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ConocoPhillips buying Marathon Oil for $17.1 billion in all-stock deal as energy prices rise

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
May 29, 2024 6:56 am - ConocoPhillips is buying Marathon Oil in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $17.1 billion as energy prices soar and big oil companies reap massive profits. The de...
Inflation pressures lingering from pandemic are keeping Fed rate cuts on pause

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
May 29, 2024 6:50 am - WASHINGTON — Hopes for interest rate cuts this year by the Federal Reserve are steadily fading, with a stream of recent remarks by Fed officials underscoring their intent...
Jury in Donald Trump’s hush money case asks to rehear testimony as deliberations get underway

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN
May 29, 2024 6:47 am - Jury deliberations began Wednesday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, placing the outcome of the history-making case in the hands of a dozen New Yorkers who have vowed to be fair and impartial in the face of their unprecedented task.
Pope apologizes after being quoted using vulgar term about gay men in talk about ban on gay priests

By NICOLE WINFIELD
May 28, 2024 12:11 pm - VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests. ...
Trump prosecutor focuses on ‘cover-up’ in closing arguments while defense attacks key witness

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and MICHELLE L. PRICE
May 28, 2024 7:52 am - NEW YORK — Donald Trump engaged in “a conspiracy and a cover-up,” a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday in the former president's hush money trial, wh...
Over 1 million customers without power in Texas as U.S. weathers powerful, destructive storms

By BRUCE SCHREINER and JULIO CORTEZ
May 28, 2024 7:20 am - Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. re...
Israeli strikes kill at least 37 Palestinians, most in tents, near Gaza's Rafah as offensive expands

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
May 28, 2024 7:16 am - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight...
Closing arguments, jury instructions and maybe a verdict? Major week looms in Trump hush money trial

By ERIC TUCKER
May 27, 2024 9:37 am - WASHINGTON — The testimony in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial is all wrapped up after more than four weeks and nearly two dozen witnesses, meaning the case heads...
Latest deadly weather in US kills at least 20 as storms carve path of ruin across multiple states

By SEAN MURPHY and JULIO CORTEZ
May 27, 2024 9:24 am - VALLEY VIEW, Texas — Powerful storms killed at least 20 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterati...
Papua New Guinea says Friday’s landslide buried more than 2,000 people and formally asks for help

By ROD McGUIRK
May 27, 2024 9:14 am - MELBOURNE, Australia — A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by last Frida...

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