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BEIJING (AP) — U.S. regulators are expelling a unit of China Telecom Ltd., one of the country’s three major state-owned carriers, from the American market as a national security threat amid rising tension with Beijing. China Telecom (Americas) Corp. is required to stop providing domestic interstate and international service in the United States within 60

By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Making his first start since testing positive for COVID-19, Jorge Soler became the first player to begin a World Series with a home run and the Atlanta Braves, despite the loss of pitcher Charlie Morton to a broken leg, hushed the Houston Astros 6-2 in Game

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s opposition Labor Party says a looming election will be fought on greenhouse gas reduction targets as Prime Minister Scott Morrison comes under criticism over the modest goals he will take to a U.N. climate summit. Morrison has been left no room to move on Australia’s

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An attorney says the family of a mentally ill man who died in a California police shooting received only partial justice after jurors convicted a sheriff’s deputy of assault with a gun but deadlocked on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. Andrew Hall was convicted Tuesday in

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and China are stepping up their war of words over Taiwan in a long-simmering dispute that has significant implications for the power dynamic in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. While the disagreement over Taiwan has long vexed U.S-China relations, recent developments suggest the two

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world’s second highest COVID-19 death toll. The 7-to-4 vote by the 11-member committee Tuesday ends its six-month investigation of the government’s handling of

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s surgeon general has said that conversations while wearing masks aren’t productive after a state senator didn’t let him in her office without a mask, citing a serious health condition. Dr. Joseph Ladapo says that he offered to meet outside or in a hallway for his

By MORGAN LEE, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN AND CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Law enforcement authorities are scheduled to discuss initial findings about a fatal movie-set shooting with a prop gun discharged by actor Alec Baldwin that left a cinematographer dead and the film director wounded. The news conference in New Mexico

By ALBERTO ARCE and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Youri Mevs is not starving, not struggling for survival — in so many ways, she is unlike the migrants who are fleeing Haiti’s misery. She traces her roots to ancestors who came to Haiti generations ago and built fortunes. But like those emigrants,

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets are lower after Australian inflation rose to a six-year high and a Chinese newspaper warned more property developers might default on bonds. Investors looked ahead to U.S. economic growth data due out this week. London and Frank opened lower, shrugging off strong U.S.

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a law requiring that parents or guardians be notified when girls younger than 18 seek an abortion.Democrats who control the General Assembly want to dump a 1995 law requiring notification, which both sides of the debate call the

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The candidates running to become New York City’s mayor lobbed accusations at each other about palling around with gangsters and acting like children or clowns, but their second debate ended on a surprisingly tender note involving cats and veganism. A week before the city picks

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The back-and-forth debate over unvaccinated tennis players being allowed to contest the Australian Open in January has heightened with the prime minister and a state political leader trading shots on points of difference. Prime Minister Scott Morrison restarted the rally when he indicated that unvaccinated

PLEASANT HILL, Calif. (AP) — Another California county has closed down an In-N-Out restaurant because the popular burger chain refuses to enforce COVID-19 vaccination rules. Contra Costa County health officials indefinitely shut the Pleasant Hill restaurant on Tuesday after it ignored repeated warnings to verify that indoor customers had vaccination cards. San Francisco closed the

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A woman and her boyfriend have been arrested in the death of the woman’s 8-year-old son, whose skeletal remains were found inside a Houston-area apartment with three surviving but apparently abandoned siblings. Brian W. Coulter, the boyfriend of the dead child’s mother, was charged Tuesday with

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — After three days of walking along a scorching highway in southern Mexico, a couple thousand migrants decided to rest here, receive medical attention for badly blistered feet, wash clothing in the river and doze in any shade they could find. Nitza Maldonado and Omar Rodríguez

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s Senate and House have approved a bill that would slash the central government’s debt by half but also sparked protests and led to fiery exchanges between lawmakers and a federal control board that oversees the U.S. territory’s finances. The bill approved Tuesday

By BERNARD CONDON and ALEX VEIGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s social media company will get tens of millions of special bonus shares in a new publicly traded entity if it performs well. That would potentially hand the former president billions of dollars in paper wealth based on current stock prices. That

PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer was shot to death by a man at a gas station in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis. Trooper Jayme Bufford with Illinois State Police says 36-year-old Pontoon Beach Officer Tyler Timmins died after being taken to a hospital. He was shot around 8 a.m.

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden is framing the Virginia governor’s race as a repudiation of his predecessor, tying the Republican candidate to former President Donald Trump. Biden campaigned Tuesday night in Northern Virginia for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in what’s become a tight and increasingly bitter campaign. Polls show