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Stock market today: Wall Street leaps, nearly escapes …

The New York Stock Exchange is seen in New York, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Markets are opening mostly higher on Wall Street Friday after a wild ride a day earlier. The S&P 500 added 0.4% in the early going, following even bigger gains in Europe. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Blinken warns Ukraine cease-fire now would result in ‘Potemkin …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers his speech at the Helsinki City Hall, Finland Friday, June 2, 2023. (Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva via AP)

Companies reach $1.18 billion deal to resolve claims from …

FILE - Eva Stebel, water researcher, pours a water sample into a smaller glass container for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response on Feb. 16, 2023, in Cincinnati. Three chemical companies said Friday, June 2, 2023, that they had reached a $1.18 billion deal to resolve complaints of polluting many U.S. drinking water systems with potentially harmful compounds known as PFAS. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Germany to look into report that ex-air force officers …

Why are people in Britain talking about Boris Johnson’s …

FILE - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, right, takes a photo of a Nigeria Naval worship with his phone camera, during a visit to the Nigeria Navy at the Naval dockyard in Lagos, Nigeria Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. The British government is facing a Thursday deadline to hand over a sheaf of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal messages to the country’s COVID-19 pandemic inquiry. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba, File)

British government appoints new acting chair for BBC to …

In Norway, Indigenous Sami protest outside prime minister’s …

Young campaigners protesting wind farms block one of the entrances to The Prime Minister's Office in Oslo, Norway, Friday, June 2, 2023. Dozen of activists including Indigenous Sami are protesting outside the office of Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The activists on Friday vowed to block entry to the complex to remind the government that they want a wind farm removed because they say it endangers the reindeer herders’ way of life. (Lise Åserud /NTB Scanpix via AP)

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How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt limit deal and …

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks to the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. as the House moves toward passage of the debt limit bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Money stored in Venmo and other payment apps could …

FILE - The Venmo app is displayed on an iPad on March 20, 2018, in Baltimore. Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money for the long term with these apps because their funds might not be safe during a financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned on Thursday, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Meta tests blocking news content on Instagram, Facebook …

Stock market today: Asia follows Wall St up on hopes …

A pedestrian passes by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange electronic screen in Hong Kong, Friday, June 2, 2023. Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday ahead of an update on the U.S. jobs market after Federal Reserve officials indicated they might skip another interest rate hike this month. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Drought, water overuse prompt Arizona to limit construction …

FILE - Water from the Colorado River diverted through the Central Arizona Project fills an irrigation canal, Aug. 18, 2022, in Maricopa, Ariz. Arizona will not approve new housing construction on the fast-growing edges of metro Phoenix that rely on groundwater thanks to years of overuse and a multi-decade drought that is dwindling its water supply. In a news conference Thursday, June 1, 2023, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the pause on new construction that would affect some of the fastest-growing areas of the nation's 5th largest city. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Macy’s slashes expectations for the year after a …

FILE - Shoppers walk into a Macy's department store Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, at Miami International Mall in Doral, Fla. Macy's reports their earnings on Thursday, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Debt limit bill gives Republicans IRS cuts, but Democrats …

FILE - A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building on May 4, 2021, in Washington. While Republicans seek to make good on campaign promises to cut IRS funding through the proposed debt ceiling and budget cuts package now moving through Congress, Democrats are offering assurances that the spending cuts will have little impact on the federal tax collector. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)