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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling on Wall Street Tuesday amid worries about upcoming profits for companies and the tightening squeeze of higher interest rates. The S&P 500 was 0.8% lower in its first trading of the week following Monday’s holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal, backed by the satirical The Onion, from a man who was arrested and prosecuted for making fun of police on social media. The justices on Tuesday left in place a lower court ruling against Anthony Novak, who was arrested after he spoofed the Parma, Ohio,

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Moscow is suspending its participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States. The move to halt Moscow’s involvement in the New START treaty sharply ups the ante amid tensions with Washington over the fighting in Ukraine.

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Survivors of the earthquake that jolted Turkey and Syria 15 days ago, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving hundreds of thousands of others homeless, dealt with more trauma and loss Tuesday after another deadly quake and aftershocks rocked the region. The 6.4

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Puerto Rico say three people, including a 4-year-old boy, have died after gunmen opened fire at a birthday party. Officials say two other children, ages 9 and 10, were injured in the shooting that occurred Monday night at a public housing complex in the north coastal town

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese panda fans bid teary farewells to their idols Xiang Xiang, “super papa” Eimei and his twin daughters who were sent to China to live in a protected facility in Sichuan province. Hundreds of people who waited outside Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo on Tuesday took photos, wiped tears

By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Futures on Wall Street dipped Tuesday, extending last week’s selling that dragged the benchmark S&P to its first back-to-back weekly declines since the turn of the year. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average S&P 500 each slid 0.8% before the bell opened a holiday-shortened trading

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s judiciary says a senior member of a U.S.-based opposition group accused of planning a deadly 2008 mosque bombing has been sentenced to death. Iranian authorities said on Tuesday that Jamshid Sharmahd is the leader of the armed wing of a group advocating the restoration of the monarchy that

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin gave no sign Tuesday he would change strategy in the Kremlin’s bloody war in Ukraine, and ratcheted up tensions with the West by suspending Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the U.S. In his long-delayed state-of-the-nation address, Putin cast his country —

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Advocacy group Global Citizen will convene political, philanthropic, business and cultural leaders for a thought leadership conference in New York to tackle extreme poverty more quickly. The group announced Tuesday that Global Citizen NOW will be a two-day conference on April 27 co-chaired by Ursula

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Western countries Tuesday of igniting and sustaining the war in Ukraine, dismissing any blame for Moscow almost a year after the Kremlin’s unprovoked invasion of its neighbor that has killed tens of thousands of people. In his long-delayed state-of-the-nation address, Putin cast Russia — and Ukraine

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The wreckage of a small plane carrying two Filipino pilots and two Australian passengers has been identified on one of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes. Officials say an aerial search found no sign of those aboard the Cessna 340, which crashed into a gully on the slope of Mayon volcano. It

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — They were led down a staircase into a garage beneath a downtown Atlanta courthouse, where officers with big guns were waiting. From there, they were ushered into vans with heavily tinted windows and driven to their cars under police escort. For Emily Kohrs, these were the moments

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A new complex erected on the shores of the Persian Gulf, in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, houses a Catholic church, a Jewish synagogue and an Islamic mosque. The Abrahamic Family House offers a concrete, marble and oak manifestation of the

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is advocating for his contested plan to increase the pension eligibility age. Macron visited the Rungis International Market in the southern suburbs of Paris on Tuesday for his first public discussion with French workers since lawmakers started debating the government’s pension-reform legislation earlier this month, prompting series of

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s president has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to seek dialogue and compromise after it pushed ahead with a controversial judicial overhaul in a turbulent parliamentary session overnight. President Isaac Herzog said Tuesday it was a “difficult morning” after a late night parliamentary vote

By KANIS LEUNG and EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate five years ago with claims that he made the world’s first genetically edited babies said Tuesday that he hopes to research rare hereditary diseases in Hong Kong. He Jiankui shocked the world in 2018

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the nation’s freight railroads to immediately act to improve safety while regulators try to strengthen safety rules in the wake of a fiery derailment in Ohio that forced evacuations when toxic chemicals were released and burned. Buttigieg announced a package of

Staff The Associated Press One year ago, Russia launched Europe’s biggest war since WWII. Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, sending civilians fleeing for basement bunkers and their country’s borders. Governments around the world imposed stringent sanctions on Russia in an attempt – so far unsuccessful – to pressure President Vladimir Putin to abandon the

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin is railing against the West in his long-delayed state-of-the-nation address. Many predicted the speech would set the tone for the year ahead and shed light on how the Kremlin sees its bogged-down war in Ukraine. Putin has frequently justified his invasion of Ukraine by accusing Western countries