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Climate activists are taken out of the venue of the annual shareholders' meeting of the Volkswagen AG in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP)

Topless protester briefly disrupts VW annual meeting

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Volkswagen’s annual shareholder meeting has been briefly disrupted by protests over the company’s factory in China’s Xinjiang province. A shouting, topless activist interrupted the speech … more

5/10/23

Lawmaker attend a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, in the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Germany's three governing parties back the idea of appointing consultative bodies made up of members of the public selected through a lottery system who would discuss specific topics and provide non-binding feedback to legislators. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German lawmakers mull creating first citizen assembly

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German lawmakers are considering whether to create the country’s first “citizen assembly” to advise parliament on the issue of food and nutrition. Germany’s three governing parties back the … more

5/10/23

FILE - Two man work at a construction site during a heatwave in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Spain says it plans to ban outdoor work during periods of extreme heat. Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz told reporters Wednesday, May 10, 2023 that the government will modify legislation covering occupational risks to prohibit outdoor work when the state weather agency, AEMET, issues red or orange alerts. (AP Photo/Andrea Comas, File)

Spain plans to ban outdoor work in extreme heat

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Spain plans to ban outdoor work during periods of extreme heat. Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz told reporters Wednesday that the government will modify occupational risk legislation to … more

5/10/23

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at Miami International Airport in Miami on April 21, 2023. A MTV special on mental health that was expected to feature Harris next week has been postponed, according to her office. A person familiar with the decision said Harris chose not to travel to the Los Angeles-area event because it would have been seen as crossing the picket line for striking Hollywood writers. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

AP source: Harris postpones MTV event over writers' strike

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A MTV special on mental health that was expected to feature Vice President Kamala Harris next week has been postponed. That word comes from Harris' her office. And a person familiar with the decision … more

By SEUNG MIN KIM | 5/10/23

FILE - Interior view of the Bulgarian Parliament during a meeting, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. A European Union commissioner from Bulgaria has been nominated for the post of prime minister as the Balkan country struggles to end a two-year period of political instability and economic hardship. Maria Gabriel was tipped on Wednesday by the center-right GERB party to receive a mandate. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova, File)

EU commissioner nominated to lead Bulgaria's next government

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A European Union commissioner from Bulgaria has been nominated for the post of prime minister as the Balkan country struggles to end a two-year period of political instability and economic hardship. … more

5/10/23

FILE - Russian servicemen guard an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022. Russia plans to relocate around 2,700 Ukrainian staff from Europe’s largest nuclear plant, Ukraine’s atomic energy company claimed Wednesday, May 10, 2023, warning of a potential “catastrophic lack of qualified personnel” at the Zaporizhzhia facility in Russia-occupied southern Ukraine. (AP Photo, File)

Ukraine's occupied nuke plant faces possible staffing crunch

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Ukraine’s atomic energy company is claiming that Russia plans to relocate around 3,100 Ukrainian staff from Europe’s largest nuclear plant. Energoatom warned Wednesday that the plan could result … more

By SUSIE BLANN and YURAS KARMANAU | 5/10/23

The sun rises over floating solar panels on May 3, 2023, in Selangor, Malaysia. Floating solar panel farms are beginning to boom in the United States after rapid growth in Asia. They're attractive not just for their clean power and lack of a land footprint, but because they also conserve water by preventing evaporation. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Long popular in Asia, floating solar catches on in US

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A lesser-known form of solar power that has several advantages over the traditional kind is gaining traction. The solar panels float on water, so they don't take up land; the water keeps the panels … more

By ISABELLA O'MALLEY | 5/10/23

Masakazu Tokura, right, chairman of Keidanren, and Kim Byung-joon, left, acting chairman of the Korean National Federation of Economic Organizations (ZENKEIREN), shake hands after their press conference on "Japan-Korea Partnership Fund for the Future" Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan, South Korea partnership funds to go to chips, energy

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Top business leaders from Japan and South Korea will use a fund meant to underscore the two countries’ burgeoning ties to strengthen their cooperation in energy, industry and other sectors. Japan … more

By MARI YAMAGUCHI | 5/10/23

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019 photo, a statue of Walt Disney and Micky Mouse stands in front of the Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The Walt Disney Co. will be laying off several thousand employees in the week starting Monday, April 24, 2023, a second round of cuts that's part of a previously announced plan to eliminate 7,000 jobs this year. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Disney board axed X-rated, liquor stores; forgot about jails

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Before allies of Gov. Ron DeSantis took over, Disney World’s governing district reached an agreement in February with the company to prohibit a long list of businesses from ever being operated on … more

By MIKE SCHNEIDER | 5/10/23

FILE - In this June 27, 2020, file photo, Saltillo High School seniors make their way to the football field as the sun begins to set for their graduation ceremony in Saltillo, Miss. Federal parent PLUS loans have become a last resort for many lower-income families paying for a kid’s college education. Today, parent PLUS loan debt totals $108.5 billion among 3.7 million borrowers, and the average borrower owes more than $29,000. (Thomas Wells/The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal via AP, File)

