. Trade groups across the media and entertainment industry have sounded the alarm over both bids, warning that further consolidation in the industry could result in job losses and less diversity in content with particularly negative consequences for filmmaking.The companies have spoken on those concerns. On Tuesday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said combining with Warner will deliver broader choice and greater value to audiences worldwide both at home and in theaters while driving job creation and long-term industry growth.Netflixs stock inched up just under 1% Tuesday morning, while shares of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount-Skydance fell slightly. WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Grantham-Philips is a business reporter who covers trending news for The Associated Press. She is based in New York. twitter mailto

ICE agents make use of the facilities at a gas station, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)2026-01-20T16:44:34Z MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Trump administration is urging a judge to reject efforts by Minnesota and its largest cities to stop the immigration enforcement surge that has roiled Minneapolis and St. Paul for weeks.The Justice Department called the lawsuit, filed soon after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an immigration officer, legally frivolous. Lawyers argued that the Department of Homeland Security is acting within its legal powers to enforce immigration laws. Operation Metro Surge has made the state safer with the arrests of more than 3,000 people who were in the country illegally, the government said Monday in a court filing.Put simply, Minnesota wants a veto over federal law enforcement, Justice Department attorneys wrote.Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the government is violating free speech and other constitutional rights with its unprecedented sweeps. He described the armed officers as poorly trained and said the invasion must cease. The lawsuit filed Jan. 12 seeks an order to halt or limit the enforcement action. More filings are expected, and its not known when U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez will make a decision. Ilan Wurman, who teaches constitutional law at University of Minnesota Law School, doubts the states arguments will be successful. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Theres no question that federal law is supreme over state law, that immigration enforcement is within the power of the federal government, and the president, within statutory bounds, can allocate more federal enforcement resources to states whove been less cooperative in that enforcement space than other states have been, Wurman told The Associated Press. Julia Decker, policy director at the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, expressed frustration that advocates have no way of knowing whether the governments arrest numbers and descriptions of the people in custody are accurate. U.S. citizens have been dragged from their homes and vehicles during the Minnesota surge. These are real people were talking about, that we potentially have no idea what is happening to them, Decker said.In a separate lawsuit, Menendez said Friday that federal officers cant detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who arent obstructing authorities.Good, 37, was killed on Jan. 7 as she was moving her vehicle, which had been blocking a Minneapolis street where Immigration and Customers Enforcement officers were operating. Trump administration officials say the officer, Jonathan Ross, shot her in self-defense, although videos of the encounter show the Honda Pilot slowly turning away from him. Since then, the public has repeatedly confronted officers, blowing whistles and yelling insults at ICE and U.S. Border Patrol. They, in turn, have used tear gas and chemical irritants against protesters. Bystanders have recorded video of officers using a battering ram to get into a house as well as smashing vehicle windows and dragging people out of cars.President Donald Trump last week threatened to invoke an 1807 law and send troops to Minnesota, though he has backed off, at least in his public remarks. STEVE KARNOWSKI Karnowski covers politics and government from Minnesota for The Associated Press. He also covers the ongoing fallout from the murder of George Floyd, courts and the environment, among other topics. twitter mailto

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LONDONDetermined to get to the bottom of the highly publicized estrangement, fashion designer Victoria Beckham reportedly took to Reddit Tuesday to anonymously ask for someone to explain the Beckham family feud to her. Sorry, Im feeling kind of out of the loop here, could someone explain whats going on with the son? the 51-year-old Beckham wrote in a thread on the r/popculturechat forum, refreshing the page as she waited for another user to help fill her in on the details. If you ask me, it kind of just seems like the son Brooklyn is acting like a spoiled brat, but am I wrong? Is there part of the drama I missed? And whats up with his wife? Nichola? Nikola? Is she famous or something, because I really dont get her deal at all. At press time, sources confirmed Beckham was no closer to understanding the family feud.The post Victoria Beckham Asks Reddit To Explain Beckham Family Feud To Her appeared first on The Onion.

Mexican Security and Citizen Protection Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch, right, and Mexican General Prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero attend a news conference in Mexico City, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)2026-01-20T18:50:50Z MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexicos security minister said Tuesday that it had sent another 37 members of Mexican drug cartels to the United States, as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on governments to crack down on criminal networks it says are smuggling drugs across the border.Mexican Security Minister Omar Garca Harfuch wrote in a social media post on X that the people transferred were high impact criminals that represented a real threat to the countrys security.It is the third time in less than one year that Mexico has sent detained cartel members to the U.S. as the country attempts to offset mounting threats by U.S. President Donald Trump. Garca Harfuch said the government has sent 92 people in total.The U.S. State Department and Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for commentTuesdays transfer included figures from the Sinaloa Cartel, the Beltrn-Leyva cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Northeast Cartel, a remnant of the infamous Zetas based in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, across from Texas. Mexican authorities said that all had pending U.S. cases. Trump has entertained the idea of military action on Mexican cartels, language that has only gotten more combative since a U.S. military operation in Venezuela deposed former President Nicols Maduro earlier this month. Turning his attention to Mexico shortly after the Venezuela attack, Trump said in an interview with Fox News: Weve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water and we are going to start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels. Last week, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke with Trump, telling him that U.S. intervention in Mexico was not necessary, but emphasizing that the two governments would continue to collaborate.Last February, Mexico sent 29 cartel figures to the U.S., including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985. In August, a second round saw 26 Mexican cartel figures sent to the U.S. None had the profile of Caro Quintero, but spanning multiple cartels, the figures could help U.S. prosecutors build cases. After the August transfer, Garca Harfuch said it was a public safety decision, because Mexico did not want them to continue operating their illicit businesses from inside Mexican prisons.Another transfer of prisoners to the U.S. had been rumored for weeks. Mexico has sought to assure the Trump administration that it continues to be a willing partner in combating drug traffickers.___Follow APs coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-america MEGAN JANETSKY Megan Janetsky covers migration, conflict, human rights and politics in Mexico and Central America for The AP based in Mexico City. Previously, she covered Cuba and the Caribbean for The AP and worked as freelance journalist in Colombia, reporting across South America. twitter instagram facebook mailto

