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By AAMER MADHANI, TARA COPP and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dispatching his top diplomat to Israel on an urgent mission to show U.S. support after major terrorist attacks by Hamas militants, the State Department said Tuesday. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Secretary of State Antony Blinken would
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein has kicked off his statewide campaign tour nine months after the Democrat entered the race. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper introduced the sitting attorney general to a small group of supporters on the Shaw University campus Tuesday in Raleigh.
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Lidia has become a major hurricane with winds of 115 mph as it takes aim at Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta. Lidia is strengthening and may have winds of 105 mph when it hits land later Tuesday. The hurricane is expected to sweep over a spit of land around
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Loved ones are remembering a late North Dakota lawmaker and his wife and two children who died last week in a plane crash in Utah. Funeral services were set for Tuesday in Bismarck for state Sen. Doug Larsen, his wife Amy and their sons, 11-year-old Christian
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. Humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Will Ferrell is back on campus. The “Old School” actor made an appearance at the University of Southern California (USC) on Saturday, where he was seen in videos posted to social media behind a DJ set up at what appears to be a Sigma Alpha Mu (ΣΑΜ) fraternity party.
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel and the war it launched has raised new questions about the influence of its main sponsor, Iran, and whether it had anything to do with the assault. From Tel Aviv to Washington, however, no one is willing to directly blame Iran as
Continue ReadingBy JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press New York (AP) — More than 30 years after the musical “Harmony” was written, it finally prepares to make its Broadway debut. The show was almost lost to history — like its subject. The historical show written by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman tells the true story of the forgotten
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Residents and visitors in Italy’s capital can ride a city bus this month that recounts how a 12-year-old boy escaped Nazi deportation from Rome’s Jewish neighborhood 80 years ago thanks to sympathetic tram drivers. German soldiers rounded up about 1,200 members of the city’s tiny Jewish community
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Parts of West Maui are still on track to begin a phased reopening to tourists starting Sunday, October 8 – but the action comes with some controversy. A portion of the popular Hawaiian island was devastated by deadly wildfires in early August, and some residents of hard-hit Lahaina have
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI, TARA COPP and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned the militant group Hamas for “sheer evil” for its shocking multipronged attack on Israel launched from the Gaza Strip that has killed hundreds of civilians, including at least 14 American citizens. Biden and Vice President Kamala
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s firebrand populist presidential candidate Javier Milei is coming under fire from his rivals who are blaming him for a sharp depreciation of the local currency in the parallel market. Milei is the front-runner to win the Oct. 22 presidential election. He continues to tout
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans have enacted vote-count restrictions and weakened the governor’s ability to oversee elections and other state regulatory bodies by overriding Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes. Narrow GOP supermajorities in the General Assembly overturned five vetoes Tuesday. Two new laws address elections and voting
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — A strike at General Motors’ Canadian plants is over less than a day after it started, according Unifor, the union that represents more than 4,000 autoworkers at the company. The strike had begun 11:59 pm Monday when Unifor said GM had refused to agree to a deal
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. official said Tuesday the government believes the driver who crashed into the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco the day before did so “with malign intent,” but police haven’t shared details about the driver’s identity or motive for what the Chinese
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. official said Tuesday the government believes the driver who crashed into the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco the day before did so “with malign intent,” but police haven’t shared details about the driver’s identity or motive for what the Chinese
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Shelter From the Storm has been dedicated to providing comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence. The non-profit organization is partnering with other groups to raise awareness during the month of October about the signs of abuse and ways to stop it. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men have experienced contact sexual
Continue ReadingBy Sowmya Krishnamurthy (CNN) — Chanel’s 1991 Fall-Winter ready-to-wear show was set in Paris, but its soul was right off the streets of New York City. A remix of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” blared overhead as one thousand or so spectators, like “Rocky” actors Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren, gazed at
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams have agreed to terms on a trade to send receiver Van Jefferson and a seventh-round draft pick in 2025 to the Atlanta Falcons for a sixth-round pick in 2025, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on
Continue ReadingCASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — Students and residents in a small Vermont university town are being told to lock their doors and stick together as police search for a killer who shot a retired dean on her favorite walking trail last week. Honoree Fleming, a retired dean and professor at Vermont State University, was found shot
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