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At the heart of JD Vance’s journey from venture capitalist to vice presidential candidate is a memoir he first thought of in law school, “Hillbilly Elegy.” Vance’s bestseller about his roots in rural Kentucky and blue-collar Ohio made him a…

President Joe Biden is ready to propose a 5% cap on annual rent increases for tenants of major landlords. That's according to a person familiar with the plan who insisted on anonymity to discuss the upcoming announcement. Biden is expected…

U.S. stocks ticked to the edge of records as Wall Street’s momentum keeps pushing it upward. The S&P 500 climbed 0.3% Monday but finished just shy of its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5% to its own…

Chair Jerome Powell said the Federal Reserve is becoming more convinced that inflation is headed back to its 2% target and said the Fed would cut rates before the pace of price increases actually reached that point. “We’ve had three better…

Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia have rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. The attempt to become the first country in the world to reverse such a ban had been closely followed by…

South Africa's emergency services say six firefighters have died battling a bushfire in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province and another two are in a critical condition. Authorities said Monday they suspect that Sunday's fire may have been…

Police in Kenya say they have arrested the main suspect after nine dismembered bodies of women were found in a quarry in the capital, Nairobi. The head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations says the 33-year-old man has confessed to…

The European Commission says that the commission president and other top EU officials will boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary while the country holds the EU’s rotating presidency. That move was announced after Hungarian Prime…

A giant panda has given birth to a cub at a Dutch zoo in a boost to the captive population of the vulnerable mammals. Ouwehands Dierenpark announced Friday’s birth on Monday and released video of mom Wu Wen as she gave birth to her cub…

A court in Moscow has ordered house arrest for a general in custody on fraud charges. Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov. The court on Monday ordered Popov to be placed under house arrest until at least Oct. 11. Popov was arrested in May along with…

Prosecutors say a Lebanese man accused of being a member of the Hezbollah militant group and procuring drone components that were to be exported for use in attacks against Israel has been arrested in Germany. The suspect was arrested in…

U.S. journalist and author Masha Gessen was convicted in absentia by a Russian court of spreading false information about the military and sentenced to eight years in prison. The Moscow-born Gessen, a staff writer for The New Yorker who…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country needs 25 Patriot air defense systems to fully defend its airspace and protect the entire country from Russian missile attacks. He also wants Western partners to send more F-16…

Spanish police say human remains have been found in the search for a British teen who went missing almost a month ago on the island of Tenerife. Police said Monday it was likely that it was the body of Jay Slater, though formal…

Rio de Janeiro’s state government has launched a mega-operation with a force that includes nearly 2,000 military and civil officers across 10 low income neighborhoods to regain control of areas dominated by organized crime. The officers…