Nation and World
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Amazon to make big business changes in EU settlement
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - Amazon will make major changes to its business practices to end competition probes in Europe by giving customers more visible choices when buying products and, for Prime...
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Wells Fargo to pay $3.7 billion over consumer law violations
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Consumer banking giant Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3.7 billion to settle charges that it harmed customers by charging illegal fees and interest on auto loans...
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Chinese with mild COVID urged to work as restrictions ease
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - BEIJING - Several local governments in China encouraged people with mild cases of COVID-19 to go to work this week, another sign of the difficulty the country faces as i...
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Biden administration asks court to end asylum limits, with a short delay
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - EL PASO, Texas - Tensions remained high at the U.S-Mexico border Tuesday amid uncertainty over the future of restrictions on asylum-seekers, with the Biden administratio...
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Police in Australia co-opted COVID-19 apps to fight crime
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - CANBERRA, Australia - Biker boss Nick Martin's murder at a speedway in Perth, Australia, left police a trove of evidence that led them to the culprit: a thrill-seeker tu...
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UK government refuses to give way on pay as nurses, medics strike
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - LONDON - The British government said Tuesday it will not offer more money to nurses and ambulance crews to end strikes that are piling pressure on an already overstretch...
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German court convicts 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - BERLIN - A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the...
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Zelenskyy visits front, Putin praises troops in Kremlin
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Tuesday with troops in the eastern city of Bakhmut, the scene of some of the most intense combat since Russia...
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Trump's tax returns to be discussed by congressional panel
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to publicly release years of Donald Trump's tax returns...
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GOP's usual embrace of Trump muted after criminal referral
Dec 20, 2022 12:00 am - NEW YORK - The Republican Party quickly and forcefully rallied behind Donald Trump in the hours after federal agents seized classified documents from his Florida estate ...