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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa and her news company have been cleared of tax evasion charges she said were among legal cases used by former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to try to muzzle critical reporting. The Court of Tax Appeals ruled Wednesday that prosecutors failed to prove Ressa and Rappler

SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state Supreme Court has brushed aside the final remaining legal hurdle in the way of a $4 billion dividend by Albertsons to its shareholders ahead of a proposed merger with rival Kroger. The state’s highest court on Tuesday declined to review a case against the dividend brought by state Attorney

The Associated Press Major U.S. indexes closed mixed on Wall Street at the beginning of a holiday-shortened, but earnings-heavy week. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% Tuesday. The Nasdaq edged higher and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell, mostly because of a big drop in Goldman Sachs after the investment bank’s results came in far below

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer United Airlines has reported a bigger fourth-quarter profit and higher revenue than Wall Street expected. And United is giving a bullish forecast for 2023. United said Tuesday that it earned $843 million in the fourth quarter. United thinks people will keep traveling despite inflation and concern about the economy.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., down $24.08 to $349.92. The investment bank reported weak fourth-quarter financial results as deals dried up. National Instruments Corp., up $5.07 to $52.04. Emerson is going public with a $7.6 billion bid for the maker of scientific

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s gambling revenue matched its all-time high of $5.2 billion in 2022, but only half that amount was won by casinos from in-person gamblers. Figures released Tuesday by state gambling regulators show the casinos, horse tracks that take sports bets, and online partners of

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for February delivery rose 32 cents to $80.18 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for March delivery rose $1.46 to $85.92 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for February delivery rose 2 cents to $2.55 a gallon. February heating oil fell 1 cent $3.25 a gallon. February natural gas rose 17

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and Pegula Sports & Entertainment have hired John Roth as chief operating officer. He’ll report to owners Terry and Kim Pegula after spending more than two decades at Fidelity Investments. Roth assumes control of the club’s day-to-day business operations. Kim Pegula remains president of the Sabres and

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Jim Ratcliffe is entering the bidding to buy Manchester United. The billionaire owner of petrochemicals firm INEOS is ready to make an offer to United owners the Glazer family, who outlined their willingness to sell the Premier League club in November. INEOS told The Associated

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The energy minister of Cyprus says electricity generated from renewable energy sources  could eventually make up as much as half of all power conveyed to other countries through an electricity cable linking the east Mediterranean island nation’s power grids to Israel and Greece. Minister Natasa Pilides told reporters on Tuesday that

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico says it will start cracking down on those who abuse the U.S. territory’s tax credit system. It is an opaque and long unregulated sector with claims that average about $270 million a year. Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés said Tuesday that the creation

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely avert — famine in Somalia. But WFP Executive Director David Beasley stressed that “we’re not out of

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The fastest Corvette ever made comes out later this year, and it’s not powered solely by a howling V8. The E-Ray is a gas electric hybrid, the first all-wheel-drive version of Chevrolet’s storied sports car with the front wheels running on an electric motor the traditional

The Associated Press Walgreens has ended a limit it imposed recently for online purchases of children’s over-the-counter fever reducing products. The drugstore chain said improved supplies prompted it to lift its restriction of six purchases.  The company had placed no limit on in-store purchases. Both Walgreens and CVS Health said last month they had restricted

By The Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — A trial in absentia has opened for Belarus’ top opposition leader who denounced the proceedings as a farce and urged the West to bolster support for the country’s beleaguered opposition. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was the main challenger in the August 2020 presidential election that extended President Alexander Lukashenko’s

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Norwegian police unit that investigates war crimes wants to talk to a Russian asylum-seeker man who reportedly is a former high-ranking member of the private Russian military contractor Wagner Group. Andrey Medvedev fled to Norway last week where he’s seeking asylum. Medvedev said in

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Fidelity Investments will commit $250 million to a new education initiative to support up to 50,000 underserved minority students with scholarships and mentorship programs in the next five years. The Invest in My Education program, announced Tuesday, plans to increase graduation rates and students’ ability to complete their education

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Glenn Kelman, CEO of Seattle-based online real estate brokerage Redfin, talks to The Associated Press about why he expects 2023 to be another slow year for housing. The Seattle native who’s run Redfin since 2005 also discusses layoffs and other steps the company took last

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Emerson is taking public its bid to buy National Instruments for $7.6 billion. Emerson is offering $53 per share in cash, an enhanced offer that was made in November. It initially offered $48 per share in May. Last week National Instruments Corp. said that it

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s military says five soldiers and 21 al-Shabab fighters have been killed north of the capital Mogadishu. The al-Shabab extremist group has claimed responsibility for the attack at the Hawaadley military on Tuesday. Somalia’s Chief of Defense Forces Gen. Odawa Yusuf Rage said the attackers were

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet As we kick-start 2023, many parents are rebalancing their budgets and looking for ways to save money amid inflation. Parents who often look forward to getting sizable tax refunds may end up with a noticeable reduction. This could be due in part to reductions in the child and dependent care

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech coalition government is facing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over opposition claims of incompetence. The main opposition centrist ANO (YES) movement led by populist billionaire Andrej Babis has accused the government of not doing enough to help people cope with soaring inflation driven by high energy prices and solving other current

