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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Near final results in Sweden’s election Sunday show that a bloc of right-wing parties was expected to defeat a left-wing bloc headed by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson. The conservative group includes a populist anti-immigration party that made its best ever showing. However, the result was so close

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Near final results in Sweden’s election Sunday show that a bloc of right-wing parties was expected to defeat a left-wing bloc headed by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson. The conservative group includes a populist anti-immigration party that made its best ever showing. However, the result was so close

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer Activist investor Daniel Loeb said Sunday that he is no longer pushing Disney Corp. to spin off or sell its blockbuster cable network ESPN. Disney CEO Bob Chapek had rejected Loeb’s urging in an interview with the Financial Times, published Sunday. Loeb tweeted Sunday morning, “We have a better

SEATTLE (AP) — Students in Seattle will miss a fourth day of school as teachers strike over pay and classroom support. The school district Sunday afternoon announced the cancellation of Monday classes and said negotiations with the union were ongoing. The strike began Wednesday, what was supposed to be the first day of school for

LONDON (AP) — People wanting to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she lies in state at the Houses of Parliament in London need to be prepared for a long wait. The government has published guidelines for people wishing to file past the late queen’s closed coffin as it lies in state

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A single strike of lightning from a small Oregon storm and the ensuing thunder shook the city of Portland on Sunday afternoon. The National Weather Service called it an unexpected “one-hit wonder” lightning strike that came from a small storm cell. Meteorologist Tyler Kranz said no more lightning was expected. The

By KARL RITTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure Sunday, causing widespread outages across Ukraine as Kyiv’s forces pressed a swift counteroffensive that has driven Moscow’s troops from swaths of territory it had occupied in the northeast. The bombardment ignited a massive fire at a

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The death toll in a northern Mexico bus crash has risen to 20, as questions emerge about whether a double-tanker fuel truck may have caused the deadly accident. The state government of Hidalgo, where eight of the victims were from, said Saturday’s crash also killed 11 people from the Gulf coast

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Anthony Varvaro, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired in 2016 to become a police officer in the New York City area, was killed in a car crash Sunday morning on his way to work at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Manhattan, according to police officials and his

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The government of Venezuela is defending the detention of United States citizens, rejecting an earlier statement from the Department of State marking the two-year confinement of a Marine veteran. The government of President Nicolás Maduro said in a statement it will continue to enforce its laws and reiterated the “spaces and

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When the hearse carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s body pulled out of the gates of Balmoral Castle on Sunday, it marked the monarch’s final departure from a personal sanctuary where she could shed the straitjacket of protocol and ceremony for a few weeks every year. The sprawling estate

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Around 150,000 Catalan separatists have rallying in Barcelona in an attempt to reignite the independence movement that is fraying as it nears the five-year anniversary of its failed breakaway bid from Spain. The unity between political parties and the civil society groups that led the October

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The horror film “Barbarian” won the weekend as the late-summer doldrums at the box office continued. Sunday studio estimates say the debut film from director Zach Cregger brought in $10 million in North America to earn the No. 1 spot for Disney subsidiary 20th Century

PHOENIX (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a New York woman has been sentenced to four months in prison for interfering with crew members aboard a flight from Dallas to Los Angeles in February 2021 that had to be diverted to Phoenix. They say Kelly Pichardo and another first-class passenger engaged in intimidating behavior on the

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a 67-year-old man has died after a motorboat flipped over inside Grand Canyon National Park. Emergency medical personnel treated four people Saturday and transported them to the South Rim. Authorities say their injuries were not critical. Park officials identified the man who died as Ronald Vanderlugt,

FORESTHILL, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters made progress against a huge Northern California wildfire that was still growing and threatening thousands of mountain homes on Sunday, while crews also battled major blazes that blanketed large swaths of Oregon and Washington in smoke. The Mosquito Fire in foothills east of Sacramento spread to nearly 65 square miles

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When the hearse carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s body pulled out of the gates of Balmoral Castle on Sunday, it marked the monarch’s final departure from a personal sanctuary where she could shed the straitjacket of protocol and ceremony for a few weeks every year. The sprawling estate

HELSINKI (AP) — Scaled-down celebrations are taking place in Denmark marking 50 years on the throne by Queen Margrethe, whose reign is now Europe’s longest following the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.  Dampened celebrations were ordered Friday by the 82-year-old Margrethe out of respect for Britain’s late queen. Margrethe is now the only female

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thousands of opponents of a pan-European LGBTQ event planned for this week in Belgrade marched through the Serbian capital on Sunday despite an announced ban of Europe’s largest annual gay gathering. The procession called by the conservative Serbian Orthodox Church and led by its clergy included anti-Western slogans as well as

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — The Oprah Winfrey-produced documentary “Sidney” has arrived eight months after the death of Sidney Poitier. “Sidney” premiered over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival, presenting a life-spanning portrait of the actor who blazed a trail for countless Black actors in Hollywood and single-handedly revolutionized