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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A new populist party riding the anger among Dutch farmers and rural communities at government policies to rein in agricultural pollution appears to be the big winner in provincial elections. The voting Wednesday also will indirectly decide the makeup of the Netherlands national senate and

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Pence and Bernie Sanders are hardly political allies. But after two large bank failures, the conservative former vice president and the democratic socialist senator are striking remarkably similar tones. Pence bemoaned “certain politically favored businesses” being “propped up” by government. Sanders said “we cannot continue down

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Long before a Chinese spy balloon captivated the U.S. last month, Kyle Bass foresaw a foreign danger planned for the skies above his Texas property. Dozens of massive wind turbines were set to span 15,000 thousand acres near the Devils River in Del Rio on

By AMANDA SEITZ and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden says his administration is focused “intensely” on lowering health care costs. He is also taking aim at “MAGA” Republicans who he says are intent on dialing back Medicare coverage for millions of Americans. Biden used a speech Wednesday in Las

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it expects to invest $230 billion over the next 20 years as part of an ambitious South Korean national project to build the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing base near the capital, Seoul. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said the

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. is likely to avoid a recession this year, Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt said Wednesday, adding a bit of surprise to what had been billed as a boring budget meant to restore confidence and stability in the nation’s finances.  The announcement came as Hunt delivered his

By JOSH FUNK and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers The first major railroad merger in more than two decades, one that would link the United States, Canada and Mexico, is being approved by federal regulators. Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern will combine the two smallest of the nations seven major railroads

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — After clashing with supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan outside his home for a second day Wednesday, police paused their efforts to arrest the ousted premier for failing to appear in court last week on graft charges. Police had besieged the

By JOE McDONALd AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets tumbled Thursday after Wall Street sank as a plunge in Credit Suisse shares reignited worries about a possible bank crisis following the failure of two U.S. lenders. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney all dropped, reversing Wednesday’s gains. Oil prices edged higher. Wall

By SALLY HO and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room. They stayed with their daughter around the clock when she was

By SALLY HO and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room. They stayed with their daughter around the clock when she was

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Diamond Sports Group, the largest owner of regional sports networks, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. The move came after it missed a $140 million interest payment last month. Diamond owns 19 networks under the Bally Sports banner. Those networks have the rights to 42 professional teams

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Tuesday restricting electric car manufacturers from selling vehicles in person unless they open franchised dealerships. Defying calls from some fellow Republicans in the Legislature to veto the measure, Reeves enacted into law House Bill 401, introduced by

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego is slamming independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for backing a bank deregulation bill he says contributed to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Gallego told reporters Tuesday that he voted to protect Arizona while Sinema “voted to protect Wall Street.” The contrast

By CLAIRE SAVAGE and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Doug Knight’s family has owned Springfield amusement park Knight’s Action Park since 1930, himself for 43 of those years. The pandemic was a bear — Knight fought to keep his doors open, and when they closed for COVID-19, he pushed to reopen

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The details of a deal reached by North Carolina legislative Republicans to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults has received overwhelming initial approval from the state Senate. Tuesday’s vote on legislation comes less than two weeks after House and Senate leaders unveiled

CHICAGO (AP) — Jury selection has begun at a federal trial in Chicago that could offer an inside look at pay-to-play politics in Illinois that prosecutors say involved the state’s largest electric utility and one of the state’s most powerful politicians at the time. The four defendants at the trial that began Tuesday are accused

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The long-running fight between the Orioles and Washington Nationals over television rights fees has reached New York’s highest court. A lawyer for the Orioles argued Tuesday that a $296.8 million award for 2012-16 made by a panel of baseball executives should be thrown out and the case reheard by a different

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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed as “sheer nonsense” allegations that Ukrainians were behind the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea last year. He once again insisted that the U.S. was behind the incident. Putin spoke on Tuesday after The New

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys and industry experts say a closely watched rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission that would require public companies to say much more to shareholders about how their operations affect the climate has generated more public comment than many recent regulations from the nation’s top financial

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Chevron says it has reported how much money it made in January from selling gasoline in California. The disclosure to state regulators comes after a new state law required oil companies to report more pricing data. The law is aimed at gathering information to determine why

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Ohio filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday. The federal lawsuit also seeks to force the company to pay for groundwater

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State lawmakers worry that southern Kansas is vulnerable to oil spills from the Keystone pipeline system because earthquakes have become more frequent there. They raised the concern Tuesday as they questioned an executive for the pipeline’s operator about a massive spill in northeastern Kansas in December.

