National-World

ANDERSON, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say they rescued eight children in California after they were abducted by their biological mother and found…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Military-ruled Myanmar is allowing prisoners to have family visitors from outside. It’s a right…

ATLANTA (AP) — The city of Atlanta has temporarily closed three of its more than 30 fire stations because of truck breakdowns and a shortage of…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian parliament has refused a proposal to hold a vote on Sweden’s bid to join…

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — For more than a week, Talaat Ghabayen, a citizen of Norway who…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press EIN BOKEK, Israel (AP) — After Hamas militants attacked Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, killing more than 100 of its…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some U.S. lawmakers are demanding that seafood processed in two Chinese provinces be banned from…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A group of 33 states including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Asociated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A German tourist who went missing in a national park teeming with wild animals in northern…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors in Berlin say they have closed their investigation into the spectacular collapse of a huge aquarium last December after…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Workers and volunteers at the Pan American Games were still removing bricks, pieces of…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has visited troops deployed near the border with Israel and…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new shot for infants against RSV is in short supply, and U.S. health officials are telling…

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union is turning up the heat on General Motors as 5,000 workers walked off their jobs at a highly profitable…

MADRID (AP) — The parties forming Spain’s acting government say they will push for a 37½-hour workweek.  The coalition partners struck the…

By WILL WEISSERT and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Attorney Jenna Ellis has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge over efforts to…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Formula One fanatics will get more behind-the-scenes access to the global motorsports series through a new CNBC…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says the damage done to an undersea telecoms cable between Sweden and Estonia was…

GARDNER, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts are searching for a man in connection with the shooting death of his wife. Police say 33-year-old man…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’d be hard pressed to find a rap duo doing it like City Girls, bringing life-affirming,…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The office of Slovakia’s president says she is ready to swear in a new Cabinet led by a former populist prime…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has extended protection from arrest to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Police officers in suburban Milwaukee have killed a person who fired at them from a middle school roof. Officials…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Otis continues strengthening as it approaches Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and is forecast to become a…

Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Local authorities say at least 50 people have been kidnapped in two separate incidents within two days in…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Funeral services are planned Tuesday for a Philadelphia police officer killed in an airport parking garage shooting that also…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected a lower court ruling that the state’s restrictive…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of some 200 hostages…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and VANESSA GERA Associated Press ROME (AP) — The pope has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Crews worked through the night clearing the wreckage of more than 150 vehicles involved in a series of crashes on Interstate 55…

NEW YORK (AP) — A new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” will have a very well known narrator: former…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE, JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo say extremists with ties to the Islamic State…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick highlights an author she has long admired, Jesmyn Ward. On…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cruel joke for trick-or-treaters or coveted seasonal delight? The great Halloween debate…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that recent Ukrainian attacks have denied the…

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifschitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are raising new challenges to the federal…

By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The head of a gold mine in South Africa says a group of miners from an…

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — The U.S. government is suspending most financial assistance to Gabon after a military coup earlier this year. State…

TAIPEI. Taiwan (AP) — China has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu, who has been out of public view for almost two months with little…

By CHANELLE BESSETTE of NerdWallet Systemic hurdles, lessons and messages from family, and the lived experience of your upbringing can shape your…

By CLAIRE BRYAN of The Seattle Times math class chatgpt computer science For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A strike by autoworkers against General Motors is expected to cut the automaker’s pretax…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Palestinian artist Nida Sinnokrot, one of 18 artists receiving the 2023 Soros Arts Fellowships…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of three opposition groups that collectively won the most votes in Poland’s recent elections say they have…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan court has extended orders blocking the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti to lead a U.N. Security Council-approved…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has upheld a ruling that favored the granting of equal inheritance rights to…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says it will allow Lynas Rare Earths to continue to import and process rare earths until…

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland’s prime minister and women across the island nation are on strike to push for an end to unequal pay and…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — An inquiry into New Zealand’s worst mass shooting will examine — among other…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Police in Cyprus say they have arrested 10 Syrian men in an operation that has dismantled the third people smuggling ring…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say two cargo ships have collided in the North Sea off the German coast and several people are missing.…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel escalated its bombardment of targets in the Gaza…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Washington state senator Jeff Wilson has been arrested in Hong Kong for carrying a gun that was…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares mostly rose Tuesday in Asia after Wall Street wobbled to a mixed close as yields on U.S.…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking justice for 34 people killed in a fire aboard a scuba dive…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It’s long after midnight when the bustling operating room suddenly falls quiet –-…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Officials say the bodies of at least 17 people were recovered from a train crash outside the Bangladesh capital that may…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen is poised to testify against his old boss…

By ERIC TUCKER and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Plea deals with Georgia prosecutors in the election subversion case against former…

By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVING FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three weeks now since the ouster of Kevin…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican leaders are escalating their calls to reject millions of federal…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Adolis García homered twice and drove in five runs as the Texas Rangers reached their first…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Oil prices are up and markets are tense after the outbreak of war in Gaza. That could…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system enjoys a near-mythical status among Israelis.…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Maui County’s mayor says all of West Maui except for burned-out sections of historic…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials say suspected North Korean defectors were found in a small…

PANAMA (AP) — Protesters marched across Panama against a contract extension for copper mining in a biodiverse region. Teachers, construction…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has defended his sweeping COVID-19 pandemic restrictions…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s presidential campaign says the Republican is shifting…

By The Associated Press American gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton has returned home following a lengthy hospital stay because of pneumonia. The oldest…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Haiti says growing gang violence is devastating the lives of…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tommy Pham and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit back-to-back homers and Merrill Kelly struck out eight…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise has been postponed a year, signaling…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An intense shootout in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan has left five people dead, including a police officer. Two…