Associated Press Top Stories Headlines
Julie Watson - AP - Sat May 28, 7:35AM CDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face during a flight, breaking her teeth, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. (full story)
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 AP - Fri May 27, 6:02PM CDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Top officials from California and New Zealand signed a pledge Friday agreeing to help fight climate change by sharing ideas and best practices, including how to put millions more electric vehicles on the road. (full story)
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 Matthew Lee - AP - Fri May 27, 4:21PM CDT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday he’s confident Turkey’s objections to Finland and Sweden joining NATO can be overcome swiftly, possibly in time for a summit of alliance leaders at the end of next month. (full story)
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 Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga - AP - Fri May 27, 3:45PM CDT NEW YORK (AP) — Technology companies led a broad rally for stocks Friday as Wall Street notched its best week in 18 months. The gain broke a seven-week losing streak for the market, the longest such stretch since 2001. (full story)
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 AP - Fri May 27, 2:58PM CDT TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request by Native American tribes to stop Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc. from preparing a planned new Arizona copper mine's site in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson. (full story)
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Jon Gambrell and Nicholas Paphitis - AP - Fri May 27, 12:37PM CDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers on Friday in the Persian Gulf, just after Athens assisted the U.S. in seizing an Iranian oil tanker over alleged sanctions violations in the Mediterranean Sea. (full story)
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Cara Anna - AP - Fri May 27, 1:20PM CDT NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The biggest convoy of aid since Ethiopia’s government in the country’s long-encircled Tigray region two months ago has departed for Tigray, a U.N. official told The Associated Press, as the conflict gripping Africa’s second most populous nation continued to ease. (full story)
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 Christopher Rugaber - AP - Fri May 27, 10:03AM CDT An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, the first slowdown since November 2020 and a sign that high prices may finally be moderating, at least for now. (full story)
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 Frank Jordans - AP - Fri May 27, 8:23AM CDT BERLIN (AP) — Officials from the Group of Seven wealthy nations announced Friday that they will aim to largely end greenhouse gas emissions from their power sectors by 2035, making it highly unlikely that those countries will burn coal for electricity beyond that date. (full story)
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 Paul Wiseman - AP - Thu May 26, 3:04PM CDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Stagflation. It was the dreaded “S word” of the 1970s. (full story)
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