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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate approved a bill Wednesday to eliminate daylight saving time, putting an end to the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Some cities and towns along the U.S. border can retain daylight saving time, presumably because they are so linked to U.S. cities. The Senate approved the measure on

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are off to a mixed start on Wall Street as big drops in several heavyweight technology stocks weighed on major indexes, offsetting gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 was little changed of 10:40 a.m. Eastern after shaking off an early decline.

HELSINKI (AP) — Lawmakers have approved a legislative reform that will ease the process of getting an abortion in Finland which currently has the Nordic region’s strictest abortion law, dating back to 1970 and seen by many citizens as outdated. Finland’s 200-seat Eduskunta legislature on Wednesday voted by a wide margin 125-41 in favor of

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities are searching for at least eight migrants believed to be missing in waters near the historic area of Puerto Rico’s capital. The U.S. Coast Guard says the migrants were apparently aboard a boat that capsized in San Juan Bay on Tuesday night, according to two survivors from the

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blistering display of bare-knuckled political infighting has broken out in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, complete with rumors of secret wiretaps and drug cartel ties. With Morena now dominant in Mexico, the biggest question in politics has become what kind of internal divisions

By FAISAL ANJUM and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press GUJRANWALA, Pakistan (AP) — Britain’s new prime minister has embraced his Indian and Hindu heritage but he also has roots in present-day Pakistan, in the city of Gujranwala, where his paternal grandparents lived during Britain’s colonial rule. The city saw some of the deadliest sectarian riots during

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Six schoolchildren in Uganda’s capital have tested positive for Ebola, the health minister said Wednesday, marking a serious escalation of the outbreak declared just over a month ago. The children, who attend three different schools in Kampala, are among at least 15 people in the city

By MARC LEVY and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — More than five months after experiencing a stroke, Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman struggled at times to explain his positions and often spoke haltingly throughout a highly anticipated debate against Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz as they vie for a critical Senate seat. In the

NEW YORK (AP) — Drops in big tech companies including Google’s parent company and Microsoft weighed down the stock market in early trading on Wall Street. Alphabet and Microsoft each fell about 8% in the early going Wednesday after reporting disappointing results. Google’s ad sales slowed dramatically and Microsoft’s profits sank 14% as PC sales

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Even by the standards of the important military officers who came and went in this tiny village, the man walking behind the Kamaz truck stood out. Soldiers providing security peered from behind fences, their guns bristling in every direction. Two Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters circled overhead,

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has monitored drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces involving multiple practice launches of ballistic and cruise missiles. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Putin that Wednesday’s drills were intended to simulate a “massive nuclear strike” by Russia in retaliation for a nuclear attack on Russia. The

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first. The vaccine, a mist that is sucked in through the mouth, is being offered for free as a booster dose for previously vaccinated people, according to

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ESPN sold its majority stake in the X and Winter X Games on Wednesday, marking the end of a nearly three-decade chapter during which the network helped propel snowboarding, skateboarding and other action sports out of the fringe and into the mainstream. Terms of the sale to MSP Sports

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former U.S. military pilot and flight instructor who ran an aviation consultancy in China is in custody in Australia awaiting an extradition request from his homeland on an undisclosed charge. Court records show Daniel Edmund Duggan was refused bail when he appeared last Friday in

By STEVE WARTENBERG Associated Press CLUSES, France (AP) — Amateur cyclist Steve Wartenberg was looking for his first post-COVID adventure. He found it in the French Alps on a mountain called la Columbiere. It’s a climb that’s been ridden 23 times in the Tour de France. But Wartenberg had to remind himself he wasn’t racing,

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Who made the global warming mess the world is now in? More than half of the world’s heat-trapping gases comes from three places: The United States, China and Europe. And it piles up quickly at more than 2.5 million pounds (1.1 million kilograms) per second. Once heat trapping gases

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press ARSAL, Lebanon (AP) — Hundreds of Syrian refugees have boarded a convoy of trucks in the Lebanese mountain town of Arsal to return to their war-torn country. Wednesday’s journey is the latest attempt by the government in Beirut to organize a mass refugee return from tiny, crisis-ridden Lebanon. More than

MIAMI (AP) — A 19-year-old South Florida man captured 28 Burmese pythons during a 10-day competition that was created to increase awareness about the threats the invasive snakes pose to the state’s ecology. Matthew Concepcion was among the 1,000 participants from 32 states, Canada and Latvia who participated in the annual challenge, which removed 231

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers A Texas mother of a toddler, scraping by on her husband’s income, was desperate to return to work but struggling to afford child care. A young Florida warehouse worker had barely left behind a turbulent past of homelessness and abuse only to be mired in debt.