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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Local elections with national fallout have opened in the Netherlands as voters cast their ballots for the country’s 12 provincial legislatures — which in turn elect the national parliament’s upper house. A big swing away from the ruling four-party center-right coalition of long-serving Prime Minister

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Pence and Bernie Sanders are hardly political allies. But after two large bank failures, the conservative former vice president and the democratic socialist senator are striking remarkably similar tones. Pence bemoaned “certain politically favored businesses” being “propped up” by government. Sanders said “we cannot continue down

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Long before a Chinese spy balloon captivated the U.S. last month, Kyle Bass foresaw a foreign danger planned for the skies above his Texas property. Dozens of massive wind turbines were set to span 15,000 thousand acres near the Devils River in Del Rio on

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials and media reports say floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 14 people in two provinces that were devastated by an earthquake last month. The flooding has increased the misery for thousands who already had been left homeless by the quake that killed more than 52,000 people

By AMANDA SEITZ and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden says his administration is focused “intensely” on lowering health care costs. He is also taking aim at “MAGA” Republicans who he says are intent on dialing back Medicare coverage for millions of Americans. Biden used a speech Wednesday in Las

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeownership is likely to remain a pipe dream for many Americans this spring homebuying season. The nation’s worst housing slump in nearly a decade stoked hope among prospective buyers that homes could be scooped up more easily and prices would come back to earth. But

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it expects to invest $230 billion over the next 20 years as part of an ambitious South Korean national project to build the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing base near the capital, Seoul. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said the

By SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French people hoping to preserve their retirement benefits are marching in the streets of Paris and hundreds of other cities. They’re on strike against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to save France’s pension system by raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. A joint

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. is likely to avoid a recession this year, Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt said Wednesday, adding a bit of surprise to what had been billed as a boring budget meant to restore confidence and stability in the nation’s finances.  The announcement came as Hunt delivered his

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan health, railway, port and other state workers are on a daylong strike to protest against sharp  increases in income taxes and electricity charges, as the island nation awaits approval of an International Monetary Fund package to aid its bankrupt economy. Most government hospitals

By JOSH FUNK and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers The first major railroad merger in more than two decades, one that would link the United States, Canada and Mexico, is being approved by federal regulators. Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern will combine the two smallest of the nations seven major railroads

By JOE McDONALd AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets tumbled Thursday after Wall Street sank as a plunge in Credit Suisse shares reignited worries about a possible bank crisis following the failure of two U.S. lenders. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney all dropped, reversing Wednesday’s gains. Oil prices edged higher. Wall

By SALLY HO and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room. They stayed with their daughter around the clock when she was

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president wants to quickly overcome decades of lingering hostility left over from Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and forge a united front on North Korea’s nuclear threats and other regional security and economic challenges facing the neighbors. South

By LISA MASCARO, CHRIS MEGERIAN and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters started furiously working the phones to find out what was going on with the failed lender — and what would happen to its panicked depositors. Waters, former chair of