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NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will travel to New York City from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Rockefeller Center officials say the Norway spruce will be cut down on Nov. 7 and will arrive in midtown Manhattan two days later. It will be lit during a live TV broadcast on Dec. 4.

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats stepped up their attacks on Donald Trump on Monday, a day after a comedian opening a rally for the former president called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” a comment that drew wide condemnation and highlighted the rising power of a key Latino group in the swing state

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency order in Pennsylvania that could result in thousands of votes not being counted in this year’s election in the battleground state. Just over a week before the election, the court was asked Monday to step into a dispute over provisional ballots cast

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four Roman Catholic bishops in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero called Monday for civilian and military authorities to take steps to protect residents of a region rocked by violence that has left more than a dozen dead in recent days. The violence around Tecpan de Galeana, about 65 miles (104

Associated Press A white former Ohio police officer charged with murder in the shooting of Andre Hill has testified that he thought he saw a gun in the Black man’s hand. Former Columbus officer Adam Coy testified before a jury Monday. He said that after he fired four times, he realized Hill didn’t have a

Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. State Department has warned that it would restrict U.S. visas for people who undermine Ghana’s democracy, ahead of the West African country’s general election in December. Ghana has held peaceful, free, fair and transparent elections for nearly two decades. The presidential and parliamentary elections will be held

AP Business Writer PepsiCo said Monday it’s closing a Chicago bottling plant, a move the Teamsters union says will impact 150 workers. PepsiCo said the decision to close the facility was difficult but the 60-year-old building has “physical limitations.” The company says it will pay workers for the next 60 days even though they won’t

Associated Press LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — A jury has begun deliberating in the case of an Alabama man accused of killing an 11-year New Hampshire girl more than 35 years ago. Prosecutors and the defense attorney for Marvin C. McClendon Jr. made their closing arguments Monday in a case that hinges in part on whether

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A coastal flooding prevention project in New York City could be a model for communities along America’s hurricane-battered coasts. The “Living Breakwaters” off the coast of Staten Island are a set of eight eco-friendly breakwaters that slow waves while creating a habitat for sea creatures. Artificial tidepools and textured

Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s environmental agency has levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking companies and their suppliers for buying and selling cattle raised illegally on deforested land in the Amazon. The operation, dubbed Cold Meat 2, launched last week. It tracked 18,000 head of cattle raised in 100 square miles

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French newspaper Le Monde reported that highly confidential movements of some of the world’s most powerful leaders, including Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, could easily be tracked online through a fitness app used by their bodyguards. Le Monde’s investigation found that some U.S. Secret Service agents were users

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A comic calling Puerto Rico garbage before a packed Donald Trump rally in New York was the latest humiliation for an island territory that has long suffered from mistreatment, residents said Monday in expressions of fury that could affect the presidential election. Puerto Ricans cannot vote in

AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people refusing to become organ donors, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead. The surgery was avoided and the man is still alive. Details of the 2021 case are murky but donor

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, has been executed in Iran. The judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported his execution took place Monday morning. Iran accused Sharmahd, who lived in Glendora, California, of planning a 2008 attack on a

Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Incendiary devices were set off Monday at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland and another in nearby Vancouver, Washington — destroying hundreds of ballots in what one official called a “direct attack on democracy” about a week before a heated Election Day. The early morning fire at

Associated Press NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday cast an early ballot in the 2024 general election. It’s a bittersweet moment for Biden, who decided to end his reelection campaign in July because of growing concerns about his health and Democrats’ worries about his chances against former President Donald Trump. Biden

Associated Press Philadelphia’s district attorney is suing to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway that’s part of his political organization’s effort to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The lawsuit was filed by Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday. It’s the first legal action to be brought over the America PAC’s sweepstakes offering $1 million

AP Health Writer Millions who could benefit from hearing aids have never tried them. Cost, access to health care and stigma create major barriers, even though the devices are available over-the-counter. An AirPods Pro 2 update will now put the devices in more Americans’ pockets. They might not be the perfect fit, but experts hope

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Of the nearly 30 speakers who recently warmed up the crowd for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, one has gotten most of the attention — comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. He called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during his often-vulgar opening set. The Trump campaign took the

AP Media Writer Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams is asking people interested in election night news to take a leap of faith with him. He’s anchoring live results coverage for Amazon. That’s a first for a streaming service on what is traditionally a huge event for television news outlets. Unlike NBC, CNN or others,

AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A British man who used artificial intelligence to create images of child abuse was sent to prison for 18 years. The court sentenced Hugh Nelson after he pleaded guilty to a number of sexual offences including making and distributing indecent images of children and distributing “indecent pseudo photographs of

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An extraordinarily rare dime whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s has sold for just over $500,000. The coin, which was struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, depicts President Franklin D. Roosevelt and is one of just two known to exist without its distinctive

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from its rolls that it believes are noncitizens. The appeal filed Monday comes after a federal appeals court has unanimously upheld a federal judge’s order restoring the registrations of roughly 1,600 voters

BEIJING (AP) — A knife attack near a school in China’s capital has injured five people, including three children. Police say the attack occurred Monday in northwestern Beijing. None of the injuries was life threatening. Police say a 50-year-old suspect surnamed Tang was detained at the scene and is under investigation. The location of the

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese’s long-reigning coalition lost a majority in the parliamentary election, underscoring voters’ outrage over the party’s extensive financial scandals. It’s largely a reflection of voters’ anger at the repeated financial scandals that have hit the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan nearly without interruption since 1955. Prime Minister Shigeru

Parties loyal to Uzbekistan’s president have swept parliament seats in an election devoid of any real opposition in the tightly-controlled Central Asian country. All candidates running in Sunday’s vote have been nominated by the country’s five registered parties. There are some differences in focus among the parties, some of which stress issues such as the

Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet. Earlier this month, Ford installed

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chad’s presidency says unidentified assailants have killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west. Chad’s president Idriss Deby visited the base in Barkaram, an island in Chad’s Lake region Monday morning and announced the launch of a military operation to

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that severely restrict the U.N. agency responsible for distributing aid in Gaza. The first bill passed Monday bans the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, from conducting “any activity” or providing any service inside Israel. The second cuts ties with the main U.N.

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two terms as a congresswoman from Missouri, with an office decorated with photographs of families who lost loved ones to police violence. One is of Michael Brown. Brown’s death 10 years ago in Ferguson, Missouri,

Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least seven people have died when a building collapsed in Nigeria’s capital Abuja over the weekend. Police in Abuja say the building had already been partly demolished and its structure was further compromised by scavengers looking for scrap metal. The police spokesperson said five people were rescued from

VIENNA (AP) — Police say two people have been fatally shot in a rural area of northern Austria. The suspected shooter is on the run. The body of a man was found early Monday in in a field in a village in an area near the Czech and Austrian borders. Police didn’t identify the victim

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and likely fight against Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” the Pentagon said Monday, in a move that Western leaders say will intensify the almost three-year war and jolt relations in the Indo-Pacific region. Some of the North Korean

BERLIN (AP) — The head of Volkswagen’s works council says the company has informed employee representatives that it wants to close at least three plants in Germany. Employee council chief Daniela Cavallo said at a meeting with Volkswagen workers Monday that management also plans cuts at other sites. She said that “all German VW plants

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At soccer games in Ukraine, crowd sizes are determined by the capacity of the nearest bomb shelter. For the first time since the full-scale war began in 2022, the Ukrainian Premier League is holding a full season with fans present, as martial-law bans on public gatherings have been eased.

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has sentenced the founder of the far-right English Defense League to a year and a half in prison for contempt of court for violating an order barring him from repeating libelous allegations against a Syrian refugee. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, admitted he violated the order

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in southern Thailand has dropped a case against former state security personnel and officials over the deaths of 85 Muslim protesters in 2004, saying none of the suspects had been apprehended. Families of the victims of what is known as the Tak Bai massacre in April accused seven

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told a Senate inquiry that he maintained a “death squad” of criminals to kill other criminals when he was mayor of a southern city. Duterte denied authorizing police to gun down thousands of alleged drug suspects while he was president — allegations the

Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s center-left opposition parties celebrated victory after prevailing over the center-right ruling coalition in the final round of national elections. With all votes counted from Sunday’s polls, the Social Democrats won 52 seats in the 141-seat parliament, known as the Seimas, ending the four-year rule of the Homeland Union

Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Tens of thousands of Georgians massed outside parliament, demanding the annulment of the weekend parliamentary election that the president has alleged was rigged with the help of Russia. The rally deepened the political crisis in the South Caucasus country, where the governing Georgian Dream party has become increasingly authoritarian

Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The center-right GERB party of ex-premier Boyko Borissov appears to be the winner of Bulgaria’s parliamentary election, the country’s central electoral commission said. With 98% of the ballots counted by early Monday, results showed the GERB party receiving 26.5% of the vote, nearly 12 percentage points more than the

BERLIN (AP) — Voters in Liechtenstein have voted to withdraw state funding from the tiny country’s public radio broadcaster, a decision that leaves the station’s future in doubt. In a referendum on Sunday, 55.4% of participants voted to scrap legislation that grants state funding to Radio Liechtenstein at the end of 2025. The measure was

Associated Press GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana will vote in a national election this week that will decide whether the ruling party extends a 58-year stretch in power in a southern African country that is a leading diamond producer and often held up as one of the most stable democracies on the continent. President Mokgweetsi

Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has begun a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases. The country regularly launches such campaigns, but violence targeting the health workers and police assigned to escort them is common. Militants falsely claim the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — There is no doubt that the U.S. election will determine the trajectory of the war in Ukraine. The status of military aid from Kyiv’s chief international backer is dependent on who becomes president, as is any prospect for a cease-fire that could benefit Ukraine. Some in Kyiv say the

Associated Press VADODARA, India (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez have inaugurated India’s first private military aircraft plant. It’s a boost to New Delhi’s ambitions of growing local manufacturing in its defense and aerospace industries. Sanchez was welcomed to India on Monday with a roadshow in Gujarat state’s

TOKYO (AP) — Tree-cutting has begun in the Jingu Gaien park district of central Tokyo, a flashpoint for more than a year between environmentalists and real estate interests. Developers led by real-estate Mitsui Fudosan have a 10-year, multi-billion-dollar plan to build three skyscrapers on the coveted land and raze a historical baseball stadium, replacing it

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman has appeared in an Australian court charged with assaulting the Indigenous senator who shouted at King Charles III during a royal reception last week. The assault allegedly occurred on May 25 when independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe attended an Australian Rules Football match in her hometown of Melbourne.Ebony

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Polarizing. Challenging. A lot of wasted time. That’s how six lawmakers described what it is like being in the U.S. House — a particularly tumultuous period in American history that has brought governing to a standstill, placed their lives in danger and raised fundamental questions about what it means to

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American voters are approaching the presidential election with deep unease about what could follow, including the potential for political violence, attempts to overturn the election results and its broader implications for democracy, according to a new poll. The findings of the survey, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — They play on the same team, but they couldn’t be further apart. One member of the women’s volleyball team at San Jose State University has signed on to being part of a federal lawsuit against the NCAA challenging the presence of transgender athletes in women’s college sports. The specific

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Uncertainty reigns entering the final full week of the 2024 campaign with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump locked in a fiercely competitive presidential contest. What happens in the coming days will be pivotal in deciding the winner. Here’s what we’re watching this week: Can Trump stay on

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Three well-armed militias launched a surprise joint offensive in northeastern Myanmar a year ago, breaking a strategic stalemate with the regime’s military with rapid gains of huge swaths of territory and inspiring others to attack around the country. The military’s control had seemed firmly ensconced with vast superiority in troops

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks closed broadly higher Monday as gains by some Big Tech companies helped offset a skid in oil-and-gas stocks after the price of crude had its biggest drop in more than a year. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%. The main measure of the U.S. stock market was

Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Ramon Espinosa started working for The Associated Press in 2000 in Spain. Five years later, he was sent to the Dominican Republic and then Haiti. Since 2012 he has been based in Cuba. Here’s what he said about making this extraordinary photo.

AP Technology Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — McDonald’s announced Sunday that Quarter Pounders will again be on its menu at hundreds of its restaurants after testing ruled out beef patties as the source of the outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to the popular burgers that killed one person and sickened at least 75 others

Associated Press Hallmark Media executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed a former employee not to cast “old people” for Hallmark roles, saying that “our leading ladies are aging out,” according to a lawsuit filed against the network this month and obtained by The Associated Press. Penny Perry, a 79-year old casting director

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Timothée Chalamet made a surprise appearance at his own look-alike contest in Lower Manhattan. The well-attended event on Sunday drew an order to disperse from police and at least one arrest. Flanked by bodyguards, Chalamet posed for photos with his high-cheeked, curly-haired doppelgängers, some of whom had dressed