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Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of a U.N.-backed fact-finding team looking into human rights violations and abuses in Sudan says the team found the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces responsible for large-scale sexual violence in areas that it controls. Mohamed Chande Othman has denounced “staggering violence” in Sudan since war broke out more than

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers, including Shohei Ohtani and his dog, celebrated their eighth World Series championship with a downtown parade and a raucous on-field party on Friday. “This is so special,” said Ohtani, who usually only speaks publicly in his native Japanese but addressed a crowd of 42,458 at Dodger Stadium

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week’s presidential election isn’t just a referendum on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It’s also a measure of the influence the world’s richest man wields over American democracy. Elon Musk, the South African-born tech and business titan, has spent at least $119 million mobilizing Trump’s supporters to back the

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week’s presidential election isn’t just a referendum on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It’s also a measure of the influence the world’s richest man wields over American democracy. Elon Musk has spent at least $119 million mobilizing Trump’s supporters to back the Republican nominee. His social media platform is

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press review shows that Israel is falling far short of U.S. demands to surge the level of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza or risk possible restrictions on U.S. military funding. The Biden administration on Oct. 13 gave Israel 30 days to take specific steps to improve the deteriorating

Associated Press DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania. The justices on Friday left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots

Associated Press NOVI SAD, Serbia (AP) — Officials say a roof collapse at a railway station in northern Serbia has killed at least 13 people. The concrete roof at the entrance to the station in the city of Novi Sad came down on Friday morning. That’s according to Interior Minister Ivica Dacic who says three

Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands of minority Hindus have rallied to demand that the interim government in Muslim-majority Bangladesh protect them from a wave of attacks and harassment and to drop sedition cases against Hindu community leaders. About 30,000 Hindus demonstrated at a major intersection in the southeastern city of Chattogram,

In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are zeroing in on the battleground state of Wisconsin. Their dueling rallies will focus on the Milwaukee area. It is home to the most Democratic votes in Wisconsin, but its conservative suburbs are where most Republicans live and

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Willie Nelson, who is 91, will release “Last Leaf on the Tree” on Friday, his second studio album this year. It’s also his 76th solo studio album and 153rd album overall. Asked how many more he has in him, and he laughs and says he doesn’t know, but

CINCINNATI (AP) — A massive fire underneath a bridge spanning the Ohio River has closed a heavily traveled route between Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. The fire damaged part of the steel structure but no injuries have been reported. A Cincinnati Fire Department spokesperson says the fire broke out overnight near a playground under the bridge,

Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The mother thought her baby looked healthy when he was born 1.5 months early, but staff swiftly whisked him to the neonatal intensive care unit. It was the last time Burcu Gokdeniz would see her baby alive. The doctor in charge told her that Umut Ali’s heart stopped after

Associated Press The cast of ABC’s hit show “Scandal” will reunite Nov. 17 for a live, virtual script reading to raise money for the western North Carolina area that was ravaged by Hurricane Helene. Bellamy Young, who played the first lady and then Republican presidential nominee on the series, was raised in Asheville, North Carolina.

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult’s “Nineteen Minutes” has topped a list compiled by PEN America of the books most often pulled from school shelves. Other works include John Green’s “Looking for Alaska,” Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and several novels by

Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Thieves blew open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stole two works from a famous series of screen prints by American pop artist Andy Warhol and left two more badly damaged in the street as they fled the scene of the botched heist,