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US hostage envoy in Beirut to seek information on missing journalist Austin Tice

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is in Beirut in hopes of collecting information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American …

Marc Tice, left, and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, a journalist who was kidnapped in Syria, update the media about their son's condition as they continue to push for his release, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Both sides in abortion debate seek clues in Trump’s nominees to key positions

FILE - Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at First Horizon Coliseum, Nov. 2, 2024, in Greensboro, NC. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Military pauses Osprey flights again after more metal failures are found in near crash in November

Marine Two, an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, with Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff aboard, lifts from Soldier Field in Chicago, Aug. 23, 2024.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear picked to lead Democratic efforts to win governorships in 2026 midterms

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, joined by local and executives with Shelbyville Battery Manufacturing a $712 million battery manufacturing project in Shelbyville, Ky., creating 1,572 skilled, high-tech jobs at the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Ky., Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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Lara Trump stepping down as RNC co-chair and addressing speculation about Florida Senate seat

FILE - Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign town hall Oct. 4, 2024, in Fayetteville, N.C., as Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump listens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Boston parents over race bias in elite high school admissions

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance for transgender students

The Supreme Court is framed by the columns of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. T (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In promising to shake up Washington, Trump is in a class of his own

President-elect Donald Trump takes the stage before he speaks at the FOX Nation Patriot Awards, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Greenvale, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Kennedy Center pays tribute to Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Raitt, Sandoval and The Apollo

2024 Kennedy Center Honoree, director and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola waves to the audience at the start of the Kennedy Center Honors Gala, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Adam Schiff to be sworn into the Senate, where he wants to be more than a Trump antagonist

Sen.-elect Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives to meet with fellow Democrats for caucus leadership elections, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump taps his attorney Alina Habba to serve as counselor to the president

FILE - Alina Habba speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Allentown, Pa., Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Biden says US believes journalist Austin Tice is alive in Syria

Marc Tice, left, and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, a journalist who was kidnapped in Syria, update the media about their son's condition as they continue to push for his release, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Assad’s fall in Syria is a ‘fundamental act of justice,’ but also ‘a moment of risk,’ Biden says

President Joe Biden speaks about the sudden collapse of the Syrian government under Bashar Assad from the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Election Day has long passed. In some states, legislatures are working to undermine the results

The Rev. Rob Stephens with the NC Poor People's Campaign speaks at a news conference outside the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C. on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

Trump says US should stay out of fighting in Syria as opposition forces gain

A Syrian opposition fighter holds a rocket launcher in front of the provincial government office, where an image of Syrian President Bashar Assad is riddled with bullets on the facade, in the aftermath of the opposition's takeover of Hama, Syria, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Clintons urge voters agitated by today’s politics to remain involved in public service

Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp, addresses attendees of the Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture with the Clintons event, a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark., on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Katie Adkins)

Sen. Joni Ernst wants to hear from Hegseth on sex assault in the military and women in combat

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, listens to reporters during a meeting with Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump isn’t back in office but he’s already pushing his agenda and negotiating with world leaders

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes President-elect Donald Trump as he arrives at the Elysee Palace, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Trump is welcomed by Macron to Paris with presidential pomp and joined by Zelenskyy for their talks

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, poses with President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee Palace, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

The DNC chair candidates discuss Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and winning Latino voters

FILE - Commissioner of the Social Security Administration Martin O'Malley testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Bureau of Prisons agrees to court monitor, public acknowledgement of staff-on-inmate sexual abuse

FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution stands in Dublin, Calif., Dec. 5, 2022. The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six other facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and mismanagement, the Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Mother of Austin Tice, journalist missing in Syria, says new information proves her son is alive

Debra Tice, second right, and Marc Tice, right, the parents of Austin Tice, a journalist who was kidnapped in Syria, listen with their son-in-law and grandchildren during a news conference updating the media about their son's condition as they continue to push for his release, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump offers show of support for Hegseth, confident in confirmation

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday offered a public show of support for Pete Hegseth, his embattled choice to lead the Defense Department, whose confirmation by the Senate is …

Pete Hegseth, center right, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, joined by his wife Jennifer Rauchet, arrives to meet with Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump taps forceful ally of hard-line immigration policies to head Customs and Border Protection

Sean Hannity introduces President-elect Donald Trump before awarding him the 'Patriot of the Year' award at the FOX Nation Patriot Awards, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Greenvale, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)