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FILE - In this July 24, 2021, file photo former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a gathering in Phoenix. The company planning to buy Donald Trump's new social media business disclosed Monday, June 27, 2022 that it has received subpoenas from a grand jury in New York. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. dropped 7% in morning trading Monday as the company reported that the subpoenas and related investigations by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission could delay its acquisition of the maker of Trump's Truth Social app. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Company buying Trump's social media app faces subpoenas

Supreme Court's abortion ruling sets off new court fights
Mitzi Rivas, left, hugs her daughter Maya Iribarren during an abortion-rights protest at City Hall in San Francisco following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Friday, June 24, 2022. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to end constitutional protections for abortion has cleared the way for states to impose bans and restrictions on abortion - and will set off a series of legal battles. (AP Photo/Josie Lepe)
Stocks fall on Wall Street, cool off after winning week
FILE - An NYSE sign is seen on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, June 15, 2022. Stocks are drifting mostly lower in early trading on Wall Street Monday, June 27, 2022 as the market cools off following a rare winning week and the best daily gain for the S&P 500 in two years. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)
Families brace for changes to pandemic-era free school meals
Students get lunch of homemade pizza and caesar salad at the Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, in Essex Junction, Vt., Thursday, June 9, 2022. The pandemic-era federal aid that made school meals available for free to all public school students - regardless of family income levels - is ending, raising fears about the effects in the upcoming school year for families already struggling with rising food and fuel costs. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
Some cities nix July 4 fireworks for shortages, fire dangers
FILE - Spectators watch as fireworks explode overhead during the Fourth of July celebration at Pioneer Park, on July 4, 2013, in Prescott, Ariz. The skies over a scattering of Western cities will stay dark for the third consecutive Fourth of July in 2022 as some big fireworks displays are canceled again, this time for pandemic related supply chain or staffing problems, or fire concerns amid dry weather. The city of Phoenix cited supply chain issues in canceling its three major Independence Day fireworks shows. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
Why captions are suddenly everywhere and how they got there
Chelle Wyatt uses her cell phone with the Otter app Friday, April 15, 2022, in Salt Lake City. People with hearing loss have adopted technology to navigate the world, especially as hearing aids are expensive and inaccessible to many. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
FILE - Andrew Giuliani, right, a Republican candidate for Governor of New York, is joined by his father, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, during a news conference, June 7, 2022, in New York. One place the former New York City mayor is in high demand these days is on the campaign of his son, Andrew Giuliani, who on Tuesday is hoping to become the Republican nominee for governor of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Andrew Giuliani invokes famous dad in bid for NY governor

FILE - This June 15, 2017 file photo released by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office shows Ricky Dubose. Dubose has been found guilty of murder in the killings of two guards during an escape from a prison bus five years ago, Monday, June 13, 2022.(Rutherford County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Officials: Georgia man sentenced to die kills self in prison

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs receives lifetime honor at BET Awards

The National Labor Relations Board's top prosecutor, Jennifer Abruzzo, poses for a portrait at National Labor Relations Board headquarters in Washington on Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

NLRB's top prosecutor seeks big changes, faces uphill battle

In this photo released by the Longmont Police Department the Life Choices building in Longmont, Colo., is seen vandalized on Saturday, June 25, 2022, following a fire at the Christian pregnancy center. The fire, which is being investigated by police as a possible arson, was reported hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and said abortion laws would be decided by the states. (Longmont Police Department via AP)

Police investigating fire at Colorado pregnancy center

The Very Rev. Kris Stubna, rector of St. Paul Cathedral Parish, preaches on the topic of abortion after the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade during Mass at St. Paul Catholic Cathedral in Pittsburgh on Sunday, June 26, 2022. During his service, Stubna said the overturning of the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling was the result of prayers and efforts of many Catholics and others. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

After Roe's demise, clergy lead faithful in praise, laments

Europe

A police officer and paramedic give the first aid to a woman wounded by the Russian shelling in city center in Slavyansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, June 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia 'pouring fire' on Ukrainian city as offensive mounts

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Middle East

A worker cleans a restored Roman-era mosaic ahead of its display in its hometown ahead of the inauguration of the Shelby White & Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center, in Lod, central Israel, Thursday, June 23, 2022. A series of well-preserved ancient Roman mosaics have returned home to the central Israel city of Lod after more than a decade touring the world's most prominent museums. Israel on Monday inaugurated a new museum to house the artworks that once adorned a Roman-era villa. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Stunning Roman mosaics return home to new Israeli museum

AP PHOTOS: Israel's separation barrier, 20 years on
Iraqi caretaker PM in Iran to rekindle talks with Saudis
Iran launches rocket into space as nuclear talks to resume
Israeli PM convenes Cabinet before parliament is dissolved
In Lebanon, how to say 'I do' sparks fierce debate
Iraqi PM heads to Saudi Arabia, Iran for new dialogue
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Qatar's emir in Cairo for 1st time since Arab spat resolved

