Violence-hit Pakistan locks down its capital for an Asian security meeting
Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have locked down the capital in a major security move as senior officials from several…
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How did a killing at a Sikh temple lead to Canada and India expelling each other’s diplomats?
Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Relations between India and Canada are at a low point as the countries expelled each other’s top diplomats…
Continue ReadingChina unveils its plans to turn its feats in space exploration into scientific advances
Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and…
Continue ReadingStock market today: Wall Street falls from its records as oil prices tumble and tech stocks drop
AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street pulled back from its records on Tuesday after the price of crude oil tumbled and technology stocks…
Continue ReadingTwo men shot during Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Trump say Secret Service failed them
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Two men who were shot during the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump this summer say the U.S. Secret Service failed in…
Continue ReadingA Hong Kong zoo seeks answers after 9 monkeys die in 2 days
Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s oldest zoo is seeking answers in a monkey medical mystery after nine animals died in two days,…
Continue ReadingKing Charles III set to visit Australia and Samoa on a trip spanning a dozen time zones
Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will travel halfway around the world to Samoa this month to take his seat as the head of the…
Continue ReadingUS law entitles immigrant children to an education. Some conservatives say that should change
Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — At a sparsely attended meeting last year, the Saugus Public School Committee approved a new admissions policy, it…
Continue ReadingRulings signal US courts may be more open to lawsuits accusing foreign officials of abuses
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. court has given two top associates of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman until early November to…
Continue ReadingA pastry brought to Mexico by British miners is still popular after 200 years
Associated Press REAL DEL MONTE, Mexico (AP) — Back in the 19th century, migrant miners from Cornwall, in the southwest of England, brought their…
Continue ReadingTed Cruz and Colin Allred meet in the only debate in the Texas Senate race
Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Colin Allred have squared off for the only debate in the Texas Senate race this…
Continue Reading1-seat Democratic margin has Pennsylvania House control up for grabs in fall voting
Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania voters will soon decide whether to keep Democrats in the majority in the state House and…
Continue ReadingLeaf-peepers are flocking to see New England’s brilliant fall colors
Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — New England leaf-watching season is in full swing, with people from as far as Florida and Berlin flocking to…
Continue ReadingMigrant deaths in New Mexico have increased tenfold
Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border in each of the last two years…
Continue ReadingTrump’s economic plans would worsen inflation, experts say
AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, “inflation will vanish completely.”…
Continue ReadingTrump’s economic plans would worsen inflation, experts say
AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, “inflation will vanish completely.”…
Continue ReadingCampaigning begins for Japan’s parliamentary election
Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Official campaigning has begun for Japan’s Oct. 27 parliamentary election. More than 1,300 candidates are…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea blows up parts of inter-Korean road and rail links in a symbolic display of anger
Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea blew up the northern parts of inter-Korean road and rail links no longer in…
Continue ReadingTrump’s Pennsylvania town hall turns into impromptu concert after medical incidents
Associated Press OAKS, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump ‘s town hall in the Philadelphia suburbs turned into an impromptu concert Monday after the…
Continue ReadingRebecca Kimmel’s search for her roots had an unlikely ending: Tips for other Korean adoptees
Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Rebecca Kimmel sat in a small room, stunned and speechless, staring at the baby photo she had just…
Continue ReadingA South Korean adoptee needed answers about the past. She got them — just not the ones she wanted
Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Rebecca Kimmel sat in a small room, stunned and speechless, staring at the baby photo she had just…
Continue ReadingTaylor Swift and Travis Kelce attend Game 1 of ALCS at Yankee Stadium
NEW YORK (AP) — Turns out, Taylor and Travis like to watch a little baseball, too. Pop superstar Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs…
Continue ReadingTrial begins for Georgia woman accused of killing her toddler
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Testimony is underway in the trial of a Georgia woman accused of killing her 20-month-old son and dumping his body in a trash…
Continue ReadingArkansas Supreme Court rejects challenge to ballot measure that would revoke casino license
Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected part of a lawsuit challenging a ballot measure that would revoke…
Continue ReadingUN Security Council voices ‘strong concern’ for UN peacekeepers after Israeli attacks
Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council expressed “strong concern” Monday as Israel has fired on and wounded U.N.…
Continue ReadingCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law aimed at preventing gas prices from spiking
Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Monday aimed at preventing gas prices from…
