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EXPLAINER: Target list of Israeli hack-for-hire firm widens

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Human rights and press freedom activists are up in ... Read more

Business

Press watchdog puts Hungarian PM Orban on ‘predators’ list

PARIS (AP) — Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders has put Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on its list ... Read more

Business

Hong Kong freedoms fade as security law muzzles dissent

By ZEN SOO and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is still China’s wealthiest, ... Read more

Business

Myanmar court extends detention of AP journalist

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A court in Myanmar extended on Friday the pretrial detention of an Associated Press ... Read more

Crime

Reporter acquitted in case seen as attack on press rights

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa jury on Wednesday acquitted a ... Read more

Business

EXPLAINER: How Myanmar is cracking down on journalists

By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-controlled government is cracking down on coverage of mass ... Read more

Business

Video: Myanmar police hold AP journalist in chokehold

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A video of the arrest of Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw as he was ... Read more

Crime

Some local GOP leaders fire up base with conspiracies, lies

By GARANCE BURKE, MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and LARRY FENN Associated Press A faction of local, county and ... Read more