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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-four Republican-led states have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Biden administration rule that sets tougher standards for deadly soot pollution. Republicans say the Environmental Protection Agency rule would raise costs for manufacturers, utilities and families across the country and could block new manufacturing facilities and infrastructure

By TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Efforts to get desperately needed humanitarian aid to war-wracked northern Gaza gained momentum Wednesday with the European Union increasing pressure for the creation of a sea route from Cyprus to Gaza and British Foreign Minister David Cameron saying that Israel’s allies were

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Disagreements among Indiana lawmakers could stop passage of a bill aiming to address antisemitism on college campuses, leaving Indiana students and professors uneasy as divisions surrounding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war deepen. House Republicans have dissented from the version amended in the state Senate this week, and lawmakers

By JON GAMBRELL and TARA COPP Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden killed two of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel on Wednesday, officials said, in the first fatal strike in a campaign

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has floated its currency and announced a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase its bailout loan to $8 billion. The moves are aimed at shoring up an economy hit by a staggering shortage of foreign currency and soaring inflation. The flotation of the Egyptian

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mourners in Poland have paid tribute to a young Belarusian woman who died after being brutally attacked and raped on the streets of Warsaw last month, a crime that has shocked the country. In recent years, the Polish capital has become a hub for Belarusians fleeing

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To businesses that rely on social media platforms for advertising, client communication or direct sales, Tuesday’s Meta platforms outage was more than a communal inconvenience. Experts say that whenever there’s an outage — be it social media or other softwarewe’ve come to rely on —

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Texas man was arrested Wednesday on accusations that he schemed to dupe George Santos into wiring him money with the false promise that he could get the criminal corruption charges against the disgraced congressman dropped. Federal prosecutors said Hector Medina of El Paso concocted a

By JON GAMBRELL and TARA COPP Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden killed two of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel on Wednesday, officials said, in the first fatal strike in a campaign

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A jury would soon weigh whether a movie weapons supervisor should be held to blame in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin during rehearsal on the set of a Western movie, as attorneys Wednesday delivered closing arguments in the trial of Hannah

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors say the ousted former chair of the Republican Party of Florida will not face a video voyeurism charge for recording a sexual encounter with a woman who accused him of rape, a case in which he was also not charged. Sarasota prosecutors said in memo Wednesday the woman made inconsistent