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is pushing forward with a major clean tech industrial plan that not only should keep the continent in the vanguard of plotting a greener future but also guarantee its economic survival as it faces challenges from China and the United States. European Commission President

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in southeastern Ukraine has climbed to 45. The victims of the deadliest attack on civilians since the spring included six children. In Moscow, a makeshift memorial to the Dnipro attack’s victims appeared. It’s

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is appointing a regional official as Germany’s new defense minister following the resignation of the much-criticized Christine Lambrecht. The defense minister-designate, Boris Pistorius, is a member of Scholz’ Social Democrats, and has served as interior minister of Lower Saxony state since 2013. He is set to take

By SUZAN FRASER and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and the United States will aim to smooth out a series of disagreements between the NATO allies when Turkey’s foreign minister visits this week. But expectations that outstanding issues can be resolved are low. Mevlut Cavusoglu departs for Washington on Tuesday for

The Associated Press United Airlines reports fourth-quarter results Tuesday. Procter & Gamble and paint maker PPG Industries deliver their quarterly earnings on Thursday,

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady on Tuesday pressed world leaders and corporate executives at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering to do more to help her country at a time when Russia’s invasion is leaving children dying and the world struggling with food insecurity. As the anniversary of

By HANNA ARHIROVA and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Alina Kapatsyna often dreams about getting a phone call from her mother. In those visions, her mother tells her that she’s coming home. Men in military uniforms took 45-year-old Vita Hannych away from her house in eastern Ukraine in April. She never returned.

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates’ decision to appoint the CEO of a state-run oil company to preside over the upcoming U.N. climate negotiations in Dubai, citing his work on renewable energy projects. In an interview Sunday with The

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders and member nations are putting forward moves to ensure the EU would not be left behind by the United States in the green industry race. EU leaders see the $369 billion U.S. Inflation Reduction Act as an attempt to cut European firms out of

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus has opened the trial of a journalist and prominent member of the country’s sizable Polish minority. It was the latest in a series of court cases against critics of the authoritarian regime of President Alexander Lukashenko. Andrzej Poczobut faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted of the charges

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While still grappling with the fallout from a company he did take private, beleaguered billionaire Elon Musk is now facing a trial over a company he didn’t. Long before Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in October, he had set his sights on Tesla, the

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia and Belarus have launched joint air force drills in an exercise that underlines close defense ties between the allies amid the fighting in neighboring Ukraine. The Belarusian Defense Ministry said that the maneuvers that began Monday will last until Feb. 1. It said that Russia has deployed its warplanes to Belarus

By SOPHIA TULP Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting last year, sessions on climate change drew high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems. But an entirely different narrative played out on the

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Debt from holiday spending and other end-of-year costs often comes due in January, and with rising interest rates, it’s increasingly expensive. To pay it off, it helps to make a plan that involves first targeting debt with the highest interest rates or debt with the lowest balances. Looking for places

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the nation’s most heinous slayings, was arrested Monday when he sought treatment at a private clinic in Sicily after three decades on the run. Matteo Messina Denaro was tried in absentia and convicted

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Authorities in Senegal say a bus swerved to avoid hitting a donkey and collided with a truck. Nineteen people were killed and dozens of others were injured in Monday’s crash. President Macky Sall tweeted that the collision happened near Ngeun Sarr in the country’s north. The

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to meet with her Chinese counterpart in Switzerland on Wednesday. Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He plan to discuss economic developments between the U.S. and China. The Treasury Department says the Zurich talks will be a follow-up to a meeting

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Mail has asked customers to refrain from posting items to overseas destinations until further notice as it tries to address a “cyber incident” that is temporarily preventing the postal service from sending letters or parcels to other countries. Royal Mail says it continues to experience “severe service disruption” but didn’t

By ELENA BECATOROS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — As a crowd of thousands chanted “Long live the king” and “Constantine, Constantine,” the casket carrying the former and last monarch of Greece emerged from Athens’ metropolitan cathedral Monday after a funeral service attended by royalty from across Europe. Constantine’s wife, Anne-Marie, the

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday sifted through what was left of a Dnipro apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile, placing bodies from one of the war’s deadliest single attacks in months in black bags and gingerly carrying them across steep piles of

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The last two climate activists holed up beneath a German village due to be destroyed for the expansion of a nearby coal mine left the site on Monday. The activists — nicknamed “Pinky” and “Brain” — had remained inside a self-dug tunnel for days in a bid

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The major political group embroiled in a massive European Union corruption scandal will seek this week to insulate itself from further fallout in the cash-for-influence affair linked to Qatar and Morocco. An official with the center-left Socialists and Democrats says the group wants to eject two lawmakers

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his nation’s efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050 would rely in part on returning to nuclear power, even though his predecessor had tried to move away from atomic power. Yoon’s comments at a summit in

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Europe and Asia on Monday ahead of China’s release of economic growth figures and a policy update this week from Japan’s central bank. Oil prices declined. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 15,101.73 and the CAC40 in Paris was nearly unchanged

