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Associated Press KAWARAMACHI, Japan (AP) — Time seems to stop here. Women sit in a small circle, quietly, painstakingly stitching patterns on balls…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KAWARAMACHI, Japan (AP) — Time seems to stop here. Women sit in a small circle, quietly, painstakingly stitching patterns on balls…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say two people have died in eastern Jiangsu province as Typhoon Bebinca brought torrential rains and powerful…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The arrest and indictment of Sean Diddy Combs come after 10 months of allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuse. It began in…
Continue ReadingJUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it tracked a group of Russian naval vessels as they crossed into U.S. waters in off Alaska in an…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press In the second half of the 20th century, Mexican and Mexican-American children in Marfa, Texas, were educated in an adobe-style…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — For decades, boycotting elections in Indian-controlled Kashmir was a sign of protest against Indian rule.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have blocked for a second time this year legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro…
Continue ReadingHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Philadelphia voters are filling two vacant seats in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. In both cases the Democratic…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Members of an Arizona tribe urged a federal judge at a daylong hearing in Phoenix to extend a temporary ban on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hours after an apparent attempt on Donald Trump’s life over the weekend, Elon Musk took to his social…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN London (CNN) — It is exactly the kind of attention Ukraine did not need. Since the start of clashes with…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Oh, so this was what Atlanta expected out of $180 million lavished on Kirk Cousins. Certainly not a shaky…
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Emmys telecast on ABC reached nearly 7 million viewers, a jump of more than 50% from the record low…
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The first image of the Titan submersible sitting at the bottom of the ocean following its catastrophic…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip-hop mogul who has faced a stream of allegations by women accusing him of…
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — Wildfires in Peru have left at least 15 dead since July and more than 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of cultivated land and natural…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has let stand ballot language that will describe this fall’s Issue 1 as…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The mother of a mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 says her son is…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Monday accused Israel’s military of striking schools,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has launched his family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime host of “The Late Show with David Letterman” found himself answering questions rather than asking…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is shutting down two of its hard-won offices in China, The Associated Press has learned, a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A leading conservative Christian group put on a show of Republican unity Monday, cementing the new détente between…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The former schools police chief in Uvalde, Texas, made his first court appearance on…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Organizers made the announcement on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An organization promoting democracy says last year had the worst decline in credible elections and…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fenway Park has the Ted Williams seat. And now Citi Field has the Grimace seat. The kid-friendly McDonald’s…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing plans to freeze hiring and reduce travel and is considering temporary layoffs to save cash during a factory…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say someone made off with a knife from a crime scene in the chaotic aftermath of a police…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower ruling that rejected a bid to get independent…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico rose slightly in August. The figures released Monday end a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has rejected a bid by Mark Meadows, former chief of staff to President Donald Trump, to move his charges in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A Virginia grand jury has indicted Brendan Banfield on four counts of aggravated murder in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal appeals court has reinstated an Arkansas rule prohibiting election officials from accepting…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A Delaware judge has set several trial parameters in a defamation lawsuit pitting an electronic voting machine manufacturer targeted…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Egypt on Tuesday for his 10th trip to the Middle East since the war…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis police officer has testified in the trial of three former colleagues charged with federal…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new…
Continue ReadingIvonne Valdés, CNN en Español (CNN) — A mayoral debate in the Brazilian city of São Paulo turned ugly when one of the candidates attacked a…
Continue ReadingCNN Ivonne Valdés, CNN en Español (CNN) — A mayoral debate in the Brazilian city of São Paulo turned ugly when one of the candidates…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Two former Olympic champions are in the race to be the next IOC president. So is a prince of a Middle East kingdom…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Suspicious packages were sent to election officials in at least six states on Monday, but there were no reports that any of the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers…
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge says stricter cash bail measures that voters approved last year will stand despite…
Continue ReadingOCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — Officials are warning people to stay out of the ocean at several beaches in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia after they say…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Evo Morales, Bolivia’s former president, has called on supporters to protest against current President…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name will stay on the presidential ballot in the swing…
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A tribe in Oregon whose culture is tied to the ocean is suing the U.S. government over plans to hold an offshore wind energy…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York woman is challenging the longstanding rules of Miss America and Miss World that disqualify mothers from…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report For America Award-winning, world renowned artist Fred Nall Hollis has died. Hollis was 76 years old and a local arts center…
