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Barcelona says it remains on track to reduce its debt without the use of financial levers 10/18/2023 10:47am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Barcelona is on track to reducing its debt without having to resort to new financial levers, the club said Wednesday while announcing a higher-than-expected net profit of 304 million euros ($320.5 million) for the 2022-23 season. Barcelona said the club���s operating income Italy's far-right Premier Meloni defies fears of harming democracy and clashing with the EU 10/18/2023 12:15am • ROME (AP) ��� When Giorgia Meloni took office a year ago as the first far-right premier in Italy���s post-war history, many in Europe worried about the prospect of the country's democratic backsliding and resistance to European Union rules. The European Commission president issued a decidedly undipl Tip math: Montgomery Co. lawmakers hear two sides in the fight over tipped wage credit 10/17/2023 11:30pm • Tension was in the air at a hearing in Rockville, Maryland, on doing away with the tipped wage credit and phasing in a minimum wage that matches the rest of Montgomery County among both sides of the debate. As the Tuesday afternoon hearing started, Montgomery County Council President Evan Glass u Venezuela���s government and US-backed faction of the opposition agree to work on electoral conditions 10/17/2023 09:20pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� Venezuela���s government and a faction of the opposition formally agreed Tuesday to work together to reach a series of basic conditions for the next presidential election, including scheduling the contest for the second half of 2024. Their accord was part of a partial agr Remains of at least 189 people removed from Colorado funeral home, up from 115, officials say 10/17/2023 08:38pm • DENVER (AP) ��� The remains of at least 189 people have been removed from a Colorado funeral home, up from an initial estimate of about 115 when the decaying and improperly stored bodies were discovered two weeks ago, officials said Tuesday. The remains were found by authorities responding to a repo Wisconsin Assembly approves $545 million in public dollars for Brewers stadium repairs 10/17/2023 06:28pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Wisconsin legislators edged closer Tuesday to passing a compromise plan to spend more than half-a-billion dollars in public money to help cover repairs at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium, pushing the proposal through the state Assembly and on to the Senate. The chamber voted 69- Business Highlights: Stalled spending on electrical grids, US retail sales rise n September 10/17/2023 05:59pm • ___ Electrical grids aren���t keeping up with the green energy push. That could risk climate goals FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ��� Stalled spending on electrical grids worldwide is slowing the rollout of renewable energy and could put efforts to limit climate change at risk if millions of miles of power Editorial Roundup: United States 10/17/2023 05:48pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 17 The Washington Post on the U.S. looking to the Pacific Islands: The Biden administration last month recognized the Cook Islands and Niue as ��� sovereign and independent states ��� and promised to open diplomatic relations. The IRS plans limited rollout of free e-file tax return system with invitations to select taxpayers 10/17/2023 05:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The IRS plans to invite select taxpayers across 13 states to try out the agency's pilot electronic free file tax return system beginning in January. The agency estimates that hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will participate in the limited rollout of the program for the 2024 f North Dakota Gov. Burgum calls special session to fix budget bill struck down by court 10/17/2023 03:39pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum called a special session Tuesday of the Republican-controlled Legislature to address a major budget bill struck down by the state Supreme Court last month, leaving a giant hole in state government operations lawmakers are rushing to fill. The ses General Motors delays electric pickup truck production at plant near Detroit as US EV demand slows 10/17/2023 02:07pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� General Motors will delay electric pickup truck production at a factory near Detroit due to slowing U.S. demand for electric vehicles, to better manage its capital investments, and to make some engineering changes. The company said in a statement Tuesday that the factory in Orion To A potential presidential run for Glenn Youngkin would face logistical hurdles and voter skepticism 10/17/2023 11:20am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Glenn Youngkin was waving off talk about running for the White House back in 2021, before he���d even made it to the Virginia governor���s mansion. Brad Hobbs, a childhood friend, told The Associated Press at the time that his ultimate goal was to see the Harvard-educated R Book Review: Sly Stone wants to take you higher in memoir with tales of funk, drugs and survival 10/17/2023 11:03am • While summoning stories from his remarkable yet erratic life in music, Sly Stone admits he occasionally had to depend on the recollections of others because his own memory wasn't always reliable. At one point in his new memoir, Stone, now 80, remembers that during the hazy excesses of his 1970s roc Lawyers, Trump and money: Ex-president spends millions in donor cash on attorneys as legal woes grow 10/17/2023 09:49am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Donald Trump���s political fundraising machine is raking in donations at a prodigious pace, but he���s spending tens of millions of dollars he���s bringing in to pay attorneys to deal with the escalating costs of the various criminal cases he is contending with as he moves furthe Czech government faces no-confidence vote in Parliament sought by populist ex-prime minister 10/17/2023 06:28am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� The Czech coalition government on Tuesday faced a parliamentary no-confidence vote over opposition claims that it is incompetent in handling the economy and in controlling immigration. The main opposition centrist ANO (YES) movement led by populist billionaire Andrej Babis accused th