Asian shares advance, shrugging off Wall Street retreat
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares have advanced in Asia despite a retreat on Wall Street. Hong Kong jumped more than 3%…
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Poll workers train for conflict: ‘A little nervous? I am.’
By CLAIRE SAVAGE and CARRIE ANTLFINGER Associated Press / Report for America MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee’s top election official surveyed about 20…
Continue ReadingAffirmative action in jeopardy after justices raise doubts
By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The survival of affirmative action in higher education appeared to be in…
Continue ReadingJustices’ past affirmative action views, in their own words
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the…
Continue ReadingNuclear memories: Russia, war and childhood fears rekindled
By GARY FIELDS Associated Press Those of us of a certain age remember the threat. The 1960s were a time of domestic turmoil, yes. But they came, too,…
Continue ReadingLate push by Dixon helps tighten Michigan governor’s race
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Asssociated Press DETROIT (AP) — In one of the country’s premier battleground states, a last-ditch effort from Michigan…
Continue ReadingIn southern France, drought, rising seas threaten traditions
By DANIEL COLE Associated Press SAINTES-MARIE DE LA MER, France (AP) — In a makeshift arena in the French coastal village Aigues-Mortes, young men…
Continue ReadingOver 100 dead, dozens missing in storm-ravaged Philippines
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say more than 100 people have died in one of the most destructive…
Continue ReadingWitnesses describe ‘a hell’ inside South Korean crowd surge
By FOSTER KLUG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In one moment, thousands of Halloween revelers crammed into the narrow,…
Continue ReadingKemp, Abrams argue abortion, voting in Ga. governor debate
By JEFF AMY and BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abram s…
Continue ReadingUniversity of Kentucky student dies in Seoul Halloween crush
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky says one its students was among more than 150 people killed when a huge Halloween party crowd…
Continue ReadingAt least 5 tornadoes confirmed in Gulf Coast outbreak
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — At least five tornadoes have been confirmed after a severe weather outbreak Saturday along the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf…
Continue ReadingMen exonerated in Malcolm X killing to receive $36 million
NEW YORK (AP) — The city of New York is settling lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of…
Continue ReadingMusk tweets link to an unfounded conspiracy theory
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted a link to an unfounded rumor about the attack on House…
Continue ReadingCzech populist billionaire Babis vows to run for president
PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babis has announced his intention to run for the largely ceremonial post of the Czech Republic’s…
Continue ReadingWitnesses: Journalist killed after police in Haiti open fire
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Witnesses say a Haitian journalist has died after being shot in the head when police…
Continue ReadingBolsonaro seizes on Brazil’s soccer glory during election
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Soon after casting his vote in Brazil’s presidential election in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday,…
Continue Reading4 kidnapped, including teen girl and baby, in California
WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — Police have arrested two suspects who allegedly kidnapped four people, including a teenage girl and a 6-month-old baby,…
Continue ReadingKidnapped French conservationist released in eastern Chad
PARIS (AP) — France’s foreign ministry has announced the release of a French citizen working in wildlife conservation who had been abducted two…
Continue ReadingAP source: Pelosi attacker carried zip ties, in Jan. 6 echo
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband carried…
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