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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rallying again Friday after reports suggested pressure on inflation may be easing. The stock market is rolling toward the close of a winning week, month and first half of the year. The S&P 500 was 1.3% higher in afternoon trading. The Dow

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico oilfield and air quality regulators announced unprecedented fines against a Texas-based oil and natural gas producer on accusations that the company flouted local pollution reporting and control requirements as it burned off vast amounts of natural gas. The New Mexico Environment Department announced

By ALI JABAR and NABIL AL-JURANI Associated Press BASRA, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of followers of the Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr have staged protests in major cities in Iraq, including in the capital of Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, to condemn the burning earlier this week of a Quran

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Ohio lobbyist Matt Borges has been sentenced to five years in prison and three years of probation for his part in the largest corruption scandal in Ohio history. The 51-year-old’s punishment from U.S. District Judge Timothy Black’s came down Friday, a day after former Republican Ohio

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has delivered a setback to Native American tribes in Maine seeking greater sovereignty. She vetoed a proposal Friday aimed at ensuring most federal laws apply to them despite a state land claims settlement. The governor says the bill is vague and confusing,

By EDUARDO VERDUGO Associated Press LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — Family and acquaintances of anti-gang community defense activist Hipólito Mora are gathering at his home to pay their respects after he was found killed not far away from his house. There was no visible presence of National Guard, soldiers or police on Friday. About 15

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Melanie Hamrick recently had to wrest a copy of her steamy new novel out of the hands of the curious 6-year-old son she shares with Mick Jagger, replacing it with the more appropriate “The Cat in the Hat.” Wise move: Hamrick’s “First Position” (get the

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Prosecutors U.S. Rep. George Santos’ case say they’ve turned over more than 80,000 pages of materials to his lawyers in the federal criminal case against him. Prosecutors mentioned the documents during a brief court hearing Friday on Long Island that focused on the case schedule.

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The nation’s midsection is heading into the July Fourth weekend and instead of enjoying the start of summer people are facing smoky haze, high temperatures and powerful derecho winds that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of residents. Utility crews were scrambling Friday to restore electricity

By SYLVIE CORBET, JOHN LEICESTER and ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron urged parents Friday to keep teenagers at home and proposed restrictions on social media to quell rioting spreading across France over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver that has resulted so far in the arrests of

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey got a thrill preying on other men and escalated his behavior from touchy-feely advances to hostile fondling and worse, a prosecutor told jurors Friday during Spacey’s sexual assault trial in London. Spacey is “a man who does not respect personal boundaries or space,

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary and Poland have vetoed a statement by European Union leaders laying out their migration priorities in a symbolic gesture of protest. The two anti-migrant governments took the action on Friday because they were angry at being outvoted on a landmark deal to reform EU asylum rules.