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FILE – Elf Bar disposable vaping pod devices are displayed, Monday, June 26, 2023, in Washington. Months after U.S. regulators tried to block imports of Elf Bar in May 2023, the top-selling Chinese disposable e-cigarette remains widely
CAPTION CORRECTION CORRECTS NUMBER OF REPRESENTED HEALTH WORKERS: FILE – Kaiser Permanente frontline healthcare workers picket outside the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Unions representing 85,000 health care workers who recently…
TOKYO — Japan's exports climbed 4.3% in September from a year earlier as shipments of vehicles, machinery and electronics rose while imports of oil and gas fell sharply, the government said Thursday. Exports totaled 9.2 trillion yen ($61 billion) in…
PRAGUE — The Czech coalition government survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote on Thursday over opposition claims that it is mishandling the economy and immigration. Only 85 opposition lawmakers in the 200-seat lower house of Parliament voted to dismiss the five-party…
MEXICO CITY — Mexican court employees said Wednesday they will go on strike from Thursday through Tuesday to protest proposed funding cuts, threatening an already creaky court system. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed cutting funds for the judicial…
BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona accountant Oriol Calvo ran afoul of the law when he was arrested in 2019 during a mass protest by supporters of Catalonia's independence from Spain that turned violent. A court found him guilty of public disorder…
