By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer President Donald Trump ‘s plans for bringing homeownership within reach of more Americans involve pushing for lower interest rates on home loans and credit cards, and banning large institutional investors from buying single-family homes. In his address Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump outlined four
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By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press As tensions simmered between the United States and Europe this week over President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, Russian officials, state-backed media and pro-Kremlin bloggers responded with a mixture of glee, gloating and wariness. Some touted Trump’s move as historic, while others said it weakens the European Union and
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By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico sent 37 cartel members to United States at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, with President Claudia Sheinbaum saying Wednesday that it was a “sovereign decision” by her government. Sheinbaum responded to criticism from analysts and opponents who said that the transfers on Tuesday
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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Dior ’s menswear show arrived with a stripped-back set and a loud signal of confidence: neon-yellow wigs that read like a flag of authority planted in the Paris runway, after a couple of runway wobbles from their new designer. In an annex of the Rodin Museum
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Love is, famously, a many-splendored thing. It can encompass longing, loneliness, pain, jealousy, grief — and, sometimes, joy. As Valentine’s Day approaches, the many facets of passion are going on display in “Love Letters,” a public exhibition at Britain’s National Archives that covers five centuries. Curator Victoria
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Love is, famously, a many-splendored thing. It can encompass longing, loneliness, pain, jealousy, grief — and, sometimes, joy. As Valentine’s Day approaches, the many facets of passion are going on display in “Love Letters,” a public exhibition at Britain’s National Archives that covers five centuries. Curator Victoria
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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israeli forces on Wednesday killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including two 13-year-old boys, three journalists and a woman, hospitals in the war-battered enclave said. It was one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October and
Continue ReadingBy GHAITH ALSAYED, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press AL-HOL, Syria (AP) — The U.S. military said Wednesday it has started transferring detainees from the Islamic State group being held in northeastern Syria to secure facilities in Iraq. The move came after Syrian government forces took control of a sprawling camp, housing thousands of
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By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a dispute of operatic proportions, the production team of Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera ordered their names stripped from programs over a restaging decision, and the company intends to bring back sets of a retired 2009 version. Director Carrie Cracknell’s production opened on Dec.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans started a push Wednesday to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, opening the prospect of the House using one of its most powerful punishments against a former president for the first time.
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By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colleges. The Education Department, in a court filing Wednesday, moved to dismiss its appeal. It leaves in
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By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robbie Avila knows it sounds like a cliche, and maybe it is. For Avila and everyone else on No. 24 Saint Louis, though, it also happens to be true. “We have no egos on this team,” the perpetually goggled, occasionally googled — feel free to search
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The 42nd Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week in Park City, Utah. It will be the last edition in its longtime home and the first without its founder Robert Redford, who died in September at age 89. But even in this time of
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Jan. 22 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 7 p.m. CBSSN — Monmouth at Hampton ESPN2 — South Florida at UAB FS1 — Wisconsin at Penn St. 9 p.m. CBSSN — Missouri St. at New Mexico St. ESPNU — Tennessee St. at SIU-Edwardsville COLLEGE
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Georges Borchardt, a literary agent of cosmopolitan taste and style who found U.S. publishers for future Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel and Samuel Beckett and represented dozens of other prize-winning authors, from Ian McEwan to Tracy Kidder, has died at age 97. Georges Borchardt Inc., the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Adv24-25 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Jan. 26 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 7 p.m. ESPN — Louisville at Duke FS1 — Penn St. at Ohio St. 9 p.m. ESPN — Arizona at BYU COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 4:30 p.m. CBSSN — Bucknell at Lafayette 7 p.m. ESPNU —
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Three authors who demonstrated how scientific research can be wedded to literary grace have been awarded $10,000 prizes. On Wednesday, the National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the winners of the fifth annual Science + Literature awards. The books include Kimberly
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya launched her campaign for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, hoping to win the Republican nomination for the Minnesota seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Tina Smith. “For years, I covered the biggest football games in America,” Tafoya said in a
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By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer New York (AP) — Taylor Swift, Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, Alanis Morissette and Kenny Loggins make up the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees. Swift’s songwriting has undeniably shaped contemporary pop music trends — and she’ll no doubt bring extra attention to this year’s
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A grassroots organization founded to increase diversity in publishing is launching a program to counteract the nationwide wave of bannings in schools and libraries. On Tuesday, We Need Diverse Books, or WNDB, announced the formation of the Unbanned Book Network, which will donate books by
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By KAMILA HRABCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 4,000 buildings in Kyiv remained without heating Wednesday, and nearly 60% of the Ukrainian capital was without power, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, after days of Russian bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid and as U.S. President Donald Trump prepared to hold talks with the Ukrainian
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer For subscribers to The New York Times who are as interested in solving Wordle or filling in the crossword puzzle as in reading the latest political or business news, Wednesday is a big day. The Times’ popular Games unit is debuting Crossplay, a Scrabble-like electronic feature that represents its
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By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Days after suspected gang members killed 10 Guatemalan police officers, police and soldiers took their new powers granted under a state of emergency to the Barrio 18 gang’s center of operations in the north of the capital. Dozens of police officers and soldiers, some carrying
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kristen Bell is returning as host of the Screen Actors Guild’s Actor Awards for a third time. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union that presents the annual awards, announced Wednesday that Bell will emcee the March 1 awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards. Though
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