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Usher to headline the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show in …

FILE - Usher performs at the 51st annual Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on Thursday, June 16, 2022, in New York. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Usher will headline the 2024 Super Bowl on Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium. The music megastar, who has won eight Grammys, said he's looking forward to performing on the NFL's biggest stage. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Residents prepare to return to sites of homes demolished …

FILE - The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Soon after Lahaina Hongwanji Mission burned in a wildfire that decimated much of the historic coastal town, the Japanese Buddhist temple's resident minister was desperate to go back and see what remained. Now, he's more hesitant. The Rev. Ai Hironaka and other Lahaina residents are grappling with a range of feelings as Maui authorities plan to begin allowing them back into what has become known as the "burn zone." (Matthew Thayer/The Maui News via AP, File)

Ideological rifts among U.S. bishops are in the spotlight …

FILE - Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large of America Magazine, is interviewed at the publication's offices, in New York, Monday, May 21, 2018. Martin, through his writings, public appearances and other activities, has been advocating over many years for greater LGBTQ inclusion in the church. He says critics of the October 2023 synod’s attention-getting agenda miss the essential purpose of the gathering at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Both parties want to win South Florida. Here’s one Cuban …

Felix Llerena, a Cuban immigrant and political activist now living in Texas, poses for a photo at Arthur Storey Park, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Government should pay compensation for secretive Cold …

Chester Deanes, left, and Ben Phillips hold a photo of the former Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, where they lived growing up on Sept. 7, 2023. The Army sprayed a potential carcinogen from the tops of buildings and from station wagons in the area around Pruitt-Igoe in the 1950s and 1960s as part of secret Cold War-era testing. Deanes and Phillips are leading an effort to get government compensation. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)

The Supreme Court will hear a case with a lot of ‘buts’ …

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, with the U.S. Capitol in the distance, Nov. 4, 2020. It's hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than “and.” But how to interpret the simple conjunction has prompted a complicated legal fight that lands in the Supreme Court on the first day of its new term next week. What the justices decide could affect thousands of prison sentences each year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Lahaina residents brace for what they’ll find as …

FILE - Sydney Carney walks through her home, which was destroyed by a wildfire on Aug. 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Lahaina residents are grappling with a range of feelings as Maui authorities plan to begin allowing them back into what has become known as the "burn zone." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Auto workers still have room to expand their strike …

A UAW Local 2402 member waves a picket sign outside the General Motors Customer Care and Aftersales facility in Brandon, Miss., Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. The unionized workers joined others Friday in new nationwide walkouts as the labor standoff continues. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

3 shot and killed in targeted attack in Atlanta, …

A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. …

Darryl George, a 17-year-old junior, before walking across the street to go into Barbers Hill High School after serving a 5-day in-school suspension for not cutting his hair Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in Mont Belvieu. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Many states are expanding their Medicaid programs …

Cindy Clemons, center, receives dental care from Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry third-year student Onyeka Oguagha, left, and oral surgery resident Matthew Moore, right, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Clemons was able to receive treatment after an expansion of the state's Medicaid program. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

A Venezuelan man and his pet squirrel made it to …

In this image taken from video, Niko, a pet squirrel, is fed by his owner, Yeison, in their tent at a migrant camp, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 in Matamoros, Mexico. Yeison, who declined to give his last name because he fears for his family’s safety in Venezuela, traveled with Niko thousands of miles to the border with the United States. But Yeison and Niko may be separated if he is granted entrance to the U.S. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Tropical Storm Ophelia off the mid-Atlantic coast …

Scott Bierman, a water taxi driver in Annapolis, Md., said the water taxi service in Maryland's capital city was shutting down at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, 2022 due to an intensifying weather system off the mid-Atlantic coast, and the decision has already been made for water taxi service to be closed on Saturday. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)