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By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, pop star Ricky Martin and award-winning actress/singer Michaela Jae Rodriguez will join the Hispanic Federation Tuesday to launch a new advocacy initiative serving Latinx LGBTQ+ communities. The Advance Change Together (ACT) initiative will provide 20 Latinx nonprofits grants of $25,000 to $50,000 to support their

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices surged 10.8% in May from a year earlier, underscoring the ongoing threat to the economy from a bout of inflation that shows no sign of slowing. Tuesday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the producer price index — which measures inflation before

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — At least 1.7 million hungry people in South Sudan are losing humanitarian food aid “at the worst possible time” as the United Nations World Food Program suspends the help and blames critical funding shortages. South Sudan faces unprecedented hunger amid climate shocks, soaring food prices

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says the death toll from tribal clashes over the past week in Sudan’s Darfur region has reached at least 125. It’s the latest surge in violence in the war-wracked region. It erupted following a land dispute between Arab and African tribes in the town

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will make his first trip to the Middle East next month with visits to Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia, the White House announced Tuesday. The decision to pay a call on Saudi leaders during the July 13-16 trip

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson beat back criticism of his plan to send asylum-seekers of various nationalities to Rwanda, saying that efforts attempting to block the flights were “abetting the work of criminal gangs’’ involved in smuggling people across borders. Johnson’s government has reached an agreement with

DELAND, Fla. (AP) — Pro wrestler Jeff Hardy is facing driving under the influence and other charges after being arrested in Florida, authorities said. Hardy, 44, was pulled over by a state trooper early Monday after the Florida Highway Patrol received calls about an impaired driver on Interstate 95 in Volusia County. The county is

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European lawmakers from two committees objected Tuesday to including gas and nuclear in the EU’s list of sustainable activities, in a blow to the bloc’s executive arm. The European Commission earlier this year proposed including nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for building a climate-friendly

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A congressional panel is set to examine payouts under a federal coronavirus pandemic aid program intended to help small businesses weather the COVID-19 outbreak. Tuesday’s hearing comes amid revelations as much as 20% of the money may have been awarded to fraudsters. The COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global stocks drifted lower Tuesday in the wake of Wall Street’s tumble into a bear market, as investors anxiously contemplated a new and uncertain world of higher interest rates, international conflict and recession fears. Shares traded down in Europe, erasing brief gains after the markets opened,

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A Slovak court has dismissed a lawsuit by former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis against allegations that he collaborated with Czechoslovakia’s communist-era secret police. The Slovak-born Babis was suing Slovakia’s Institute of the Nation’s Memory, which holds parts of his secret-police files following the division of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic

GENEVA (AP) — Barcelona will promote the U.N. refugee agency’s logo on the back of its jerseys for the next four seasons. The agreement comes after the UNHCR recently said an unprecedented 100 million people had been forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has blasted the “ferocity and cruelty” of Russian troops in Ukraine while praising the “heroism” and “courage” of Ukrainians to defend their land. Francis made some of his most pointed comments about the war in a meeting with European editors of Jesuit journals last month. Excerpts of the conversation were

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has started her campaign for a second independence referendum. Sturgeon argues that Scotland would be economically better off outside the United Kingdom. Sturgeon leads the Scottish National Party as well as the devolved government in Scotland. She released on Tuesday the first

BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Swiss authorities have carried out a joint operation to detain four people who are accused of membership in or support of the Islamic State group. Officials said Tuesday that one man was detained in Germany on Monday. He is accused of having prepared a serious act of violence endangering the

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares opened mostly higher in Europe early Tuesday and Asian shares recovered from the worst of their losses following Wall Street’s tumble into what’s called a bear market. London and Frankfurt gained on the open but fell back slightly later in the morning. Shanghai advanced while