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In this courtroom sketch, defense attorney Jeffrey Pagliuca, left, confers with Ghislaine Maxwell after making an argument to Judge Nathan regarding the removal of a juror due to holiday travel plans that would disrupt the trial schedule during Maxwell's sex trafficking trial, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in New York. A longtime pilot for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein resumed his testimony at Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial Tuesday, saying that the British socialite charged with helping the financier find teenage girls to sexually abuse was

Scenes from Week 1 of Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-abuse trial

Penobscots don't want ancestors' scalping to be whitewashed

China's communists bash US democracy before Biden summit
Parents captured after son charged in Oxford school shooting
Parents of Michigan boy charged in Oxford school shooting
Contact tracing revs up in some states as omicron reaches US
Mom of Illinois State student wants FBI to investigate death
Flanked by attorney Ben Crump, left, and attorney B'Ivory LaMarr, right, Carmen Day, mother of Jelani Day, speaks during a news conference at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, in Chicago, where Jelani's family and attorneys called for an investigation into his death. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Honolulu utility shuts well to prevent fuel contamination
This photo shows a tunnel inside the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Jan. 26, 2018. The state of Hawaii says a laboratory has detected petroleum product in a water sample from an elementary school near Pearl Harbor. The news comes amid heightened concerns that fuel from the massive Navy storage facility may contaminate Oahu's water supply. (U.S. Navy via AP)
UN renews anti-piracy ships off Somalia for only 3 months
Expert: School should have flagged behavior before shooting
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer embraces Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter as the two leave flowers and pay their respects Thursday morning, Dec. 2, 2021 at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich. A 15-year-old boy has been denied bail and moved to jail after being charged in the Michigan school shooting that killed four students and injured others.(Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP)
Nevada court sides with gunmakers in Las Vegas shooting suit
FILE - Investigators work at a festival grounds across the street from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Oct. 3, 2017, in Las Vegas after a mass shooting. The Nevada Supreme Court cited a state law that shields gun manufacturers from liability unless the weapon malfunctions in a new ruling that says they cannot be held responsible for the deaths in the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
EXPLAINER: How unusual to charge parents in school shooting?
Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald addresses the media in her office, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, in Pontiac, Mich. McDonald filed involuntary manslaughter charges against Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley, who is accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school. McDonald says the gun used in the shootings at Oxford High School was purchased by James Crumbley a week ago and given to the boy. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Governor apologizes for Nevada's role in Indigenous schools
This undated photo courtesy of Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum shows a Stewart Indian School classroom in Carson, Nev. The state of Nevada plans to fully cooperate with federal efforts to investigate the history of Native American boarding schools. On Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, Gov. Steve Sisolak apologized for the state's role in funding the construction of and relocating Native children to the Stewart Indian School in Carson City from 1890 to 1980. As part of a government policy designed to assimilate them into Euro-American culture, children sent to residential schools were forcibly ripped from their homes, prohibited from speaking their languages and buried secretly on school grounds, historians say. The Stewart School is among more than 350 that the Interior Department plans to investigate in a review announced this year. (Courtesy of Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum via AP)
Colorado supermarket shooting suspect incompetent for trial
FILE - Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in March, is led into a courtroom for a hearing Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. Experts have found Alissa is mentally incompetent to proceed in the case, attorneys said during a court hearing, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski/Pool, File)
Fire official: Gas odor after blast razes Oklahoma City home
Ohio deputy asks to move Casey Goodson case to federal court
Tamala Payne, left, the mother of Casey Goodson Jr., reacts along with Goodson's aunt Brandie Payne during the reading of the statement of facts during the arraignment of former Franklin County, Ohio, deputy Jason Meade in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. Meade, who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five times has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and reckless homicide. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)
Montana inmate confesses to 1968 slaying, dismemberment
These undated photos provided by the Montana Department of Corrections show Montana prison inmate Courtney Brooke Atlas, who is serving a 100-year prison sentence in Crossroads Correctional Center, in Shelby, Mont., for killing his wife and setting their house on fire in 1983. Atlas, now 79, on Dec. 1, 2021, confessed to killing Pamela Dorrington, 19, of Helena, Mont., in Feb. 1968, in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Atlas had been her landlord and Lewis and Clark County officials said he had always been a suspect. (Montana Department of Corrections via AP)
Oklahoma governor denies clemency for death row inmate
FILE - This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Bigler Jobe Stouffer II. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has denied clemency for a death row inmate sentenced to die for the 1985 shooting death of a Putnam City schoolteacher. Stitt's decision clears the way for Bigler Stouffer II to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)
DAs, retailers say California needs tougher retail theft law
This undated image released by the California Attorney General's Office shows stolen items from Bay Area retailers, recovered in a warehouse in Concord, Calif., where a search warrant was executed by California law enforcement authorities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Spurred by a recent run of large-scale smash-and-grab robberies, prosecutors and retailers are pushing back on assertions by California's governor and attorney general that they have enough tools to combat retail theft in the wake of a voter-approved easing of related laws. (California Attorney General's Office via AP)
Late musician Tom Petty receives posthumous Ph.D. for music
FILE - In a Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, file photo, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers perform at KAABOO 2017 at the Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds, in San Diego. Nearly two decades after earning a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and more than four years after his death, rock icon Petty has been awarded an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Florida, the school's board of trustees announced Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)
Evidence at Maxwell trial: massage table, unfolded in court
In this sketch, a prosecution detective, left, shows a massage table recovered from Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach Beach home to witness and former Palm Beach Police Officer Gregory Parkinson, right, during testimony in the sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Friday Dec. 3, 2021, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Wisconsin condo building evacuated due to structural issues
Trial begins for man who claimed panhandler killed wife
Signs show NJ statehouse shot, test mandate still in effect
A day after Assembly Republicans successfully defied a mandate to show COVID-19 vaccination proof or a negative test, signs stood around entryways and outside committee rooms at the statehouse showing the mandate remained policy, Friday Dec. 3, 2021, in New York. The New Jersey statehouse requirement for visitors to show proof of COVID-19 or a negative test is still in effect after Republican lawmakers defied it ahead of a voting sessions Thursday. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini)
Iowa high school player arrested in post-game attack
Where's the snow? Rockies winter starts with a whimper
The Denver skyline is seen on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. The Mile High City has already shattered its 87-year-old record for the latest measurable snowfall set on Nov. 21, 1934, and it's a little more than a week away from breaking an 1887 record of 235 consecutive days without snow. The scenario is playing out across much of the Rocky Mountains, as far north as Montana and in the broader Western United States, which is experiencing a megadrought that studies link to human-caused climate change. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Health

