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By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has been enlisting one emissary after another to convince Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to help raise the federal debt limit. It’s not working. McConnell is digging in and playing political hardball, saying it’s up to Democrats who have narrow control

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t make many headlines. Charged with keeping America’s workplaces safe, it sets and enforces standards for goggles, hardhats and ladders. Now the tiny Labor Department agency has been tossed into the raging national debate over federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates. President

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Austria’s European Union minister has accused Turkey of using migrant flows as a means to pressure the 27 member bloc for its own purposes. She has warned that the EU won’t be “blackmailed” by any country.  She says that countries on the EU’s external borders won’t

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — The father of a 7-year-old Michigan girl whose hair was cut by a teacher without her parents’ permission has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the school district, a librarian and a teacher’s assistant. MLive.com reports that the lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in Grand Rapids against Mount

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Faeroese government says it will review the way hunts of Atlantic white-sided dolphins are carried out following the release of gruesome video footage showing the mass killing on Sunday of nearly 1,500 sea mammals. The extent of the slaughter was so large — much

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats are calling top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants to testify about what lawmakers say is a long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming. The House Oversight Committee on Thursday requested that executives at ExxonMobil,

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police chief says they haven’t begun a physical search for Gabby Petito out West because they don’t know where to begin. Police video from Moab, Utah, shows the 22-year-old argued with her boyfriend Brian Laundrie on Aug. 12 near Arches National Park. Officers

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on Poland’s prime minister to cancel a case in which he asks a top Polish court whether Poland’s or European Union’s law takes precedence in the country. The court’s ruling, when it comes, could be of fundamental nature for the EU legal order.

By BRYAN ANDERSON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As coronavirus outbreaks driven by the delta variant lead school districts around the U.S. to abruptly shut down or send large numbers of children into quarantine, some students are getting minimal schooling at home. Despite billions of dollars in federal money

LONDON (AP) — British presenter Piers Morgan will join News Corp and Fox News Media and host a TV show that will air in the U.S., Britain and Australia. News Corp executive chair Rupert Murdoch said Thursday that Morgan is “the broadcaster every channel wants but is too afraid to hire.” The show is billed

GENEVA (AP) — After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers of the annual Davos conference will host the high-profile gathering of elites in the Swiss Alps in-person again in January. The World Economic Forum said Thursday that its next annual meeting will take place from Jan. 17-22 in the resort of Davos

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is reviewing the ethics policies that cover the financial holdings of its senior officials in the wake of disclosures that two regional Fed presidents engaged in extensive trading last year. Robert Kaplan, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, in 2020 traded millions