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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. markets drifted toward losses in advance of the market open Wednesday as President Joe Biden heads to Europe for a NATO meeting and EU Summit Thursday, where sanctions and the Russian oil embargo will likely top the agenda.   The futures for the Dow Jones Industrials fell 0.4% Wednesday and

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief is pledging to respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine and a cost-of-living crisis hitting working families when he delivers his spring budget statement Wednesday. Rishi Sunak didn’t offer details on specific policy proposals but said Britain would continue its “unwavering” support for Ukraine and

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — The owners of the Chicago Cubs, who are bidding for Premier League club Chelsea, touted their anti-racism credentials after a backlash in England about offensive comments by the father of the baseball team’s chairman. It has been three years since family patriarch Joe Ricketts apologized

By KELVIN CHAN and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — European governments are slashing fuel taxes and doling out tens of billions to help consumers, truckers, farmers and others cope with spiking energy prices made worse by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But for some truckers, fishermen and others whose livelihoods hinge on fuel, the

By HERNÁN MUÑOZ Associated Press GUISSONA, Spain (AP) — Ukrainian refugees fleeing bombs and bullets at home are fanning out across Western Europe. Few places they arrive feel as welcoming as a Spanish town known for years as “Little Ukraine.” One in seven residents of Guissona was originally from there even before Russian tanks rolled

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By ALEX NISHIMOTO Edmunds We’re living in a golden age of off-road pickup trucks that you can buy straight from the factory, and the Ford F-150 Raptor and Ram 1500 TRX are the most high-profile examples. They’re similar in many respects and offer full-size truck utility combined with exceptional high-speed desert-running performance. But there are

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris will announce an action plan to stop racial discrimination in the appraisal of home values. That’s according to senior Biden administration officials who insisted on anonymity to discuss the administration’s action plan ahead of Wednesday’s announcement. The plan contains 21 steps to improve oversight and accountability.

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief is pledging to respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine and a cost-of-living crisis hitting working families when he delivers his spring budget statement Wednesday. Rishi Sunak didn’t offer details on specific policy proposals but said Britain would continue its “unwavering” support for Ukraine and

By NG HAN GUAN and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press WUZHOU, China (AP) — A Chinese aviation official says one of the two “black box” recorders was retrieved with its casing severely damaged, two days after a China Eastern flight crashed with 132 people on board. The director of the accident investigation division of the Civil

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Dubai government-owned ferry operator at the center of a bitter labor dispute in Britain says it didn’t break the law when it fired 786 crew members without advance notice because they all worked on ships registered outside the U.K. P&O Ferries also acknowledged that the way

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian pound has slipped further against the dollar, after Egypt’s Central Bank raised its main interest rate and devalued the local currency by 14%. Banks Wednesday were selling the U.S. currency at more than 18.5 pounds while buying it at over 18.45. That’s up from an

WUZHOU, China (AP) — Add rain to the challenges facing Chinese investigators as they try to determine why a jetliner with 132 people aboard crashed in remote mountains. Amid difficult conditions, officials say they have recovered what they believe is the cockpit voice recorder, one of two “black boxes” carried by the China Eastern Airlines

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer The humanitarian needs of more than 10 million displaced Ukrainians have quickly become staggering. Yet Mark Malloch-Brown, president of the Open Society Foundations, warns that longer-term problems resulting from Russia’s invasion will grow ever larger if they aren’t sufficiently addressed now. Experts report an “unprecedented” outpouring of aid for

By NG HAN GUAN Associated Press WUZHOU, China (AP) — The search for clues into why a Chinese commercial jetliner dove suddenly and crashed into a mountain in southern China has been suspended as rain slickens the debris field and fills the red-dirt gash formed by the plane’s fiery impact. Earlier Wednesday, searchers had used