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By KEN SWEET and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Uncertainty continues to pummel the banking industry, despite assurances from financial regulators and bankers such as Jamie Dimon this week that the worst of the recent crisis is over and the health of the banking system remains strong. Bank shares have sold

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the nation’s No. 4 cause, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. COVID-19 deaths trailed those caused by heart disease, cancer and injuries such as drug overdoses, motor vehicle fatalities and shootings. In 2020

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Northern California authorities said they have detained a person in connection with two fatal stabbings and a third stabbing in a university town and will provide more details at a press conference Thursday afternoon. This is the first time the Davis Police Department has said the three stabbings that occurred over

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors watching Donald Trump’s video deposition Thursday heard the former president deride a woman accusing him of rape as a “nut job” and “mentally sick,” and an expert estimated that Trump could have caused nearly $3 million in damage to the accuser’s

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Questions mounted Thursday about why an Oklahoma sex offender who authorities say shot to death his wife, her three children and their two friends and then killed himself was freed from prison despite facing new sex charges in a separate case. Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said each victim had

By LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro tried to convert a country with few weapons into one where firearm ownership and lack of regulation meant personal freedom. The right-wing Bolsonaro echoed aspects of American conservativism and he was the first Brazilian presidential candidate to campaign on a pro-gun platform. Now,

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine and Russia are pressing their wartime rhetoric. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed confidence Thursday that Vladimir Putin will be convicted of war crimes, while the Kremlin alleged the U.S. was behind an assassination attempt against the Russian president. The country’s leaders have personally attacked

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia has settled with Kroger for $68 million over its role in distributing highly addictive prescription painkillers into the U.S. state that has lost more lives to opioid overdoses per capita than any other. That brings West Virginia’s total opioid litigation dollars up to more

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News is opposing a renewed effort by three news organizations to unseal documents related to its recently settled defamation lawsuit, saying it would do nothing but “gratify private spite or promote public scandal.” The Associated Press, The New York Times and National Public Radio

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The choking death of a man in the New York subway was setting off powerful reactions Thursday, with some calling it a homicide and others defending the passenger’s actions as defense against disorder. New York has become one of the nation’s safest

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats pressured Republicans on the debt ceiling impasse Thursday, focused in a hearing on what they say will be painful reductions in government services if a bill recently passed by the House becomes law. No one expects that the House bill, which would importantly increase the

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling Thursday as Wall Street’s worries about the U.S. banking system crank even higher. The S&P 500 was 0.7% lower in early trading as several market-moving forces swirled, from the latest rate increase by the European Central Bank to a report indicating more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. investor has bought two Caribbean islands that were once owned by the late Jeffrey Epstein and where authorities allege many of the disgraced financier’s crimes took place. Stephen Deckoff, with SD Investments LLC, bought Great St. James and Little St. James islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has taken his campaign against Russia to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Zelenskyy said during his unannounced visit to The Hague that he’s certain Russian President Vladimir Putin will be convicted of war crimes once the invasion of Ukraine

CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — The last of four prisoners who escaped from a Mississippi prison was found Thursday morning at a home about 20 miles from the prison, the sheriff announced. The Hinds County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force took Corey Harrison, 22, into custody at a Crystal Springs home and