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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The fate of Argentina’s state-run oil company was thrown into doubt this week as an American judge ordered the cash-strapped country to give up its 51 percent controlling stake in YPF in partial compensation for seizing the shares of former investors during its 2012 nationalization of the energy group. The [...]
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said late Sunday that trade talks with the United States have resumed after Canada rescinded its plan to tax American technology firms. President Donald Trump last week said that he was suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology firms, [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s big bill to cut taxes and reduce federal spending on some social safety net programs could have large implications for states, but for many it’s too late to do much about it this year. Tuesday marked the start of a new budget year in 46 states. Though [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider a case about removing limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. The justices said they will review an appellate ruling that upheld a provision of federal election law that is more than 50 years old, ignoring pleas from [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action. A federal task force sent a letter to Harvard finding the university violated civil rights laws requiring colleges to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation introduced last week in Congress would block Chinese artificial intelligence systems from federal agencies as a bipartisan group of lawmakers pledged to ensure that the United States would prevail against China in the global competition over AI. “We are in a new Cold War and AI is the strategic technology at [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans agreed to remove the so-called revenge tax provision from President Donald Trump’s big bill last week after a request by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The Section 899 provision that was nixed would have allowed the federal government to impose taxes on companies with foreign owners, as well as investors from [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A former Ohio Supreme Court justice last week announced plans to run for a northeast Ohio congressional seat, while an Ohio State University graduate student said he’s making an independent bid for governor in 2026. William O’Neill, a 78-year-old Democrat, said he is coming out of retirement because he can’t “sit idly [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department last week slapped sanctions on three Mexico-based financial institutions it said were used to launder millions of dollars for cartels, in a move officials say would block certain money transfers between the sanctioned banks and American banks. The orders issued on the banks CIBanco and Intercam Banco, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules. Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling millions of acres [...]