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is facing stinging criticism for missing what observers say were clear signs that Silicon Valley Bank was at high risk of collapsing into what became the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The Fed was the primary federal supervisor of the

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The largest corruption case in Ohio history culminated last week with guilty verdicts for the ex-House Speaker and a lobbyist who was the former head of the Republican Party. Both were convicted of racketeering conspiracy, which carries up to 20 years in prison. But the

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says his government may hand its Soviet-made MiG-29 jet fighters over to Ukraine “within the next four to six weeks.” Poland’s leaders said last week that sending the warplanes would be only done within a larger international coalition. Slovakia has also declared readiness to provide its MiG-29 planes

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which catered mostly to the tech industry, may have you worried about your money. They were the second- and third-biggest bank failures in U.S. history. There’s no need to worry if your money is in a

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Southwest Airlines says it’s buying more deicing trucks and taking other steps to avoid another fiasco like the widespread cancellations it suffered in December. Southwest CEO Robert Jordan said Tuesday that the airline now understands what went wrong, and it wasn’t bad technology. He blames extremely cold weather that

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has announced $2.5 billion in grants to fund the construction of EV charging stations and alternative fueling infrastructure, aiming in part at increasing access in underserved neighborhoods. Known as the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program, the grants will be doled out over a five-year

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Tyson Foods is closing two facilities that employ more than 1,600 people in an effort to streamline its U.S. poultry business. The company plans to close its processing, broiler and hatching operations in Glen Allen, Virginia, and a plant in Van Buren, Arkansas. Both closures are scheduled for May

LONDON Microsoft has struck a deal to make Xbox PC video games available on the Boosteroid cloud gaming platform. The deal announced Tuesday is Microsoft’s latest move to appease antitrust regulators scrutinizing its purchase of game maker Activision Blizzard. The U.S. tech giant says the 10-year agreement also would include Activision Blizzard titles like the

MADRID (AP) — Civil Guard police in northwestern Spain have refloated a homemade semi-submersible vessel they suspect may have been used to transport cocaine. The 16-meter (52-foot) fiberglass vessel was hauled to the surface Tuesday a day after it was spotted a kilometer (half a mile) off the coast in the Arousa estuary. It will

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer A class action lawsuit is being filed against the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, its CEO and its chief financial officer, saying that company didn’t disclose the risks that future interest rate increases would have on its business. The lawsuit against SVB Financial Group, CEO Greg Becker and

By DAVID KOENIG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press Saudi Arabia is buying up to 121 jetliners from Boeing in a big boost for the American manufacturer. The deal was expected to be announced Tuesday. The order for Boeing 787s will be divided between Saudi Arabia’s flag carrier, Saudia, and a planned new airline to be

Associated Press Facebook parent Meta is slashing 10,000 jobs, about as many as the social media company announced late last year in its first round of cuts, as uncertainly about the global economy hits the technology sector particularly hard. The company announced 11,000 job cuts in November, about 13% of its workforce at the time.

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the first federal limits on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water, a long-awaited protection the agency said will save thousands of lives and prevent serious illnesses, including cancer. The plan would limit toxic PFAS chemicals to the

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and PETROS GIANNAKOURIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — State-employed archaeologists in Greece launched strike action Tuesday to protest an assault on an archaeologist responsible for the resort island of Mykonos, an attack they say may have been linked to commercial pressure to extend tourism development. Manolis Psarros, an employee of the

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Sweden’s prime minister has acknowledged that it is likely that neighbor Finland will join NATO before his country does, due to Turkey’s opposition to the Swedish bid. Ulf Kristersson said during a news conference in Stockholm on Tuesday that it has been clear since last year that

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For her 100th book club pick, Oprah Winfrey relied on the same instincts she has drawn upon from the start: Does the story move her? Does she think about it for days after? In a work of fiction, do the characters seem real to her?

