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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cryptocurrency prices plunged for a second-straight day after crypto exchange Binance said it was pulling out of a deal to purchase failing rival FTX Trading. Bitcoin sank to a two-year low after Binance confirmed earlier rumors and news reports that it was ready to back

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will meet in a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia after neither reached the general election majority required under state law. That sets up a four-week blitz that again will test whether voters are more concerned about inflation under

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter’s new owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold nearly $4 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to regulatory filings. Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion, sold 19.5 million shares of the electric car company from Nov. 4 to Nov. 8, according to Tuesday’s filings with the Securities

By MATT O’BRIEN, MAE ANDERSON and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press Elon Musk sought to reassure big companies that advertise on Twitter on Wednesday that his chaotic takeover of the social media platform won’t harm their brands, acknowledging that some “dumb things” might happen on his way to creating what he says will be a better,

By ANITA SNOW and NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Election officials assured voters that every ballot would be counted after a printing malfunction at about one-quarter of the polling places across Arizona’s most populous county slowed down voting. The snag fueled conspiracy theories about the integrity of the vote in the tightly contested

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem enjoyed a large reelection margin as she continued to angle for national prominence from her small state. The large win seemed to be proof of the popularity of her hands-off approach to pandemic restrictions, but as she enters her second

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears likely to leave in place most of a federal law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children. The justices heard more than three hours of arguments in a broad challenge to the Indian Child

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — No instances of digital interference are known to have affected the counting of the midterm vote after a tense Election Day in which officials were closely monitoring domestic and foreign threats. A few state and local governments appeared to be hit by a

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — For some Democrats, losing South Florida’s Miami-Dade County was unthinkable. The state’s largest county in population and a Democratic stronghold, home to 1.5 million Latinos of voting age, has been a staging ground for virtually every successful statewide Democratic campaign for the last

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military announced Wednesday that it’s withdrawing from the only Ukrainian regional capital it’s captured, in what would be one of the most significant and humiliating setbacks for Moscow’s forces in the 8-month-old war. Ukrainian authorities, however, cautioned against considering the retreat from Kherson, a gateway

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse has won final approval to become the 13th president of the University of Florida, capping a swift and sometimes contentious process. Sasse, a Republican, was confirmed for the post by the state university system Board of Governors on a voice

By SARA BURNETT, JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans were closing in Wednesday on a narrow House majority while control of the Senate hinged on a series of tight races in a midterm election that defied expectations of sweeping conservative victories driven by frustration over inflation and President Joe Biden’s

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine officials say Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden will need to survive a ranked choice runoff to hold onto his seat. The moderate Democrat leads Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin, who held the seat from 2014 to 2018. The national Republican Party focused heavily on flipping the

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A subsidiary of French construction company Vinci was handed preliminary charges Wednesday of forced labor and other alleged violations of the rights of migrant workers hired to build infrastructure in Qatar around the World Cup. The company denies the charges and is appealing them, and accused magistrates

By MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and JASON DEAREN Associated Press Federal health officials are conducting a new study to determine whether veterans once stationed at a now-shuttered California military base were exposed to dangerously high levels of cancer-causing toxins. The announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention comes nine months after an Associated

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan., (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has won a second term in Republican-leaning Kansas. Kelly defeated three-term Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and overcame Republican efforts to tie her to President Joe Biden and high inflation. Kelly highlighted the state’s improved finances and greater spending on public

By FREIDA FRISARO and DANICA COTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Nicole forced people from their homes in the Bahamas and threatened to grow into a rare November hurricane in Florida on Wednesday, shutting down theme parks and airports while prompting evacuation orders that included former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. Hundreds of

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was on the ballot Tuesday, as voters enshrined it into the state constitution in battleground Michigan as well as blue California and Vermont and dealt a defeat to an anti-abortion measure in deep-red Kentucky. In all, it

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says there’s “cause for optimism” as the latest weekly count of deaths worldwide linked to the coronavirus came in at more than 9,400 — nearly 90% below levels seen nine months ago. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday pointed