House Republican leaders, from left, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, arrive to tout Republican wins and meet with reporters on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. Congress returns to work this week to begin what is known as a lame-duck session — that period between Election Day and the end of the two-year congressional term. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After one of the most chaotic and least productive sessions in modern history, voters made a surprising choice in elections for the U.S. House -- they overwhelmingly stuck with the status quo.
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Leaders of Pacific Rim countries including the U.S. and China gathered Saturday for a group photo during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Lima.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — China’s leader Xi Jinping met for the last time with U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday but was already looking ahead to President-elect Donald Trump and his “America first” policies, saying Beijing “is ready to work with a new U.S. administration."
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Sgt. Ian Van Nest is a conservation officer who keeps interactions between polar bears and humans minimal. It's been over a decade since the last polar bear attack in Churchill, a remote Canadian town on Hudson Bay, and now townspeople have an alert system, paid guards and a polar bear jail. (AP Video: Joshua A. Bickel)
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CHURCHILL, Manitoba (AP) — Sgt. Ian Van Nest rolls slowly through the streets of Churchill, his truck outfitted with a rifle and a barred back seat to hold anyone he has to arrest. His eyes dart back and forth, then settle on a crowd of people standing outside a van.
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