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FILE - People build a model of the business tower Lakhta Centre, at the headquarters of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, filling the frame with stones, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 9, 2022. It's not a summer heat wave that's making European leaders and businesses sweat. It's fear that Russia's manipulation of natural gas supplies will lead to an economic and political crisis next winter. Or, in the worst case, even sooner. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

EXPLAINER: What's next after Russia reduced gas to Europe?

The war in Ukraine is fueling fears of a natural gas emergency in Europe. Russia has throttled back supplies to more countries, this time to major economies and major users such as Germany and Italy. … more

By The Associated Press | 6/21/22

FILE - In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, taillights trace the path of a motor vehicle at the Naughton Power Plant, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. While the power plant will be closed in 2025, Bill Gates' company TerraPower announced it had chosen Kemmerer for a nontraditional, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor that will bring on workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon. The U.S. nuclear industry has provided a steady 20% of the nation's power for years, but now plant operators are hoping to nearly double their output over the next three decades, according to the industry's trade association. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File)

Nuclear industry hopes to expand output with new reactors

The trade association for U.S. nuclear plant operators says it hopes to nearly double their output over the next three decades. Those plans hang on the functionality of a new type of nuclear reactor … more

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT | 6/21/22

FILE - A Spirit Airlines aircraft approaches Philadelphia International Airport on Oct. 22, 2021. JetBlue is boosting its offer Monday, June 20, 2022, to buy Spirit Airlines, raising the stakes again in the bidding war over the nation’s biggest budget airline. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

JetBlue raises offer again in bidding for Spirit Airlines

JetBlue is boosting its offer to buy Spirit Airlines, raising the stakes again in the bidding war over the nation’s biggest budget airline. JetBlue said Monday that it offered $33.50 per share, or … more

6/20/22

California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announces the creation of a Legislative committee to look into the state's high gas prices during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California Democrats to investigate cause of high gas prices

California lawmakers say they'll investigate why the state's gas prices are the highest in the U.S. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced a bipartisan committee on Monday to investigate gas price … more

By ADAM BEAM | 6/20/22

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks as she faces off with New York Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., during a New York governor primary debate at the studios of WNBC4-TV, Thursday, June, 16, 2022, in New York. (Craig Ruttle/Newsday via AP, Pool)

New York passes landmark voting rights legislation

New York’s governor has signed a law intended to prevent local officials from enacting rules that might suppress people’s voting rights because of their race. The law signed Monday by Gov. Kathy … more

By MAYSOON KHAN | 6/20/22

FILE - An advertisement for Bitcoin cryptocurrency is displayed on a street in Hong Kong on Feb. 17, 2022. Cryptocurrencies have experienced their worst plunge since 2018. As prices drop, companies collapse and skepticism soars, fortunes and jobs are disappearing overnight, and investors’ feverish speculation has been replaced by icy calculation, in what industry leaders are referring to as a “crypto winter.” (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Crypto investors' hot streak ends as harsh 'winter' descends

The wealth-generating hot streak for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has turned brutally cold. As prices plunge, companies collapse and skepticism soars, fortunes and jobs are disappearing … more

By KEN SWEET and FATIMA HUSSEIN | 6/20/22

Sylvester Stallone poses for photographers upon arrival at the UK launch of the streaming site Paramount +, in London, Monday, June 20, 2022. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Stallone, Costner, Chastain help launch Paramount+ in UK

Paramount+ flexed the star power of its shows as it prepares to launch in the United Kingdom with a London event attended by Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis, Kevin Costner, Jessica Chastain and more. … more

6/20/22

Rwandan border security forces stand guard on their side of the Petite Barriere border crossing with Rwanda in Goma, eastern Congo Friday, June 17, 2022. Rwanda's military says a Congolese soldier crossed the border and began shooting at Rwandan security forces and civilians before being shot dead Friday morning, the latest escalation in tensions between the countries. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

East African leaders send regional force to eastern Congo

East Africa’s leaders have responded to the threat of war between Rwanda and Congo by instructing a new regional force to deploy in eastern Congo and ordering an immediate cease-fire. A statement … more

6/20/22

Seattle Storm co-owner Ginny Gilder poses for a photo on May 18, 2022, at Climate Pledge Arena during halftime of a WNBA basketball game between the Seattle storm and the Chicago Sky in Seattle. As Title IX marks its 50th anniversary in 2022, Gilder is one of countless women who benefited from the enactment and execution of the law and translated those opportunities into becoming leaders in their professional careers. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Title IX: WNBA owner among women athletes running businesses

WNBA co-owner Ginny Gilder says fighting for equal treatment as a rower at Yale 46 years ago radicalized her. Gilder says what she has learned from that experience of being discriminated against for … more

By TIM BOOTH | 6/20/22

Steam rises out of the cooling towers of the Niederaussem lignite-fired power plant in Pulheim, Germany, Monday, June 20, 2022. The German government said that it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030 despite deepening worries about a cut in Russia’s gas supplies. (Federico Gambarini/dpa via AP)

Germany sticks to 2030 coal exit target amid energy worries

The German government says it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030, despite deepening worries about a cut in Russia’s gas supplies. Russia’s Gazprom … more

