King Charles III has traveled to the southwestern French city of Bordeaux to focus on climate and the environment. The U.K. monarch and Queen Camilla will meet emergency workers and communities …
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By ALEX TURNBULL
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9/22/23
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Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing adds during shows and movies early next year, joining other streaming services that have added different tiers of subscriptions. The company said Friday that …
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
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9/22/23
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MILAN (AP) — Rain forced more than one fashion house to scramble for indoor locations in Milan and fashionistas to find a way to move about the gridlocked Italian city on Friday without the threat …
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By COLLEEN BARRY
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9/22/23
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European Union antitrust enforcers have slapped Intel with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight that the chipmaker appeared to have won last year. The European Commission imposed …
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9/22/23
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Massachusetts has about 184,000 people on a waitlist for the state’s public housing. Yet a WBUR and ProPublica investigation found that nobody is living in nearly 2,300 state-funded apartments, …
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By TODD WALLACK AND CHRISTINE WILLMSEN, WBUR
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9/22/23
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Many baseball fans, especially older ones, originally fell in love with America’s pastime by listening to ballgames on AM radio. In fact, next month will mark the 100th anniversary of the first …
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By MIKE FITZPATRICK
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9/22/23
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British competition regulators has signaled that Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard is likely to receive antitrust approval. The Competition and …
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By KELVIN CHAN
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9/22/23
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Asian shares are mixed after another slump on Wall Street driven by expectations for U.S. interest rates to stay high well into next year. Hong Kong and Shanghai advanced while Tokyo, Seoul and …
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH
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9/22/23
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A top official of upcoming international climate negotiations hopes to prove critics wrong and surprise them with a “course correction” for an ever-warming world. But don’t expect that big a …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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9/22/23
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A new poll shows that Americans are much more sympathetic to Hollywood's striking writers and actors then they are to the studios on the other side of the table. The poll from The Associated …
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By ANDREW DALTON and LINLEY SANDERS
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9/22/23
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It’s not every day that VIP visitors venture out to the town of Saint-Denis, one of the poorest and toughest parts of the Paris region. So there was excitement when Britain's King Charles III and …
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By JOHN LEICESTER
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9/21/23
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Singapore police say they have uncovered more luxury watches, gold bars and other assets from a massive money laundering scheme that was busted last month, bringing the total amount of assets seized …
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9/21/23
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A new plan from California's insurance commissioner aims to keep the nation' stop insurers from leaving the wildfire-prone state. California tightly restricts how insurance companies can price …
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By ADAM BEAM
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9/21/23
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The head of the Anti-Defamation League said in a post on X on Thursday that he was in touch with Adidas CEO Bjorn Gulden who apologized for his remarks about Kanye West and reiterated the sportswear …
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By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
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9/21/23
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Artificial intelligence tools that can conjure whimsical artwork or realistic-looking images from written commands started wowing crowds last year. But most people don’t actually use them at work …
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By MATT O'BRIEN
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9/21/23
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Media magnate Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as the leader of both Fox News’ parent company and his News Corp media holdings, with his son, Lachlan, set to take his place. In addition to the …
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The Associated Press
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9/21/23
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Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden administration is beginning the process to remove medical bills from people’s credit scores. Harris says the action would improve the credit scores of …
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By JOSH BOAK
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9/21/23
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Governments, organizations and businesses have set ambitious goals to combat climate change. But it is far from clear that those goals can be met without forcing people to do -- or not do -- certain …
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By WAYNE PARRY
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9/21/23
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Designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons achieved an unbearable lightness in a series of translucent chiffon dresses that gently cosseted the form, trailed by wispy strands of chiffon. The series of …
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By COLLEEN BARRY
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9/21/23
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Some names are just the wurst. Just four months after announcing that the hot dog-shaped Wienermobile was changing its name to the Frankmobile, the one-of-a-kind wiener on wheels is reverting to the …
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9/21/23
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