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Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated with an eye on the election
Associated Press As Native Americans across the U.S. come together on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day to celebrate their history and culture and…
Continue ReadingMinnesota city says Trump campaign still owes more than $200,000 for July rally
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — Local officials say former President Donald Trump’s campaign still owes a central Minnesota city nearly $209,000 for…
Continue ReadingRicky Pearsall returns to the 49ers practice for the first time since shooting
AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers rookie receiver Ricky Pearsall returned to the field for practice on Monday…
Continue ReadingPumpkin weighing 2,471 pounds wins California contest
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A Minnesota horticulture teacher remained the reigning champion Monday of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in…
Continue ReadingA Southern California school plants a ‘Moon Tree’ grown with seeds flown in space
Associated Press LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — To cheers and applause from kids wearing spacesuits and star-studded T-shirts, a tree was planted in…
Continue ReadingPermits put on hold for planned pipeline to fuel a new Tennessee natural gas power plant
Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals panel has temporarily halted two permits needed to begin construction on a pipeline that…
Continue ReadingSending a THAAD air defense system to Israel adds to strain on US Army forces
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The deployment of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel and roughly 100 soldiers to…
Continue ReadingThe UN says over 400,000 children in Lebanon have been displaced in 3 weeks by war
BEIRUT (AP) — A top official with the U.N. children’s agency says more than 400,000 children in Lebanon have been displaced in the past three…
Continue ReadingCavaliers break ground on new state-of-the-art training facility scheduled to open in 2027
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland guard Donovan Mitchell grabbed a shovel and was one of the dignitaries who took part in a groundbreaking ceremony for…
Continue ReadingTown fines resident who projected Trump sign onto municipal water tower
A town in Massachusetts has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a property owner who projected a Trump sign onto the side of a town water tower.…
Continue ReadingSt. Louis schools, struggling to get kids to classes, suspend bus vendor
Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A statement from St. Louis Public Schools says the district has suspended routes operated by one vendor after…
Continue ReadingFEMA workers change some hurricane-recovery efforts in North Carolina after receiving threats
Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal disaster workers paused and then changed some of their hurricane-recovery efforts in North Carolina,…
Continue ReadingGrand jury charges daughter with killing Kentucky woman whose body was dismembered
MOUNT OLIVET, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman who was arrested after police found her mother’s dismembered body has been indicted on a murder charge.…
Continue ReadingDonald Trump uses ‘Full Metal Jacket’ clips to portray his ideal military
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is embracing perhaps Hollywood’s most memorable drill sergeant to portray his vision of a hardened military and…
Continue ReadingBorder city residents blame Mexican army and National Guard for the deaths of a nurse and 8-year-old
Associated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Human rights activists in the violent Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo,…
Continue ReadingPandas arrive at National Zoo, but won’t be ready for public debut until January
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo’s long dark panda drought has come to an end, Eleven months after the zoo sent its three…
Continue ReadingRepublicans pour money into Wisconsin Senate race Democrats say will be close
Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans are sensing an opportunity in Wisconsin’s closely watched Senate race. They are pouring money…
Continue ReadingA bus carrying university students crashes, killing 12 and injuring 33 in Egypt’s northeast
CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian health ministry says a bus crashed and overturned on a highway in northeastern Egypt, killing 12 people and injuring 33…
Continue ReadingMiriam Adelson’s $1 million donation to Gov. Kemp’s PAC could help Trump in Georgia
Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican megadonor Miriam Adelson has contributed $1 million to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s political…
Continue ReadingDozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested outside New York Stock Exchange
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of people protesting Israel’s war in Gaza have been arrested in a sit-in outside the New York Stock…
Continue ReadingFlorida government finds fault with abortion ballot measure over ads and petitions
Associated Press Florida’s government has threatened TV stations over an ad promoting an abortion-rights ballot measure and is now alleging…
Continue Reading6 people accuse Diddy of sexual assault in new lawsuits, including man who was 16 at the time
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit Monday with a new wave of lawsuits accusing him of raping women, sexually…
Continue ReadingMarjorie Taylor Greene’s fans cheer her on as her opponent fights for recognition
Associated Press/Report for America DALLAS, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing a little-known Democratic challenger who thinks…
Continue ReadingFlorida returning to something like normal after Hurricane Milton
Associated Press ELLENTON, Fla. (AP) — Florida counties hard hit by Hurricane Milton are returning to a semblance of normalcy with power being…
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