AP National News

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers have erased regulations allowing Wisconsin election clerks to fill in missing information on absentee ballot envelopes. The move would mark another in a series of steps Republicans and conservative allies have taken to tighten voting procedures in the crucial swing state. Earlier this month,

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street tacked more onto its big gains from a day earlier Wednesday, as more profit reports roll in from U.S. companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, a day after soaring 2.8% for its best day in weeks. The Nasdaq led the market with a 1.6%

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi has won a confidence vote in the Senate, but boycotts by three of his key coalition allies in the voting have likely doomed the government’s prospects of survival. The vote Wednesday went 95-38 in the favor of Draghi’s government, but

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When “Top Gun: Maverick” roared into theaters in late May, the Air Force was ready. The smash hit movie may feature Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a hotshot Navy aviator, but to much of the movie-going public, the distinction between Air Force and Navy fighter

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former prime minister is accusing the current government of mismanaging the country’s already fragile economy. Imran Khan said Wednesday that the impoverished Islamic nation’s economy is being mishandled by Premier Shahbaz Sharif and an “economic collapse” could result. Khan’s remarks to journalists at his residence in

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump paid respects to his first wife, Ivana Trump, joining their three children Wednesday at a funeral Mass for the 1980s style icon and businesswoman who helped him build an empire that launched him to the presidency. The former president and his current

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Leaders of Indiana’s Republican-dominated Senate were set to reveal Wednesday how aggressive they want a special legislative session to go in further restricting abortions as the state has drawn attention over a 10-year-old rape victim who came from Ohio to get an abortion. Indiana will be among

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks indexes on Wall Street are wavering in afternoon trading Wednesday, giving up some of their gains from an early rally as more profit reports roll in from U.S. companies. The S&P 500 was 0.2% higher after having been up 1% in the early going. The

NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 24-year-old Missouri man is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of a police officer during a traffic stop. Joshua Rocha, of Kansas City, was charged Wednesday, a day after North Kansas City police officer Daniel Vasquez was shot and killed when he

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press A pro-Democratic super PAC is accusing the Federal Election Commission of allowing former President Donald Trump “to continue violating the law” by dragging its feet over a complaint concerning Trump’s teasing of a future White House bid. American Bridge on Wednesday filed a lawsuit asking that a judge compel the

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information about the man who allegedly shot Lady Gaga’s dog walker last year in Hollywood and stole two of the pop star’s French bulldogs. He was mistakenly released from custody in April and remains missing. James Howard Jackson,

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is one of two finalists in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister. At 42, Sunak would be the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years and the country’s first South Asian leader. He was seen as Johnson’s

By BABA AHMED Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Mali’s government has given the United Nations mission in Mali spokesman 72 hours to leave the country following a standoff between the West African country and Ivory Coast over the detention of 49 soldiers who came to Mali to support a security group contracted by the

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative Party on Wednesday chose former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss — a fiscal moderate and a low-tax crusader — as the two finalists in a party election to replace departing Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The result came just after the divisive,

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s congress has granted President Nayib Bukele another 30-day extension of the state of exception that has suspended fundamental rights since a surge in gang killings in late March. The Legislative Assembly is controlled by Bukele’s party and it voted overwhelmingly late Tuesday

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and RASHID YAHYA Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurdish officials and Iraq’s military say at least eight tourists have been killed and over 20 wounded after Turkish artillery strikes struck northern Iraq. The Wednesday attack hit a resort area in the northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region. All casualties in the attack

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Trump officials tried to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census in a move experts said would benefit Republicans despite initial doubts among some in the administration that it was legal, according to an investigative report released Wednesday by a congressional oversight committee. The report offers a smoking gun

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s record-breaking heatwave has spurred calls for the government to speed up efforts to adapt to a changing climate, especially after wildfires created the busiest day for London firefighters since bombs rained down on the city during World War II. The country got a

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — The once-powerful and now disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to murdering his wife and son 13 months ago. Prosecutors agreed to keep the evidence secret amid media attention. His defense said Murdaugh can’t afford to post any bond and wants a speedy trial because “he

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s National Oil Corporation says it resumed oil exports, ending a monthslong hiatus. It says a Malta-flagged tanker, Matala, docked Wednesday at the al-Sidra terminal to ship one million barrels of crude oil. Two other tankers were scheduled to ship 1.6 million barrels from the terminals of