Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues
Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several top staffers in North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor have…
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2 suspended from college swim team after report of slur scratched onto student’s body
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Officials at a Pennsylvania college say at least two students were suspended from the swim team after a report that a racial…
Continue Reading Bomb targeting foreign diplomats’ convoy kills policeman in Pakistan’s restive northwest
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says a roadside blast caused by an improvised explosive device, targeting foreign…
Continue Reading A’ja Wilson and Caitlin Clark are unanimous choices for WNBA AP Player and Rookie of the Year
AP Basketball Writer A’ja Wilson and Caitlin Clark had record-breaking seasons, putting up stats the WNBA had never seen before. Wilson became…
Continue Reading Rock in Rio’s sign language pumps up Brazil’s deaf audience
Associated Press Tens of thousands of Brazilians gathered at Rio de Janeiro’s mega-festival Rock in Rio on Friday, with many staking out spots of…
Continue Reading Profiles in clean energy: Dad concerned about climate change shifts company away from oil and gas
Associated Press ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Netherlands (AP) — At first, working in the oil and gas industry was great, Jordi Zonneveld recalls. Near his…
Continue Reading Trump’s goal of mass deportations fell short. But he has new plans for a second term
Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Donald Trump has long pledged to deport millions of people, but he’s bringing more specifics to his current…
Continue Reading Kate, the Princess of Wales, makes first public appearance after cancer treatment
LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, made her first public appearance Sunday since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would…
Continue Reading For home shoppers, the Fed’s big rate cut is likely just a small step towards affording a home
AP Business Writers The Federal Reserve gave home shoppers what they hoped for this week: a big rate cut and a signal of more cuts to come. Even so,…
Continue Reading Are Trump and Harris particularly Christian? That’s not what most Americans would say: AP-NORC poll
Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris is a Baptist who was influenced by religious traditions in her mother’s home country of India. Former…
Continue Reading Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump
Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican activists in swing states say they have seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on…
Continue Reading Britain’s Labour Party gathers after a rocky start in government and a scandal over clothes
Associated Press LONDON (AP) — This should be a time of celebration for Britain’s Labour Party. It’s opening its annual conference Sunday…
Continue Reading Building collapse in Italy kills 2 young siblings and their mother
ROME (AP) — Officials in Italy say a two-story building has collapsed in the southern province of Naples, killing two young siblings and their…
Continue Reading 21 wounded in Russian strikes that hit apartment buildings in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — New Russian strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have hit high-rise apartment buildings. Officials say…
Continue Reading Israel-Hamas war latest: Fears of all-out war rise as Israel and Hezbollah step up attacks
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah has launched over 100 rockets into northern Israel in response to ramped-up Israeli attacks that…
Continue Reading Mass shooting kills 4 and wounds 17 in nightlife district in Birmingham, Alabama
Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A search is underway for the shooters who killed four people and injured 17 others in a popular nightlife…
Continue Reading Birds, bees and ballots: Swiss voters reject plan to better protect the country’s biodiversity
Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to increase protections for the Alpine country’s cherished plant and…
Continue Reading Attacks by Islamic extremists are rampant in Africa’s Sahel. Here’s what we know about them
Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Extremist attacks in the Sahel have been increasing. Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako, the…
Continue Reading Beer and merriment flow at the 189th Oktoberfest in Munich
Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers marked the opening day of the 189th Oktoberfest. The celebration began Saturday and…
Continue Reading Scholz’s Social Democrats hold back the far right in German state vote
Associated Press POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have won an election in the eastern German state of…
Continue Reading Hezbollah hits back with rockets as it declares an ‘open-ended battle’ with Israel
Associated Press NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel, with some landing near the city of…
Continue Reading An explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran kills at least 34 workers
Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others. The disaster…
Continue Reading New York City’s interim police commissioner says federal authorities seized materials from his homes
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities searched the homes of New York City’s newly named interim police commissioner and seized…
Continue Reading The number of rhinos is slightly up but poaching has increased too
Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South…
Continue Reading World leaders are gathering for the UN General Assembly. The outlook is gloomy
Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s not a great moment in world affairs right now. The world is fragmented. Conflicts and crises are…
Continue Reading Lack of birth certificates puts Cameroon’s Indigenous people on the brink of statelessness
Associated Press MAYOS, Cameroon (AP) — Indigenous people have lived in harmony with the forests of central Africa for hundreds of years. But the…
Continue Reading Marxist Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters reject old guard
Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected…
Continue Reading More shelter beds and a crackdown on tents mean fewer homeless encampments in San Francisco
Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sidewalks once teeming with tents, tarps and people passed out next to heaps of trash have largely…
Continue Reading Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist
Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — On an island of windswept tundra in the Bering Sea, hundreds of miles from mainland Alaska, a resident…
Continue Reading Trial in daytime ambush of rapper Young Dolph 3 years ago to begin in Memphis
Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The trial in the slaying of rapper Young Dolph is set to begin in Memphis, Tennessee. Proceedings are…
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