German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a speech at the Defence Ministry during the Grand Tattoo (Grosser Zapfenstreich), a ceremonial send-off for her, in Berlin on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (Odd Andersen/Pool Photo via AP)

Merkel: Virus death toll 'so bitter because it is avoidable'

Italian dentist presents fake arm for vaccine to get pass
SKorea sets daily records for new coronavirus cases, deaths
Contact tracing revs up in some states as omicron reaches US
Brazil's Bolsonaro investigated for linking vaccine and AIDS
Sanders to Biden: Cut back looming Medicare premium hike
Omicron-stricken South Africa may be glimpse into the future

Technology

FILE - A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir, Aug. 24, 2021. The phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked using technology from Israel's NSO Group, the world's most infamous hacker-for-hire company, a person familiar with the matter said Friday, Dec. 3. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

AP Source: NSO Group spyware used to hack State employees

All Rep. Pressley wants for Christmas is her Mariah album
US government sues to block $40 billion Nvidia-Arm chip deal
Sports betting ads: Industry weighs how much is too much?
Island turns into open-air lab for tech-savvy volcanologists
From Square to Block: Another tech company changes its name
Tesla officially moves headquarters from California to Texas

Business

Light from the morning sun illuminates the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. With Democrats holding a thin majority in Congress, passage of President Joe Biden's sweeping legislative agenda will be a challenge as negotiations continue in the 50-50 Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Time is no ally as Dems strain to finish Biden's $2T bill

Laos opens railway to China as debt to Beijing rises
Nevada court sides with gunmakers in Las Vegas shooting suit
Colorado supermarket shooting suspect incompetent for trial
DAs, retailers say California needs tougher retail theft law
Time is no ally as Dems strain to finish Biden's $2T bill
Where's the snow? Rockies winter starts with a whimper

NFL

FILE - Houston Texans owner Bob McNair watches from the sidelines before an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, in Houston. Over the past 100 years, around 110 men and a handful of women have owned controlling portions of NFL teams. Of that select group, all but two have been white. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith, File)

Pipeline: Cascade of white owners has slowed NFL change

Arians urges NFL look at vaccination status of more teams
Column: Baseball can't afford another extended labor dispute
Analysis: Why Rodgers got fined and 3 Bucs got suspended
Daniel Jones will not play against Dolphins, neck injury
Power, influence growing for SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey
Cowboys take misfiring offense into mini-break after win

MLB

FILE - San Francisco Giants' Brandon Crawford, bottom, signs autographs for fans before Game 2 of a baseball National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Oct. 9, 2021, in San Francisco. Even if baseball's first work stoppage in 26 years doesn't result in missed games, the league and its players are at risk of alienating their next wave of fans. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn, File)

Even if games go on, MLB lockout could alienate Gen Z

Giveback demands in MLB bargaining lead to work stoppages
Column: Baseball can't afford another extended labor dispute
Winter of waiting: Baseball fans hope MLB lockout fleeting
Manfred, Clark divergent views point to lengthy lockout
Teams spend $1.4B in 1 day, then MLB locks out players
MLB owners lock out players, 1st work stoppage since 1995

NBA

FILE - Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon reacts during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against George Mason on Nov. 17, 2021, in College Park, Md. Turgeon is out as Maryland's basketball coach after a slow start to his 11th season knocked the team out of the Top 25. The athletic department announced Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, that Turgeon was stepping down in what it called a mutual decision. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)

Turgeon out as Maryland men's hoops coach; Manning interim

Blazers executive Neil Olshey dismissed after probe
Column: Women's tennis leads lonely fight for human rights
LeBron James out of COVID-19 protocols, cleared to return
Bucks' Lopez undergoes back surgery; return date uncertain
NBA All-Star Kevin Love honored for mental health advocacy
Heat center Bam Adebayo needs thumb surgery, will miss weeks
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