What to know about public service student loan forgiveness

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The U.S. has approved more than $42 billion in federal student loan debt forgiveness for more than 615,000 borrowers in the past 18 months as part of a program aimed at getting more people to work in … more

By ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS | 5/10/23

President Joe Biden speaks to the media following a meeting with Congressional leaders about preventing a first-ever government default, Tuesday, May 9, 2023 in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden ramps up pressure on House GOP in debt limit battle

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President Joe Biden is launching a new phase of his pressure campaign against House Republicans as he makes his case lawmakers should lift the nation’s borrowing authority without any strings … more

By SEUNG MIN KIM | 5/10/23

Rumman Chowdhury, co-founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit developing accountable AI systems, poses for a photograph at her home Monday, May 8, 2023, in Katy, Texas. ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and other major AI providers such as Google and Microsoft, are coordinating with the Biden administration to let thousands of hackers take a shot at testing the limits of their technology. Chowdhury is the lead coordinator of the mass hacking event planned for this summer's DEF CON hacker convention in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Hackers aim to find flaws in AI - with White House help

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No sooner did ChatGPT get unleashed than hackers started “jailbreaking” the artificial intelligence chatbot – trying to override its safeguards so it could blurt out something unhinged or … more

By MATT O'BRIEN | 5/10/23

Toyota's profits rise as global chips supply crunch subsides

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Toyota’s January-March profit has edged up 3% from the previous year on robust sales as a chips supply crunch gradually eased. Toyota racked up 552.2 billion yen, or $4 billion, in quarterly net … more

By YURI KAGEYAMA | 5/10/23

FILE - A man using a cellphone walks past Google offices on Dec. 17, 2018, in New York. On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, Maryland's highest court reversed a ruling by a lower court that the state's first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising was unconstitutional, saying the court lacked jurisdiction over the case. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Maryland Supreme Court reverses ruling on digital ad tax

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Maryland’s highest court has reversed a ruling by a lower court that the state’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising was unconstitutional. In a ruling released Tuesday, the Supreme … more

By BRIAN WITTE | 5/9/23

FILE - Workers in protective suits clean the contaminated beach in Corona Del Mar after an oil spill in Newport Beach, Calif., Oct. 7, 2021. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is proposing a nearly $3.4 million fine for Amplify Energy Corp over the oil pipeline spill that fouled Southern California beaches.(AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

$3.4M fine proposed over 2021 California oil pipeline leak

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A federal agency is proposing a nearly $3.4 million fine for an energy company over a 2021 oil pipeline spill that fouled Southern California beaches. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety … more

5/9/23

Ryanair to order between 150 and 300 Boeing 737 Max jets

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Irish airline Ryanair is making a big order for Boeing 737 Max jets. Ryanair said Tuesday that it has agreed to order 150 Max planes with an option for 150 more. That would be the biggest aircraft … more

By DAVID KOENIG | 5/9/23

FILE - Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. Fired Fox news host Carlson said Tuesday, May 9, 2023, that he will be putting out a “new version” of his program on Twitter. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Tucker Carlson says he's coming back with show on Twitter

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Fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson says he'll be resuming a version of his old show on Twitter. He made the announcement in a three-minute video posted on the social media site, calling Twitter one … more

By DAVID BAUDER | 5/9/23

Michael Strande speaks at a news conference at the Minnesota State Capitol, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in St. Paul, Minn., in support of state legislation to ban non-essential uses of "forever chemicals" also known as PFAS. The legislation is named after his daughter, Amara Strande, who spent the last months of her life campaigning for restrictions that will be some of the toughest in the country. Amara died two days shy of her 21st birthday last month from a rare form of liver cancer. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Minnesota prepares for near-total ban on 'forever chemicals'

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Minnesota is on the verge of banning non-essential uses of “forever chemicals.” And lawmakers say they are naming the legislation after a woman who spent the last months of her life campaigning … more

By STEVE KARNOWSKI | 5/9/23

FILE - Technology entrepreneur Jack Dorsey leaves after his talk with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, June 7, 2019. A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition of majority ownership in Tidal, the music streaming service partly owned by rapper Jay-Z. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Judge nixes Block shareholder suit over online music deal

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A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition of majority ownership in a music streaming service partly owned by … more

By RANDALL CHASE | 5/9/23

FILE - Materials lie outside a Holtec International facility in Camden, N.J., on June 18, 2019. U.S. nuclear regulators on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, said they licensed a multibillion-dollar complex in New Mexico to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power plants around the nation. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

US regulators OK spent nuclear fuel facility in New Mexico

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U.S. nuclear regulators have issued a license for a multibillion-dollar complex in New Mexico to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power plants around the nation. The … more

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | 5/9/23