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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fifteen grade school students in Mexico have been treated after apparently taking part in an internet “challenge” in which groups of students take tranquilizers to see who can stay awake the longest.  The incident occurred Monday in the north-central city of Guanajuato. It came just days after health authorities issued a

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine won support Tuesday from Baltic nations and Poland in its quest to obtain Western fighter jets, but there were no signs that larger nations like the U.S. and Britain have changed their stance of refusing to provide warplanes to Kyiv after almost a year of

By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out a strong January with more gains on Tuesday, ahead of what many investors hope will be one of the Federal Reserve’s last hikes to interest rates for a while. Markets got a boost after a report showed

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil posted record annual profits in 2022 as consumers globally struggled with high prices for gasoline, home heating and consumer goods. The energy giant brought in $55.7 billion in annual profits. That exceeded its previous record of $45.22 billion in 2008. Exxon’s bounty came

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden has showcased a $292 million mega grant that’ll be used to help build a rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River. The mega grant is part of an effort to draw a contrast between the Democratic president’s economic vision and that of Republicans. The

By MATT O’BRIEN and JOCELYN GECKER SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The maker of ChatGPT is trying to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework. The new AI Text Classifier launched Tuesday by OpenAI follows a weeks-long

By NICOLE WINFIELD, JEAN-YVES KAMALE and CHRISTINA MALKIA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Pope Francis is demanding that foreign powers stop plundering Africa’s natural resources. He plunged head first into his agenda upon arrival on Tuesday in Congo. The pontiff was greeted with a raucous welcome by Congolese who were grateful he was focusing

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The dodo bird isn’t coming back anytime soon. Nor is the woolly mammoth. But a company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors, while other scientists are skeptical such feats are possible or a good idea. Colossal Biosciences first announced its

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s main opposition party says it won’t participate in parliamentary votes until a general election is held later this year. It made the move on Tuesday in response to the alleged wiretapping of senior officials by the state intelligence service. Allegations that politicians and journalists have been targeted in legally-sanctioned wiretaps

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — HarperCollins Publishers will cut its workforce by 5% in the U.S. and Canada by the end of June, citing increased costs and lower sales. The announcement comes the day before HarperCollins and the union representing some 250 striking employees are to meet with a federal

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s parliament has approved Sept. 30 as the date for an early election in the country. Ninety-two lawmakers in the 150-seat Slovak National Council voted in favor of the move on Tuesday. It came a week after lawmakers amended the country’s constitution to make it possible to hold early elections. The

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has accused Washington of pursuing “technology hegemony. Beijing is speaking out in response to reports that the Biden administration is weighing further limiting the Chinese tech giant’s ability to purchase essential components from U.S. suppliers — which could limit Huawei’s access to processor chips

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Mark Gillispie, a veteran journalist who wrote about many of Ohio’s biggest stories during a four-decade career primarily with The Associated Press and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, has died. He was 63. His children, Sam Gillispie and Martha Hanna Gillispie, say he died Sunday after being diagnosed with cancer

By TOM KRISHER and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers The U.S. Justice Department has requested documents from Tesla related to its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” features, according to a regulatory filing. “To our knowledge no government agency in any ongoing investigation has concluded that any wrongdoing occurred,” Tesla said in the filing Tuesday with the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s economy slowed in the last quarter of 2022 but still managed to advance by 0.4%, bringing economic expansion for the full year to 3.6%. The country’s gross domestic product had expanded by 0.9% in the third quarter, but the effects of high domestic interest rates and inflation slowed growth in

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Satellites, drones and airplanes equipped with infrared cameras will likely be the backbone of a new federal policy to fine the nation’s largest methane polluters. But the nascent industry has a long way to go before it can accurately measure just how much methane polluters

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Azerbaijan is appealing to the United Nations’ highest court to urgently order Armenia to stop the laying of land mines and booby traps on Azerbaijani territory and disclose the location of those already planted. A hearing Tuesday at the International Court of Justice is the

By NICOLE WINFIELD, JEAN-YVES KAMALE and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Pope Francis began a six-day visit to Congo and South Sudan on Tuesday, aiming to bring a message of peace to two countries riven by poverty, conflict and what Francis has called a lingering “colonialist mentality” that still considers Africa ripe

By JIM RENDON of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Over his six years at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Esteban Gil watched colleague after colleague leave. “People burn out and they tire out, and then they leave,” says Gil, a program associate in the group’s criminal-justice-reform division. A union, Gil thought, could be

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are ticking higher on Wall Street Tuesday ahead of what many investors hope will be one of the Federal Reserve’s last economy-shaking hikes to interest rates for a while. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher as of 9:36 a.m. Eastern and on pace to