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A currency trader reacts near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, top center, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after tech-fueled gains on Wall Street

Asian shares are mixed after gains in technology stocks snapped Wall Street’s four-week losing streak. Investors are awaiting developments on U.S.
 
A Tesla level 3 charging station is seen on March 19, 2025, in Woodstock, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Man drives car into protesters outside a Tesla dealership, nobody hurt, sheriff says

 
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer gives a television interview at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Schumer says he won’t step down as Senate Democratic leader despite government funding uproar

 
Expelled South Africa Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool speaks to supporters upon his arrival at Cape Town International Airport, in Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

Expelled South African ambassador returns home and says will wear US sanction as ‘badge of dignity’

 
Comedian Conan O'Brien walks out on stage at the start of the 25th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Conan O'Brien, Sunday, March 23, 2025, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Conan O’Brien accepts Mark Twain Prize for humor as politics roils the Kennedy Center

 
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, right, greets U.S. Senator Steve Daines before a meeting in the Fujian Room at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)

China’s premier says US relations at ‘an important juncture’ during meeting with pro-Trump senator

 
Acting interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, speaks during the funeral prayers of Khalil Haqqani, the minister for refugees and repatriation, during his funeral procession in eastern Paktia province, Afghanistan, Dec. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Saifullah Zahir, File)

The US lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, says Kabul

 
Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a press conference following the First Ministers Meeting at the National War Museum on Friday, March 21, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

New Canadian Prime Minister Carney will run in Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament

 
U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., left, and Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., wave to the crowd during a Rally for our Republic gathering, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff vows defiance to Trump ahead of 2026 election

 
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker listens to David Richardson, right, associate vice chancellor for research, during a visit to the Soybean Innovation Lab at University of Illinois, which is impacted by DOGE funding cuts, in Urbana, Ill., Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tries to chart a path for national Democrats to counter Trump

 
President Donald Trump, left, and Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., attend the finals at the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump makes NCAA men’s wrestling championships his latest sports-focused trip

 
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford are seen before a debate Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Abortion once more plays a key role in a state political fight, this time in Wisconsin’s court race

 
Elodie McCarran, 3, peaks out from a curtain as mother Lauren votes in Derry, N.H., Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)

New Hampshire town elections offer a preview of citizenship voting rules being considered nationwide

 
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, right, shakes hands with U.S. Senator Steve Daines before a meeting held in the Xinjiang Room at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)

US senator and Trump supporter Daines meets China’s vice premier in Beijing

 
Former Wisconsin Attorney General and state Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, middle, greets Donald Trump Jr., as Charlie Kirk looks on during a town hall Monday, March 17, 2025, in Oconomowoc, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Trump backs Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate in hotly contested race

 
President John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot, Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. Riding with President Kennedy are first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, second from left, and her husband, Texas Gov. John Connally, far left. (AP Photo/Jim Altgens, File)

A dump of JFK-related records reveals past CIA secrets but also some personal data

 
President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order at an education event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump has ordered the dismantling of the US Education Department. Here’s what that means

 
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responds to questions from reporters during a meeting with Britain's Defense Secretary John Healey at the Pentagon, on March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Hegseth to fly to the Philippines and Japan in first visit to Asian treaty allies at odds with China

 
President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order at an education event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump says the Education Department will shed oversight of student loans and special education

 
Afghan migrants deported from the U.S. walk to the UN Refugee Agency office in Panama City, Thursday, March 20, 2025, seeking advice on how and where to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Deportees from the US in Panama go embassy to embassy in desperate scramble to seek asylum

 
People work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Stock market today: Wall Street closes higher, snapping a 4-week losing streak

 
In this this photo provided by the North Korean government, Russia's Security Council Secretary, Sergey Shoigu, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walk togethers during their meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea Friday, March 21, 2025. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korean leader reaffirms support for Russia’s war in Ukraine in talks with top official

 
This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows President John F. Kennedy riding in motorcade with first lady Jacqueline Kenndy in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo, file)

The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK

 
President Donald Trump, right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)

What’s next for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after it was highlighted in Ukraine-US talks

 
White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status

 
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is seen through the viewfinder of a television camera as he speaks with the media during an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU presses on with steel ‘porcupine strategy’ for Ukraine as Russia tries to end Western support

 
President Donald Trump speaks as administrator Kelly Loeffler, of the Small Business Administration, from left, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks and Bo Hines, a member of the presidential council of advisers for digital assets, listen at the White House Crypto Summit in Washington, Friday, March 7, 2025. (Pool via AP)

XRP jumps 8% after Ripple’s CEO says SEC has dropped its case against the crypto currency

 
Drake players warm up during practice for the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in Wichita, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Skipping this year’s March Madness brackets? It’s not just you

 

China calls for protections for students in US after congressional panel demands data from colleges

 
People work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Stock market today: Wall Street edges lower despite solid data on the economy

 
A police car patrols a street in front of a liquor store in Barrio Obrero, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Raids shatter perception of Puerto Rico as a sanctuary for immigrants

 
French wine grower David Levasseur opens a bottle of champagne in his wine making facility in Cuchery, eastern France, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Trump’s 200% tariff threat would be ‘a real disaster’ for Europe’s wine industry

 
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions

 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Officer director Matt Elliston listens during a briefing, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Brothers and roommate of Laken Riley’s killer to be deported after fake green card convictions

 
President Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Maine found in violation of Title IX over transgender athletes after Trump clashed with governor