US, Ukraine quietly try to pierce Putin’s propaganda bubble
By COLLEEN LONG, AMANDA SEITZ and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has been countering disinformation coming from the…
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By COLLEEN LONG, AMANDA SEITZ and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has been countering disinformation coming from the…
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By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer MacKenzie Scott donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International and 84 of its U.S. affiliates – the…
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BEIJING (AP) — Ukraine is appealing to a Chinese maker of civilian drones to block what the Ukrainian government says is their use by the Russian…
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota environmental regulators say damage to the state’s public groundwater resources from missteps during…
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Swedish government has decided to grant the exploitation of the Scandinavian country’s largest unexploited iron ore deposits…
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Ford is recalling nearly 215,000 pickup trucks and large SUVs in the U.S. and Canada because brake fluid can leak and cause longer stopping…
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The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling more than 740,000 small SUVs in the U.S. because the headlight beams can be too…
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The Associated Press Approximately 3,000 Canadian Pacific Railway conductors, engineers, train and yard workers represented by the Teamsters Canada…
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BERLIN (AP) — Electric car manufacturer Tesla opened its first European factory on the outskirts of Berlin in an effort to challenge German…
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BERLIN (AP) — The German government says retirees will get a hefty pension increase this year, a result largely of higher wages in Europe’s…
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By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Mixing business and friendship can tank a relationship. So if a classmate, colleague or childhood friend asks you to…
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.K. ferry operator owned by the government of Dubai faces a Tuesday deadline to explain why it…
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BERLIN (AP) — A strike by security staff at eight German airports including major intercontinental hub Frankfurt has led to widespread disruption…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Health officials in South Korea have instructed crematories to burn more bodies per…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels this week struck the same oil storage tank in the Saudi…
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The fight for Ukraine’s cities is thundering across its suburbs. The Ukrainian military says that after a fierce battle, Ukrainian troops…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government is alerting people in the Tokyo region they may face blackouts as power runs…
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By AYA BATRAWY, STEVE KARNOWSKI and ROB GILLIES Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Farmers worldwide are weighing whether to…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s main airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, says it will overhaul one of its two…
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BEIJING (AP) — The crash of a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet in China’s southwest started a fire big enough to be seen from space and forced…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have gained following a rally on Wall Street led by technology companies, although…
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An institution that has offered guided tours of the World Trade Center site since well before…
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Even though only a small percentage of Walt Disney Co. workers…
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BEIJING (AP) — Alibaba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, is increasing a share buyback to $25 billion from $15 billion to prop up a…
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China is, along with North America and Europe, one of the world’s top three air travel markets…
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By DAKE KANG and NG HAN GUAN Associated Press WUZHOU, China (AP) — Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Poignant reminders of…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of southern and central California grocery workers have started voting on whether to authorize their union to call a…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers say a New York judge abused his discretion with a decision last month…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Boeing, Nielsen fall; Alleghany, Anaplan…
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By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press The future of a major liquified natural gas facility proposed for northeastern Pennsylvania has been thrown into…
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By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — City of Miami Beach officials have declared a state of emergency and an upcoming curfew…
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By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging U.S. companies to make sure their digital doors are locked…
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By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Mine workers sickened and killed by toxic asbestos exposure and their heirs are suing a…
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By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — More than a dozen tribal communities around the U.S. will share $9 million in federal…
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A former Google employee sued the tech giant saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of racial…
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The Associated Press Wall Street ended modestly lower Monday after giving up an early gain and bouncing around for much of the day. The indecisive…
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The District of Columbia is suing meal delivery company Grubhub, saying it misled customers with a promotion…
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By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — The public lobbying to be chosen as a preferred bidder for Chelsea has stepped up as increased…
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COLTON, Calif. (AP) — A Union Pacific freight train carrying lumber derailed in Southern California, sending 13 rail cars and three locomotives off…
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The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish media reports says a yacht belonging to Chelsea soccer club owner and sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich…
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says dredging has begun to free a cargo ship that’s been stranded in the Chesapeake Bay for more than a…
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LONDON (AP) — Former tennis champion Boris Becker is on trial in London for allegedly concealing property — including nine trophies — from…
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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — A wave of new electric vehicle charging stations across the country is coming as interest…
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The battle for the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is raging on as Russia’s war on Ukraine, now in its 26th day, shows no signs of…
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MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has banned Facebook and Instagram for what it deemed extremist activity in a case against their parent company, Meta.…
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say three factory workers have been killed in a powerful explosion at a commercial dynamite factory in…
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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies would be required to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions they produce and how…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve would raise its benchmark short-term…