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer Elon Musk has deleted a post on his social media platform X in which he said “no one is even trying to assassinate”…
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — An 11-year-old middle school student in Port Orange, Florida, has been charged with a felony after threatening to…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marine Corps in a ceremony at the commandant’s headquarters has presented their highest noncombat medal to…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Oregon are asking Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek to ensure the integrity of the…
Continue ReadingSPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio state police will help protect schools in a city at the center of a political furor over Haitian migrants, the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Firefighters have battled flames spreading through a national park in Brazil in the latest wildfire in the…
Continue ReadingOTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A former Canadian vice admiral has been found not guilty of sexual assault and an indecent act over his behavior on a ship…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court refused Monday to revive a defamation lawsuit that former NFL quarterback Brett Favre…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The good news for Atlantic City’s casino industry is that internet gambling had its best month…
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, Chris Boyette, Jeff Winter, Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A pipeline fire that began after an SUV struck a…
Continue ReadingDAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A U.S. Defense Department official says the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Niger is complete. A Pentagon spokesperson said…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Rupert Murdoch and his four children are in Nevada where they’re scheduled to return to court Tuesday at…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says he’ll work with state election officials to address concerns about mail-in ballots after they…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A district attorney reviewing the case of a Massachusetts State Police recruit who died after a boxing training exercise says he…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has urged the U.S. to cancel licenses for Chevron and other energy…
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some food lovers celebrate vegetables or rice or chicken. Steve Sando celebrates beans. He’s found a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville’s interim police chief has been named permanent chief. Paul Humphrey took over as interim…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say six employees of New York City’s public school system took their children or grandchildren on…
Continue ReadingLAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say a Waffle House customer fatally shot an 18-year-old worker. Laurinburg police say officers…
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Voting rights groups have filed a lawsuit against Alabama’s secretary of state over a policy they said is illegally…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is placing new sanctions on a spyware firm and its executives after its tools were used to spy…
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is deploying the Ohio State Highway Patrol to monitor schools in the city of Springfield…
Continue ReadingHARLAN, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a Kentucky lawmaker was critically injured when the lawn mower he was riding plunged into an empty swimming pool…
Continue ReadingCNN By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is deploying the Ohio State Highway Patrol to monitor schools in the city of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In yet another reversal, votes in Georgia for presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz will count…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A towering flame gradually subsided Tuesday morning in the aftermath of a massive pipeline explosion after…
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND (AP) — A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed a 3-year-old boy as he sat in a grocery cart outside an Ohio supermarket and wounded…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — An Apalachee High School teacher praised for helping save lives after being shot when a student opened fire on…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — The alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction has scuttled its latest tour following an onstage scuffle between lead singer Perry…
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase its…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The federal government is warning that allowing people to bet on the outcome of U.S. elections poses…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins is introducing a bill prompted by the state’s deadliest shooting that…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s new reformist president is insisting that Tehran didn’t want to enrich uranium at near-weapons…
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New York rapper Lil Tecca will release his fourth studio album, “Plan A,” on Friday. He tells the…
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer A new study offers the first detailed map of the human brain throughout and after pregnancy. It was published in the journal Nature…
Continue ReadingBEDFORD, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an 8-year-old girl took an SUV from her Ohio home and drove for miles to a store where she was later found…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The man suspected in an apparent assassination attempt targeting Donald Trump camped outside a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 37 people serving prison sentences for what his…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A candidate in Sao Paulo’s mayoral race has been treated and released from a hospital after one of his…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When the legendary businessman and leader of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, eventually passes away, the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s adult children — Susie, Howard and Peter Buffett — have long track records as…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two former New York City Fire Department chiefs have pleaded not guilty to charges that they solicited tens of…
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — A second person has died from a shooting at a popular tailgating site after a Detroit Lions game, police said Monday. A fight broke…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department says a Christian pastor from California has been freed from China after nearly 20…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The trial of a French citizen arrested in Russia on charges of unlawfully collecting information on military issues started but was…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KAAAWA, Hawaii (AP) — Ryan Wesley Routh portrayed himself online as a man who built housing for homeless people in Hawaii, tried…
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer Hot flashes and night sweats are among the most infamous menopause maladies. But you might want to pay attention to your teeth and…
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An early morning shootout has left two Iowa police officers hospitalized and a suspect dead. Des Moines police say the…
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