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By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The IRS says it’s making progress with initiatives to claw back money improperly distributed under the Employee Retention Credit. The ERC was designed to help businesses retain employees during pandemic-era shutdowns, but it quickly became a magnet for fraud. Its complex eligibility rules allowed scammers

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer There were plenty of people at a movie theater in central Iowa on Monday night, though very few of them were watching an actual movie. They were there to see Caitlin Clark. And they weren’t alone. Not even close. Millions of people — 12.3 million, the most to ever

ISTANBUL (AP) — A fire broke out at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations, killing 29 people. The club was closed for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and the victims appeared to be employees or people working on the renovations. The nightclub was on the ground and basement floors of a 16-story residential building on

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Maryse Condé, an acclaimed French-language novelist from Guadeloupe who in novels, stories, plays and memoirs imagined and redefined the personal and historical past from 17th century New England to contemporary Europe, has died at age 90. Condé, winner in 2018 of an “alternate” Nobel Prize,

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jeremiah Armstead moved around so much he wasn’t even eligible to play high school basketball until his senior year. He never lost faith through all the nights his family spent sometimes sleeping in their car when they couldn’t get a hotel room or into

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Crews opened a second temporary channel on Tuesday allowing a limited amount of marine traffic to bypass the mangled wreckage of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which had blocked the vital port’s main shipping channel since its destruction one week ago. Work is ongoing to open

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes on landmark cases ranging from abortion to gay marriage to

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s top security official says the country will step up police checks near its border with Germany after its neighbor legalized the possession of limited amounts of cannabis for recreational use. Germany’s new rules went into force Monday, legalizing possession by adults of up to 25 grams (nearly 1 ounce) of marijuana

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question when residents of Jackson County, Missouri, voted against a sales tax to help to pay for a new downtown ballpark and renovations to Arrowhead Stadium. Royals owner John Sherman and

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to track down the masterminds of the Moscow concert hall massacre that left 144 people dead. It was the worst attack on Russian soil in two decades. He urged the country’s law enforcement agencies to tighten security at mass gatherings. Putin has repeatedly sought to link

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor’s long fight to preserve the practice. The Transportation Department’s Federal Railroad Administration released the details of the rule that was first proposed

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future conclaves, in a book-length interview published Tuesday. The revelations are contained in “Pope Francis, Successor: My

CAIRO (AP) — President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt has been sworn in for a third six-year term after being re-elected in a December vote in which he faced no serious challengers. El-Sissi took the oath of office Tuesday before parliament, which convened in the new administrative capital in the desert outside Cairo. El-Sissi won 89.6%

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — As more than 2 million graduating high school students from across the United States finalize their decisions on what college to attend this fall, many are facing jaw-dropping costs — in some cases, as much as $95,000. A number of private colleges — some considered elite

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift and her Super Bowl-winning boyfriend Travis Kelce, along with Sydney Sweeney, Ryan Gosling and Timothee Chalamet, are among the nominees for this year’s Webby Awards, recognizing the best internet content and creators. Swift’s Instagram message encouraging her 283 million followers to register to

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press With hundreds of U.S. newspaper closings leaving legions with little access to local news, a college newspaper in Iowa has stepped up to buy two struggling weekly publications. The move by The Daily Iowan, a nonprofit student paper for the University of Iowa, is believed to be a first, though

By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Adding your child as an authorized user on your credit card can be a simple way to start building their credit file. But if the issuer doesn’t report account details to the credit bureaus or your account isn’t in good standing, their credit score won’t get enhanced. Future lenders also

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, called a halt to its work in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli strike killed seven of its workers, mostly foreigners. The group, which said it will make decisions about longer-term plans in the region

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s parliamentary speaker faces imminent arrest over corruption charges after a court on Tuesday dismissed her bid to block police and prosecutors from arresting her. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, who is a senior member of the ruling African National Congress party, is accused of receiving bribes

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican will publish next week an eagerly awaited document on gender theory and surrogacy. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will hold his first news conference to present the document on human dignity on April 8. Fernandez