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A report says companies from at least 13 countries have helped Myanmar build up its capacity to produce weapons that are being used to commit atrocities. The report by the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar details how the country has stepped up arms production since the

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty group Oxfam says companies making big profits as inflation surges should face windfall taxes to help cut global inequality. That’s one of the recommendations in a report the group released Monday as the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting of political and business elites gets underway

By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — People worldwide are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust business far more than governments, nonprofits and the media in an increasingly divided world. That’s according to a survey from public relations firm Edelman released Sunday to coincide with the World Economic Forum’s

By DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government says it plans to privatize electricity generation, a first for a U.S. territory facing chronic power outages as it struggles to rebuild a crumbling electric grid. The move announced Sunday marks the beginning of the end for Puerto Rico’s Electric Power

BERLIN (AP) — A village in western Germany that is due to be demolished to make way for a coal mine expansion has been cleared of activists, apart from a pair who remained holed up in a tunnel, police said Sunday. The operation to evict climate activists who flocked to the site in the hamlet

By STEPHEN McGRATH AND VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities descended on a compound near Bucharest on Saturday to tow away a fleet of luxury cars and other assets worth an estimated $3.9 million in the case investigating Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality who is detained in the country

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gas prices dropped in New Jersey and also ticked down across the nation at large, analysts said. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $3.27, down four cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.37 a gallon on average a

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A senior Turkish official says Sweden and Finland are unlikely to be able to join NATO before June. A spokesman and foreign policy adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that Sweden and Finland believe that the new laws will be fully effective and completed

By PHILIPP JENNE Associated Press ERKELENZ, Germany (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated in persistent rain on Saturday to protest the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. There were standoffs with police as some protesters tried to reach the

By SYLVIA HUI and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday promised to provide tanks and artillery systems to Ukraine, amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting multiple Ukrainian cities for the first time in nearly two weeks. Nine people were killed and 64 others wounded in the

By SIARHEI SATSIUK Associated Press VALAKELIAI, Lithuania (AP) — The head of Lithuania’s national gas transmission system says a powerful gas pipeline explosion that prompted the evacuation of a village in the Baltic country was most likely caused by a technical malfunction. The blast Friday evening sent flames 50 meters (about 150 feet) into the

By BRIAN P.D. HANNON Associated Press Maine scored its first Mega Millions jackpot — and someone beat the ill fortune of Friday the 13th — when a ticket purchased in the state matched the winning numbers for the lottery’s estimated $1.35 billion grand prize. The lucky combination of numbers drawn late Friday night were: 30,

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A cloud shot up vertically like a plume of smoke in a matter of seconds before a Hawaiian Airlines flight last month hit severe turbulence and 25 people on board were injured, according to a preliminary report Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The captain

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer California poultry producer Foster Farms said Friday its grain inventories have been restored after the federal government ordered Union Pacific Railroad to step up its shipments. Late last month, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board told Union Pacific to make all efforts to meet scheduled grain deliveries to the privately

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Airline executives are pushing Congress and the White House to step up funding for the Federal Aviation Administration after a technology failure briefly grounded flights around the country this week. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Friday that the FAA is doing the best it

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — The home of the Miami Heat has yet another name: Miami-Dade Arena. That will be the temporary moniker for the building where the NBA team plays its home games, while the search for a more permanent naming-rights partner commences. The Heat and Miami-Dade County announced the

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana nursing home owner is facing a new lawsuit over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021. Federal authorities accuse Bob Dean Junior of misspending millions of dollars in violation of federal regulations. The latest complaint was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Wendy’s said Friday it’s planning a restructuring, including possible corporate layoffs, in an effort to speed decision-making and invest more in new restaurant development. The news comes just a week after rival McDonald’s announced a similar corporate reorganization. Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy’s said Friday it expects its full-year revenue will

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street as earnings reporting season got underway and CEOs began to show how well or poorly they’re navigating high inflation and a slowing economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% Friday after erasing an earlier loss. The benchmark index closed out its best week in two months. The

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for February delivery rose $1.47 to $79.86 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for March delivery rose $1.25 to $85.28 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for February delivery rose 5 cents to $2.53 a gallon. February heating oil rose 4 cents $3.26 a gallon. February natural gas fell 28 cents

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s bid to move or delay a trial over a misleading tweet about a potential buyout of the electric automaker, setting the stage for the mercurial billionaire to be thrust into a legal drama amid the

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Financial authorities in Jamaica are investigating allegations of fraud at Stocks & Securities Ltd., a private wealth management company based in the capital of Kingston. Local newspaper The Jamaica Gleaner reports that the company’s clients include Usain Bolt, one of the world’s greatest sprinters. Bolt’s manager is quoted as

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Officials say an explosion has occurred in a pipeline in central Lithuania carrying natural gas to the north of the country and neighboring Latvia but no supply disruptions or injuries were reported. Baltic media reported that Friday’s blast sent flames up to 50 meters (164 feet)

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress on Friday that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Yellen said her actions will buy time until Congress

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Gucci returns to the Milan menswear runway with the brand’s first collection since Alessandro Michele stepped down as creative director. The Gucci runway show heralding the new post-Michele era was an understated affair. It was very much like Michele’s low-key debut eight years ago heading an