6/20/22

A train pulls into Hunts Cross Station, in Liverpool, England, Monday, June 20, 2022. Unions and train companies in Britain are set to hold last-minute talks Monday amid fading hopes of averting the country’s biggest rail strikes for decades. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

Last-ditch talks aim to avert disruptive UK rail strike

Unions and train companies in Britain are set to hold last-minute talks Monday aimed at averting the country’s biggest rail strikes for decades. Up to 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance … more

By JILL LAWLESS | 6/20/22

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures after arriving at RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, England, Saturday, June 18, 2022, following a trip to Ukraine. Johnson met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv to offer continued aid and military training. (Joe Giddens/Pool Photo via AP)

Boris Johnson has sinus operation at London hospital

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has had an operation on his sinuses under general anaesthetic. Johnson spokesman Max Blain said the prime minister was back at his 10 Downing Street home and … more

6/20/22

FILE - BTS performs "Butter" at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards on April 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. The surprise announcement by BTS that they were taking a break to focus on members’ solo projects stunned their global fanbase, shaking their label's stock price and leaving many questions about the K-pop supergroup’s future. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

BTS break sparks debate on activism, military exemptions

Numerous questions remain about BTS and its seven members after last week's surprise announcement that the group was going to spend more time focusing on solo projects. As the most successful K-pop … more

By JUWON PARK | 6/20/22

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 1979 file photo, Bella Abzug, left, and Patsy Mink of Women USA sit next to Gloria Steinem as she speaks in Washington where they warned presidential candidates that promises for women's rights will not be enough to get their support in the next election. Title IX, the law best known for its role in gender equity in athletics and preventing sexual harassment on campuses, is turning 50. It was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on June 23, 1972, after being shepherded through Congress in part by Rep. Patsy Mink, a Democrat from Hawaii who was the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges, File)

EXPLAINER: What is Title IX and what impact has it had?

Title IX is best known for its role in gender equity in athletics and sexual harassment on campuses. But the landmark U.S. law covers a wide variety of topics and educational settings — and those … more

By COLLIN BINKLEY and ERICA HUNZINGER | 6/20/22

Starbucks head of North America business leaving company

Rossann Williams, Starbucks’ North America president who’s been a prominent figure in the company’s push against worker unionization, is leaving the company after 17 years. In a letter sent to … more

By The Associated Press | 6/19/22

FILE - An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, on Nov. 18, 2021. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were collapsing in price Monday, June, 13, 2022 after the major crypto lender Celsius halted all withdrawals citing “extreme market conditions." It is the second collapse of a part of the crypto world in the last two months. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Bitcoin inches up above psychological threshold of $20,000

The price of a bitcoin has inched above $20,000 after the broader crypto selloff dragged it below the psychological threshold a day earlier. The price of the most popular cryptocurrency was … more

6/19/22

This photo provided by the Hellenic Coast Guard shows a part of a rescue operation on the island of Mykonos, Greece, on Sunday, Jun 19, 2022. Greek authorities said Sunday they have rescued 108 migrants from a sailboat that was found rudderless and leaking water in the Aegean Sea in near gale force winds. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP)

Greek coast guard rescues 108 migrants; 4 missing

Greek authorities say they have rescued 108 migrants from a sailboat that was found rudderless and leaking water in the Aegean Sea in near gale force winds. The rescued migrants have told authorities … more

6/19/22

FILE- Former Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen poses for a photo, in Frederiksberg, Denmark, Thursday, March 11, 2021. Uffe Elleman-Jensen who was Denmark’s foreign minister for more than 10 years from the early 1980s and was considered one of the Nordic region’s key politicians in the end phase of the Cold War, has died. He was 80. (Emil Helms /Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Danish ex-foreign minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen dies at 80

Uffe Elleman-Jensen who was Denmark’s foreign minister for more than 10 years from the early 1980s and was considered one of the Nordic region’s key politicians in the end phase of the Cold War, … more

By JARI TANNER | 6/19/22

A firefighter works in front of flames during a wildfire in the Sierra de la Culebra in the Zamora Provence on Saturday June 18, 2022. Thousands of hectares of wooded hill land in northwestern Spain have been burnt by a wildfire that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people from nearby villages. Officials said the blaze in the Sierra de Culebra mountain range started Wednesday during a dry electric storm. (Emilio Fraile/Europa Press via AP)

Firefighters in Spain battle blazes amid unusual heat wave

Firefighters in Spain are struggling to contain wildfires in several parts of the country as it suffers an unusual heat wave for this time of the year. The worst damage has been in the northwest … more

By JOSEPH WILSON | 6/19/22

FILE - Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, takes part in the East German Economic Forum (OWF) in Bad Saarow, Germany, Monday, June 13, 2022. Habeck is stepping up an appeal for the country's residents to save energy after Russia's Gazprom announced significant cuts in natural gas deliveries through a key pipeline. (Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP, File)

Germany to limit use of gas for electricity production

Germany’s economy minister says the country will limit the use of gas for electricity production amid concerns about possible shortages caused by a reduction in supplies from Russia. Germany has … more

6/19/22