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Another major insulin maker has promised steep price cuts, as pressure grows on drugmakers and insurers to trim the cost of a medication that millions of Americans need. Novo Nordisk said Tuesday that it will slash some of its U.S. insulin prices up to 75% starting next year. The

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s security minister says he has asked the country’s National Cyber Security Center to review threats posed by TikTok, amid calls for the U.K. to impose a ban on the Chinese-owned social media app. Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said he is waiting for a review from the

Private equity firm Apollo Global Management is taking Univar Solutions Inc. private in a deal worth about $8.1 billion. Shareholders of Univar, which deals with specialty chemicals and ingredients distribution, will receive $36.15 per share in cash. The Downers Grove, Illinois-based company’s stock jumped more than 12% before the market open on Tuesday.

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Clashes between Pakistan’s police and supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan persisted outside his home in the eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, a day after officers went to arrest him for failing to appear in court on graft charges. The police

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister has accused a Moscow-dominated security alliance of leaving his country in the cold in the face of a threat of renewed hostilities with neighboring Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has been repeatedly critical of what he described as the failure of the Collective

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s central bank has extended the timeline to swap out its old currency for redesigned notes after the change triggered a cash shortage. A spokesman for the central bank says the announcement is meant to comply with a directive from the Supreme Court, which ruled that

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HELSINKI (AP) — Sweden’s prime minister has acknowledged that it is likely that neighbor Finland will join NATO before his country does, due to Turkey’s opposition to the Swedish bid. Ulf Kristersson said during a news conference in Stockholm on Tuesday that it has been clear since last year that Finland’s road into membership has

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet It’s the first quarter of the year, and many people may be interested in starting side hustles for extra income or to finally pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. Whatever the motivation, it’s important to know the implications of starting a side gig while having a 9-to-5 job. This includes understanding how

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Mongolia plans to channel revenue from rising copper exports into an economic development fund as part of changes to reap more benefit from its mineral riches and root out corruption, the North Asian nation’s prime minister said in an interview Tuesday following the opening of a

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By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday in a “brazen violation of international law,” causing American forces to bring down the unmanned aerial vehicle, the U.S. said. But Russia insisted its warplanes didn’t hit the

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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rebounded Wednesday after Wall Street stabilized following sharp declines for bank stocks and U.S. inflation eased but stayed high. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced. Oil prices regained some of the previous day’s sharp losses. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index rose

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday as it tries to revive tourism and its economy following a three-year halt during the COVID-19 pandemic. China is one of the last major countries to reopen its borders to tourists. The announcement

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer price increases eased slightly from January to February but still pointed to an elevated inflation rate that is posing a challenge for the Federal Reserve at a delicate moment for the financial system. The government said Tuesday that prices increased 0.4% last month, just

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse rattled the technology industry that had been the bank’s backbone, leaving shell-shocked entrepreneurs thankful for the government reprieve that saved their money while they mourned the loss of a place that served as a chummy club of innovation. “They were the gold standard, it almost

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — App-based ride hailing and delivery companies like Uber and Lyft can continue to treat their California drivers as independent contractors, a state appeals court ruled Monday, allowing the tech giants to bypass other state laws requiring worker protections and benefits. The ruling mostly upholds a voter-approved

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proposing changes to entitlement programs for younger generations, opening the door to potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare if elected. At a campaign rally Monday in South Carolina, Haley promised not to touch the benefits of older people

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bill to legalize sports betting in Kentucky has won House passage. The vote Monday sets up a Senate showdown on a proposal that creates divisions among the Republican supermajorities in the Bluegrass State. Past efforts to legalize sports wagering in Kentucky garnered House support but

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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Proposed tax relief for Kentucky’s bourbon makers was fast-tracked in advancing in the House. But the industry victory isn’t being toasted by local leaders living near some of the best-known distilleries. The measure would phase out a property tax on the value of stored bourbon barrels.

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines says it expects to lose up to $1 a share in the first quarter partly because it will need to recognize costs for a potential new pilots’ contract. United said Monday it will account for that contract in the first quarter instead of the second quarter. United is still negotiating

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A regulatory takeover of a New York-based bank was intended to send a message to banks to stay away from the cryptocurrency business. That’s according to a former member of Congress who was on the bank’s board. Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank says Signature Bank had a high volume of

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