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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for Prince Harry has finished setting out the royal’s case against a newspaper publisher. David Sherborne concluded his evidence by grilling former Daily Mirror royal correspondent Jane Kerr. He suggested to Kerr that some of the information in her stories came from phone hacking. Kerr

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting Thursday, continuing this week’s lull as Wall Street waits for several big events next week. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in early trading, and it hasn’t moved by more than 0.4% in any day this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

By JENNIFER PELTZ, ROB GILLIES and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On air quality maps, purple signifies the worst of it. In reality, it’s a thick, hazardous haze that’s disrupting daily life for millions of people across the U.S. and Canada, blotting out skylines and turning skies orange. And with weather

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed several very young children, including at least one in a stroller, and also assaulted adults in a lakeside park in the French Alps on Thursday. The savagery left at least two children and one adult with

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93. Robertson’s death Thursday

By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street stabilized before Thursday’s opening bell after a heavy sell-off a day earlier in the tech sector dragged some benchmarks lower. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell less than 0.1% in premarket. Global shares were mixed and oil prices

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has invited thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals to the White House to celebrate Pride Month. It’s a high-profile show of support at a time when the community feels under attack like never before. The White House has little recourse to beat back state-level legislation against

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police say 23 West Ham and Fiorentina soccer fans were detained for their behaviour in connection with the Europa Conference League final in Prague. They say one person is suspected of attacking a police officer and two others of hooliganism. The rest are suspected of committing various misdemeanours. Interior Minister Vít

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Well this is fitting: “Groundhog Day” is back. Again. The story of a jaded weatherman fated to live the same day over and over began as a beloved movie, then became an award-winning stage musical. On Thursday it opens at London’s Old Vic Theatre, where it had

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A replacement plane for an Air India flight diverted to Russia because of an engine problem landed in San Francisco on Thursday, carrying all passengers and crew, the airline said. The original Boeing 777, which left New Delhi carrying 216 passengers and 16 crew members, landed

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The American public is broadly skeptical of common intelligence practices and of the need to sacrifice civil liberties for security. That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It shows that Democrats and Republicans are opposed at

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive is proposing to create an ethics body that would set up common rules of conduct for the bloc’s institutions. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen supported its creation when she took office back in 2019, and her services stepped up action after

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. will provide nearly $150 million in aid for areas in Syria and Iraq that were liberated from the Islamic State extremist group. He spoke at a ministerial conference hosted by Saudi Arabia on combatting the group. IS

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it is not planning to invite Ukraine to the G20 summit of industrialized and developing nations in September. Its external affairs minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, says Ukrainian participation in the summit is not something that India has reviewed or discussed with others. Ukraine is not

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s biggest police force has apologized for the department’s past treatment of the LGBTQ+ community. The statement from Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley came a day after gay rights activist Peter Tatchell launched a campaign calling for all British police departments to apologize for

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The first big surprise in golf’s new world? Seeing PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and Saudi wealth fund leader Yasir Al-Rumayyan smiling together. Behind the scenes were a pair of PGA board members. One of them was Jimmy Dunne, a power broker in golf and on Wall Street. That

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the flood-hit region of Kherson on Thursday to evaluate response to damage caused by a dam breach. The Ukrainian leader wrote on his Telegram account that he was helping assess efforts to evacuate civilians, provide them with drinking water and other support, and try to