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By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to meet in Paris with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz amid divergences between the two neighbors and key European Union allies over EU strategy, defense and economic policies. Macron and Scholz will have a working lunch at the Elysee presidential palace

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Natural gas and electricity prices in Europe have plunged from summer peaks thanks to mild weather and a monthslong scramble to fill gas storage ahead of winter and replace Russian supplies during the war in Ukraine. It’s a welcome respite after Russia slashed natural gas

By KEN MILLER Associated Press Some of the 19 bodies taken from a Tulsa cemetery and later reburied that could include remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will be exhumed again starting Wednesday, part of a bid to gather more DNA for possible identification. The latest exhumation of bodies, some of which

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — A county in Nevada is scheduled to start an unprecedented hand count of its midterm ballots Wednesday, a process fueled by voting machine conspiracy theories that raises concerns about early results being leaked ahead of Election Day. Nye County, a scrub brush-dotted old silver

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press GARY, Ind. (AP) — After a lunchtime roundtable with Indiana Sen. Todd Young and Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, Republican congressional candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green suggested she appreciated “serving alongside my peers.” “Not my peers,” she quickly corrected. “I misspoke.” Green isn’t their congressional colleague yet, but her slip might not be

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar is warning that the political, human rights and humanitarian crisis in the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation is deepening and taking “a catastrophic toll on the people.” Noeleen Heyzer told a U.N. committee Tuesday that more than 13.2 million people

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Wednesday as hopes rose that the Federal Reserve might ease off plans for interest rate hikes and Britain installed its third prime minister this year. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney gained. Oil prices declined. Wall Street’s benchmark

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has accused Republican challenger Tudor Dixon on Tuesday of “stoking violence” and pushing conspiracy theories meant to divide people. Dixon says voters have felt the pain of the Democrat’s failures and “you deserve better.” The two candidates met Tuesday

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman is warning North Korea against escalating its provocations. She says the United States will fully use its military capabilities, “including nuclear, conventional and missile defense,” to defend its allies, Japan and South Korea. Sherman called North Korea’s repeated firings of

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s largest health insurer says a cybercriminal has hacked the personal data of all its 4 million customers, as the government introduced legislation that would increase penalties for companies that fail to protect clients’ private information. Medibank said in a statement Wednesday “significant amounts of health

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Fights over crime, abortion and the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection took center stage as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul faced her Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, in their only televised campaign debate. Zeldin vowed Tuesday to repeal liberal criminal justice reforms his first day in

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN officials say Syria is facing “acute violence,” the worst economic crisis since the war began in 2011, and a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak with more that 24,000 suspected cases reported and at least 80 deaths. U.N. special envoy Geir Pedersen told the Security Council

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s new far-right-led government of Giorgia Meloni has won the first of two required confidence votes in Parliament by a comfortable margin. The vote in the lower Chamber of Deputies Tuesday night was 235 in favor of her coalition government and 154 against. The coalition needed at

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been invited to address a joint meeting of Congress as Israel prepares to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its founding. The congressional leaders issuing the invitation call the founding of Israel in 1948 a “historic and joyous milestone.” The date for Herzog’s address has not been set.

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has accused Republican challenger Tudor Dixon on Tuesday of “stoking violence” and pushing conspiracy theories meant to divide people. Dixon says voters have felt the pain of the Democrat’s failures and “you deserve better.” The two candidates met Tuesday