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LONDON — Premier League champion Chelsea will be the first visitor to Tottenham’s temporary home of Wembley Stadium as part of a tough-looking start to its title defense. The Premier League schedule for the 2017-18 season was published Wednesday, with Chelsea playing Burnley at home in the opening round in mid-August. It then gets more

WASHINGTON — Less than six weeks after he helped revive a flagging House Republican health care bill and push it to passage, President Donald Trump now says the measure is “mean” and is asking GOP senators to make it more generous. Trump used those words Tuesday at a closed-door White House lunch with 15 Republican

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is leaving out half the equation when it argues President Barack Obama’s health care law is in a “death spiral.” Vice President Mike Pence offered accurate but only partial statistics when he made that case Tuesday in remarks to federal health employees. “Back when Obamacare was first passed, just over

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Rescuers struggled on Wednesday to reach villages hit by massive landslides that have killed at least 140 people while also burying roads and cutting power in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said. To clear paths for rescue workers, villagers joined firefighters and soldiers in cutting fallen trees and clearing mud and debris unleashed by

PARIS — France’s government is presenting a bill on cleaning up political ethics after years of corruption scandals — even as investigations haunt members of President Emmanuel Macron’s new government. Justice Minister Francois Bayrou is unveiling the draft law on “restoring trust” in politics Wednesday to the Cabinet, the first major legislation by Macron’s administration.

GUATEMALA CITY — A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in western Guatemala near the border with Mexico caused moderate damage to homes, triggered some landslides across highways and injured at least one person early Wednesday, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the tremor was centered 8 kilometers (5 miles) southwest of Tajumulco, Guatemala about 111 kilometers

MADRID — Zara fashion store owner Inditex says net profit jumped by 18 percent in the first quarter of its fiscal year thanks to booming sales and continued expansion. The world’s largest clothes retailer said Wednesday net profit for February through April was 654 million euros ($734 million), compared with 554 million for the period

BRUSSELS — A top European Union official says that legal action will be launched Wednesday against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for failing to honor their pledges to accommodate refugees. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that “for more than a year now they have not been taking any refugees at all,” under a

SAN FRANCISCO — Freewheeling Uber faces major change. Its board is cracking down, its founder and CEO is stepping away indefinitely, and the company itself is coming to grips with measures intended to reform its toxic culture and aggressive business practices. And it all started when Susan Fowler, a former Uber engineer, posted a personal

MOSCOW — Several people have been detained outside the Russian parliament at an impromptu protest against a controversial plan to tear down Soviet-era apartment blocks and relocate 1.6 million people. The State Duma is expected on Wednesday to adopt the third and final hearing of a bill that would allow Moscow City Hall to pull

Two Georgia inmates serving long prison sentences and “dangerous beyond description” overpowered and killed two guards on a prison bus before fleeing in a stolen car, authorities said. The deadly escape happened about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday as the guards drove 33 inmates between prisons, and it set off a massive manhunt involving local, state and

BEIRUT — The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq is endangering civilians by using artillery-delivered white phosphorous, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, after reports that such weapons were used in the Syrian city of Raqqa. HRW said it was not able to independently verify whether the use of the munitions

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Prosecutors at the trial in Cambodia of the surviving top leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime have begun summing up their case, declaring that despite the defendants’ denials, the evidence clearly showed they knew of the suffering and deaths of their countrymen. Khieu Samphan, the regime’s 85-year-old former head of

BRISBANE, Australia — A former Australian tennis professional appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday facing 11 criminal charges, including one of match-fixing at a tournament in Victoria state. Isaac Frost, who did not enter a plea, was granted bail and will return to court on June 26 when he will also face charges of

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Typewriter enthusiasts gather at an Albuquerque restaurant to experiment with vintage Smith Coronas. Fans in Boston kneel in a city square and type stories about their lives during a pro-immigration demonstration. A new documentary on typewriters featuring Tom Hanks and musician John Mayer is set for release this summer. In the age

DOHA, Qatar — Qatar said Wednesday it had pulled all of its troops from the border of Djibouti and Eritrea, East African nations that have a long-running territorial dispute which Doha had helped mediate. Qatar offered no explanation for the move, though it comes amid a diplomatic dispute with other Arab nations that have cut

WASHINGTON — There isn’t much suspense about what the Fed will announce when its latest policy meeting ends Wednesday: That it’s raising its key short-term interest rate for the third time in six months. The job market — with unemployment at a 16-year low of 4.3 percent — has improved to such an extent that

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Just when CC Sabathia was pitching like an ace again, the big left-hander got hurt. Sabathia exited early with a strained left hamstring, and Eric Young Jr. rallied the Los Angeles Angels to a 3-2 victory in 11 innings that snapped the New York Yankees’ six-game winning streak Tuesday night. Yankees manager

ERIN, Wis. — For the second straight year, Aussies Nick Flanagan and Aron Price will walk the U.S. Open fairways together. This year’s different, though. Flanagan, who caddied for Price at Oakmont last year, will be playing at Erin Hills, while Price will take his turn carrying Flanagan’s bag. “I definitely owed him one,” Price

CANBERRA, Australia — Major Australian TV company Ten Network said Wednesday it had appointed voluntary administrators as it struggles with debt and shrinking advertising revenue. The board of Ten Network Holdings Ltd. decided to appoint the three administrators after two of the network’s billionaire backers, Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon, advised last weekend they were

ERIN, Wis. — Tyler Light sorted logs at a sawmill and worked overnight at a UPS distribution center, all in pursuit of a dream. Bathed in sunlight at Erin Hills, with a college buddy on his bag and his smiling parents soaking in every moment, the wry grin on Light’s face said it all. It’s

John Calipari would prefer to focus on the players he wants and the offense he’ll run. This time, there are other concerns. When he leads the U.S. basketball team into the Under-19 World Cup for men, they will travel to Egypt, home to enough violence lately that the Americans questioned whether it was safe enough

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber targeted a checkpoint run by rival insurgents in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province Wednesday, killing nine of them, an Afghan official said. Mohammad Saleem Rohdi, chief of the Gareshk district, said six other militants from a breakaway Taliban faction were wounded in the attack early Wednesday. Taliban spokesmen could not

By promoting Lincoln Riley to head coach at age 33, Oklahoma locked up one of the most promising coordinators in college football and took a likely hot candidate off the job market. Riley replacing Bob Stoops makes 11 former assistant coaches who will be making their head coaching debuts in 2017, including Justin Wilcox at

SINGAPORE — A lengthy tussle heated up Wednesday between Singapore’s prime minister and his siblings over the last wishes of their father, the founding leader of the city-state. The feud offers a rare glimpse into cracks in the prominent family after the death of Lee Kuan Yew, who led Singapore with an iron grip for