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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer A report by the American Chamber of Commerce in China says that simmering tensions between Beijing and Washington remain the top worry for U.S. companies operating in China. The survey of American companies said inconsistent and unclear policies and enforcement, rising labor costs and data security issues were other

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded. That and the giant drone, its wingspan similar to that of

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears have scheduled a Wednesday news conference to announce plans for “a state-of-the-art, publicly owned enclosed stadium” on the city’s Museum Campus near Lake Michigan. The announcement Monday said the plans also call for additional green and open space with access to the lakefront. The team said last month it

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Monday. Seattle Children’s Hospital filed the lawsuit against Paxton’s office in December in response

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police are investigating the deaths of five people, including at least two children, inside a home on the city’s southwest side. Police Sgt. Gary Knight says someone called police Monday morning to report finding five bodies inside the home. Knight says all five were killed, but declined to elaborate

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge says defense attorneys for a man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho students can resume phone surveys of potential jurors in the case. Bryan Kohberger faces murder charges in connection with the November 2022 stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle,

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A legal battle over a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons is bringing together advocates on the issue and one current inmate who says his health is being endangered by the state’s hot prisons. That inmate is the former mortician whose murder case inspired the

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican man on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border. The decision came after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision after more than two full days of deliberation in

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press NEW KENT, Va. (AP) — A Virginia prosecutor says a former longtime medical director of a Virginia hospital that serves vulnerable children used physical examinations as a “ruse” to sexually abuse two teenage patients. The prosecutor made the allegation in opening statements Monday in the trial of Daniel N. Davidow,

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have killed the leader of a small Muslim rebel group and eleven of his men blamed for past bombings and extortion in a clash in the country’s south. Seven soldiers were wounded in the hourlong gunbattle Monday against members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in a marshy hinterland

SOUTH MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man charged with killing and mutilating a woman whose body parts washed up on a beach along Lake Michigan has pleaded not guilty. Thirty-three-year-old Maxwell Anderson appeared in court Monday. He has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson. Anderson waived his right to a

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer. The Dos Rios tract in the state’s Central Valley is set to open in June. Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement Monday. The land will become California’s 281st state park. The

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of felonies, weeks after a Senate leader killed a broader bill that would have restored suffrage to many more people with criminal records. The move is necessary due to Mississippi’s

LONDON (AP) — British Home Secretary James Cleverly is visiting Italy as part of the U.K. government’s efforts to crack down on migrants arriving by small boats. Officials say Tuesday that Cleverly will meet his Italian counterpart, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, and discuss how Italy and Britain can expand their joint work to stop migrants

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised salvo launches of the country’s “super-large” multiple rocket launchers that simulated a nuclear counterattack against enemy targets, state media said Tuesday, adding to tests and threats that have raised tensions in the region. The report by North Korea’s

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a Minnesota state senator and former broadcast meteorologist has been arrested in the northwestern city of Detroit Lakes. Democratic Sen. Nicole Mitchell, 49, of Woodbury, was being held Monday in the Becker County Jail on suspicion of first-degree burglary. Detroit Lakes Police Chief Steve Todd

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The head of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is asking the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to provide answers about the fatal raid at the home of the Little Rock airport director last month. Republican Rep. Jim Jordan on Monday requested the documents

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a second person has died from injuries after a Texas semitrailer driver plowed a stolen 18-wheeler into a public safety office recently. Department of Public Safety officials said Monday that 63-year-old Cheryl Turner of Brenham has died from injuries stemming from the April 12

The Associated Press An independent panel that reviewed the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, after Israel alleged that a dozen of its employees in Gaza had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks, released its report on Monday. Here are some of its key recommendations to strengthen the neutrality of the agency, known

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with the head of the International Criminal Court as he faces an ongoing investigation by the tribunal into crimes against humanity for his crackdown on anti-government protests. ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan didn’t make any statements following the meeting at the presidential palace in Caracas. Khan’s