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By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, just like in…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, just like in…
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By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West is once again embroiled in controversy. The rapper who is legally known as Ye made antisemitic…
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BERLIN (AP) — An external power line to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — the biggest in Europe — was repaired on Sunday after…
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Finke, the veteran reporter who became one of Hollywood’s top journalists as founder of…
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By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to reassuring Americans about an economy that’s an…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. government ministers are imploring Conservative colleagues to rally behind Prime Minister Liz…
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By DAVID RISING Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — CNN has pulled a story on the massacre of Thai preschoolers and has apologized over…
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By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Nicolas Toulliou had just proposed marriage to his girlfriend. Nelson…
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LONDON (AP) — Most train services across Britain have been canceled as thousands of rail workers staged the latest in a string of strikes over…
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BERLIN (AP) — Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a…
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BEIJING (AP) — China has criticized the latest U.S. decision to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and…
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LONDON (AP) — The death toll from a gas station explosion that shattered a small village in northwest Ireland rose to 10 on Saturday, and emergency…
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By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities are just beginning to sift through the wreckage of the devastated city…
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BERLIN (AP) — A train communications system in Germany was targeted by sabotage Saturday, forcing both passenger and cargo trains to halt for…
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By ADAM SCHRECK and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An explosion Saturday caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking…
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By ADAM BEAM and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday he will call a special…
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IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Electric truck and SUV maker Rivian Automotive said Friday it is recalling almost all the vehicles it has delivered to…
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By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government says it has rescued about 130 Indian workers from Myanmar, Cambodia and…
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By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A pink diamond was sold for $57.7 million in Hong Kong on Oct. 7, setting a world record for the…
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By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia plans record development spending in 2023 despite a proposed smaller national…
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By KATHLEEN FOODY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Officials are continuing to decline to reveal new details surrounding an…
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By The Associated Press A United Nations organization on Friday committed to sharply cut carbon emissions from air travel by 2050. Environmental…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: CVS, Levi Strauss fall; Credit Suisse, Ambac…
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The Associated Press Wall Street lost more ground on worries that a still-strong U.S jobs market may actually make a recession more likely. The…
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By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s five American Indian tribes want exclusive rights to host internet…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For most Americans, Friday’s September jobs report was welcome news: Businesses kept…
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The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery rose $4.19 to $92.64 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for December delivery rose…
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Commerce Department is tightening export controls to limit China’s ability to get advanced computing…
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By CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana is known for delivering food with big, bold flavor. The same can be said for the…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has chosen the head of the country’s tax agency to fill the cabinet-level…
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The parent of Allegiant Air says it’s pushing back the opening of a resort in Florida because of damage from Hurricane Ian.…
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By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and ERIC GAY Associated Press LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The cotton harvest is about to get underway in the Texas High Plains, the…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain and Ireland have hailed a new spirit of compromise in a grinding feud over post-Brexit trade…
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By FRANK BAJAK and KELVIN CHAN AP Technology Writers President Joe Biden has signed an executive order designed to allay European concerns that U.S.…
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DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency has closed an investigation into fuel leaks in two Volkswagen models without seeking a…
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, may have lost more than $100 million following a hack…
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The Associated Press CVS Health shares tumbled early Friday after the company said a big Medicare Advantage plan took a hit in government quality…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has opened a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas exploration,…
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By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers If the squabbling ever stops over Elon Musk’s renewed bid to buy Twitter, experts say he…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has held a joint drone drill with the United Kingdom in the…
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Financial Services Agency has ordered brokerage SMBC Nikko Securities to suspend its block trading operations for three…
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By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Good news on the economy remains bad news for Wall Street, as stocks fell sharply…
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By LORNE COOK, KAREL JANICEK and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — European Union leaders are struggling to bridge significant…
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HONG KONG (AP) — A superyacht connected to Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov has anchored in Hong Kong as Western governments move to seize yachts…
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By REBECCA SANTANA and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — Christine Barrett was inside her family’s North Port home during…
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By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers slowed their hiring in September but still added 263,000 jobs, a solid…
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By KATHLEEN FOODY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Diverted ambulances, cancer treatment delayed and electronic health records…
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The Associated Press Stocks closed lower again on Wall Street but still managed to hold on to sizable gains for the week. The S&P 500 fell 1%…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Venator, JetBlue fall; Peloton, Marathon Oil…
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BERLIN (AP) — Munich Re, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies, says it will stop backing new oil and gas fields beginning next April.…
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