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Roof collapse at Serbian railway station kills at least 13
NOVI SAD, Serbia — A concrete roof above the entrance of a railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad collapsed Friday, killing at least 13 people, with more feared buried under the rubble. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said that three people were rescued and hospitalized with serious...
North Korea boasts of ‘the world’s strongest’ missile, but experts say it’s too big to use in war
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea boasted Friday that the new intercontinental ballistic missile it just test-launched is “the world’s strongest,” a claim seen as pure propaganda after experts assessed it as being too big to be useful in a war situation. The ICBM launched Thursday flew higher and for...
AP sources: White House altered record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenographer concerns
WASHINGTON — White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email...
Trump says Liz Cheney might not be such a ‘war hawk’ if she had guns pointed at her
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Donald Trump is calling former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most prominent Republican critics, a “war hawk” and suggesting she might not be as willing to send troops to fight if she had guns pointed at her. Cheney responded by branding the GOP presidential nominee a...
Shootings kill 2 and wound 6 during Halloween celebrations in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. — Two people were killed and six others were wounded in two shootings that took place among crowds during Halloween celebrations in Orlando early Friday, authorities said. Officers responded to a report of shots fired in the city’s downtown shortly after 1 a.m. A second shooting minutes later...
Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they’re in the U.S. legally. Here’s how it works
Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash with the Biden administration over immigration. Critics fear the change could scare people...
Roadside bomb targeting police kills 8 people, including 5 children, in southwest Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan — A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers in restive southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing eight people including five nearby children and wounding 18 other people, officials said. Local police chief Fateh Mohammad said the attack occurred in Mastung, a district...
Jury to hear opening statements in trial of veteran charged in subway chokehold death
NEW YORK — Opening statements are set for Friday in the manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, a white Marine veteran accused of choking a distressed Black subway rider to death. An anonymous Manhattan jury is deciding the manslaughter case surrounding Jordan Neely’s 2023 death, which prosecutors call a reckless killing...
Death toll from Israeli strikes in central Gaza rises to 25 as 13 people are killed in Lebanon
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The death toll from Israeli strikes in the central Gaza Strip rose to 25, including five children, as more bodies were recovered, while officials said that 13 people were killed in airstrikes in Lebanon on Friday. Sixteen people had initially been reported killed in two...
Conflicts in Israel, Ukraine dominate foreign policy issues in presidential race
Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series examining where presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stand on the biggest issues. Today’s segment focuses on foreign policy. ——— Foreign policy is one of the key issues for voters in the presidential election, as the conflicts in the Middle...
Russian bomb hits building in Ukraine’s 2nd largest city, killing 2, including 12-year-old boy
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces struck a residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Thursday, killing two, including a 12-year-old boy, and injuring scores of others, and launched scores of other attacks as they continued their grinding onslaught in the country’s east. Regional head Oleh Syniehubov said the...
Spain searches for bodies after unprecedented flooding claims at least 95 lives
BARRIO DE LA TORRE, Spain — Survivors of the worst natural disaster to hit Spain in this century awoke to scenes of devastation on Thursday, after villages were wiped out by monstrous flash floods that claimed at least 95 lives. The death toll is expected to rise as search efforts...
Rocket fire from Lebanon kills 5 in deadliest attack on northern Israel since invasion
TEL AVIV, Israel — Rocket fire from Lebanon killed five people in northern Israel on Thursday, including four foreign workers, in the deadliest such attack since Israel’s invasion earlier this month. The attack came as senior U.S. diplomats were in the region to push for cease-fires in Lebanon and Gaza,...
Man who threatened Fani Willis, sheriff over Trump investigation gets nearly 2 years in prison
ATLANTA — An Alabama man who left threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county sheriff last summer because he was angry over an investigation into former President Donald Trump was sentenced Tuesday to nearly two years in prison. Arthur Ray Hanson II, of Huntsville,...
North Korean troops in Russian uniforms are heading toward Ukraine, U.S. says
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that North Korean troops wearing Russian uniforms and carrying Russian equipment are moving to the Kursk region near Ukraine, in what he called a dangerous and destabilizing move. Austin was speaking at a press conference with South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun,...
At least 95 people die in devastating flash floods in Spain
BARCELONA, Spain — Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 people in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory. Rainstorms that started Tuesday and continued Wednesday caused flooding across southern and eastern Spain, stretching...
Donald Trump hired him to find voting fraud. He debunked it instead
ATLANTA — Four years ago, Donald Trump insisted that voting fraud cost him the election, and he hired Ken Block to prove it. A data analyst, Block did his best, searching for dead voters, double-voting and absentee ballot fraud. But he found only about a dozen examples of fraud in...
Teen Trump supporter charged with threatening Harris supporters with machete
An 18-year-old Donald Trump supporter is facing a felony charge after police say he threatened two Kamala Harris supporters with a two-foot machete as they campaigned outside a Florida early voting site. Caleb James Williams is charged with felony aggravated assault on a person 65 or older and misdemeanor exhibition...
Supreme Court’s conservative justices leave in place Virginia’s purge of voter registrations
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday left in place Virginia’s purge voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting. One Virginian, whose registration was canceled despite living in the state her entire life, called the purge “a...
In a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloween
DES MOINES, Iowa — For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Going door-to-door for candy on All Hallows’ Eve has long been commonplace throughout the country. But not in Des Moines, where Iowa’s capital city took a different approach more than...
CNN bans conservative writer after ‘beeper’ comment to Muslim commentatorVideo
NEW YORK — CNN has banned conservative writer Ryan Girdusky from the network as a result of a contentious on-air exchange in which he told panelist Mehdi Hasan that “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” “Did you just say I should die?” Hasan asked. He was responding to Girdusky’s...
Man serving 30 years for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets life term on state charges
SAN FRANCISCO — The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial. A San...
Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of U.S.
A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River. More than 100 different long-term weather stations in 26 states, including Alaska, are having their driest October on record, through Sunday, according...
Putin launches drills of Russia’s nuclear forces simulating retaliatory strikes
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, as he continued to flex the country’s nuclear muscle amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine. Speaking in a video call with...
American consumers feeling much more confident as Election Day nears
WASHINGTON — American consumers are feeling quite a bit more confident this month as Election Day approaches, a business research group says. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index jumped to 108.7 in October from 99.2 in September. It was the biggest monthly gain since March of...
