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The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted 06/13/2023 01:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Much of the theft was brazen, even simple. Fraudsters used the Social Security numbers of dead people and federal prisoners to get unemployment checks. Cheaters collected those benefits in multiple states. And federal loan applicants weren’t cross-checked against a Treasury Dep COVID-19 inquiry in UK asks whether 'terrible consequences' could have been avoided or reduced 06/13/2023 10:33am • LONDON (AP) — A mammoth three-year public inquiry into the U.K. government's handling of the response to COVID-19 opened Tuesday by asking if some suffering and death could have been avoided with better planning — and whether Britain's complex, protracted exit from the European Union distracted UK wages rise sharply in April, set to bolster expectations of another rate hike next week 06/13/2023 08:57am • LONDON (AP) — Wages in the U.K. spiked sharply in April, official figures showed Tuesday, a development that is set to cement expectations that the Bank of England will raise interest rates once again next week, to the likely dismay of many homeowners suffering from surging mortgage costs as well California Gov. Newsom spars with Fox News host Hannity over Biden, immigration and the economy 06/12/2023 11:54pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom sparred with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night, insisting President Joe Biden is physically fit for a second term as president while refusing to say whether supporters have urged him to run against Biden on the 2024 ballot. Asked if h Biden administration urges states to slow down on dropping people from Medicaid 06/12/2023 06:04pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday urged states to slow down their purge of Medicaid rolls, citing concerns that large numbers of lower-income people are losing health care coverage due to administrative reasons. The nation's Medicaid rolls swelled during the coronavi Elizabeth Gilbert delays release of novel set in Russia, citing objections from Ukrainian readers 06/12/2023 03:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Author Elizabeth Gilbert is delaying publication of a novel she had set in Russia, saying she had received an outpouring of “anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain” from Ukrainian readers. The head of PEN America, the free expression organization, called the decision “regrett Wisconsin's top elections official for 2024 uncertain as incumbent's term nears end 06/12/2023 01:37pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Who will oversee the 2024 presidential election in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin remains clouded with uncertainty just weeks before the state's nonpartisan top elections official reaches the end of her term. Republicans who control the state Legislature could fi Book Review: Lisa See’s ‘Lady Tan’s Circle of Women’ celebrates a Ming Dynasty physician 06/12/2023 01:08pm • “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women,” by Lisa See (Scribner) Soon after she published her last novel, 2019’s “The Island of Sea Women,” Lisa See joined much of the rest of the world in seclusion, sheltering at her Los Angeles home to avoid the deadly coronavirus. Little did the prolific, 68-year What to know as the falls of Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon roil UK politics 06/12/2023 10:30am • LONDON (AP) — Two very different British politicians who often clashed, Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon both led their parties to great heights — and both have had sudden and dramatic falls. Former U.K. prime minister Johnson quit as a lawmaker rather than face being ousted for lying to Parli Frankfurt hires former Bayern Munich assistant Dino Toppmöller as new coach 06/12/2023 05:36am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Eintracht Frankfurt appointed former Bayern Munich assistant coach Dino Toppmöller as head coach on Monday to replace Oliver Glasner. The Bundesliga club said the 42-year-old Toppmöller will take over on July 1 on a contract through 2026. He will be joined by assistant China struggles with weak post-COVID economic recovery 06/11/2023 10:18pm • SHIYAN, China (AP) — Sales of Yizhuan Automobile Co.’s trash trucks picked up after China ended anti-virus controls in December, but their growth is in low gear as managers struggle to rebuild business lost during the pandemic. China’s economy rebounded at the start of 2023, but after a good California skate park named for Black motorist fatally beaten in police traffic stop 06/11/2023 09:53pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Officials dedicated a California skate park Sunday in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who spent much of his youth in the state and was killed last January in what prosecutors said was a fatal beating by police in Tennessee during a traffic stop. An avid skateboarder, N Ex-Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon released after arrest by police in party finance probe 06/11/2023 02:56pm • LONDON (AP) — Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who dominated politics in Scotland for almost a decade, was arrested and questioned for several hours on Sunday by police investigating the finances of the governing, pro-independence Scottish National Party. Police Scotland said a 52-y After a pair of pandemic delays, Champions League final finally returns to Istanbul 06/10/2023 10:08am • ISTANBUL (AP) — The last time the Champions League final was in Turkey, the match became known as the “Miracle of Istanbul.” It's taken nearly two decades to miraculously bring the game back. Istanbul was supposed to host the 2020 Champions League final. It didn’t happen. Then the 2021 final Boris Johnson's bombshell exit from Parliament leaves UK politics reeling 06/10/2023 09:56am • LONDON (AP) — Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson left chaos in his wake Saturday after quitting Parliament with a blast at fellow lawmakers he accused of ousting him in a “witch hunt.” As opponents jeered, the Conservative government absorbed the shock of yet another Johnson earthquake,