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Norway's central bank enacts big rate hike to tame inflation

The Associated Press
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Norway's central bank raised its key policy interest rate by half a percentage point Thursday, saying 'œinflation has been considerably higher...
Federal study: New climate law to slice carbon pollution 40%

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - Clean energy incentives in the new spending package signed this week by President Joe Biden will trim America's emissions of heat-trapping gases by about 1.1 billion ton...
Officials: 2 planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at local airport; multiple fatalities reported

The Associated Press
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Officials: 2 planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at local airport; multiple fatalities reported. ...
WHO: World coronavirus cases fall 24%; deaths rise in Asia

The Associated Press
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - New coronavirus cases reported globally dropped nearly a quarter in the last week while deaths fell 6% but were still higher in parts of Asia, according to...
Brain-eating amoeba suspected in 2nd Midwest death

By MARGERY A. BECK and JOSH FUNK
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in an eastern Nebraska river, health officials said, making i...
Post-Roe differences surface in GOP over new abortion rules

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and SCOTT BAUER
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - When the U.S. Supreme Court repealed in June a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, Wisconsin's 1849 law that bans the procedure except when...
Jordan River, Jesus' baptism site, is today barely a trickle

By MARIAM FAM
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - ALONG THE JORDAN RIVER (AP) - Kristen Burckhartt felt overwhelmed. She needed time to reflect, to let it sink in that she had just briefly soaked her feet in the water w...
Judge retains jurisdiction in lawsuit over Enbridge pipeline

By JOHN FLESHER
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - A federal judge Thursday kept jurisdiction over a lawsuit seeking to close an oil pipeline crossing a section of the Great Lakes, rejecting M...
Climate Migration: Flooding forces Bangladesh family to flee

AL-EMRUN GARJON and JULHAS ALAM
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - BHOLA, Bangladesh (AP) - When the Mehgna River swallowed Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum's tin-roofed family home overnight in southern Bangladesh just over a year ago the...
Trump CFO's plea deal could make him a prosecution witness

By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's chief financial officer is expected to plead guilty to tax violations Thursday in a deal that would require him to testify about illicit b...

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