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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China has redoubled efforts to revive its wobbling financial markets, with a major Chinese state investment fund promising to expand its purchases of stock index funds. The moves signal Beijing’s resolve to end a downturn and restore confidence in the economy. Shares in Shanghai and Hong

By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jury convicted a school shooter’s mother of involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in the killings of four students in 2021, making her the first parent in the U.S. to be held responsible for a child carrying out a mass school attack. Prosecutors say

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Republican contenders are filing petitions to appear on New Mexico’s June 4 primary ballot. They hope to challenge incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and reclaim a congressional swing seat along the U.S. border with Mexico. State election regulators received signature petitions Tuesday from candidates

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is going small to try to win big in November. With 10 months to go until Election Day, the Democratic incumbent is all in on minimalist events — visits to a boba tea store, a family’s kitchen and a barbershop, for example

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is electing a new parliament on Thursday. Forty-four political parties are vying for a share of the 266 seats up for grabs in the National Assembly, or the lower house of parliament. An additional 70 seats are reserved for women and minorities. But in a country

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — Women stream into the courtroom and sit shoulder to shoulder, coats bunched and bags on laps. Crystal Martinez, a human trafficking survivor, enters accompanied by a guard. Her face breaks into a teary smile at the sight of benches full of supporters. Martinez, who

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has been diagnosed with an unspecified type of cancer. Buckingham Palace says the 75-year-old king has begun outpatient treatment. Some key dates in Charles’ life: Nov. 14, 1948 — Charles is born on the royal estate at Sandringham, the first child of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Feb. 6,

By LAURIE KELLMAN and BILL BARROW Associated Press MAULDIN, S.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton. Nancy Pelosi. Kamala Harris. Liz Cheney. Carly Fiorina. And for now, Nikki Haley. The former South Carolina governor is the latest in a long line of women — historically some of Republican Donald Trump’s most stubborn challengers — for whom the

By MARK SHERMAN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From civil rights to privacy, the 14th Amendment has been a foundation for forging the norms of American law and democracy. But one of its provisions, adopted after the Civil War in 1868, has gotten almost no attention until now: That’s Section 3, the

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JONATHAN J. COOPER and GABE STERN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nikki Haley was swamped in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the “none of these candidates” option on the ballot in a repudiation of the former U.N. ambassador who is the last remaining major rival

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — One night after Taylor Swift earned her fourth career Grammy for album of the year, her boyfriend was feeling pressure to secure his own triumph in the Super Bowl. “She’s unbelievable, she’s rewriting the history books herself,” Travis Kelce said Monday night at Allegiant Stadium, where

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Two ships traveling in Middle East waters were targeted by Yemen Houthi rebel ballistic missile fire. That’s according to the United States military’s Central Command. It issued a statement early Wednesday identifying the ships as the Barbados-flagged, United Kingdom-owned cargo ship Morning Tide, and the

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says a 60-year-old man sailing from California to Hawaii arrived in the islands over the weekend. The Coast Guard says Noel Rubio arrived safely with his sailboat Malulani on Saturday, one day after it asked the public for help finding him. The agency made the announcement Monday. Rubio

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has proposed giving people pensions equal to their full salaries at the time they retire, something no other country _ even those much richer than Mexico _does. It may be just electioneering: President Andres Manuel López Obrador leaves office in September, and he really

By AAMER MADHANI and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is rolling out a new policy that will allow it to impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware. The new policy announced Monday will apply to individuals who’ve been involved in the misuse of commercial

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s recent escalation of threats and more tests of weapons aimed at South Korea haven’t done much to upset the calm in the nation’s capital. “We learned to be numb,” said Renee Na, a 33-year-old office worker in Seoul who was one of a

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has requested Secret Service protection after receiving a growing number of threats during her 2024 presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday. Haley told The Wall Street Journal while campaigning in South Carolina that she had made the request. “We’ve had multiple issues,” she said. “It’s

By JAVIER ARCIGA AND ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Nearly every day since September, hundreds of migrants from China, Colombia and other countries have wiggled through openings in the border wall with Mexico and walked dirt trails to surrender to U.S. agents and seek asylum. Some days, more than 1,000

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia accused the United States of “aggression” against Iraq and Syria aimed at preserving its global dominance and salvaging the Biden administration’s “image” ahead of U.S. elections. The U.S. retorted that its military response to unjustified attacks by Iranian-backed proxies against American forces is not