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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Wall Street debut of Donald Trump’s Truth Social network could give him stock worth billions of dollars on paper. But the former president probably will not be able to cash it out right away, unless some things change. It all comes down to a

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — It’ll likely take years before the U.S. government’s massive antitrust lawsuit against Apple is resolved — but the iPhone maker’s troubles with European regulators offer a glimpse of what changes American customers may see down the line. The U.S. lawsuit seeks to stop Apple from undermining

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Netflix has started dipping into live sports. The streaming giant has aired exhibition events in golf and tennis over the past four months. It is also slated to air the July 20 fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Netflix will also start carrying World Wrestling Entertainment’s flagship show

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators in the northern Mexico border state of Nuevo Leon say they have found at least five burned bodies in a vehicle on a road near the industrial hub of Monterrey. State prosecutors said Thursday they initially found a body and some skulls inside a burned-out vehicle in the township of

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A nationwide technology problem interrupted services for a few hours at U.S. state offices that handle driver’s licenses. The offices experienced delays in issuing licenses as a result of the outage, which lasted for about 2 1/2 hours on Thursday. The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators in Arlington, Virginia, maintains

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and his Republican allies are well behind President Joe Biden and Democrats on fundraising. But an upcoming major fundraiser the former president is hosting in Florida will prioritize his own campaign and the committee paying his legal bills before the Republican National Committee.

By COREY WILLIAMS and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Pro-Trump attorney Stefanie Lambert has been released from jail in Michigan after turning herself in and posting $10,000 bond to resolve an outstanding warrant. Lambert appeared in court Thursday. That came after she was arrested in Washington, D.C., earlier this week following a

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for The Wall Street Journal says Russia must face consequences for its detention of Evan Gershkovich, one of the newspaper’s reporters. Gershkovich was arrested on March 29, 2023, on espionage charges, which he and the newspaper deny, while on a reporting trip to the Russian

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — This is the most intense time of the year for college basketball fans as the NCAA March Madness championship tournament begins. Mark Bawers of Dover, Delaware drove to Atlantic City to watch games at the Golden Nugget casino. He says every shot means something, particularly

Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria will hold its next presidential election on Sept. 7, giving first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune more than five months to campaign should he choose to seek a second term leading the oil-rich north African nation. Tebboune’s office announced the date in a statement on Thursday after meeting with high-ranking

CERES, Calif. (AP) — An anonymous call led California authorities to find 86 dogs and several people living in a house where conditions were described as deplorable. Police made the discovery Tuesday in the Central Valley city of Ceres after the caller requested a welfare check on a resident. An older woman and a young

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republicans are shooting down a last-ditch attempt by Democrats to expand Medicaid. The Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee rejected the plan on a tie 7-7 vote on Thursday. Democrats say GOP leaders broke a promise to advance the bill but the committee chair says there

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry alleged Thursday that the publisher of The Sun tabloid unlawfully intercepted phone calls of his late mother, Princess Diana, and father, now King Charles III, as he sought to expand his privacy invasion lawsuit against News Group Newspapers. The Duke of Sussex is seeking permission

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday a major Israeli ground assault on the southern Gaza town of Rafah would be “a mistake” and “unnecessary” to defeating Hamas, underscoring the further souring of relations between the United States and Israel. Blinken, on his sixth urgent

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Federal meteorologists predict that the United States can expect a nice spring break from past too rainy or too dry extremes. Thursday’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s spring outlook calls for a less hectic spring that should be warmer and wetter, but not prone to major flooding and drought

By The Associated Press A Russian court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the mother of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition stalwart who died in prison in February, that claimed he received inadequate medical care, a close Navalny colleague said. Ivan Zhdanov, head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation that was started by Navalny, said the court

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested by a federal agency that accused his party and ministers of accepting 1 billion rupees in bribes from liquor contractors. Atishi Singh is a leader of Kejriwal’s Aaam Admi Party, or Common People’s Party. She said the accusations

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The heads of leading U.S. airlines want to meet with Boeing and hear the aircraft manufacturer’s strategy for fixing quality-control problems that have gained attention since a panel blew out of a jetliner in January. A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday that the

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers kept pressing an appellate court Thursday to excuse him from covering a $454 million fraud lawsuit judgment for now, saying he’d suffer “irreparable harm” before his appeal is decided. The financial requirement is “patently unjust, unreasonable and unconstitutional,” one of the

LURAY, Va. (AP) — Officials say crews are battling scores of wildfires around Virginia, including a fire affecting hundreds of acres at Shenandoah National Park. Virginia Department of Forestry spokesperson Cory Swift said Thursday that more than 100 new fires popped up Wednesday and they’re affecting more than 1,600 acres across the state. Swift says