Asia

FILE - Myanmar's then opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk through the garden at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon, Myanmar, Dec. 2, 2011. Myanmar's Supreme Court on Monday, June 27, 2022, heard final arguments in a bitter dispute between the country's ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and her estranged elder brother over the property where she was held under house arrest for 15 years. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool, File)

Brother of Myanmar's Suu Kyi seeks share of family property

Afghan boy sits in a courtyard of her destroyed home after an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 26, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)

Death toll of children in Afghanistan quake rises to 155

Water-filled barriers have been installed by police outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre where the inauguration ceremony of the newly-appointed Chief Executive John Lee will take place in Hong Kong, Monday, June 27, 2022. Questions continue to circle over whether Chinese leader Xi Jinping will attend the 25th year anniversary of Hong Kong's handover from British to Chinese rule and the inauguration of of the territory's new leader. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Will he go or not? Hong Kong awaits word on Xi Jinping visit

South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Youngse speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 27, 2022. Kwon said that North Korea is increasingly targeting the rival South with its nuclear arms buildup and called for Beijing and Moscow to step up efforts to persuade the North to refrain from conducting a possibly imminent nuclear test explosion. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Seoul urges China, Russia to prevent North Korean nuke test

People complain about unavailability of fuel to army soldiers who secure a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, June 27, 2022. Sri Lanka is sending two ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel - one of the necessities that the Indian ocean island nation has almost run out of amid its ongoing economic crisis. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka sends 2 ministers to Russia for oil amid crisis

People, some of them holding parasols, cross an intersection amid heat, in Tokyo, Monday, June 27, 2022. Japan's government issued a warning for possible power crunch in the Tokyo area Monday, asking offices and residents to save energy as the capital region is hit by sweltering heat, with weather officials announcing an earliest end to the rainy season in decades. (Yusuke Ogata/Kyodo News via AP)

Tokyo warned of power crunch as Japan endures heat wave

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Explorers find WWII Navy destroyer, deepest wreck discovered
In this Wednesday, June 22, 2022, image provided by Caladan Oceanic, the three-tube torpedo launcher that was part of the USS Samuel B. Roberts can be seen underwater off the Philippines in the Western Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Navy destroyer that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of World War II in the Philippines has become the deepest wreck to be discovered, according to explorers. (Caladan Oceanic via AP)
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FILE - Technicians work on the Psyche spacecraft at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, April 11, 2022, in Pasadena, Calif. NASA put an asteroid mission on hold Friday, June 24, 2022, blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software. The Psyche mission to a strange metal asteroid of the same name was supposed to launch this September or October. But the agency's Jet Propulsion Lab was several months late writing and delivering its software for navigation, guidance and control. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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This April 2022 handout photograph provided by RR Auction shows moon dust from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, which was pulled from an auction listing after NASA said the dust, and some cockroaches that were fed the dust, are property of the federal government. (Lawrence McGlynn/RR Auction photo via AP)
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This microscope photo provided by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in June 2022 shows thin strands of Thiomargarita magnifica bacteria cells next to a U.S. dime coin. The species was discovered among the mangroves of Guadeloupe archipelago in the French Caribbean. A team of researchers at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC), and the Université des Antilles, characterized the bacterium composed of a single cell that is 5,000 times larger than other bacteria. (Tomas Tyml/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via AP)

Technology

Company buying Trump's social media app faces subpoenas
FILE - In this July 24, 2021, file photo former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a gathering in Phoenix. The company planning to buy Donald Trump's new social media business disclosed Monday, June 27, 2022 that it has received subpoenas from a grand jury in New York. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. dropped 7% in morning trading Monday as the company reported that the subpoenas and related investigations by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission could delay its acquisition of the maker of Trump's Truth Social app. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
Russian weapons wrecked in Ukraine war on display in Poland
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Hanna Maliar, poses for a picture during an opening of an open-air exhibition of damaged and burnt-out Russian tanks and armored vehicles at the Castle Square, in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, June 27, 2022. The vehicles were captured by Ukrainian military forces during the war in the Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities announced that there are plans for similar exhibits in other European capitals such as Berlin, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
Why captions are suddenly everywhere and how they got there
Chelle Wyatt uses her cell phone with the Otter app Friday, April 15, 2022, in Salt Lake City. People with hearing loss have adopted technology to navigate the world, especially as hearing aids are expensive and inaccessible to many. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Clinic escort Kim Gibson stands outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., calling out to incoming patients that the clinic is still open, moments after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was issued, Friday, June 24, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the Mississippi. However, the ruling ends constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Toyota recalls electric car for faulty wheel that may detach
In this undated photo released by Toyota Motor Corp., its bZ4X vehicle is shown during an online presentation at an unannounced place. Toyota is recalling 2,700 bZ4X crossover vehicles globally for wheel bolts that could become loose, in a major setback for the Japanese automaker's ambitions to roll out electric cars. (Toyota Motor Corp. via AP)