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AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after launching an aggressive fight against inflation and one year after leaving its benchmark interest rate at a near-quarter-century high, the Federal Reserve is expected to signal this week that it will likely reduce borrowing costs as soon as September. A rate reduction would amount to a

Associated Press COHASSET, Calif. (AP) — In the small forest community of Cohasset, Ron Ward watched as flames hundreds of feet high from California’s deadly Park Fire approached his family ranch. He had lost insurance coverage on it just a month earlier as companies increasingly drop California homeowners due to the growing risk of wildfires

Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — As thousands of people demonstrated across Venezuela, opposition candidate Edmundo González announced Monday that his campaign has the proof it needs to show he won the country’s disputed election in which electoral authorities named President Nicolás Maduro the victor. González and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado told reporters they

Associated Press GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador (AP) — Warm morning light reflects from the remains of a natural rock arch near Darwin Island, one of the most remote islands in the Galapagos. In clear, deep blue water, thousands of creatures — fish, hammerhead sharks, marine iguanas — move in search of food. The 2021 collapse of

Associated Press SINJAR, Iraq (AP) — When Rihan Ismail returned to her family’s home in the heartland of her Yazidi community, she was sure she was coming back for good. She had yearned for that moment throughout long years of captivity. Islamic State militants had abducted then-adolescent Ismail as they rampaged through Iraq’s Sinjar district,

Associated Press SINJAR, Iraq (AP) — When Rihan Ismail returned to her family’s home in the heartland of her Yazidi community, she was sure she was coming back for good. She had yearned for that moment throughout long years of captivity. Islamic State militants had abducted then-adolescent Ismail as they rampaged through Iraq’s Sinjar district,

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has ‘serious concerns’ about the announced result of Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election that authorities say was won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro. Speaking in Tokyo on Monday shortly after the announcement was made, Blinken said the U.S. was concerned that the result

AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined in cautious trading Tuesday ahead of central bank meetings around the world. The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are holding monetary policy meetings this week. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.5% in morning trading to 38,268.72. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200

Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Osama Siblani’s phone won’t stop ringing. Just days after President Joe Biden withdrew his bid for reelection and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination, top officials from both major political parties have been asking the publisher of the Dearborn-based Arab American News if Harris can

Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader has endorsed Masoud Pezeshkian as president, allowing the reformist heart surgeon to take charge of a country weakened by economic sanctions over its nuclear program. During a ceremony marking the endorsement on Sunday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Pezeshkian to prioritize neighbors, African and Asian nations as

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Native American artifacts have remained out of public view but still very much in the hands of some of the nation’s largest museums some six months after institutions closed and covered exhibits in response to new federal regulations. The president of New York City’s American Museum of Natural History

Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — No longer on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden on Monday delivered a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library designed to help cement his legacy. Slightly more than a week after dropping out of this year’s election, Biden marked the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act by speaking

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new Labour government has axed several construction projects and withdrawn a winter fuel payment for millions of retirees to cover what it calls a newly found 22-billion-pound ($28 billion) shortfall in the public finances. It blames the former Conservative administration. The Treasury chief in her first major speech accused

AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tongue-tie —a condition in infants that can affect breastfeeding — may be overdiagnosed in the U.S. and too often treated with unnecessary surgery, a prominent doctors’ group said Monday. The American Academy of Pediatrics is the latest, and largest, medical society to sound an alarm about the increasing

Associated Press ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — Barely a week ago, a sense of inevitability hung over the U.S. presidential election. Donald Trump’s allies gleefully predicted a landslide victory during a Republican National Convention that felt more like a coronation for a nominee who had just survived an assassination attempt and was promising to unite

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an EP from country-turned-pop singer Maren Morris, Léa Seydoux and George MacKay lead the intriguing French sci-fi “The Beast,” and an HBO documentary lets Elizabeth Taylor tell her story by relying on 40 hours of recently discovered audio. Just in time for Olympics fever, director Luca Guadagnino’s sweaty,

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Residents who stood in line on Monday to pay their respects to longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas as her body lay in state in Houston’s City Hall remembered her as an advocate for human rights and her community. “I don’t know of another politician that worked as

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — More than 5,000 people isolated by flooding in northwestern North Korea were rescued by airlift and other evacuation work after heavy summer rains caused a river on the Chinese border to swell, state media reported Monday. Summer floods in North Korea often cause serious damage to farmlands due

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Police say two women are dead and five other people were injured when gunfire erupted at a crowded public park in Rochester, New York. Authorities say hundreds of people were at an all-day gathering in Rochester’s Maplewood Park when the shooting started around 6:20 p.m. on Sunday. Police say two women

Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Javier Milei has told his country’s struggling farmers that he was committed to scraping export taxes and rescuing the key agricultural industry. Miller was addressing the gathering of farmers in flat caps and home-knit sweaters, a powerful group that helped vault him to power but has