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By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy clashes have resumed in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, ending a cease-fire there following a day of relative calm. The clashes between Palestinian factions at the Ein el-Hilweh camp have pitted members of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party against Islamist groups accused of gunning

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Late Tuesday, Fitch Ratings became the second of the three major credit-rating firms to remove its coveted triple-A assessment of the United States government’s credit worthiness, a move that contributed to sharply lower stock prices in Wednesday trading. Fitch cited the federal government’s rising debt burden

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Rochester Museum and Science Center in New York state has returned the ancestral remains of 19 Native Americans to the Oneida Indian Nation. This marks the second repatriation from the museum’s collections to the tribe, which is required by federal law. Museum president

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press Most taxpayers will be able to digitally submit a slew of tax documents and other communications to the IRS next filing season and the agency plans to go completely paperless in 2025. The effort to reduce the exorbitant load of paperwork that has plagued the agency — dubbed the “paperless

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued USASF Servicing, the financial arm of a chain of auto dealerships found mostly in the South. The bureau alleges the company committed a laundry list of illegal practices, like disabling borrowers’ cars, double billing customers, and illegally repossessing

EL MARQUES, Mexico (AP) — Seven people are dead and 17 injured after a train crashed into a small commuter bus at a grade crossing in central Mexico. A civil defense official in the state of Queretaro north of Mexico City says the accident occurred early Wednesday. Several of the 17 injured are reported in

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is delaying plans to restock the nation’s emergency oil reserve amid a price hike that has pushed oil above $80 a barrel. The Energy Department canceled a planned purchase of 6 million barrels for the strategic reserve this week, saying it wants to secure

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Federal investigators said a dump truck driver in rural Missouri last year may have never seen an oncoming Amtrak train before it was too late. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday that the railroad crossing’s poor design contributed to the derailment last June that killed four

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a man died at a jail in Atlanta that is currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. The Fulton County Sheriff’s office said in a news release Wednesday that 40-year-old Montay Stinson was found unresponsive in his cell at the main county Jail around 11:45 p.m. Monday. Jail

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s finance minister has promised to step up inspections of beach bars and other businesses renting out seaside sunbeds and umbrellas. Wednesday’s move, at the peak of the key summer tourist season, follows complaints that it’s difficult, or impossible, for non-paying beachgoers to find a spot on the sand on many

By TIFFANY STANLEY, LUIS ANDRES HENAO and MARIAM FAM The Associated Press When Adidas cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, due to his antisemitic comments, it was left with more than a billion dollars worth of high-end Yeezy sneakers. Now, Jewish Americans are evaluating the German company’s plan to give

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order and searched Senate office buildings near the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon amid reports of an active shooter. But a floor-by-floor search of the three buildings found nothing, and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said the cause of the security scramble “may have been a bogus call.” The

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Damar Hamlin will expand his efforts to promote charitable giving by supporting a company that allows donors to give to nonprofits immediately, while actually paying later. It’s the Buffalo Bills safety’s latest move to direct the outpouring of support he received after collapsing on the field

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. man accused of leading a white supremacy group has been extradited from Romania to face charges of inciting violence at California political rallies in 2017. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles says 33-year-old Robert Paul Rundo of Huntington Beach was flown back to the country Tuesday. He pleaded

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A St. Louis Cardinals mega-fan known as “Rally Runner” has been arrested on charges that he joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol and used a stolen shield to help other rioters attack police officers. Daniel Donnelly Jr. was scheduled to make his initial court appearance in Missouri on

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is cutting his Italy vacation short and returning to the state after the death this week of Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver. Murphy’s spokesperson says he will leave Italy Thursday morning. He was supposed to be in Italy, where he owns a

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have identified the man whose body was found inside a barrel in Malibu, California. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says the man was identified by the coroner’s office as 32-year-old Javonnta Marshann Murphy. No additional information was immediately provided Wednesday. Murphy’s body was found inside a black plastic 55-gallon