Social Security boost seen as unlikely to help Dems at polls
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The news that 70 million people will see an 8.7% boost in their Social Security checks next year…
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Violent week a grim sign as targeted killings of police rise
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The shooting deaths of two Connecticut officers and wounding of a third punctuated an especially…
Continue ReadingAfter Hurricane Ian, Florida citrus and agriculture struggle
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ZOLFO SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — The thousands of oranges scattered on the ground by Hurricane Ian’s fierce winds are…
Continue ReadingGerman chancellor calls for EU reforms, military autonomy
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for reforms of the European Union to make it fit for the admission of new countries as well…
Continue ReadingSri Lanka steps up search for navy boat with 6 aboard
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities have stepped up a search for a navy boat that went…
Continue ReadingBiden’s pot pardons could boost states’ legalization drives
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — There are few surprises expected on Election Day in solidly Republican Arkansas, where…
Continue ReadingChina expected to grant Xi 5 more years, no major changes
BEIJING (AP) — China is opening a twice-a-decade party conference at which leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term that…
Continue ReadingNC legislative races: Sharp divisions over abortion, economy
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper are fighting in legislative…
Continue Reading11 Russian troops slain at shooting range as fighting rages
By YESICA FISCH and LEO CORREA Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — At least 11 Russian soldiers were killed Saturday in a shooting…
Continue ReadingAssailants fatally shoot Hindu man in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Assailants have fatally shot a Kashmiri Hindu man in violence police blamed on militants fighting against Indian rule in the…
Continue ReadingNew UK Treasury chief: Mistakes were made, tax rises coming
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new Treasury chief on Saturday acknowledged mistakes made by his predecessor and…
Continue ReadingUkrainian deminers remove deadly threats to civilians
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press HRAKOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Beside an abandoned Russian military camp in eastern Ukraine, the body of a man lay…
Continue ReadingDeath toll rises to 41 in Turkey coal mine explosion
By MEHMET GUZEL and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press AMASRA, Turkey (AP) — Funerals for miners killed in a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey…
Continue ReadingParkland shooter’s life sentence could bring changes to law
By TERRY SPENCER, JESSICA GRESKO and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It wasn’t long ago that Florida school…
Continue ReadingIs Alex Jones verdict the death of disinformation? Unlikely
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Connecticut jury’s ruling this week ordering Alex Jones to pay $965 million to parents of…
Continue ReadingUS shift on Venezuelan migrants fuels anxiety in Mexico
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and MARIA VERZA Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Jose Maria Garcia Lara got a call asking if his shelter had room for a…
Continue ReadingKemp vs. Abrams II: Republican has incumbent advantage now
By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In 2018, Brian Kemp spent much of his campaign for Georgia governor in Stacey Abrams’ shadow as…
Continue ReadingSome flooding, 1 death as Karl dissipates in south Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The remnants of Tropical Storm Karl have dissipated along Mexico’s southern Gulf coast as heavy rains cause some rivers and…
Continue ReadingArizona AG seeks probe of election integrity group
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican attorney general, Mark Brnovich, on Friday asked the FBI and IRS…
Continue ReadingObama coming to Wisconsin to stump for Barnes, Evers
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama, who twice won Wisconsin by large margins, is coming to the battleground state in the final days…
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