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By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese man who was critically injured in the massive explosion at Beirut’s port last year has died nearly 15 months after the blast. The cousin of Abbas Mazloum said he died Wednesday morning in his hometown in eastern Lebanon, where he was laid to rest hours

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain has sent another minister to Algeria to seek guarantees that its supply of natural gas won’t be impacted when Algeria closes its pipeline through Morocco on Sunday. Algeria provides over a third of Spain’s natural gas. Spanish officials worry that a shortage in supplies will

BOSTON (AP) — A nor’easter that battered the Atlantic coast with hurricane-force wind gusts has left more than a half-million customers without power in New England. Dozens of schools canceled classes Wednesday. Utility workers labored to restore power as winds diminished throughout the day. The process is expected to take days in hardest-hit southeastern Massachusetts.

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A U.S. House report says at least 59,000 meatpacking workers became ill with COVID-19 and 269 workers died when the virus tore through the industry last year. The report released Wednesday shows the coronavirus hit the industry much harder than previously thought. The United Food and

By MORGAN LEE, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico authorities said Wednesday they have recovered a lead projectile believed to have been fired from the gun used in the fatal movie-set shooting. Investigators discussed their initial findings in the shooting in which actor Alec Baldwin fired

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York judge assigned to a lawsuit alleging Prince Andrew sexually abused an American when she was 17 says a 2008 legal agreement that his lawyer says would protect him against the claims can remain secret. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the ruling

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say violence at an anti-France Islamist rally in eastern Pakistan has left at least four police officers and two demonstrators dead. The government deployed paramilitary troops to restore order. Thousands of supporters of a radical Islamist party rallied Wednesday on a highway

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says China recently conducted a test of a hypersonic weapon that was “very concerning.” In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Milley said the test was “very close” to being a so-called Sputnik moment, referring to the Soviet Union’s 1957 breakthrough

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Former New York Times reporter and columnist Nicholas Kristof has announced he is running for governor of Oregon, the state where he grew up on a sheep and cherry farm. Kristof left the newspaper earlier this month and has frequently written about the economic and social

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators have opened an investigation into graphics chipmaker Nvidia’s $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm. The European Commission said Wednesday that it’s concerned the combined company would restrict access to technology from Arm, whose chip designs power the vast majority of the world’s

MILAN, Ill. (AP) — Police say a vehicle struck and killed a United Auto Workers member as he was walking to a picket line outside a John Deere plant in Illinois. Milan, Illinois, Police Chief Shawn Johnson said the man was struck Wednesday morning near a road that leads to the John Deere Parts Distribution