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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they might bring additional charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams and indict others in the corruption case against him. Prosecutors made the disclosure Wednesday during a hearing for Adams. He pleaded not guilty last week to charges alleging that he accepted about $100,000 worth

KOLKATA, India (AP) — India’s Mohun Bagan Super Giants has refused to travel to Iran to play Tractor SC in an Asian Champions League Two match scheduled for Wednesday because of the escalating security problems in the country and region. The Kolkata club asked the Asian Football Confederation to reschedule the match, which was due

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican attorney general is appealing a judge’s ruling that the state’s abortion ban is unconstitutional. Attorney General Chris Carr’s office filed a legal motion Wednesday asking the Georgia Supreme Court to reinstate the law that outlaws most abortions after the first six weeks or so of pregnancy while the court considers

AP Sports Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Jazz did more than carve out a place in this city. They became a Salt Lake City institution, continuing to draw sellout crowds long after Stockton-to-Malone eventually turned into a rebuilding team that very well could be going on year three of missing the playoffs.

AP Health Writer Condom usage is down among teens and young adults in the U.S. Medical advancements, a fading fear of contracting HIV and widely varying degrees of sex education in high schools all contribute to the trend. Public health experts are thinking about how to help younger generations have safe sex, be aware of

AP Health Writer OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — It’s hard to miss the overflowing bowl of condoms at the entrance of the gym. Some University of Mississippi students walking past after their workout snicker and point, and the few who step forward to consider grabbing a condom rethink it when their friends catch up, laughter trailing

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Hundreds of Portuguese firefighters have protested for better working conditions outside the national parliament. Wearing full firefighting gear, the protestors occupied the steps leading to the Assembleia da Republica. A line of police linked arms in front of them as the firefighters opened smoke canisters, lit flares and sounded sirens. The

AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR is facing a federal antitrust lawsuit from two of its teams, including one co-owned by Michael Jordan. The suit seeks unspecified damages and says the charter system limits competition by unfairly binding the teams to the stock car series. NASCAR gave teams a take-it-or-leave-it offer last

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is offering to delay by a year the introduction of new rules that would outlaw the sale of products that come from forests. Wednesday’s offer comes following an outcry from several governments claiming that the “deforestation regulation” will damage trade and hurt small farmers. The European Commission says the

Associated Press MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Prince Harry is visiting the small mountain kingdom of Lesotho having co-founded a youth charity there in 2006 in honor of his late mother, Princess Diana. The Duke of Sussex began his visit Tuesday by meeting with young people and sharing experiences around an evening campfire. He paid a

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart’s employees and their dependents are being offered expanded cancer treatment with doctors at the Mayo Clinic through the retailer’s insurance coverage. The nation’s largest private employer said Wednesday that those covered by the insurance and diagnosed with most types of cancer will be able to get a second

Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Greenland court has ruled that anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson must remain in detention until Oct. 23 while   Denmark’s Justice Ministry decides whether to approve his extradition to Japan. It was unclear when Denmark will decide whether to send him to Japan, where he is accused of obstructing

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say hundreds of firefighters, assisted by waterbombing planes and volunteers, have made significant progress in containing a deadly forest blaze burning for four days in the south of the country. The fire service says the fire, which killed two local residents Sunday, is receding, with firefighting forces focusing on

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The fall of a front-line town nestled atop a tactically significant hill is unlikely to change the course of Ukraine’s war against Russia. But the loss underscores Kyiv’s worsening position, in part the result of firm Western red lines, military officials and analysts said. Vuhledar, a town Ukrainian forces

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s multilayered air-defense system is credited with protecting the country from serious damage or casualties from an Iranian strike by some 180 missiles. Israel has developed a sophisticated system capable of detecting incoming fire and deploying only if the projectile is headed toward a population center or sensitive military or civilian infrastructure.

Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — The four contenders to lead Britain’s Conservative Party have taken turns to argue why they have what it takes to lead the right-of-center party back from a catastrophic election defeat. Former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, ex-Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch, former Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and ex-Security Minister Tom Tugendhat each made

Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese musicians and dancers perform in Cairo for an audience that is mostly refugees from the war-torn country. The band, which incorporates traditional instruments and dance from various regions of Sudan, say they want to preserve traditional ways of making music that are threatened by the country’s ongoing conflict. Sudan

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A U.S. bomb from World War II has exploded at a Japanese airport, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights. No one was hurt, and no aircraft were nearby when the bomb exploded Wednesday at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan. It had

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine, after more than two years of grinding battle, military officials said Wednesday. Vuhledar, a town Ukrainian forces fought tooth and nail to keep, is the latest urban settlement to fall

COTONOU, Bénin (AP) — Two men close to Benin’s president who were arrested last week on suspicions of plotting a coup in the small West African country have been remanded in custody ahead of their trial. Olivier Boko — a businessman and longtime friend of President Patrice Talon — and Oswald Homeky — a former

Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Three Swedish nationals have been arrested in connection with two predawn explosions in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen. Police say the blasts early Wednesday were likely caused by hand grenades. No one was injured. They say it’s unclear whether the target was the Israeli Embassy, which

Associated Press KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — An approaching typhoon bringing strong winds and torrential rainfall to Taiwan has killed two people and injured more than 100 people over the past few days while forcing thousands to evacuate from low-lying or mountainous areas. Fire officials said Wednesday at least 102 people were injured and two people

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Sheinbaum has begun her presidency the same way her predecessor concluded his: with a morning media briefing known in Mexico as a mañanera from the National Palace. Though analysts agree that Sheinbaum will try to create her own brand, she will inevitably be compared to former President Andrés

Associated Press CORTELEONA E GENZONE, Italy (AP) — One of Giovanni Airoli’s sows tested positive for African swine fever in late August. Within a week, all 6,200 sows, piglets and fattening pigs on his farm south of Milan were slaughtered under strict protocols to halt the disease threatening Italy’s 20 billion euro industry for prosciutto,

Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Let the chunk-off begin. Voting started Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter. The contest, which is in its 10th year, celebrates the resiliency of

Associated Press KAMITUGA, Congo (AP) — It’s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she’s still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma driving away people who’ve heard she had the virus. “It’s risky work,” Kunguja, 40, said from her small home in eastern Congo.

Associated Press KOJIMA, Japan (AP) — Denim — that All-American fabric — is all about being Japanese in the town of Kojima. The town’s main road is named Jeans Street, with real pairs of pants flapping like flags overhead. The area boasts about 40 jeans manufacturers and stores. Japanese jeans tend to be high-end, dark

Associated Press LAN SAK, Thailand (AP) — The bodies of almost two dozen young students and teachers who died in a bus fire in a suburb of Bangkok have been returned to central Thailand, where they began their ill-fated school field trip. Friends, relatives and Buddhist monks waited past midnight for the last of several

AP Media Writer CBS News briefly muted the debate microphones of the two vice presidential candidates after Republican JD Vance objected to a fact-check made by Margaret Brennan, one of the network’s moderators. After Vance had talked about the problem of illegal immigration affecting cities like Springfield, Ohio, Brennan noted that the Haitians that had

Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Isolated and without electricity or phone service since Hurricane Helene inflicted devastation across the Southeast nearly a week ago, residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating and coping. At the town square in Black Mountain, local leaders stood atop a picnic

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricane Helene, the growing conflict in the Mideast and a dockworkers strike are looming over the final weeks of the American presidential campaign. They could help shape the public mood as voters decide between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. How events shake out and how the candidates respond

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged higher in a quiet Wednesday, and Treasury yields rose following an encouraging update on the job market’s strength. The S&P 500 finished virtually unchanged, a day after sliding from its record on worries about a possible widening of the fighting in the Middle East. The

Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris handed out meals, embraced a shaken family and surveyed Hurricane Helene’s “extraordinary” path of destruction through Georgia on Wednesday as she left the campaign trail to pledge federal help and personally take in scenes of toppled trees, damaged homes and lives upended. She visited Augusta,

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says there is a significant difference between Israeli actions that have expanded its war against the Iranian-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran’s retaliatory missile attack against Israel, which it condemned as escalatory. In carefully calibrated remarks, officials across the administration are defending the surge in

Associated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump is going back to Butler, where the world last saw him pump his fist and beseech followers to “fight,” even as blood streaked his face from a would-be assassin’s bullet. In announcing his return, the former president and current Republican nominee said he planned to “celebrate a

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A program that helps refugees resettle in the United States has expanded to include LGBTQ+ people who have been threatened and harassed in their home countries. The Biden Administration announced Tuesday that it resettled 100,000 refugees last fiscal year, the most in more than three decades. Many come through

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and JD Vance focused their criticism on the top of the ticket on Tuesday as they engaged in a policy-heavy discussion that may be the last debate of the 2024 presidential campaign. It was the first encounter between Minnesota’s Democratic governor and Ohio’s Republican senator,

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber optic cables have been shut down by Hurricane Helene. No reopening date is in sight. Sibelco and The Quartz Corp both shut down operations in the Appalachian town of Spruce Pine on Thursday.

