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Surging auto insurance rates squeeze drivers, fuel inflation 04/26/2024 01:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation. Auto insurance rates rose 2.6% in March and are up 22% from a year ago. Premium costs have been marching steadily higher since 2022, even as inflation at the consumer level steadily cooled from India votes in second phase of national elections with Modi's BJP as front-runner 04/26/2024 12:44pm • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Millions of Indians voted Friday in a moderate turnout in the second round of multi-phase national elections as Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to galvanize voters with his assertive brand of Hindu nationalist politics. People lined up outside polling stations as voting opened European soccer leagues insist they have no plans for games in the US. A lawsuit could change that 04/26/2024 11:07am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Leaders of top European soccer leagues say they have no plans to take games to the United States, though acknowledged that could change pending a lawsuit in Manhattan. FIFA has shifted its long-time policy of blocking domestic league games being played on the territory of another mem Decency agenda, affordable housing package among bills signed into law in Maryland 04/26/2024 11:06am • Before Maryland���s 90-day legislative session began in January, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones urged not only her colleagues, but also the general public, to simply be more decent with each other. During the session, the Baltimore County Democrat presented a ���decency agenda,��� a package of f The protests over the Israel-Hamas war put a spotlight on college endowments 04/26/2024 10:51am • ���Divest from death��� read the bubble letters written in chalk on the sidewalk on Tuesday outside of The New School in New York City. The slogan articulates one of the demands of the antiwar protests on campuses which call on colleges or universities to divest their endowments from companies prof Scotland's under-pressure leader insists he won't resign before crunch confidence vote next week 04/26/2024 10:21am • LONDON (AP) ��� Scotland's leader insisted Friday that he won't be resigning as he fights for his political survival amid the fallout of his decision to pull the plug on a three-year power-sharing agreement that has made his Scottish National Party a minority government. The pressure on First Minist Antony Blinken meets with China's President Xi as US, China spar over bilateral and global issues 04/26/2024 10:01am • BEIJING (AP) ��� U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials, stressing the importance of ���responsibly managing��� the differences between the United States and China as the two sides butted heads over a number of contentious bil USDA tells producers to reduce salmonella in certain frozen chicken products 04/26/2024 09:46am • Poultry producers will be required to bring salmonella bacteria in certain chicken products to very low levels to help prevent food poisoning under a final rule issued Friday by U.S. agriculture officials. When the regulation takes effect in 2025, salmonella will be considered an adulterant ��� a c Ukraine pushes to get military-age men to come home. Some neighboring countries say they will help 04/26/2024 09:44am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukraine���s foreign minister doubled down Friday on the government���s move to bolster the pool of fighting forces by cutting off consular services to conscription-age men outside the country, saying it was a question of "justice.��� Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the pol Sweden should spend more on defense and increase the number of conscripts, lawmakers recommend 04/26/2024 09:22am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Sweden should increase its annual military budget by nearly 54 billion kronor ($5 billion) by 2030 to strengthen its air defenses and beef up the number of conscripts, a Swedish parliamentary committee recommended Friday. The Scandinavian country joined the NATO allianc Lo que realmente quieren los manifestantes propalestinos en los campus universitarios de EE.UU. 04/26/2024 08:46am • (CNN) -- Los campus universitarios de todo Estados Unidos se han visto sacudidos por disturbios que han resultado en enfrentamientos con la polic��a, el cierre de algunas aulas y que han captado la atenci��n de la naci��n.Aunque gran parte de la atenci��n inicial se ha centrado en los incidentes ant Exxon Mobil profit declines in 1st quarter as natural gas prices fall 04/26/2024 08:04am • Exxon Mobil's profit declined in its first quarter as natural gas prices fell and industry refining margins dropped. The energy company earned $8.22 billion, or $2.06 per share, for the three months ended March 31. A year earlier it earned $11.43 billion, or $2.79 per share. The results didn't meet Repatriated South African apartheid-era artworks on display to celebrate 30 years of democracy 04/26/2024 01:38am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� A selection of South African artworks produced during the country���s apartheid era which ended up in foreign art collections is on display in Johannesburg to mark 30 years since the country's transition to democracy in 1994. Most of the artworks were taken out of the country b Falcons provide an NFL draft surprise by taking Washington QB Michael Penix Jr. with No. 8 pick 04/26/2024 12:38am • FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) ��� The Atlanta Falcons provided the first major surprise of the NFL draft by selecting quarterback Michael Penix Jr. of Washington with the No. 8 overall pick on Thursday night. The Falcons extended their recent trend of selecting offensive skill players in the first round Stock market today: Asian benchmarks mostly climb despite worries about US economy 04/25/2024 11:50pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Asian shares mostly rose Friday despite worries about the economic outlook and inflation in the U.S. and the rest of the world. The Bank of Japan ended a policy meeting with no major changes, keeping its benchmark interest rate in a range of 0 to 0.1%. In March, it raised the key rate