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YouTube says it will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election and other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by widespread fraud, errors or glitches.

The company that makes the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone has reached a $102.5 million settlement of antitrust claims with 41 states and the District of Columbia.

Three chemical manufacturing companies have reached a deal to resolve complaints of polluting many U.S. drinking water systems with compounds known as PFAS.

A federal judge overseeing the First Amendment lawsuit that Walt Disney Parks filed against Gov. Ron DeSantis and others is disqualifying himself, but not because of bias claims made by the Florida governor.

President Joe Biden will speak Friday evening from the Oval Office as he addresses the nation on the budget deal that lifts the federal debt limit.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said unexpectedly that he was proposing urgent amendments to a contentious law on Russian that he signed this week and that drew U.S. and European Union criticism.

The Biden administration is implementing a 20-year withdrawal banning oil and gas development outside the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.

Prominent members of German mainstream parties have expressed alarm at a new poll released showing support for the far-right Alternative for Germany at a record high.

Officials say Ukrainian air defenses have shot down more than 30 Russian cruise missiles and drones in Moscow’s sixth air attack in six days on Kyiv.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes the oath of office and starts his third presidential term Saturday following his latest election win.

Senegal's government says that at least nine people have been killed in violent clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.

Asian stock markets are following Wall Street higher ahead of an update on the U.S. jobs market.

Dozens of transgender people in Florida who can't afford to move are turning to crowdfunding to help them leave after the passage of new legislation that targets the LGBTQ community.

The United States has signed a trade agreement with Taiwan over opposition from China, which claims the self-ruled island democracy as part of its territory.

Plans to demolish a partially collapsed six-story apartment building in Iowa could become more clear.

Meta is preparing to block news for some Canadians on Facebook and Instagram in a temporary test that is expected to last through the end of June.

Journalists across the U.S. will walk off their jobs next week at publications owned by Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the U.S. Their union said Thursday that the mostly one-day strike will start June 5.

A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial.

A federal bankruptcy judge has ordered Diamond Sports to pay the full value of its media contracts to the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Guardians, Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers.

Arizona will not approve new housing construction on the fast-growing edges of metro Phoenix that rely on groundwater thanks to years of overuse and a multi-decade drought worsened by climate change.

America’s surprisingly resilient job market may have delivered yet another month of solid hiring and pay gains in May, if economists’ forecasts prove to be correct.

Perhaps most critical to locking up the debt-limit deal were President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s five handpicked negotiators, three men and two women unknown to most outside government.

A government audit has found that the U.S. agency charged with keeping the roads safe is slow to investigate automobile safety defects, limiting its ability to handle rapidly changing or severe risks.

JetBlue is trying to improve its chances of buying Spirit Airlines over government objections.

Across Florida, workers didn’t show up at construction sites and tomato fields, and scores of restaurants, shops and other small businesses never opened their doors.

Airbnb is suing New York City over rules that the company says would make it much more difficult for people to turn their property into short-term rentals.

Billy Joel is finally moving out of his monthly perch at Madison Square Garden.

In a rejection of early moves by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who took office in January, Brazil’s Congress has stripped powers from the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, both led by women environmentalists.

Alabama families could soon pay less at the grocery store after lawmakers gave final passage to a landmark bill to gradually remove half of the 4% state sales tax on food by September 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris says federal agencies are taking new steps to stop racial discrimination in appraising home values by proposing a rule intended to ensure that the automated formulas used to price housing are fair.

Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money for the long term with these apps since their funds may not be covered by deposit insurance, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned on Thursday.

One of the top oil producing states in the U.S. is imposing a moratorium on new drilling on state trust land within a mile of schools.

The release of “Diablo IV” is right around the corner.

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level since November, driving up borrowing costs for would-be homebuyers at a time when the housing market is being held back by a near record-low inventory of homes on the market.

The United States has announced sanctions against some Iranian and Turkish people and firms accused of plotting to assassinate former U.S. government officials, dual U.S. and Iranian nationals, and dissidents.

The Supreme Court has ruled against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete.

The police chief in Davenport, Iowa says three residents of an apartment building that partially collapsed on Sunday are still unaccounted for.

The Supreme Court has unanimously revived whistleblower lawsuits claiming that supermarket and pharmacy chains SuperValu and Safeway overcharged government health-care programs for prescription drugs by hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Russian and Chinese foreign ministers are set to meet with their counterparts from the BRICS economic bloc of developing nations in South Africa on Thursday.

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The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week but remains at healthy levels that continue to show a strong U.S. labor market.

An Austrian federal court says the state can’t be held liable for a COVID-19 infection from an outbreak at an Alpine ski resort as the coronavirus pandemic hit Europe The Supreme Court of Justice on Thursday announced its verdict in a long-running legal battle involving a German resident who traveled to Ischgl in March 2020 and visited several apres-ski venues before returning home six days later.

Macy’s slashed its annual profit and sales outlook with sales weakening sales in the first quarter during an increasingly challenging economic environment, including stubbornly high inflation.

The world is set to add a record amount of renewable electricity capacity this year as governments and consumers seek to offset high energy prices and take advantage of a boom in solar power.

The Indian government will not consider any proposals for new coal plants for the next five years and focus on growing its renewables sector, according to an updated national electricity plan released Wednesday evening.

Europe is getting a break on inflation.

Global benchmarks are trading mostly higher after the United States House approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package, avoiding a default crisis.

Sri Lanka’s Central Bank has reduced its interest rates for the first time since the island nation declared bankruptcy last year.

The hottest thing in technology is an unprepossessing sliver of silicon closely related to the chips that power video game graphics.

