Biden administration announces plans for up to 12 lease sales for offshore wind energy
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new five-year schedule to lease federal offshore tracts for wind energy production was…
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New federal rules on airline refunds require cash instead of vouchers
By Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Airline canceled your flight? The plane arrived hours late after a maintenance issue? The inflight Wi-Fi…
Continue ReadingAirlines will now be required to give automatic cash refunds for canceled and delayed flights
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Biden administration issued final rules Wednesday to require airlines to automatically issue cash refunds for…
Continue ReadingTikTok may be banned in the US. Here’s what happened when India did it
By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw…
Continue ReadingNepal’s president asks visiting Qatari emir to help free student held hostage by Hamas
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Officials say Nepal’s president asked the emir of Qatar, who is on a two-day visit…
Continue ReadingVolkswagen revamps its approach in China in bid to overtake upstart EV makers
By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Foreign automakers have been caught flat-footed in China by an electric vehicle boom that has…
Continue ReadingRush hour chaos in London as 5 military horses run amok after getting spooked during exercise
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Five military horses spooked by noise from a building site bolted during routine exercises on Wednesday…
Continue ReadingEU hopeful North Macedonia to hold May 8 presidential runoff with center-right candidate in the lead
By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia faces a runoff presidential ballot, which will coincide…
Continue ReadingUkraine thanks the US for billions in new military aid to help stop Russia’s advance
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials are expressing thanks for $61 billion in new U.S. military aid, even…
Continue ReadingBlinken begins key China visit as tensions rise over new US foreign aid bill
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer SHANGHAI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a critical trip to China armed with a…
Continue ReadingBiden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion war aid measure into law
By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he was immediately rushing badly…
Continue ReadingExclusive: New evidence challenges the Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan
By Nick Paton Walsh and Mick Krever, CNN. Video by Mark Baron and Christian Streib, CNN. (CNN) — New video evidence uncovered by CNN…
Continue ReadingHow the White House convinced Mike Johnson to back Ukraine aid
By Arlette Saenz, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate’s vote on Tuesday to approve new aid for Ukraine capped off six months of public…
Continue ReadingGerman far-right lawmaker whose assistant was arrested for spying for China keeps up election bid
BERLIN (AP) — A prominent German far-right lawmaker says he will dismiss an assistant who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, but will…
Continue ReadingA Russian deputy defense minister is ordered jailed pending trial on bribery charges
By The Associated Press A Russian deputy defense minister in charge of military construction projects and known for a lavish lifestyle was ordered…
Continue ReadingJapan’s moon lander wasn’t built to survive a weekslong lunar night. It’s still going after 3
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said…
Continue ReadingRussian deputy defense minister dismissed after arrest on corruption charges
By Jessie Gretener, Darya Tarasova and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A Russian deputy defense minister has been charged with taking a bribe,…
Continue ReadingChina blasts US military aid to Taiwan, saying the island is entering a ‘dangerous situation’
BEIJING (AP) — China blasted the latest package of U.S. military assistance to Taiwan, saying such funding was pushing the self-governing island…
Continue ReadingChina to send three astronauts to Tiangong space station, part of its ambitious program
By ANDY WONG and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China (AP) — China’s space agency is making final…
Continue ReadingStock market today: Asian benchmarks mostly slide as investors focus on earnings
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday as investors awaited a flood of global earnings reports,…
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