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WATCH: Senate GOP leader McConnell appears to freeze again, this time in Kentucky

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell appeared to briefly freeze up and was unable to answer a question from a reporter at an event in Kentucky on Wednesday.

PHOTOS: Florida surveys damage in aftermath of Hurricane Idalia

By Daniel Kozin, Associated Press

Hurricane Idalia is unleashing life-threatening wind and rain in Florida and Georgia…

WATCH: Biden delivers remarks on federal response to Maui wildfires, Hurricane Idalia

By Associated Press

President Joe Biden says Hurricane Idalia is “still very dangerous” even though it has weakened after coming ashore in Florida on Wednesday morning.

WATCH: White House holds briefing as Hurricane Idalia moves across Florida

By Terry Spencer, Associated Press

State officials, 5,500 National Guardsman and rescue crews were in search-and-recovery mode, inspecting bridges, clearing toppled trees and looking for anyone in distress.

Giuliani liable in defamation lawsuit from Georgia election workers

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

The judge ordered Giuliani to pay more than $130,000 in lawyers' fees and other costs for shirking his duty to turn over information requested by the election workers as part of their lawsuit.

3.6 million workers to be eligible for overtime pay under a proposed Biden administration rule

By Alexandra Olson, Associated Press

The new rule would require employers to pay overtime to so-called white collar workers who make less than $55,000 a year.

Native nations on front lines of climate change share knowledge and find support at intensive camps

By Hallie Golden, Associated Press

Tribes suffer some of the most severe impacts of climate change in the U.S. but often have the fewest resources to respond. This makes the intensive camps an important training ground and community-building space.

EPA head says he's fully supports decision to block Alaska mine and protect salmon-rich Bristol Bay

By Mark Thiessen, Associated Press

The nation's top environmental official said he fully supports his agency's decision to block a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska's salmon-rich Bristol Bay, even as the state of Alaska has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn that…

How Meadows' testimony in Georgia could help shape case against Trump

By Geoff Bennett, Saher Khan, Ian Couzens

In a surprising move Monday, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows took the stand in a Georgia federal court in hopes of moving his high-profile case on conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election from a state court…

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Russian nationalist ordered to stay in prison after accusing Putin of weakness and indecision

By Associated Press

Igor Strelkov is a retired security officer who led Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and who was convicted of murder in the Netherlands for his role in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet.