Liz Weston: How to keep your tax return from getting hung up
By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet The IRS is overburdened and understaffed, which means even the smallest error could delay the processing of your tax…
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EU slams ‘war crimes’ in Ukraine but new sanctions unlikely
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries are accusing Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine. But the 27-nation…
Continue ReadingPakistan’s Khan rallies supporters ahead of parliament vote
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has turned to grassroot supporters, lobbying the poor and…
Continue ReadingEgypt’s central bank raises interest rates, cites Ukraine
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Central Bank of Egypt has raised its key interest rate for the first time since 2017, citing…
Continue ReadingCapitol riot trial opens for Cowboys for Trump founder
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An elected official from New Mexico is the second person tried on charges stemming from the…
Continue ReadingS. Korea’s Yoon faces obstacles in plan to ditch Blue House
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s outgoing liberal government takes issue with a plan by its rival and…
Continue Reading20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A team of Associated Press journalists were documenting the agony of Mariupol from…
Continue ReadingUN chief: Don’t let Russia crisis fuel climate destruction
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations says countries scrambling to replace Russian oil, gas and coal…
Continue ReadingASEAN envoy for Myanmar crisis arrives on first mission
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia’s foreign minister arrived Monday in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw on his mission as a…
Continue ReadingGerman prosecutors: train attacker had extremist motive
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they now believe that the suspect in a knife attack on a train in November that left four people wounded had…
Continue ReadingChinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country’s south
By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of…
Continue ReadingRussia-Ukraine war: Key things to know about the conflict
The battle for the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is raging on as Russia’s war on Ukraine, now in its 26th day, shows no signs of…
Continue ReadingKuwait, among world’s hottest places, lags on climate action
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JAHRA, Kuwait (AP) — Kuwait is ranked each year as among the hottest places on the planet. Last summer, birds…
Continue ReadingAsian shares rise, eyeing Ukraine, inflation, energy costs
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher as investors eye the war in Ukraine, inflationary risks and surging…
Continue ReadingHong Kong to lift flight bans, cut quarantine for arrivals
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam said Monday that the city would lift flight bans on nine countries including Britain and the U.S.…
Continue ReadingAs Mariupol hangs on, the extent of the horror not yet known
By CARA ANNA Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Mariupol’s defenders defiantly hold out, the number of bodies in the rubble of the…
Continue ReadingIn visit, Biden will thank Polish leader for refugee efforts
By COLLEEN LONG and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will thank Poland’s president for the country’s…
Continue ReadingPence distances himself from Trump as he eyes 2024 campaign
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Pence spent more than four years standing in President Donald Trump’s shadow, refusing to…
Continue ReadingJackson pledges to decide cases ‘without fear or favor’
By MARK SHERMAN and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge Ketanji Brown is pledging to defend the Constitution and decide…
Continue ReadingUS official: Biden fortified Saudi’s Patriot missile supply
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has resupplied Saudi Arabia with Patriot antimissile interceptors in recent weeks as…
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