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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities hunted Wednesday for four inmates, including one suspected of killing a man and stealing his pickup truck, who escaped over the weekend from a Mississippi jail that has been under federal scrutiny. Leake County Sheriff Randy Atkinson told WJTV-TV that the suspect in the killing, 22-year-old Dylan Arrington, is believed

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has urged European allies to accelerate negotiations leading to Ukraine’s access to the European Union. She spoke as Rome on Wednesday hosted a bilateral conference on the reconstruction of the war-torn country, attended by hundreds of Italian and Ukrainian businesses. “The future of

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A sweeping British bill that will dramatically curb migrants’ ability to seek asylum in the U.K. is due to be approved by lawmakers. That’s despite critics’ allegations that it breaks international law. The government says the Illegal Migration Bill will deter tens of thousands of people from

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former Harvard University professor convicted of lying to federal investigators about his ties to a Chinese-run science recruitment program and failing to pay taxes on payments from a Chinese university was sentenced Wednesday to supervised release and ordered to pay more than $83,000 in restitution and

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Microsoft and Poland’s officials say that the IT giant has launched a top-notch hub for cloud data storage and processing in central Poland. The cloud region, which is part of Microsoft’s $1 billion IT transformation plan for Poland, consists of three separate physical locations around Warsaw. Microsoft says it will give

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon are advancing a bill that would expand insurance coverage for gender-affirming care to include things like facial hair removal and Adam’s apple reduction surgery. The procedures are currently considered cosmetic by insurers but seen as critical to the mental health

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A company that tears down closed nuclear power plants wants to do in Michigan what has never been done in the U.S.: restore a dead one to life. Holtec Decommissioning International bought the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station last June for the stated purpose of

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops. It is an unprecedented change that reflects Francis’ hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities and laypeople more say in the life of the Catholic Church. Francis approved changes

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s foreign minister says the new government led by a communist prime minister will give priority to enhancing relations with both of its giant neighbors, India and China, but won’t use them against each other for its own benefit. Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud said in

By KATIA IERVASI of NerdWallet The “infinite banking” movement is trending on TikTok as a way to create wealth. It sounds simple: Use your cash value life insurance policy to take out low-interest loans and finance large purchases like college tuition and home renovations. But this strategy is best suited to individuals with high net

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call that his government will send an envoy to Ukraine and other nations to discuss a possible “political settlement” to Russia’s war with the country. A government statement gave no indication whether the envoy also would visit Russia. A

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani military says an army operation in the northwest targeting militants triggered a firefight that left two soldiers and two insurgents dead. The firefight happened Wednesday in Tirah, a former militant stronghold in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, the military said in a statement. It provided no details about the slain

LONDON British regulators have blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard over worries that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market. The Competition and Markets Authority said in its final report Wednesday that “the only effective remedy” to the significant loss of competition that the deal would result