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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Government data in Argentina says the country’s monthly inflation rate has eased sharply to a single-digit rate in April for the first time in half a year. The figures are a closely watched indicator that bolsters President Javier Milei’s severe austerity program aimed at fixing

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A mixed-breed dog has won the Westminster Kennel Club dog show’s agility prize for the first time. A border collie-papillion mix, aptly named Nimble, outran and outmaneuvered 50 other finalists to seize the trophy on Saturday. The show is U.S. dogdom’s most elite door. The agility

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have proposed a bill that would enhance penalties for people wearing a mask during a crime or intentionally blocking traffic during protests. The bill passed its first committee on Tuesday. Critics say the law would make it illegal to wear a

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is suggesting the possibility that new penalties could be put in place if the Chinese makers of electric vehicles try to move their production to Mexico to avoid newly announced import taxes. President Joe Biden on Tuesday directed the U.S. Trade Representative to impose

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell its stakes within a year. Attorneys for the creators argue in the lawsuit that the

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine (AP) — From the sky, the Ukrainian drone unit commander had a bird’s-eye view of Russia’s renewed offensive playing out in the country’s war-ravaged northeast. Enemy forces have captured a string of Ukrainian villages over the past few days. One drone operator said Russian

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the coming days, the U.S. military in the eastern Mediterranean is expected to jab one end of a hulking metal dock into a beach in northern Gaza. And that may be the end of the easy part for the Biden administration’s $320 million effort to open

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Hundreds of residents in four neighborhoods in the southern end of Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta have been ordered out. The Rural Municipality of Wood Buffalo says residents in Beacon Hill, Abasand, Prairie Creek and Grayling Terrace need to leave by 4 p.m.  An emergency evacuation warning

ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana diocese says parishioners subdued a teenager with a gun during a church service for dozens of young children. Officials with the Catholic Diocese of Lafayette said Tuesday that they’re weighing new safety protocols after Saturday’s confrontation at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Abbeville, a small city in the southern

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Times publisher and CEO Frank Blethen has announced he will step down at the end of next year, after four decades leading the newspaper his family has owned since 1896. Blethen, 79, confirmed his plans Monday in a Seattle Times interview. He said he expects to retain his position as board

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — The Caitlin Clark era in the WNBA has officially begun, although it got off to a slow start. Clark went scoreless for nearly the first 15 minutes, before getting more comfortable and finishing with 20 points in the Indiana Fever’s 92-71 loss to the Connecticut

MIAMI (AP) — Investigators believe they’ve found the boat that struck a 15-year-old girl off a South Florida beach. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation announced Tuesday that the boat was in their custody and the owner was cooperating. Law enforcement agencies had been searching for the vessel since Saturday, when Ella Adler was killed

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years. When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said it was the hottest summer on record. But those records only go back to 1850 because they

CHICAGO (AP) — Dorothy Jean Tillman’s participation in Arizona State University’s May 6 commencement was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first college course at age 10. In between came associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees. When Tillman successfully defended her dissertation in December at age 17,

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google has rolled out a retooled search engine that will frequently favor responses crafted by artificial intelligence over website links. It’s a shift promising to quicken the quest for information while also potentially disrupting the flow of money-making internet traffic. The makeover announced at

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says an instructor pilot was killed when the ejection seat activated while the turboprop aircraft was still on the ground at a Texas military base. The instructor pilot was in a T-6A Texan II at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, when

By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A judge in Delaware has denied a request by Hunter Biden’s lawyers to delay his federal gun trial set for next month. The judge Tuesday rejected Hunter Biden’s request to delay the trial until September, which his lawyers said was necessary to give

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions. The change was championed by the Republican-controlled Statehouse despite concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases. Lee, a Republican, quietly signed off on the legislation

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Kathleen Hana’s bands, Bikini Kill, the Julie Ruin and Le Tigre, have long been celebrated for their candor, and their songs which chastised abusers and celebrated women. Now the punk pioneer and force of the third-wave feminist riot grrrl movement has released a memoir, “Rebel Girl: My Life as

DETROIT (AP) — Federal auto safety regulators are warning people not to stick decals on their steering wheels because they can be hurled at drivers if the air bags inflate in a crash. The warning from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration comes after another driver was severely hurt by a flying emblem during a