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By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell broadly in afternoon trading on Wall Street Thursday and banks were among the biggest weights on the market following weak earnings and a warning from JPMorgan Chase. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% as of 1:27 p.m. Eastern. Roughly 90% of companies in

By AAMER MADHANI, JOSH BOAK, and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid stood side-by-side Thursday and declared they would not allow Iran to become a nuclear power. They parted ways, though, on how to get there. Biden, in a joint news conference after a

GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — Rains that swiftly flooded a remote corner of Southwest Virginia washed out roads, tore homes from their foundations and left people scrambling to find loved ones in areas where phone service was knocked out completely. Authorities feared the worst on Wednesday as they were inundated with calls from people who said

By FRANK JORDANS and RAF CASERT Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Belgium are commemorating the deadly floods that hit a year ago and warning that countries must improve climate disaster prevention plans. High-profile memorials took place Thursday to pay tribute to the more than 230 people who lost their lives on July 14-15,

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Republican Party will consider 31 resolutions at its three-day convention, including one already adopted by Texas Republicans that President Joe Biden isn’t the legitimate leader of the country. Another calls for not recognizing “imaginary identities,” a resolution aimed at transgender people. Multiple resolutions at

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Police say a 28-year-old suspect in the shooting of a Chicago police officer is in custody in Iowa. Burlington police say Jabari Edwards, of Chicago, was arrested Wednesday in Burlington. He was wanted in Cook County, Illinois, on warrants charging two counts of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer. Chicago

BOSTON (AP) — A Jewish advocacy group is calling on Iceland’s government to take action against a pro-Palestine website seeking to “dismantle” various Boston-area Jewish institutions that’s being hosted by an Icelandic internet company. The Anti-Defamation League said in a letter Wednesday to Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs that it has already voiced its concerns

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Ducks tight end Spencer Webb has died after falling and striking his head on rock slides at a popular swimming lake near Eugene, Oregon, authorities said. The 22-year-old who was expected to play his fifth football season at the University of Oregon this fall was found about 100 yards down

By ANDREW DeMILLO and DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Stark political divides are threatening to overshadow a meeting this week of the nation’s governors. The National Governors Association on Thursday began its summer meeting in person for the first time since 2019 after meeting virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic. The meeting

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner didn’t testify on the third day of her drugs possession trial in Russia, but the director of the Russian team she plays for in the offseason said he told the court about her merits. Griner was arrested in February at the

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press A new cybersecurity panel created by President Joe Biden says a computer vulnerability discovered last year in a ubiquitous piece of software is an “endemic” problem that will pose security risks for potentially a decade or more. The Cyber Safety Review Board said in a new report Thursday that while

GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — Authorities in a remote corner of southwest Virginia have located all but three of the 44 people who were reported unaccounted for after devastating flooding washed out roadways and damaged more than 100 homes. Buchanan County Sheriff John McClanahan said Thursday that crews from state and local agencies worked throughout the

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FX has announced a renewal for its new series “The Bear,” streaming only on Hulu, after it launched late last month to immediate success. With a mostly little-known cast, the half-hour, eight-episode series stars Jeremy Allen White as a fine dining chef who returns home to

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was defiant and cited free speech rights during a deposition in April, as part of a lawsuit by relatives of some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who are suing Jones for calling the massacre a hoax, according to court

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been charged with murder in connection with the mysterious 2021 deaths of his wife and son. The charges were announced Thursday. Murdaugh’s 52-year-old wife Maggie and 22-year-old son Paul were shot to death outside their home on June 7,

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Millions of Brazilians will get a hefty boost from a measure approved by Brazil’s Congress that sharply raises subsidies for the poor. It’s also likely to bolster incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro’s reelection campaign because it comes less than three months before voting. Lawmakers voted Wednesday

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is giving its ultimate final salute Thursday to Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, a hero of the battle for Iwo Jima who was the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II. Williams, who died last month at age 98, is lying in honor in

By KRUTIKA PATHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan protesters retreated from government buildings they seized and military troops reinforced security at the Parliament on Thursday, establishing a tenuous calm in a country in both economic meltdown and political limbo. Embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled a day earlier under