By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Shares in U.K.-based mining giant Anglo American have surged after it received a 31 billion-pound ($39 billion) takeover bid from rival BHP Billiton. The deal would create the world’s biggest copper miner, with around 10% of global output. Anglo American’s share price closed up 16% in London on Thursday after revealing that BHP had put forward the “unsolicited” and “highly conditional” takeover proposal. BHP says the deal would boost its presence in the copper market, which is seeing demand soar amid the shift toward clean energy. Copper is sought af ..read more

CONCORD, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania state police say three adults and a pregnant teenager died in a fiery crash as police pursued their vehicle in connection with retail thefts. State police say the 7-mile chase on Route 322 ended Wednesday afternoon when the driver lost control while using the right shoulder to pass a vehicle that was not involved in the pursuit. Emergency medical steps were taken in an attempt to save the pregnant teen’s child, but they were unsuccessful. Troopers had spotted the vehicle at a Concord Township shopping center and approached the group, who drove away before being ..read more

JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) -- Reports said that a group of nearly 1,000 migrants arrived in Ciudad Juárez Wednesday afternoon. On top of freight trains, these migrants waited for days in Chihuahua to reach the border. ABC-7 spoke with some migrants walking by the border close to the Juárez soccer stadium who said they were tired and thirsty. Others asked where was located the border wall's International Marker 36, which is close to Riverside Elementary School. They heard the rumors once again that U.S. authorities were going to receive them there. While walking along the Rio Grande, migrants no ..read more

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City residents may soon see warning labels next to sugary foods and drinks in chain restaurants and coffee shops. A law set to go into effect later this year requires food businesses with 15 storefronts or more to post a warning icon next to menu items containing at least 50 grams of added sugar. The city’s health department posted its proposed rule language last week. A public hearing is scheduled for late May. City officials and Democratic Mayor Eric Adams approved the law last year. Critics of such regulations have long argued that officials are turning the city int ..read more

LONDON (AP) — An asylum seeker from Morocco who went on a vicious rampage following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that triggered the Israel-Hamas war has been convicted of murder for stabbing a 70-year-old man in the streets of an English seaside town. Ahmed Alid was convicted Thursday in Teesside Crown Court of stabbing Terence Carney six times on Oct. 15 in Hartlepool. He was also convicted of attempted murder for hacking at his housemate and for assaulting two police officers. Alid told police he carried out the violence “for the people of Gaza.” A prosecutor says Alid swore he would have killed ..read more

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Even amid war, Ukraine finds time for the glittery, pop-filled Eurovision Song Contest. Perhaps now even more than ever. Ukraine’s entrants in the pan-continental music competition are rapper alyona alyona and singer Jerry Heil. The duo set off from Kyiv for the competition on Thursday. In wartime, that means a long train journey to Poland. Then they will travel on to next month’s competition in Malmö, Sweden. Heil said it’s vital the country takes part, “to show that even now, during the war, our culture is developing.” At the contest alyo ..read more

By DIDI TANG and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban. A battle in the courts will almost certainly be backed by Chinese authorities as the bitter U.S.-China rivalry threatens the future of a wildly popular way for young Americans to connect online. Beijing has signaled TikTok should fight what it has called a “robbers” act by U.S. lawmakers “to snatch from others all the good things that they have.” But should a lega ..read more

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ governor is blocking an attempt by Republican legislators to give the state’s National Guard a “border mission” of helping Texas in its partisan fight with the Biden administration over illegal immigration. Top Republicans in the Kansas House were considering Thursday whether their chamber can muster the two-thirds majority necessary to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of immigration provisions in the next state budget. The Senate’s top Republican promised to mount an override effort, but the House would vote first. Kelly ..read more

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A body believed to be that of a missing truck driver has been found in a northwest Iowa field not far from where his abandoned rig was discovered on an isolated highway just before Thanksgiving, but details of his death remain a mystery. The Iowa Department of Public Safety says someone in his field discovered a body Wednesday, near where 53-year-old David Schultz’s semi was found on Nov. 21. The DPS didn’t identify the body as that of Schultz and says in a news release that a forensic autopsy is planned. But Schultz’s wife, Sarah, told reporters on Thursday that ..read more

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Forty years and 50 million record sales after the Pet Shop Boys rose to fame with “West End Girls,” the iconic British duo is releasing a new album. “Nonetheless” is their 15th studio album. It arrives Friday. Written during the coronavirus pandemic-induced lockdowns in the U.K., the record still retains Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s upbeat sensibilities. They told The Associated Press that the time period was surprisingly productive and free of pressure other than trying not to catch the virus. Their key to staying relevant? Not trying too hard t ..read more