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OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 500 workers at a Chevron Corp. refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area are on strike over safety…
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By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer COVID-19 patients now have new treatments they can take at home to stay out of the hospital — if doctors get the…
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former Iranian captive Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says that brushing her daughter’s hair is now one…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Nielsen is down 16% after the TV ratings company rejected a $9 billion takeover bid from…
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By VICTORIA MILKO and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate…
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has remained immersed in technology while also exploring divergent interests…
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BERLIN (AP) — A union has called on security staff at eight German airports, including Frankfurt, to walk off their jobs all day Tuesday in a pay…
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China is, along with North America and Europe, one of the world’s top three air travel markets…
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By The Associated Press Russia’s central bank cautiously reopened bond trading on the Moscow exchange for the first time since the country invaded…
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BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge says she has charged the country’s central bank governor with illegal enrichment and money laundering during the…
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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it won’t bear any responsibility for a shortage in global…
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NEW DELHI India’s foreign secretary says ally Australia understands New Delhi’s position on the ongoing Ukraine crisis, as the two…
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By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — China’s ambassador to Sri Lanka says it is considering a request for $2.5…
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By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet The IRS is overburdened and understaffed, which means even the smallest error could delay the processing of your tax…
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By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries are accusing Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine. But the 27-nation…
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and JOSH FUNK AP Business Writers Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is buying the insurance company Alleghany in a deal…
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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Central Bank of Egypt has raised its key interest rate for the first time since 2017, citing…
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By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher as investors eye the war in Ukraine, inflationary risks and surging…
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam said Monday that the city would lift flight bans on nine countries including Britain and the U.S.…
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The Associated Press Cruise ship operator Carnival reports first-quarter results Tuesday. The Commerce Department issues its monthly tally of new…
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street turned in its biggest weekly gain in 16 months as…
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Shanghai Disney has closed as the city tries to control its biggest coronavirus flareup in two…
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RICHMOND, California (AP) — More than 500 workers at a Chevron Corp. refinery in the San Francisco Bay area have told the company they will go on…
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DETROIT (AP) — Canadian Teamsters and CP Rail blamed each other for a work stoppage Sunday that halted trains across Canada and interrupted…
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “The Batman” is still going strong three weeks into its theatrical run, with a tight grip on the top spot at the…
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer From the time he bought Starbucks in 1987 to the time he stepped down as chairman in 2018, Howard Schultz…
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden quietly dispatched a team of financial experts to NATO headquarters in Belgium…
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By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Navy is rushing to field its first hypersonic weapon in a race with Russia and…
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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi state-run media says that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unleashed a…
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Apple employee has been charged with defrauding the tech giant out of more than $10 million by taking kickbacks,…
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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A prosecutor’s decision to release Bulgarian ex-Prime Minister Boyko Borissov from custody without pressing any corruption…
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By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Japan says it will invest $42 billion in India over the next five years in a deal that is…
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Baker Hughes, a major U.S. oil services company, added its name Saturday to the…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince William and Kate are embarking on a tour to Central America and the Caribbean, even as some…
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni recently remarked that…
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By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight locks and dams in southwestern Pennsylvania that for decades helped barges move goods…
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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Department of Health says the tap water in all residential areas served by the…
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it is paying $2.1 billion to buy out Japanese tech investment firm Softbank’s stake in the Detroit…
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By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — State agriculture officials say the confirmation of bird flu at another Iowa egg-laying farm…
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The Associated Press Stocks rose for a fourth day in a row Friday, closing out their biggest weekly gain since November 2020. Investors have welcomed…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: FedEx, US Steel fall; Moderna, Tesla…
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal labor board says a second Amazon warehouse in the New York City borough of Staten Island will have a union election in…
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By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A justice of Brazil’s top court has ordered the messaging app Telegram to be shut…
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed giving $100 million to Native American tribes.…
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The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The operator of a cargo ship that ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay has a plan to refloat the stranded ship. Evergreen said Friday…
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former Boeing test pilot is on trial on charges of misleading regulators about the…
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By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Programs to re-train West Virginia’s coal miners and reinvigorate the state’s…
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By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s urban water users and farmers who rely on supplies from state…
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By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An official with the U.N. food agency says that with Russia’s war in Ukraine taking an…
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