After sailing through the House on a bipartisan vote, the debt ceiling and budget cuts package now goes to the Senate.

Central Florida is about to become a hub of LGBTQ+ life.

Despite weeks of negotiations, the White House and House Republicans were unable to reach a comprehensive agreement to overhaul environmental regulations and streamline federal permitting as part of their budget deal.

While Republicans seek to make good on campaign promises to cut IRS funding through the proposed debt ceiling and budget cuts package now moving through Congress, Democrats are offering assurances that the spending cuts will have little impact on the federal tax collector.

A California judge has dismissed all charges against Pacific Gas & Electric for its role in a 2020 fatal wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes and killed four people.

The NBA Finals could’ve featured glamour teams like the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers.

Leading Federal Reserve officials are sending out stronger signals that they will forego an interest rate increase at the central bank’s next meeting in June.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he never heard about Jeffrey Epstein until he was arrested in 2019 and he was surprised by that.

Amazon will pay more than $30 million to settle alleged privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring.

Across the U.S. economy, a number of industries are facing the same formidable challenge: Replenishing a workforce that is being diminished by a surge of retirements that began during the pandemic and has continued since.

Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs is suing Diageo, saying the company didn’t make promised investments in his vodka and tequila brands and treated them as inferior “urban” products.

Some of Adidas’ remaining Yeezy shoes are back on sale — months after the German sportswear company cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

A three-year pause on student loan payments will end this summer regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the White House plan to forgive billions of dollars in student loan debt.

The latest round of corporate earnings is leaving Wall Street with a confounding sense of relief and lingering anxiety.

As some residents of an Iowa apartment building that partially collapsed remain unaccounted for, officials in the city of Davenport say they were able to rescue several pets from a safer area of the six-story building.

The U.S. government’s auto safety agency plans to require that all new passenger cars and light trucks include potentially life-saving automatic emergency braking and meet stricter safety standards within three years.

Former Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos has died at age 84.

A federal judge is ruling that families of passengers who died in the second crash of a Boeing 737 Max can seek damages for the pain and terror suffered by their relatives before the plane crashed in Ethiopia.

CBS News says it is hiring veteran journalist Lisa Ling as a Los Angeles-based reporter starting later this summer.

Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai will hold his first State of the County address on Wednesday morning.

American Airlines says it will appeal a court ruling that would break up a partnership with JetBlue.

U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in April a sign the American labor market remians surprisingly resilient as the Federal Reserve pushes interest rates higher to combat inflation.

In a story published May 31, 2023, about Twitter and Fidelity, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Fidelity valued its stake in Twitter at $6.55 billion.

Jaguar is recalling more than 6,000 I-Pace electric SUVs in the U.S. due to the risk of a battery fire, and it's telling owners to park them outdoors.

German inflation eased to 6.1% in May following several months of declines, even as Europe’s biggest economy registered another painful increase in food prices of nearly 15%.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the state to purchase massive amounts of renewable energy.

The British government has hailed an era of cheaper Australian wine and New Zealand kiwi fruit as free-trade agreements with the two southern hemisphere nations took effect.

Last year was a mixed bag pay-wise for the women who run companies in the S&P 500 -- compensation increased for more than half of them, but the median pay package fell 6%.

After ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing.

Latvian lawmakers have picked the Baltic country’s long-serving and popular foreign minister as its new head of state in a tight vote.

Pope Francis has asked aides to get to the bottom of how at least $17 million was transferred from the Vatican’s U.S.-based missionary fundraising coffers into an impact investing vehicle run by a priest.

China’s industry minister has met Tesla Ltd.

Global stock markets and Wall Street futures are lower ahead of a vote by the U.S. Congress on a deal to avert a government debt default while China factory activity weakened.

New Zealand’s national airline is asking passengers to step on the scales before they board international flights.

China's ruling Communist Party is calling for beefed-up national security measures, highlighting risks from artificial intelligence.

Hard-fought to the end, the debt ceiling and budget cuts package is heading toward a crucial U.S. House vote.

A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact is planning a walkout at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday.

A Republican attempt to expand work requirements for federal food aid in debt legislation moving through Congress would increase federal spending by $2.1 billion over 10 years.

A survey shows China’s factory activity has decelerated in May, adding to signs its economic rebound after the end of anti-virus controls is slowing.

An estimated 2.9 million people watched or streamed the finale of its drama “Succession” this past weekend.

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has reported to a federal prison in Texas — marking the start of her 11-year sentence for overseeing a notorious blood testing hoax.

A consumer class action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Delta Air Lines inaccurately billed itself as the world’s “first carbon-neutral airline” and should pay damages.

A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a rural Nevada town's unusual bid to halt government repairs to an aging irrigation canal that burst and flooded more than 500 homes in 2008.

Robots are on display at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London, where visitors can get a glimpse of the future.

The Russian and Chinese foreign ministers are expected to meet with their counterparts from the BRICS economic bloc in Cape Town on Thursday.

Minnesota’s governor has legalized marijuana for people over 21.

International Monetary Fund has signed off on an initial loan of $900 million and raised its estimate for the country’s economic growth.

Drivers are lining up at gas stations across Nigeria after the country's new leader scrapped a subsidy program that has helped reduce the price of fuel.

Nvidia has joined the exclusive club of companies with a $1 trillion market capitalization as the chipmaker benefits from the growing use of artificial intelligence.

A federal court ruling has cleared the way for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to settle thousands of legal claims over the toll of opioids.

Consumer confidence fell in May as Americans became more pessimistic about the labor market, on top of elevated anxiety over inflation.