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — County prosecutors have charged a California man with additional counts in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people. Nathaniel McGuire has been charged with attempted murder and use of an explosive device with the intent to murder. It was not immediately known whether McGuire had an attorney for

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors filed a new indictment against two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor’s door before they fatally shot her. The Justice Department’s superseding indictment Tuesday comes weeks after a federal judge threw out major felony charges against former Louisville Police Detective Joshua

ATLANTA (AP) — A medical examiner’s office in Georgia has confirmed that 33-year-old rapper Rich Homie Quan died from an accidental drug overdose. A spokesperson from the Fulton County medical examiner’s office said Wednesday that Quan, born Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died from a slew of drugs such as fentanyl, alprazolam, codeine and promethazine. Quan died

Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — India is one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of wheat and rice, but extreme weather is taking a toll on these vital crops. Research organizations in that country and around the world have worked for decades to evolve seeds that are better able to cope with drought,

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The International Olympic Committee’s three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts. TThis leaves the IOC without a Japanese sponsor with the focus now expected to shift to the Middle East and India for new sponsorship income. Japanese sponsors have turned away from the

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson is laying out a five-point policy agenda should Republicans take the majority next year. It includes extending the tax cuts approved when Donald Trump was president, reducing the size of the federal workforce and giving parents more choice on where they can send their children to school.

Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California state Assembly has advanced a bill backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that aims to prevent gas prices from spiking. The measure would allow the state to require companies to maintain a certain level of fuel on hand. Supporters say it will make sure refineries have

DJIBOUTI (AP) — Two vessels carrying migrants from Africa sank in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti, killing 45 people, the U.N. migration agency said Tuesday. The boats had departed from Yemen carrying 310 people, the International Organization for Migration said. Thousands of migrants from African, Middle Eastern and South Asian countries seeking

AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News said Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has declined to participate in an interview with “60 Minutes” for its election special, which will go forward next Monday with Democratic opponent Kamala Harris alone. Television’s top-rated news program regularly invites the two presidential contenders for separate

Associated Press Amazon has removed a memoir from its site that purports to detail an abusive relationship between late actor Kim Porter and hip-hop mogul Sean ”Diddy” An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to removal of “Kim’s Lost Words: A journey for justice, from the other side…” in a statement Tuesday. Porter and Combs’ children have denounced

Associated Press ZUMPANGO, Mexico (AP) — An airplane carrying Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva back to Brasilia landed safely on Tuesday at Mexico City’s Felipe Angeles airport after circling for hours due to a technical problem. Brazil’s air force confirmed the safe landing of the aircraft, an Airbus A319, at 7:16 p.m. local

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple news reports indicate that Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz misleadingly claimed he was in Hong Kong during the turbulence surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, part of a broader pattern of inaccuracies that Republicans hope to exploit. At Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Walz was asked

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered his most thorough public defense to date since his indictment on federal bribery charges, insisting the case was a “test” that would not distract him from governing as he deflected specific questions about the investigation for more than an hour Tuesday. Yet

Associated Press BOONE, N.C. (AP) — Several businesses from a quaint mountain town in the Blue Ridge Mountains are concerned how Tropical Storm Helene’s devastation in western North Carolina will affect the local economy. The town of Boone relies on fall tourism as visitors come to see the leaves change color. Some businesses experienced flooding

Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Power is still out for well over 1 million people in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina five days after Hurricane Helene tore down trees and destroyed much of the electric grid. The hardest hit areas are places like Augusta, Georgia, and the Greenville-Spartanburg area in South Carolina. In

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will soon help end the everyday household debate over whether the food in the fridge is still good to eat. The state is the first to ban food labels such as “sell by” or “best before” under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. There are more than

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An attorney said Tuesday he is representing 120 accusers who have come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip-hop mogul who is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Houston attorney Tony Buzbee said he expects lawsuits to be filed within the next month, with most expected

Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has a tough new law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets. Under a statute that took effect Tuesday, it is now illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces. The law requires counties and cities to enact

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi attorney general  requesting an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Richard Gerald Jordan is 78. He was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter that year in Harrison County. The Mississippi Supreme Court rejected his latest appeal Tuesday.