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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in certain cases? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry? Those ideas have captured official attention in the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Australia as controversy has enveloped Facebook, Google, Amazon

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s NHK public television exit poll projects Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing coalition will keep a majority in a parliamentary election Sunday, although it’s expected to lose some seats. Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito together are expected to win between 239 to

BERLIN (AP) — German federal police have apprehended 23 migrants along the German-Polish border and detained two suspected traffickers. German news agency dpa reported on Sunday that there were several children among the people discovered inside a van during a routine checkup. All migrants were from Iraq, the two suspected traffickers were Syrians. The car

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that their countries must cooperate more and better manage disagreements after their partnership was tested by Turkey’s threat to no longer recognize the U.S. envoy and its purchase of a Russian missile defense system.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has told people to pray so that “the cry of the Earth” is heard at the U.N. climate summit. Francis, in comments to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, noted that it was the first day of the crucial gathering in Glasgow, Scotland. He told the crowd:

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden heads to a United Nations climate conference Monday energized by a new legislative framework that would be the largest action ever taken by the United States to address climate change. The $555 billion plan for climate spending is the centerpiece of a sweeping domestic

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Police in eastern Texas say a shooting at a Halloween party left one man dead and nine other people wounded. Texarkana police say in a news release that the shooting happened late Saturday at an event center. It is estimated that a couple hundred people were in attendance. The 10 people

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has formally opened, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge of global warming. Following Sunday’s opening gavel, officials began addressing a raft of procedural matters before leaders from

By KARL RITTER Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prince Charles has urged leaders of the world’s biggest economies to put words into action. Charles addressed the Group of 20 summit in Rome on Sunday. The Group of 20 countries, which represent more than three-quarters of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, are looking for common ground

By KARL RITTER Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prince Charles has urged leaders of the world’s biggest economies to put words into action. Charles addressed the Group of 20 summit in Rome on Sunday. The Group of 20 countries, which represent more than three-quarters of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, are looking for common ground

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has recorded a new daily high number of coronavirus cases as much of the country’s businesses remain closed in an effort to counter a weekslong surge in infections. The national coronavirus task force on Sunday reported 40,993 new infections over the previous day, up more than

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Police in eastern Texas say a shooting at a Halloween party left one man dead and nine other people wounded. Texarkana police say in a news release that the shooting happened late Saturday at an event center. It is estimated that a couple hundred people were in attendance. The 10 people

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The U.N. climate summit, known as COP26 this year, brings officials from almost 200 countries to Glasgow to haggle over the best measures to combat global warming. COP is short for Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The first summit

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as part of the Group of 20 summit on Sunday. The outreach is designed to ensure that the intensely competitive relationship between the world’s two largest economies doesn’t veer into open