U.S. Supreme Court is seen, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)2026-01-20T18:54:43Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trumps unprecedented bid to reshape the Federal Reserve board is putting the Supreme Court in a familiar position, weighing an emergency appeal from the presidents lawyers in a politically charged case.The court is hearing arguments Wednesday over Trumps effort to oust Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook based on allegations she committed mortgage fraud, which she denies.No president has fired a sitting Fed governor in the agencys 112-year history.The true motivation, Trumps critics say, is the Republican presidents desire to wrest control of U.S. interest rate policy. Trump wants interest rates to fall sharply so the government can borrow more cheaply and Americans can pay lower borrowing costs for new homes, cars or other large purchases, as worries about high costs have soured some voters on his economic management. Fed Chair Jerome Powell and the board cut a key interest rate three times in a row in the last four months of 2025, but thats more slowly than Trump wants. The Fed also suggested it may leave rates unchanged in coming months, concerned about triggering higher inflation. Powell is expected to be in attendance when the justices take up an emergency plea from the Trump administration to be allowed to remove Cook from her job while her challenge to the firing plays out in court. Judges on lower courts have allowed her to remain in her post as one of seven central bank governors. If Trump could name someone to take Cooks place, he would have four of his appointees on the seven-member board. Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Feds governing board, was appointed in 2022 by President Joe Biden, a Democrat.The justices are being asked to effectively bless Trumps effort to undermine the Feds independence, said Columbia University law professor Lev Menand, who has joined a brief in support of Cook. This case is about much more than Cook, Menand said. Its about whether President Trump will be able to take over the Federal Reserve board in the coming months.The threat to the Feds independence spurred Powells three living predecessors, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, to weigh in on Cooks behalf. They were joined by five former Treasury secretaries appointed by presidents of both political parties and other former high-ranking economic officials.In their filing, lawyers for the former officials wrote that immediately ousting Cook would expose the Federal Reserve to political influences, thereby eroding public confidence in the Feds independence and jeopardizing the credibility and efficacy of U.S. monetary policy.Economists warn that a politicized Fed that caves in to the presidents demands will damage its credibility as an inflation fighter and likely lead investors to demand higher rates before investing in U.S. treasuries.With Cooks case under review at the high court, Trump dramatically escalated his confrontation with the Fed. The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation of Powell and has served the central bank with subpoenas. Powell himself took the rare step of responding to Trump, calling the threat of criminal charges pretexts that mask the real reason, Trumps frustration over interest rates. The Justice Department has said the dispute is ostensibly about Powells testimony to Congress in June over the cost of a massive renovation of Fed buildings. In Trumps first year in office, the justices generally, but not always, went along with Trumps pleas for emergency action to counteract lower-court rulings against him, including allowing the firings of the heads of other governmental agencies at the presidents discretion, with no claim that they did anything wrong.But the court has sent signals that it is approaching the independence of the nations central bank more cautiously, calling the Fed a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity. In Cooks case, Trump is not asserting that he can fire Fed governors at will. Cook is one of several people, along with Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California, who have been accused of mortgage fraud by federal housing official Bill Pulte. They have denied the allegations against them. The case against Cook stems from allegations she claimed two properties, in Michigan and Georgia, as primary residences in June and July 2021, before she joined the Fed board. Such claims can lead to a lower mortgage rate and smaller down payment than if one of them was declared as a rental property or second home. Cook has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime. There is no fraud, no intent to deceive, nothing whatsoever criminal or remotely a basis to allege mortgage fraud, a Cook lawyer, Abbe Lowell, wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi in November. Cook specified that her Atlanta condo would be a vacation home, according to a loan estimate she obtained in May 2021. In a form seeking a security clearance, she described it as a 2nd home. Lowell wrote that the case against her largely rests on one stray reference in a 2021 mortgage document that was plainly innocuous in light of the several other truthful and more specific disclosures about the homes she has purchased. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb ruled that the Trump administration had not satisfied a legal requirement that Fed governors can only be fired for cause, which she said was limited to misconduct while in office. Cobb also held that Trumps firing would have deprived Cook of her due process, or legal right, to contest the firing.By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington rejected the Trump administrations request to let Cooks firing proceed.At the Supreme Court, the administration argues Cook has no right to a hearing and courts have no role to play in reviewing Trumps actions. Trump lawfully fired Cook, Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote, after concluding that the American people should not have their interest rates determined by someone who made misrepresentations material to her mortgage rates that appear to have been grossly negligent at best and fraudulent at worst.Sauer will face off against Paul Clement, a conservative lawyer who served in Sauers role under President George W. Bush and has argued for expanding gun rights, against same-sex marriage and for striking down the Affordable Care Act. Both men once worked as law clerks for Justice Antonin Scalia.Cooks fate should not be determined by untested allegations or before any facts are found, her lawyers told the court. She should be able to remain in her job at least while her case proceeds, they wrote. ___AP Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber contributed to this report.___Follow the APs coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court at https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-court. MARK SHERMAN Sherman has covered the Supreme Court for The Associated Press since 2006. His journalism career spans five decades. He is based in Washington, D.C., and previously lived in New York, Paris and Atlanta. twitter mailto

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