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Cities crack down on homeless encampments. Advocates …

Amber Nastasia from Rapid Response Bio Cleanup cleans a homeless camp in Portland, Ore., Thursday, July 27, 2023. Cities across the U.S. are struggling with and cracking down on tent encampments as the number of homeless people grows, largely due to a lack of affordable housing. Homeless people and their advocates say sweeps are cruel and costly, and there aren't enough homes or beds for everyone. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)

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California city calls for permanent cease-fire in Israel-Hamas …

Audience members show their support at a special session of the Oakland City Council for a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

Diplomas for sale: $465, no classes required. Inside one …

Kitty Sibley Morrison, principal and founder of the Springfield Preparatory School, speaks during a graduation ceremony of the school at Victory in Christ church in Holden, La., Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. Nearly 9,000 private schools in Louisiana don’t need state approval to grant degrees. Non-approved schools make up a small percentage of the state total. But the students in Louisiana’s off-the-grid school system are a rapidly growing example of the national fallout from COVID-19 — families disengaging from traditional education. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

US Navy removes fuel from plane that overshot Hawaii runway …

This Nov. 21, 2023, handout photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps shows U.S. Navy sailors deploying temporary protective barriers around a downed Navy P-8A in waters just off the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. (U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Brandon Aultman via AP)

3 men of Palestinian descent shot while attending holiday …

In a still frame from video first responders use a gurney to place an injured man into an ambulance while transporting him from the scene of a shooting, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in Burlington, Vt. Burlington Police Department arrested Jason J. Eaton, suspected in the shooting of three young men of Palestinian descent, who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering near the University of Vermont campus Saturday evening. (Wayne Savage via AP)

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Deck the White House halls: Jill Biden wants holiday visitors …

Holiday decorations adorn the library of the White House for the 2023 theme "Magic, Wonder, and Joy," Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones’ $1.5 …

FILE - Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court, Sept. 22, 2022, in Waterbury, Conn. Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax have offered to settle that debt for only pennies on the dollar — at least $85 million over 10 years. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

New York’s cannabis board votes to settle lawsuits …

FILE - Marijuana plants are seen at a growing facility in Washington County, N.Y., May 12, 2023. New York cannabis regulators on Monday, Nov. 27, approved a deal to settle lawsuits that have blocked recreational marijuana shops from opening, as officials move to restart the state's troubled legal market. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Tensions simmer as newcomers and immigrants with …

Rosalinda Ramirez, 57, and her partner Jose Guerrero, 41, Mexican immigrants who crossed the border separately over two decades ago and who have built lives and he a landscaping business in the U.S. but never found a route to obtain legal status, talk to AP journalists at their home in Homestead, Fla., Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. The couple are among those longterm immigrants in the U.S. who are frustrated to see newer arrivals getting work permits and government assistance, while they have paid taxes for decades without earning work permits, the ability to visit relatives back home and return, or freedom from the fear of deportation. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its …

FILE - Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco on March 22, 2023. Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — that it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint described in reports from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Schools in Portland, Oregon, reach tentative deal …

FILE - Teachers and their supporters hold signs, chant and rally the crowd with bullhorns on the first day of a teacher's strike in Portland, Ore., on Nov. 1, 2023. Portland Public Schools said late Sunday, Nov. 26, it had reached a tentative deal with the teachers’ union that will send the district’s roughly 45,000 students back to class Monday after nearly a month without classes. (AP Photo/Claire Rush, File)

Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were not only a global …

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2018, file photo former President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter are seen ahead of an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Cincinnati Bengals in Atlanta. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have been best friends and life mates for nearly 80 years. Now with the former first lady's death at age 96, the former president must adjust to life without the woman who he credits as his equal partner in everything he accomplished in politics and as a global humanitarian after their White House years. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Republicans want to pair border security with aid …

FILE - A group of people, including many from China, walk along the wall after crossing the border with Mexico to seek asylum, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, near Jacumba, Calif. As Congress returns this week, Senate Republicans have made it clear they won’t support additional war aid for Ukraine unless they can pair it with border security measures. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)