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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court is refusing to block a lower court’s ruling banning the practice known as ballot spoiling, which allows voters who already submitted an absentee ballot to void it and vote again. The state appeals court on Thursday decided against hearing an appeal of

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases are all hotting up the planet. But where do they come from? The main human activity that spews out these gases is energy — heating up or cooling homes or keeping the lights on. Agriculture

By JAY REEVES Associated Press MOUNT VERNON, Ala. (AP) — Native American groups in Alabama and North Carolina are hoping that two outgoing U.S. senators can help them achieve something that’s been elusive so far: federal recognition as tribes. Victories in Congress could mean millions in federal funding for both. Retiring Sen. Richard Shelby is

By DANIEL KOZIN and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press MIAMI BEACH (AP) — An evacuation order has abruptly forced out residents of a 14-story oceanfront building on the same avenue where a condominium collapse killed nearly 100 people last year. The city posted an unsafe structure notice Thursday evening at the Port Royale condominium, Miami Beach

MILAN (AP) — Spanish soccer player Pablo Marí has undergone surgery to treat wounds to his back. The Monza club in Serie A that Marí plays for on loan from Arsenal says that the operation consisted of repairing two torn muscles. Monza adds that “the operation went well” and that Marí should spend another “two

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press GROVEPORT, Ohio (AP) — Ruth and Boyd Boone are longtime Ohio Republican voters, eager to reelect their GOP governor. But when it comes to the Senate, they’re not so sure. Both are skeptical of JD Vance, the venture capitalist and author-turned-first time candidate who won the Republican nomination with former

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty. The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform. Musk ousted three top Twitter executives on Thursday, according to two

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A decommissioned coal-fired power plant in western Minnesota has crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom as part of a planned implosion that marks the end of an era in Granite Falls. Minnesota Public Radio News reports that Xcel Energy used explosives to implode the Minnesota Valley Generating Station

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish prosecutor wants “a supplementary crime scene investigation” at the site of explosions that damaged two natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said Friday a preliminary probe concluded the cause was “suspected gross sabotage.” Ljungqvist said he understood the intense interest in determining what happened to

TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Airbus has reported that earnings grew in the third quarter and revenue is up through the first nine months of 2022 as it benefited from a strong U.S. dollar despite supply chain issues. The France-based company said Friday that delivered 437 commercial aircraft so far this year and is maintaining its

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaking last year on the House floor, Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan angrily bemoaned the lack of bipartisanship after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and said Republican opposition to an investigative commission was a “slap in the face” to the law enforcement officers assaulted by then-President Donald

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A venomous king cobra which escaped from a Swedish zoo terrarium six days ago has been located inside the building where it lived but has not been recaptured. The park said Friday the reptile was located overnight and staff are now working to retrieve it. The deadly snake escaped on Saturday

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares skidded Friday in Europe and Asia, with heavy selling of technology shares pulling Hong Kong’s benchmark 3.7% lower. Germany’s DAX dropped 0.9% to 13,090.91 and the CAC40 in Paris lost 0.6% to 6,205.73. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.6% to 7,029.81. The future for the S&P 500 was down

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania. Birdlife Tasmania says the bird was tagged as a hatchling in Alaska during the Northern

BERLIN (AP) — The German economy grew in the third quarter, an unexpectedly positive performance powered largely by private spending. The Federal Statistical Office said Friday that gross domestic product in Europe’s biggest economy expanded by 0.3% in the July-September period compared with the previous quarter. That followed a slight increase of 0.1% in the

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government approved Friday a hefty economic package that will include government funding of about 29 trillion yen ($200 billion) to soften the burden of costs from rising utility rates and food prices. Kishida was set to give a news conference in the

MILAN (AP) — Spanish soccer player Pablo Marí called himself “lucky” to survive after getting wounded in a knife attack at an Italian shopping center. He was being treated following injuries to his back and mouth. Five people were stabbed Thursday and one was killed after a man grabbed a knife from a supermarket shelf.

COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say torrential rains set off flash floods and landslides that swamped a southern province, killing at least 31 people and leaving nine others missing. They say most victims died from drowning or landslides in Maguindanao province. Floodwaters rapidly rose in many low-lying villages, forcing some residents to climb onto