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Russia's Gazprom says it is halting natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, escalating tensions between the Kremlin and Europe over energy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine — and adding new urgency to plans to reduce and then end the continent's dependence on Russia as a supplier of oil and...

The top executive for global consulting firm McKinsey & Company is set to answer congressional questions Wednesday about the company's work for U.S. health regulators even as it advised opioid drugmakers on how to boost sales of their prescription painkillers. The hearing before a House...

A 38-year-old man from Florida City was arrested Tuesday in connection with a bank robbery that occurred earlier this month, the FBI announced Wednesday. Hakeen Ashon Mixson was taken into custody by the Hialeah Police Department after they received a tip from “an alert citizen,” FBI spokesman...

Should the hanging from Thailand stay on the living-room wall where it has lived since I was born? Should we lay out the family room as it was when I was 8, when I was 17 or in a completely new configuration? Should we leave my mother’s spice rack on the north wall of the kitchen? What about the...

Efforts to restore damaged but once fertile land in Jordan's desert is sprouting hope for one of the world’s most water-scarce nations, as a land assessment report Wednesday warned of the growing scale of global degradation. Local organizations believe projects that reintroduce native plants...

Helen Mirren graces People magazine’s “The Beautiful Issue” in a cover story that touches on her thoughts of beauty and how the Oscar winner still gets nervous before filming a role. The magazine on Wednesday revealed the cover of the annual issue, which hits newsstands Friday. The 76-year-old...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced that lawmakers will return to the Capitol in late May for a special session to deal with the state’s rising property insurance rates. The Republican governor on Tuesday set the session for May 23 to May 27. He has tasked the GOP-controlled statehouse...

A British court ruled Wednesday that the government’s decision to discharge hospital patients into nursing homes without testing them for COVID-19, which led to thousands of deaths early in the pandemic, was illegal. Two High Court judges said the policy from March and April 2020 was unlawful...

Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $1.24 billion in the first quarter as it and took large write-downs and lost money in both its civilian-airplane and defense businesses. The loss was bigger than Wall Street had been expecting and the company's quarterly revenue was also short. Shares of...

The International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general says the level of safety at Europe’s largest nuclear plant, currently under Russian occupation in Ukraine, is like a “red light blinking” as his organization tries in vain to get access for work including repairs. Rafael Grossi, in an...

Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America, a senior U.S. official and the Russian foreign ministry said. The surprise deal would...

The European Union's executive arm said Wednesday that it wants to see the EU adopt a law to protect journalists and civil rights activists from lawsuits aimed at censoring them. The European Commission proposed safeguards to curb SLAPPS, or strategic lawsuits against public participation. It...

Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition and his plans for a more hands-off approach to moderating content could clash with ambitious new laws in Europe meant to protect users from disinformation, hate speech and other harmful material. Musk, who describes himself as a “free speech absolutist," pledged...

Get ready! The Temptations are coming to South Florida. And here’s something else that’s music to the ears. When you buy a ticket to the concert, you support a local charity transforming the lives of young ladies through academics, financial resources and social responsibility. “When we...

The 23rd novel by acclaimed American author Louise Erdrich and an adult fiction debut by Trinidadian stand-up comedian Lisa Allen-Agostini were named finalists on Wednesday for the 30,000-pound ($38,000) Women’s Prize for fiction. Erdrich’s “The Sentence” — set in a haunted Minneapolis...

Global shares were mixed Wednesday, with European shares advancing after a retreat in Asia, though mainland Chinese stocks rebounded as Beijing redoubled confidence-boosting efforts with promises of more support for the slowing economy. U.S. futures were higher and oil prices also rose, but...

Polish and Bulgarian leaders accused Moscow of using natural gas to blackmail their countries after Russia's state-controlled energy company abruptly announced it would stop supplying the two European nations Wednesday. The gas cutoff came after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that...

During the height of pandemic restrictions, thousands of New Zealanders desperate to return home essentially had to roll the dice month after month as they tried to secure a coveted bed in a quarantine hotel run by the military. On Wednesday, a New Zealand court ruled that the government had...

Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower and one of the world's top exporters of the nicotine leaf, has opened its selling season for the crop amid pledges to fight deforestation and child labor in response to pressure from rights groups, environmentalists and international buyers. Tobacco is...

Drone company DJI Technology Co has temporarily suspended business activities in Russia and Ukraine to prevent use of its drones in combat, in a rare case of a Chinese company pulling out of Russia because of the war. “DJI is internally reassessing compliance requirements in various...