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By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s president has asked Prime Minister Kaja Kallas to form a new government after she tendered resignation of her one-party minority Cabinet to end a more than month-long political stalemate in the Baltic nation. Estonia’s government crisis culminated in early June. Kallas is the leader of the

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A major automaker, large truck stop chain and an electric vehicle charging company are proposing a network that would put charging plugs at 50-mile intervals along U.S. highways. General Motors, Pilot Travel Centers and EVgo said Thursday they will build 2,000 charging stalls at “up to”

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s prime minister says her country won’t try to reverse a decision by the European Union’s executive arm to allow certain sanctioned goods pass through its territory on the way to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. The European Commission said Wednesday that Russia can continue transporting certain cargo to Kalingrad by rail as

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari has died at 98. Scalfari helped revolutionize Italian journalism by founding liberal daily newspaper La Repubblica. The Rome-based paper broke ground when it burst onto already crowded newsstands in 1976, grabbing attention with punchy headlines and a sassy style. It was known for

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan to build more than 1,100 homes in a fire-prone area he

NEW YORK (AP) — Profits at JPMorgan Chase fell by 28% in the second quarter, as the bank tries to navigate an economy that’s showing strength in many areas but losing steam as interest rates continue to rise. The nation’s largest bank by assets said Thursday that profits fell to $2.76 per share from $3.78

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and two of his children — Donald Jr. and Ivanka — are due, in the coming days, to face questioning under oath in New York’s civil investigation into their business practices. But will the Trumps answer? The ex-president’s lawyer has indicated that he will

BERLIN (AP) — Local officials with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party have met to consider calls to expel former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The ex-leader’s longstanding ties to the Russian energy sector and refusal to distance himself fully from President Vladimir Putin after Russia invaded Ukraine have left his political standing in tatters. An arbitration committee

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi offered to step down Thursday after a populist coalition partner refused to vote for a key bill in Parliament, but the nation’s president quickly rebuffed him, leaving one of Western Europe’s main leaders at the helm for now. The rejection of the tendered

By HELENA ALVES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BEMPOSTA, Portugal (AP) — More than 3,000 firefighters are battling alongside ordinary Portuguese citizens desperate to save their homes as several wildfires rage across the European Union country. Authorities say 25,000 acres have been scorched and 135 people have been injured by fires this week. Portuguese Prime

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Amazon has promised to treat third-party merchants on its website fairly as it seeks to resolve two European Union antitrust investigations. The bloc’s competition watchdog said Thursday that the U.S. online retail giant offered to make a number of commitments to ease competition concerns. The European

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities in Serbia have detained 85 migrants near the border with Hungary where a clash earlier this month apparently involving people smugglers left one person dead and several injured. Police said that a police task force found automatic weapons, guns, knives and other weapons and ammunition

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged leaders of major economies to work together in countering the impact from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yellen and other top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering on the Indonesian island of

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union expects Russia’s war in Ukraine to wreak havoc with the economic recovery for the foreseeable future through lower annual growth and record-high inflation. The EU said Thursday that summer figures for the 19-nation eurozone predict inflation reaching an average of 7.6% this year, a major

BERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Telekom says it is selling a majority stake in its German and Austrian cellphone tower business to American and Canadian investors for $17.5 billion. The Bonn-based telecommunications company said U.S.-based DigitalBridge and Canada’s Brookfield would take a 51% share in GD Towers while it would retain the remaining stake “with significant

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Never in the history of warfare have drones been used as intensively as in Ukraine, where they often play an outsized role in who lives and dies. Russians and Ukrainians alike depend heavily on unmanned aerial vehicles to pinpoint enemy positions and guide

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Share prices were mixed in Asia on Friday after China reported its economy contracted by 2.6% in the last quarter as virus shutdowns kept businesses closed and people at home. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index added 0.6% to 26,797.47. The Kospi in Seoul was up 0.1% at

By KRUTIKA PATHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Protesters have retreated from government buildings in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country. And the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled a day earlier under pressure

By ASTRID SUAREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s next finance minister says the left-leaning government taking office next month will focus on increasing taxes on the rich so it can spend more on poverty programs. But Columbia University econonist Jose Antonio Ocampo says the new administration will respect the autonomy

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government is giving American Airlines permission to resume flights to five cities in Cuba outside the capital of Havana. The Transportation Department announced the approval on Wednesday. It follows President Joe Biden’s move to restore some links between the U.S. and Cuba that were dropped by the Trump

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 7-Eleven convenience store chain is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a gunman in a deadly string of Southern California store robberies. The chain on Wednesday asked people to anonymously supply information following Monday’s five-hour wave of holdups at six stores in Brea,

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — There are no environmental reasons that would prevent a New Jersey-based company from building a multibillion-dollar facility in southern New Mexico to temporarily store tons of spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants around the nation, U.S. regulators said Wednesday. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued

By The Associated Press Twitter is telling employees that it’s not planning any companywide layoffs, but there could be some restructuring and organization changes as it heads into a legal battle over the potential sale to Elon Musk.  It also says in a regulatory filing that Twitter is losing workers at a slightly higher rate

By JOHN HANNA and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Japan’s Panasonic Corp. and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly say the company selected the state of Kansas as the location for a multibillion-dollar mega-factory to produce electric vehicle batteries for Tesla and other carmakers. The company was lured to Kansas by taxpayer-funded incentives worth

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The Biden administration is warning pharmacies not to discriminate against women who may seek reproductive health prescriptions, including some that might be involved in ending a pregnancy. The Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that pharmacies receiving federal money from programs such as Medicare and Medicaid cannot

By JON MELTZER, LAUREN MOWRY, VICTORIA IFATUSIN and MICHAEL PURDIE / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Howard Center for Investigative Journalism State lotteries now exist in 45 states and the District of Columbia. But they didn’t just spring up by popular demand. According to a new investigation by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Twitter has sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an attempt force him to complete his $44 billion takeover of the social media company by accusing him of “outlandish” and “bad faith” actions that have caused the platform irreparable harm and “wreaked havoc” on its stock price.

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is getting another COVID-19 vaccine choice. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cleared Novavax shots for adults. It’s a more traditional type of vaccine than the Pfizer and Moderna shots already used to protect most Americans. Still, millions of adults haven’t yet gotten vaccinated even this