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LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators are slapping Instagram with a big fine after an investigation found the social media platform mishandled teenagers’ personal data. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said Monday that it made a final decision last week to fine the company 405 million euros, or about $402 million. The full details won’t be released

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Harry Styles already has an enviable acting resume for a newcomer, from Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” to the upcoming “Don’t Worry Darling” and “My Policeman.” But the pop star said Monday at the Venice International Film Festival that, with acting, he often feels as if he

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has found a former journalist guilty of treason and sentenced him to 22 years in a maximum security prison, concluding a trial that has been widely seen as politically motivated. The sentence handed to Ivan Safronov Monday is among the harshest moves against Russian independent journalists and Kremlin

SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Flood watches were in effect in the U.S. southeast early Monday as forecasters warn of the possibility of torrential downpours on Labor Day across already saturated ground. Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend’s storms was northwest Georgia, where 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain fell in some spots, forecasters said.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s political crisis has deepened after a junior party completed its withdrawal from the four-party coalition. That leaves Prime Minister Eduard Heger without a parliamentary majority. Three ministers from the liberal Freedom and Solidarity party submitted their resignations on Monday. They followed the example of the party leader and former Economy

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she wrote: “I’m shot.” For the first

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s been two months since a pair of Jesuit priests were killed in a remote mountain community in northern Mexico and the suspected killer remains on the loose. Townspeople are frightened, but the religious order says it’s not leaving. The suspect is the alleged leader of

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Electrical grid problems have cut power to parts of Oman. The state-run Oman News Agency announced the power cuts on Monday, describing the “partial blackout.” It said, the “Oman Electricity Transmission Company is currently handling this blackout and the electricity will be restored gradually,” without elaborating on the cause.

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, made a small trim in their supplies to the global economy Monday, underlining their unhappiness as recession fears help drive down crude prices — along with the cost of gasoline, to drivers’ delight. The decision for October rolls

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer States around the country are making it easier for new moms to keep Medicaid in the year after childbirth, a time when depression and other health problems can develop. But tight government budgets and the program’s low reimbursement may ultimately limit this push or make it hard for women

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Western sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine are to blame for stoppages in Moscow’s supply of natural gas to Europe, a senior Kremlin official claimed Monday. In some of the bluntest comments yet on the standoff between Moscow and Western Europe over energy supplies,

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has protested to Russia over multinational military exercises being conducted on Russian-held islands claimed by Japan, and says it is seriously concerned about shooting drills by Russian and Chinese warships off Japan’s northern coast. Beijing has been increasing its military cooperation with Moscow and has been

By SYLVIA HUI and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Liz Truss has been elected as the Conservative Party’s new leader, the party announced Monday, and she will take office Tuesday as Britain’s new prime minister to steer the country through an acute cost-of-living crisis. The 47-year-old Truss, who is currently foreign secretary, beat

BOCA CHITA KEY, Fla. (AP) — Four people suffered critical injuries when a boat hit a channel marker near Boca Chita Key and capsized. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials say 11 of the 14 people on the boat were injured in the crash that happened just before 7 p.m. Sunday. The agency sent more than 10

REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A manhunt continued Monday for two men suspected of stabbing to death 10 people in an Indigenous community and a nearby town in one of the deadliest mass killings in Canada’s history. The men are also suspected of injuring 15 people in the series of knife attacks that led the James

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Dozens of Lebanese and Syrian migrants are stranded on a sinking fishing boat near the costs of Malta and Italy. Families and activist groups in contact with them told The Associated Press on Monday that the roughly 60 migrants have been without food, water and baby formula

MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Serbia’s prime minister has visited Serb-dominated northern Kosovo following a recent flareup in tensions between the former war foes that sparked fears of instability in the Balkans amid the war in Ukraine. Kosovo authorities and NATO-led peacekeepers on Monday stepped up security as dozens of Kosovo Serbs greeted Ana Brnabic upon

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, cut their supplies to the global economy by 100,000 barrels per day, underlining their unhappiness with crude prices that have sagged because of recession fears. The decision Monday by energy ministers means the cut for October rolls back

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As a child, Liz Truss marched in demonstrations against Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. As an adult, she came to admire Britain’s first female leader — and now she is about to enter No. 10 Downing St. with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the U.K. Truss, Britain’s

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government’s plan to give some asylum-seekers a one-way ticket to Rwanda faces a legal challenge in the High Court on Monday. Immigrant-rights groups argue that the policy is both illegal and immoral. The hearing comes after human rights groups and labor unions filed a barrage